News / 26 Jun 2025
Fashion Photography student wins Graduate Fashion Week Award
BA (Hons) Fashion Photography
Final year BA (Hons) Fashion Photography student Phoebe Jacob was announced as the winner of the Fashion Photography Award at Graduate Fashion Week 2025.
The Fashion Photography prize is awarded as part of Graduate Fashion Week. Students were asked to submit at least five full editorial shots completed anytime during their final year of university. The images were judged on technical excellence, creativity and imagination, personal vision and concept, story and theme and quality of finish and presentation.
Phoebe’s final major project, ‘And Blue’, explores the experience, design, and abstraction of childhood through a series of conceptual fashion editorials. The project investigates how childhood imagination, naivety, and design elements can be reinterpreted through an adult gaze, using light, shadow, and colour as compositional tools. The aim is to bridge the gap between nostalgic memory and refined visual storytelling. Working on the project, Phoebe collaborated with BA (Hons) Fashion Design students Florence Tuppen, Ella Ranasinghe and Krishan Moss.
“I am honoured to have won the award especially with the amazing talent of my peers. It was a touching and confirming experience which has made me feel much more confident going forward to post graduation.”
Phoebe Jacob, BA (Hons) Fashion Photography student
Graduate Fashion Week (GFW) is a prestigious annual event showcasing the next generation of fashion talent. Held every June at the Truman Brewery in London, it brings together over 3,000 graduating students from 26 different fashion disciplines. GFW serves as a vital platform for emerging designers to present their work to thousands of guests, including industry professionals and media, acting as an important bridge between education and employment.
Each year students from our BA (Hons) Fashion Design, BA (Hons) Fashion Photography and BA (Hons) Fashion Marketing courses make an impact with award wins, nominations and invitations to participate in catwalk shows and exhibitions.