What's the process of your designs being created?
A quick summary of the process!
• Sketching and finalising a design.
• Selecting fabrications and materials.
• Generating a pattern and creating a toile/sample of the garment which I then fit on a fit model.
• From here alterations and adjustments are made and then the construction of the final resolved design is undertaken.
Prior to the process commencing I generate a timeline and a range of specification sheets, which is very important.
You're also a stylist! Tell us what about the role of a stylist and how you got into it?
I’m very passionate about styling and making individual’s look and feel their absolute best. I work as a freelance stylist, styling both men, women, youth/children. Styling is very important as it completes an overall look. I’m the stylist for all my own advertisement campaigns, editorials,wardrobe styling, flat lay styling and Lookbook shoots. I've styled all my own collections when photographed in photoshoots.
I'm also a personal stylist where I style an individual client according to their needs, whether it be for a special occasion, wardrobe update or for a job interview.
How?
Whilst studying I interned with Jo Blankfield from Fashions about You, which was a great experience and Jo was a wonderful mentor.
Researching and reading books from world renowned stylists including Rachel Zoe, Carine Roitfeld, Gokwan and Trinny and Sussanah.