Having been a long time fan and recent collaborator with Swarovski, I thought I knew the brand through and through. It's only recently when I was invited to attend this year's Central Saint Martins graduate show with their team that I realised just how little I knew. As well as sponsoring big events and working with leading designers, the brand is also committed to supporting emerging talent too and that's exactly what brought me to the show.

The college is known for producing tomorrow's leading designers and those that will really push the boundaries. For the select designers that manage to be included in the graduate show, a prestigious audience is a given. This year's event brought everyone from the International Herald Tribune's Suzy Menkes to Style.com's Tim Blanks.

Appearing in the line-up this year was Scarlett Tull, who was a recipient of the Swarovski Scholarship initiative along with Stephanie Bila. Unlike other graduate programs the Swarovski initiative, which launched last year, sponsors the chosen student's tuition fees. With the prices continually rising, the cost of university education is an ever present concern, one which LVMH bursary winner Tigran Avetisyan captured perfectly on his workwear pieces sporting slogans like 'NO JOBS' and 'graduate 2012 - nothing more to say.'

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So it's true, the fashion world have house parties too, darling. Frivolous house parties, in fact, that collate arty types from all over the world, to include Vivienne Westwood and Pam Hogg (such a fabulous combination, don't you think?), and end in Gareth Pugh giving Katie Grand a playful spank outside the marble bathroom of house owners Marc Newson and Charlotte Stockdale. As a celebration of T magazine's Anglomaniacs issue, the industrial designer and fashion stylist husband and wife pair opened their London home on Friday night for Frieze, to a highly creative crowd, including Christopher Kane, Angela Missoni and Anouck Lepére. "I love fairs like this", Angela Missoni told Style.com, "They reinvigorate me and my work". Although the evening's host, Nadja Swarovski, had hoped to get some good art from the night, walls were sparce with art, but furniture extravagant. "We like the house good and minimalist!", Stockdale explained.

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