I am a final year Fashion student about to graduate from Edinburgh College of Art, and have been working on my graduate collection for the last year.
My graduate collection has been inspired by my Scottish hometown’s pageant queens, British Hammer Horror cinema and Courtney Love. My work acts as a tongue-in-cheek reworking of vintage silhouettes and graphic prints.
I like to blend the campy exploitative nature of horror with the subversive visual cues of the female rock stars I have admired since my adolescence, to create a subtly humorous yet confrontational look.
Projects
- AW20 Graduate Collection 'See Christopher Die'For my graduate collection I rooted myself in my imagined, darkened bedroom world of horror films, gothic romance novels and Courtney Love. I pulled in research which stemmed from the monster movies of Universal and Hammer Horror, my adolescent obsession with bands like Hole and The Runaways, and my Scottish hometown’s pageant of crowing one girl to be the “Marymass” queen, in honour of Mary Queen of Scots in a floral procession. With the amalgamation of these thematic touch points, I wanted the
Projects credited in
- Pretty On The Inside - Christopher Reid S/S 2019This was a look book collaboration assignment with designer Christopher Reid, showcasing pieces from his spring/summer 2019 collection 'Pretty On the Inside'. As well as directing and shooting the project, I cast the models and was in charge of make up. I also assisted the designer with styling.
- Christopher Reid: Fairy Tale TheatreI was commissioned by designer Christopher Reid to create the make-up look for the campaign images for their latest capsule collection, Fairy Tale Theatre. The references were nineties icons Courtney Love and Anna Nicole Smith, utilising a soft yet grunge infused palette of reds and browns, to offset the sweetness of the garments. Modelled by Demi Hannah Scott, photographed by Charley Dean Sayers.
- Graduate Fashion Week x Visualist AppHair design and styling that I did for GFW designers Christopher Reid, Sarah-Louise Koessler, Sophie Parnaby and Joshua Scott. For (digital) London Fashion Week, Visualist supported Graduate Fashion Foundation's 6 selected designers by coordinating their shoots (photo + video) for the LFW Designer Spotlight. GFF is the charity behind Graduate Fashion Week, the global showcase of emerging fashion talent.
Skills
- Print Design
- Pattern Cutting
- Illustration
- Accessories Design
- Garment Construction
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Indesign
Education
BA (Hons) Fashion DesignEdinburgh College of Art
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Awards
British Fashion Council: British Library x Charles JeffreyBritish Fashion Council
FinalistShow Studio: Class of 2020SHOWStudio
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