2012 Awardee: Kyle Spires
This award has quite literally been life changing, enabling me to push my visions and challenge myself at this critical time.
Biography
Kyle is a gifted fashion designer, originally from Greenock. As an undergraduate he studied at the Edinburgh College of Art, where he learned about fashion, design, construction and illustration. At the age of 22, he moved to London to take up a place on the RCA’s MA in Womenswear.
Whilst studying in London, Kyle proved himself to be a throughly committed and self-motivated individual, whose work is creative, highly relevant and underpinned with a strong technical awareness. His aesthetic has been described as both polished and personal, and in 2011 he won the prestigious Karen Millen Portfolio Award at Graduate Fashion Week. He is an ambitious and innovative, a natural communicator, and has a bright future ahead of him.
How the Award Helped
The process of developing a final collection can be extremely costly. Kyle’s Dewar Award supported him in this crucial stage of his studies, allowing him the freedom to test out new techniques and explore his full potential for innovation.
This award has quite literally been life changing, enabling me to push my visions and challenge myself at this critical time.