As voters took to the polls last week for the UK's general election, the Royal College of Art's MA fashion students were putting on their end-of-year show at an old studio in east London. Design reporter Alice Morby picks her highlights from the evening's catwalk show, installations and performance pieces.
The RCA MA Fashion show took place last week in a space in Shoreditch that was once the studio of Turner Prize-winning artist Rachel Whiteread.
Typical of an RCA presentation, the show's format included a range of performance pieces and installations as well as a more traditional catwalk show.
The presentation ? held on the same night as the UK's general election ? had strong undercurrents of race, class and gender exploration, something course leader Zowie Broach attributed to the current political climate. "It is fitting that the show takes place at the very moment when the UK decides on its future government," said Broach. "Since the UK voted to leave the EU last June, students have been asking urgent questions about owning their own culture that haven't been asked for generations."
"They have been pushed to ask deeper questions about fashion within the current political climate and its power to effect change in this unsettling landscape."
From the 48 students across each pathway, here are our 15 highlights:

Ellie Rosseau
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