Take a look and let me know what you think:

Some of the highlights for me included Navina's ceramics inspired collection. Every girl I spoke to that night was in love with her watercolour dress in the white floaty fabric (the one we featured here . On the catwalk it really had a whimsical floaty feel that was very feminine and flattering.

Heather also tackled ceramics but with a much more sculptural feel. I particularly liked her use of geometric pattern on her designs. It had a sort of art deco feel about it, mixed with retro sci-fi.

Holly, Becky and Megan's collection which featured bamboo turned out to be a real success. I have to admit, when I saw Olaf's photos from his visit to their work in progress, I was unsure about the idea of bamboo. But the finished result was really something. I think it really made a catwalk statement, which is important if you want to be noticed (which everyone does) at London Fashion Week.

I'm not going to dissect every collection (watch the film), but the collection as a whole really inspired and impressed me so well done to everyone.

Oli

So, the show last night went really well. Everyone I spoke to seemed to have a great time and enjoyed the collection(s).

I had no idea what to expect since the designers themselves and Olaf are the only people who've been able to see the collections as they were being worked on. The final collections looked amazing though. There were a few occasions when a dress came onto the catwalk and a chorus of women in the room whispered "I'd wear that". Although it's important to create some show-stoppers, I think it's also important to feature pieces women instantly fall in love with and want to wear.

The Blast show last night at London Fashion Week

There was lots of imaginative use of materials too. From bamboo to hair (not human I hope)

I would've loved to see some menswear, but I don't think you needed to be a girl to enjoy some of the creations showcased last night.

More pics on their way shortly...

she's used bleach, gold paint and black dye to create this dress:

Navina's hand painted black and gold dress

...and fabric paints mixed with water to create the "watercolour" effect on this one:

navina's ceramics inspired watercolour dress

 I think they look great.

Kirie-Lea's dress

Kirie-Lea's blouse

The rest of Kirie-Lea's Japan themed collection is pretty much done and just needs pressing and trimming. I really hope that the re-worked outfit works as well as these two.

Ally's Medieval & Renaissance skirt

Heather from Tyne & Wear has almost finished her outfits, just a couple more to complete. She's working on a ceramics theme and she's been getting some technical help from Northumbria University fashion department. I really like the pleats and the bold graphics. This is going to look great on the right model.

Ceramics inspired dress

The models pretty much all booked now, we're using some professional models and some from last year's Your Label catwalk, I'm just going through their pictures so I can brief the hair and makeup team.

I've asked all the winners to display one of their outfits at the Blast/V&A Fashion Festival on October the second, we'll have a DVD of the catwalk showing too so everyone can see how the clothes worked on the models. I'm hoping to get as many of the winners down for the day to give festival goers the chance to talk to them about their creations, let's hope thy can all make it....

I have to admit I was quite worried about what progress they might have made with their collection, last time we met they hadn't done that much, I think they'd been struggling with their patterns and they were being really ambitious with some of their ideas.

I was pleasantly surprised that they are on the right track now and have got some outfits pretty much finished. There's loads of little details to finish but I think they can handle what they need to do (and fit in coursework and some "me time" too!).

Their collection is all in red and black with Japanese characters and lots of wooden beads and bamboo, here's one of the styles that's nearly finished:

Front of Japanese inspired dress

Back of Japanese inspired dress

Hi... I'm Olaf Parker, I'm the resident fashion expert at Blast and in the wider fashion world I'm a designer. I've been designing clothes and teaching fashion for around 20 years, showing my collections on catwalks all around the world.

My major job at Blast is to organise the Your Label competition which gives aspiring designers the chance to show their ideas on the catwalk during London Fashion Week. This is the third year of Your Label and we've made things a little bit different this time: instead of taking just one group of young people and meeting with them each week to help them make their collection and organise their show we ran a competition to choose 10 different designers, all of whom get to show a capsule collection on the catwalk as part of the same show, a bit like a graduate show but during London Fashion Week.

It's proving to be pretty complicated, I'm hoping it's worth all the extra headaches!

The 10 designers (or design teams) we chose are:

Roxanna & Megan from Bolton, Ally from Buckinghamshire, Kirie-Lea from Essex, Heather from Gateshead, Jeyda from London, Jessica from Basingstoke, Evan from Surrey, Enya from Peterborough, Megan Holly & Becky from Gloucestershire, Navina from Cambridge.

Some of them are quite skilled at making garments, some of them have never made a garment before! We felt that their designs all had something really interesting about them though and they've each got a mentor to help them when they get stuck. They've also all got really supportive parents to stitch on beads, drive them round the fabric shops, help make patterns and just about anything else that needs doing.

So.... they've all started their collections (6 outfits each) and they've got just under a month to go until London Fashion Week. Their designs were great, I'm just hoping that they can turn them into actual outfits.....

I'll be posting regular updates and pictures so you can see how they get on and whether they can all finish in time.....