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A coherent tone, consistent selection of materials used to create the composition and harmony with the festival's topic of "Local/Global" - this is how the international jury rated the "Waste Not" exhibition, presenting designs made by students and graduates of School of Form. The Commission, which included curators and representatives of the media, institutions and universities, graded works from 26 countries including presentations from the Czech Republic, Romania, Taiwan, India, Austria, Egypt, Korea, and Poland.

Projects presented during the International Fashion Showcase 2017 constitutes young people's response to the problems of the fashion market - mass production, which was treated by Polish designers as a resource, a starting point. Students have also utilised worn out clothing and footwear as a material, experimenting and searching for their own identity. They have also referred to Polish tradition and crafts, displayed knowledge of handicraft techniques, as well as fondness for history, keeping with the theme of the Festival - "Local/Global".

The exhibition made by the Beton studio from Warsaw was prepared using the same criteria, and entirely out of secondary materials. The remains of wooden planks, clothing and cloth scraps were utilised. Such consistency of concepts, both in the selection of projects, as well as their arrangement, did not escape the jury's attention.

- This is a great joy and honour, especially since it is the School of Form's debut at the London Fashion Week. Out students displayed not only the knowledge of fashion crafts, but above all humanist attention to the problems of the contemporary fashion market. Their statement is both critical and optimistic, it is a constructive proposition for everyone - comments Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka, curator of the "Waste Not" exhibition.