About Me
I am a BA Fashion Design Womenswear student at Central Saint Martins University. I have finished my second year of BA, now taking a year out to expand my communication and collaboration skills, garment construction and bespoke tailoring skills, to prepare for my final year of university- along with my final BA Womenswear collection. I'm currently preparing garments and performances for clubs and exhibitions in and around London. My career goal is to assume a Fashion Design role which allows me to take responsibility for a brand which experiments with the balance of wearability and art.
About My Work
Is the ‘goal’ knowing exactly what you want to say?
Doesn’t that just create and agenda rather than focusing on the clothes?
The blend between fashion and art helps to challenge the definition of what a garment can be. Is it something you move in? should you feel comfortable wearing it? What emotions does it evoke from both the viewer and the wearer? How can it manipulate or control the body? Is this empowering? If not, how can it be?
My current work reflects these ideas using unconventional materials, while utilising pattern cutting to elevate these textiles. I have found that constructing garments with a restrictive and sculptural quality allows me the creative freedom to explore the narrative and emotion of what I want to say through the final look. Also helping me to look at clothes beyond just their practical use.
My interest in drawing out emotion from people who view and wear my work, is fuelled by my need to express a snippet of my most vulnerable moments, projecting them through something as simple as fashion, while enabling them to be worn and shared by an audience.
Due to most of my projects having a personal angle, it can be quite uneasy discussing them with a group. For example, when I was sat in a board room at a big label, presenting my work and having to talk about intimate details of my life, did make me reconsider the context from which most of my work is formed. But those ‘details’ never seem to stop fuelling ideas and reasons for me to create, so why should I change what I'm about for the sake of being comfortable?