Pick Up Your Colouring Pens, It’s Time To Get Creative & Dive Into The Fashion Industry

Calling all colouring book fans and fashion lovers! Are you not afraid to colour outside the lines? Well today, Fashion Minority Alliance has announced the launch of ‘Colouring Fashion’, the first fashion focused colouring book and we couldn’t be more excited to unleash our inner artist!

Created in collaboration with Graduate Fashion Foundation as part of their Fashion Futures partnership, this colouring book aims to encourage and facilitate a richer and more diverse future for the fashion industry. Championing diversity and inclusion, the book highlights inspiring pioneers across a number of fashion careers, including designers, photographers, models, stylists, makeup artists, hairdressers, art directors and editors.

Throughout 22 black and white illustrations, we are welcomed to bring to life a number of well-known and new faces including Pat McGrath, Wales Bonner, Telfar, Bianca Saunders and many more. Created by designer, illustrator and winner of 2021’s Graduate Fashion Week FACE Black Excellence Prize, Joy Julius, and paired with career-educating text written by Graduate Fashion Week 2021 Fashion Publication Award Winner, India Gill; this interactive and engaging book is ready to set the precedent of preparing and educating young people about the many important and creative roles that make the fashion industry what it is.

Bridging together art and careers, the book also enters the digital era as it features QR codes that take the reader to the Fashion Futures website, a hub showcasing downloadable educational resources on the numerous career pathways – so you can take the time to learn about each one!

Wanting to create something meaningful and celebratory that shows people from all backgrounds that there is room in the industry for them, Founder of Fashion Minority Alliance, Barbara Kennedy-Brown says ‘Having created a variety of workshops with schools it was clear that there is a need to highlight the many different roles that make up the fashion industry. There is an assumption, particularly with younger people, that being in fashion is a singular role and we wanted to create a vehicle that shows some of the ecosystem.’

Joy Julius’ beautiful illustrations will no doubt inspire future generations of talent and help encourage a richly diverse pipeline - Barbara Kennedy-Brown

The Illustrator and Designer behind the book, Joy Julius says ‘Being a part of a project that helps promote representation and diversity in the fashion industry and inspires young students by giving them the possibility to learn about the brilliant artists through illustrations was such an exciting opportunity.’

The GFF Colouring Fashion colouring book celebrates creatives making a difference in the fashion industry and inspires young students from all backgrounds to follow in their footsteps down the multiple career pathways open to them and not just fashion design. - Nicola Hitchens, Graduate Fashion Foundation Director and Head of Special Projects

Are you ready to get an insight into the world of this exciting and creative career? Well, Colouring Fashion is launching in 100 UK junior and secondary schools today and invites students to take part in the Colouring Fashion Challenge by entering their creations on social media under #GFFxFMAColouringFashion.

If that’s not for you, don’t worry as a series of live school colouring workshops and panel talks are taking place in select schools with special industry guests in attendance – so make sure to keep an eye out!