Lecture an Architecture and landscape urbanism

The British Council in collaboration with Notre Dame University had the pleasure of inviting Mr. Ciro Najle, Director of the landscape Graduate Design Program at the Architectural Association in London.

Director Najle gave a lecture entitled Metadomain: The machinic landscape introducing his work and theories on mobility and space as part of the AA programme. Najle led workshops for a number of NDU Architecture and design students on the topic. Their work was refined and presented at the Rotterdam Biennale in 2003.

Also part of the event was an exhibition by the AA students on similar topics under Najle's Supervision.

Both the exhibition and the seminar saw a big turnout of impressed audiences.

Prince's Trust Graduate Fashion Week

As part of our international programme of design promotion, we were delighted to tour a selection of the best student collections from Prince's Trust Graduate Fashion Week.

Graduate Fashion Week was launched in 1992 to co-ordinate the presentation of collections produced by a number of Britain's top fashion courses. Each year sees the event receive greater and greater international interest, and with the calibre of former graduates including Stella McCartney, Antonio Beradi, Julian MacDonald and Owen Gaster, it's no surprise. The watching eye of the fashion world increasingly turns to the UK to spot the next great talent to emerge from the very colleges that Graduate Fashion Week now represents.

In fact, the watching eye of the fashion world increasingly turns to the UK to spot the next great talent to emerge from the very colleges that Graduate Fashion Week now represents.

This event is renowned for launching the careers of some of Britain's most prestigious names in fashion - Antonio Beradi, Stella McCartney, Owen Gaster, Anthony Symonds, Arkadius, Sheila Maloney, Ann-Louise Roswald, Guvinda and Scott Henshall - all of whom experienced their first introduction to catwalk stardom at The Graduate Fashion Week. Julien MacDonald, the man who now dresses the world's sexiest women and has just been made head of Givenchy, first showed his collection at The Graduate Fashion Week.

ShoeBox exhibition

The opening party of the Shoe Box exhibition was very successful and well attended, people enjoyed the display of shoes and all agreed that taking a closer look at footwear design was a wonderful idea!

Nicky Lawler a British footwear designer and lecturer came to Beirut as part of the Shoebox exhibition to give a series of workshops for 35 Lebanese fashion design students of the renown ESMOD fashion school - Beirut branch.

Nicky also gave a lecture at the Lebanese American University Beirut Campus on her experience and work in the footwear industry. The lecture was very informative and the visuals used were wonderful.

London Fashion Week

We had screened twice the London Fashion Week videotapes at Circus, a trendy pub-restaurant in Beirut. On both occasions, the place was crowded with young Lebanese people and fashion design students who had come to get a feel of what the UK young fashion scene has to offer!