The designer Jeff Banks remembers how Graduate Fashion Week began in 1991. He received a letter from Roy Peach, now the fashion course-leader at the London College of Fashion, who was then teaching at Brighton Polytechnic.
"He said it was unfair that people in the industry couldn't be bothered to come and see the Brighton students' work - and they were only 50 miles form London," Banks says. "I got another letter from Newcastle Poly and one from Vanessa Denza, of Denza International [the recruitment agency] saying exactly the same thing."
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