My aim is to work in the fashion industry and when I visited Manchester Metropolitan University I was inspired, seeing examples of work and students currently studying this course. I am creative and outgoing, and enjoy designing and creating striking fashion garments. The course I chose would demand me to think of new ideas for designs which I always aim to do. I feel throughout my textiles courses so far I have gained experience in different processes of fashion and design, learning ways of design illustration, using CAD/CAM for pattern drafting, using a laser cutter and sublimation printer, using practical sewing skills to manufacture my products and evaluating and analysing my work.

These photos show work from 2 projects from my AS Level and A Level textiles courses. One design brief was to design and manufacture a dressed mannequin inspired by the media. I chose Vogue magazine and sublimation printed fabric with images of covers of Vogue. I used this fabric to make the dress for the mannequin and used various fabric manipulation techniques and embellishments. The bodice was stiffened and I appliqued 2 panels of the bodice around small images of Vogue. The front panel was printed on and I stitched small pintucks across, and the back had designers' names and text printed on and laced up with black ribbon through rouleau loops. The skirt was 2 layers with a third layer above these, as a peplum skirt stitched to the bodice. The peplum skirt was pleated before sublimation printed so that the white fabric colour could be seen. The 2 layers of the skirt had wired piped edging to hold the shape.
My current design brief is to design a garment inspired by Alexander McQueen designs. I chose this brief as his design are unique and unusual so I saw this as being creatively challenging. I included development of 2 of my designs for this brief and sampling.