About me

Instagram: @ejf_communications I Am A Recent Fashion Graduate From Leeds Arts University, And Am Currently In The Midst Of Searching For An Opportunity To Begin My Creative Career In The Working World. Whilst Studying Fashion Communication And Design At University, I Offered My Time To Brands That Required An Intern. These Internships Have Been With: - Zlata Alekhno – An Up And Coming Sustainable Fashion Brand - Pepper Your Talk – An Educational Platform To Guide Fashion Graduates Who Are Wanting To Progress Within The Fashion Industry - Empowered Earth - A Developing Global Health And Wellbeing Brand. These Internships Included Completing Tasks Such As: Website Construction, Photography, Graphic Design, PR And Marketing, As Well As Utilising My Perfectionist Skills To Strategically Create Social Media Content To Entice Consumers To Interact With The Brands, Gaining Brand Attraction And Sales. Aside From All Of These Internships And Voluntary Positions, I Have Also Led And Collaborated On Many Projects. I Have Used My Styling And Creative Direction Abilities Within A Large Majority Of The Projects Featured Within My Portfolio, As Well As My Management Skills To Create Visually Stimulating And Thought Provoking Art. Some Of This Work Has Led Me To Being Shortlisted For The Styling And Creative Direction Award By The Graduate Fashion Foundation. Throughout My Life I Have Taken Part In The Arts, But I Have Discovered My Passion For Making A Change To Our Industry And Society, Helping To Right The Wrongs That Are Happening Every Day To So Many People. The Fashion Industry Is A Billion Pound Industry That Has An Enormous Platform That Could And Should Be Used To Create Positive Change Within Our Society. Art With The Added Bonus Of Supporting A Cause Is A Recipe For A Better Society. Each Of Us Taking The Little Steps To Better Ourselves, And To Support Each Other.

QuestionsProjectsExperienceTeam

• Hi! Would love to connect with photographers in London or surrounding areas. Need to build my network down south and would love to collab!
• Looking for Make-Up Artists for a photoshoot in Leeds!
• Hi! Hope Everyone Has Had A Good Time Over The Holidays. I Am In Need Of A Video Editor That Can Work Wonders. If Interested, Let Me Know!

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Projects

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  My WardrobeIn An Effort To Try Make The Fashion Industry More Sustainable, This Photoshoot Was Created To Make It Clear That We Can Still Make Beautiful Fashion Photography, Whilst Staying Sustainable Through Using Our Own Clothes, And Collaborating With Charity Shops.
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  Three Girls‘Three Girls’, Is A Series Of Photographs Inspired By The Japanese Philosophy: Wabi-Sabi, Which Focuses On The Purity Of Being ‘Imperfect’. Being Proud Of Who We Are, Embracing Our 'Flaws', And Each Other. Allowing Our Society To Be More Diverse, Instead Of Being Shunned By Society For Being Different.
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  Styling For The Inner VictorianCombining The Old And The New. Appreciating The Styles That Once Were, And Creating Them Now Within A Modern Setting, Where Clothes Are Not Attached To 'Gender' Stereotypes And Fashion Is Art On The Body.
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  I Wonder Where My Rabbit Has GoneA Project Based On Fairytales, With The Intent To Allow Adults To Escape From The Anxieties That We Face Everyday.
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  Promotional Content For The Junior NetworkThese Are Some Of The Elements I Created For The Junior Network's (Sister Company Of Pepper Your Talk) Social Media.
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  Commercial Photographs For Zlata Alekhno's WebsiteBeing Approached To Photograph Zlata Alekhno's Garments. This Being A Commercial Photoshoot For Zlata's Website So The Customer Can View The Garments Before Buying Them.

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Projects credited in

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  Meet the GFF 2020 Fashion Styling and Creative Direction Award NomineesThe winner of the Fashion Styling and Creative Direction Award will present a portfolio of at least two editorial stories, each aimed at an identified publication, addressing a wide variety of issues and narratives. Students must demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively through the evaluation of the needs of the viewer/client in respect of market/trends.

Work history

Customer Experience Team MemberThe Business of Fashion
Apr 2021London, United KingdomFull Time
Fashion Design ResidencyTikTok
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020London, United KingdomInternship
Completed industry standard clothing patterns and toiling / Created my garments in a factory production line process, sewing these garments on industrial machinery / Received a taught session on Optitex (2D CAD/CAM pattern design & 3D prototyping software) / Created five final garments that were shipped off to ‘Friends Of Tik Tok’.

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Skills

• Adobe Creative Suite
• Creative Art Direction
• Studio Photography
• Microsoft Suite
• Website Creation
• Print Design
• Designing
• Communication
• Fashion Communication
• Fashion Styling

Education

Fashion BA (Hons)Leeds Arts University
Sep 2017 - Jul 2020Leeds, United Kingdom
I studied Fashion, Specialising but not limited to Fashion Communication.
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Foundation Diploma in Art and DesignCarlisle College
Sep 2016 - Jul 2017Carlisle, United Kingdom
Foundation Diploma in Art And Design, Specialising In Fashion, Primarily Focusing On Fashion Communication.

Awards

Shortlisted For The Styling And Creative Direction AwardGraduate Fashion Foundation
Due To My Styling And Creative Direction Experience, And Having Been Published Frequently In Multiple Different Magazines, I Was Fortunate Enough To Be Shortlisted For This Award By The Graduate Fashion Foundation.