Twenty-year-old Anya Tisdale takes the cake for her make-up artistry. In a bid to reclaim the term ‘cakeface’, the emerging make-up artist flips the definition on its delicious head in this culinary-inspired project.

Stomping into Monday like… Photographer Alma Rosaz teams up with model, activist and writer, Kae, and stylist, Sheilam, in this larger-than-life narrative submitted to Check-Out Magazine.

Masha Popova is the Ukrainian designer behind some of fashion’s most interesting looks. Worn by the likes of Zara Larsson, Lil Miquela and BLACKPINK, the CSM grad last week showcased her AW21 collection through a film as part of London Fashion Week’s digital-only showcase.

ONRUSHW23FH, the brainchild of Albert Sánchez and Sebastián Cameras, is a purveyor of experimental, high-quality design – using fashion as a vehicle for reflection on the current state of contemporary society.

Photographer Rosie Foster teams up with Oma Benjamin to reminisce the halcyon days of getting glammed up. With a dazzling array of pieces by designer Frances O, the pair magicked the possibility of ‘hot girl summer’ back into lockdown. Let’s face it, nothing says ‘fuck you’ better than a mug full of make-up.

Describing themselves as “an anti-capitalist project” responding to the way “the fashion industry works through the mantra of an eccentric misunderstood stylist”, Clifford Jago turns trash into eye-catching fashion nonsense – we’re talking McDonald’s chip packets as shoulder pads and traffic cones for hats.

“Society deems us not to be ready to tackle real life until we’re 18,” declares model, creative director, activist, writer and sixth-former TJ Sawyerr. But what is age, than just a marker of time? For the Clapham-based teen, championing underestimated youth is at the forefront of his work both in front of and behind the camera.

Changing your hair can be an identity forming experience, and for hair artist and stylist John Allan, the strands do all the talking. With each head a canvas for experimentation, pushing the boundaries to create more defiant ways as to how we perceive the hair on our very heads, Allan boasts a repertoire of clients from Mowalola to Beabadoobee.

“Finding an internship was like chasing the holy grail,” says third-year CSM fashion student Cécile Bousselat who, together with Maïssane Zinaï have taken measures into their own hands to launch the Central Saint Martins Fashion Alumni Club, an initiative that aims to connect students with internships, jobs and graduates.

Inspired by literally anything around her (broken iPhone cables that she found when tidying her room have become a trademark of the designer’s), there’s no denying that Tega Akinola is an up-cycling icon.

Ceramic handbags, 20cm tall high-heels with twisted toenails pointing out, and vases with long, bony fingers are not just creations made to make you feel uncomfortable. They are the hellish fruits of Naomi Gilon, the Brussels-based artist with the talent of reshaping our perceptions around ceramics.

Ming Lim is the 19-year old CSM student whose work is influenced by an almost life-long relationship with Dream-Reality Confusion Disorder (DRC), spending her childhood and some of her adult life within the space between reality and dreams.

“The fundamental of human flourishing is to practice the art of non-conformity and self-contemplation,” writes make-up artist, David Gillers. With an aesthetic self-described as ‘ugly beauty’, it seems more apt to credit his electric employment of colour and movement as a challenge to the very existence of stereotypical ‘beauty’ at all.

These tootsie-shaped stiletto boots sent social media into a fetish, courtesy of the label’s newly appointed creative director, Beate Karlsson. We speak to the designer on bringing the bizarre to the banal, Kim K’s butt and sustainability in the industry.

Alice Dodds doesn’t paint within the lines. The much-lauded anti-conformist make-up artist, with less than two years under her belt (half of which has been spent in perpetual quarantine), already counts several publications and fashion designer, Adam Jones, as her clients.

Tanzania James of ‘Sustainaheaux’, is all about thrifting, social responsibility and repurposing fashion. But her newfound success didn’t come easy: “I started out sewing in a garment class…I was immediately intrigued by design, but being a mother, the thought of being a creative full-time was scary.”

When the meaning of dress is in such a state of flux, where do we go to next? Teeth. Think about it, your pearly whites are on show for every man and his child screaming in the background, which makes sense for the rising cult of tooth jewels making waves on Instagram.

The Central Saint Martins alum was up-cycling way before it was cool. He has an obsession with old items and the stories they hold – so much so that a lot of his free time is spent watching items being restored on YouTube

To call Sohee Park an overnight success wouldn’t be right somehow. From the halls of Central Saint Martins, the South Korean designer has since found her dresses on the likes of Miley Cyrus and Cardi B as she worked on changing the game of couture forever.

From a shining and majestic gold to an ocean green-cum-deep-space purple, Conor Clinch’s images capture a beauty of colour and body. Our only thought: we’re glad we didn’t have to clean up the washed-off body paint in the bathroom afterwards.