"As an international student, I feel very hard to express myself and understanding others at the beginning due to the language problem. It is really an exhausted process to express my designs and understand the feedbacks that John gave to me. (You have to face a lot of professional words that you never know before.) Sometimes even I couldn’t keep on the discussion, but he still very patient and make sure I completely understand. John always use drawing (He has excellent drawing skill.) or show me the samples directly to explain the making methods. He let me know the options of realizing the design as much as he can. He shows me what the difficulties during these methods, and encourage me to do experiments. He prefers students to learn from the experiments, but never let us waste money on that. He let me know exactly which materials should be used in the making process and which store sells them with a good price. I feel both my professional knowledge and English are improved a lot. At the beginning of the term, I felt confused and unconfident about my works. Now I understand what is design and how to know the realizing methods in a very short time. And I am so happy that I can be one of the finalists in ITS#Ten Jewelry competition because of my postgraduate works. I’m really appreciating john!" Hanwen Shen, MA Fashion Artefact graduate 2010/2011, London College of Fashion hanwenjewelry@gmail.com

Hanwen Shen