New Designers is proud to present One Year On, an exhibition celebrating the entrepreneurial successes of 50 up-and-coming designers one year after leaving education. Now in its 12th year running, the event will feature designers specialising in a wide range of disciplines from ceramics to jewellery and glass. ARTS THREAD has selected six of the exhibiting designers to look out for!

Ziad Ghanem’s show at Vauxhall Fashion Scout was more of a performance than your standard catwalk show. It kicked off with a woman appearing in a black dress cascading in ruffles and a pair of large green-feathered fans. It then turned into an extreme maxi dress as she grew up from the catwalk.

Orla Kiely presented her new Autumn/Winter 2011/12 collection at the Portico Rooms at Somerset House at the beginning of this seasons London Fashion Week.

Kinetica Art Fair is organised by the Kinetica Museum and is the first event of its kind in the UK. The fair brought together galleries, art organisations and curatorial groups from around the world who focus on ‘kinetic art’: universal concepts and evolutionary processes though the convergence of kinetic, electronic, robotic, sound, light, time-based and multi-disciplinary new media art, science and technology. The theme of this year’s show was the evolution of body, brain, mind and consciousness.

ARTS THREAD wishes all its readers Happy Festivities and a Creative-packed 2011! We are taking a seasonal break and will be back Tuesday January 4 2011.

Alongside a selection of work from its designers, the East London collective Peepshow has brought its £3 create-your-own wood block print to the Pick Me Up graphic art fair.

ARTS THREAD wishes all its readers Happy Festivities and a Creative-packed 2010! We are taking a seasonal break and will be back Monday January 4 2010.

All eyes were on David Koma’s new collection last night as the recipient of Vauxhall Fashion Scout’s prestigious Merit Award. The pressure didn’t show, as the designer delivered an expressive, optimistic and boldly colourful spring show.