About Me
I am a BA Fashion Knitwear graduate from Nottingham Trent University
My work weaves together storytelling and sustainability. I focus on craft-led approaches, such as hand-dyeing, fully-fashioning, and material exploration. Emotional durability is centre to my practice, creating knitwear that balances concept and care.
With a passion for craftsmanship, activism and sustainability, my design approach focuses on hand manipulation and material driven design. I explore animal fibers and natural dyes, prioritising deadstock material, local sourcing, and food waste production. My graduate collection, First Daughters, reclaims women's narratives, by bringing them to the centre of their tales.
INSPIRATION
Graduate collection, 'First Daughters': Mythology, memory, and slow fashion
First Daughters reimagines mythic female figures through textile-led storytelling, focusing on Greek nymphs of trees, dusk and fresh water. Tactile details like cables, jacquards, and pleats to communicate their elemental nature. The combination of colour, silhouette and surface work together to awaken identity and ancient archetype.
The first garment in the collection showcases an exploration into circular fashion, being fully biodegradable - naturally dyed, animal fibers and avocado pit buttons. It sets the tone for the rest of the collection, which mainly relies on wool, while implementing thoughtful details such as swiss darning and selective natural dyes. Synthetics appear to aid with fit and functionality, used in very small scale to meet project demands.
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
concept board
material board
research
sustainability ethos
look 1 development
look 2 development
look 3 development
pattern development
collage development
fashion/toile development
collection line up
fabric development
making
making
making
final fabrics
collection range plan
collection lookbook
collection lookbook
DETAIL
Exploring myth, memory and material care through tactile, craft-led knitwear narratives.
First Daughters is a knitwear collection built upon storytelling, mythology, and the often-forgotten strength of feminine archetypes. Each garment represents a mythological figure, like the Dryads, Nereids and Hesperides. Through cables, pleats, jacquards and embroidery, each garment becomes a vessel for stories rooted in place and care. The first piece is fully biodegradable – naturally dyed, hand-stitched, and buttoned with carved avocado pits. It sets the tone for a collection grounded in material awareness. Most of the collection is created from wool, with minimal synthetics. Traditional knitwear processes such as full-fashioning, swiss darning and natural dyeing are not only decorative but symbolic, with each decision being layered with meaning. This is knitwear as quiet storytelling, shaped by activism and sustainability.
Is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it.
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