PHOTOGRAPHY BY DANIEL BENSON

WORDS AND STYLING BY SAM VOULTERS

Hair: Michael Jones using Sebastian Professional

Make-up: Xabier Celaya using Illamasqua

Styling assistants: O Thongthai, Scarlett Valentine

Levi’s shirt, vintage vest from Mint, vintage skirt, CK glasses, Terra Plana shoes

If your look is so nerdy that you don’t even really exist outside high school movies, it’s just a matter of time before someone popular offers to She’s All That you. Unfortunately, you’ll eventually realise that you looked better before the makeover and will go back to your nerdy ways.

Vans t-shirt, American Apparel skirt, socks and glasses, vintage necklace, Casio watch, Nike trainers

Nike tracksuit and trainers, PFK for New Era hat

Sadly, most of the people you meet at university are going to be middle-class white kids with inbuilt racism. If you want to make friends, it’s probably best to rid yourself of anything they might see as a threat (think: less Kidulthood, more “Kele Okereke-hood”).

Billionaire Boys Club jumper and jacket, King Apparel jeans, Staple hat, Ambush necklace, Reebok trainers

My Chemical Romance t-shirt, American Apparel hood, Lee jeans, vintage belt, Converse shoes

The trick with the fashion-metal look is to never ever admit that it’s ironic. If anyone asks, your favourite band growing up was Kreator or Angel Witch. It doesn’t matter that you don’t know what they sound like because no one else does either, so you’ll never get caught. It might be difficult to keep up this charade full time, but fuck, you were an emo in the year 2010. You're nothing if not persistent.

American Apparel bra, Swagga and Soul jacket, Topshop shorts, American Apparel tights, Freedom for Topshop jewellery, Dr. Martens boots

Fred Perry t-shirt, PPQ jeans, Vans shoes

If any of these transformations seem a little too thorough, you should be OK with a Supreme hat, a Black Flag t-shirt, a fixed-gear bike and a moustache.

Black Flag t-shirt, PPQ jeans, Supreme hat, Vans shoes, model’s own bike and moustache

Number (N)ine shirt, Sand cardigan, Dolce & Gabbana trousers, Carola Euler belt, Dsquared2 boots

Sorry, small-town fashion gay, wearing the wackiest shit you could find on your local high street might have made you the most out-there dresser in High Wycombe, but that’s just not going to cut it at art school. Now is the time to up your game and go totally batshit.

Pringle top, Lina Osterman waistcoat, Asger Juel Larsen cardigan, vintage Lee shorts, Underground boots