Fashion and Design are amongst the most powerful and influential areas within the arts in Britain today. As well as their dreams and passion, successful creative talents also embrace an understanding of creativity and entrepreneurship. The British Council will invite Anne Smith, Dean of School of Fashion and Textiles, Central Saint Martins, to introduce the current fashion trends in the UK and discuss how to nurture business opportunities from creativity. Anne Smith has ten years experiences of designing and showing fashion and textiles collections for women’s, men’s and children’s wear in London, Paris, New York and Tokyo.

Topic: Nurturing Enterprising Creativity for a Career in Fashion and Textiles
Time: 16:00-18:15, Friday, 30 October 2009
Speaker: Anne Smith, Dean of the School of Fashion and Textiles, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Venue: Multifunctional Room at British Council, Room 701, 7 Floor Teem Tower, 208 Tian He Road, Guangzhou

To register please send an e-mail to gz@britishcouncil.org.cn by 27 October 2009. (Seats are limited & on a First-Come-First-Served basis.)

Meanwhile, Warp Factor ’09-Textiles Futures Exhibition at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London will be held at the Art Museum of University Town, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts from 29th October to 1st November 2009. The exhibition celebrates the innovation and future thinking of textiles researchers and designers from the school. It also encourages the enterprise and the development of creative textile design. This can help to cross boundaries between East and West in the fashion and textile industries.