Platform, the magazine created by Central Saint Martins students, is back with a celebration of diverse creative talent
, with a mission to spotlight BIPOC creatives and their stories. A year later, the journal is back with a new issue in a new form: Its reach now extends well beyond the halls of CSM, featuring talent that spans the entire United Kingdom.is supported by designer Christopher Kane and his sister Tammy Kane, who helped with the zine’s initial launch, as well as FACE and its founder, Pascal Matthias.
The new issue’s sumptuous photography and editorials speak to the breadth of the creativity of this new generation of fashion talents. Kiara Morris, a fashion communications student at Central Saint Martins whose written workspeaks to the discrimination around Black hair, wrote the issue’s editor’s letter: “In the fashion industry our faces are rare, often tokenized while our cultures are appropriated, tarnished, and demonized. But here’s your chance to see the world through our eyes.
earlier this year, and pieces from designers Francesca Lake, Connie Osaremae, Katie Cheng, Matthew Solomon, and Maud Gardens; textile artist Leonie Edmead; knitwear specialist and illustrator Chyna Williams; creative director Natalie Vest-Jones; and photographer Valerie Obigwilo.
Personal narratives run throughout the journal, with designer Francesca Lake looking to her own childhood obsessions to create a spectacular golden dress with a cross cut-out on the bodice. “This project was an exploration of my own rebellious nature as a child and wanting to discern where that came from,” Lake says. “ ‘Church and the Dancehall’ looks into the two opposing cornerstones of Jamaican culture in amplifying what makes our culture so vibrant and morally grounded.
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