About me

A recent graduate with a 2:1 in BA Fashion Communication from Heriot Watt University. Currently based in Edinburgh, Scotland but willing to work internationally. Simms specialises in fashion styling, social media & content creation and graphic design. With over 5 years of fashion retail experience and industry experience within styling, social media and marketing. Possessing a visually creative eye, Simms also maintains an aptitude for digital and technical based work. Her personal strengths lie within her organisational, determination and self-motivational skills. Actively looking to expand my skills within the fashion communication sector (social media, content creation and fashion styling).

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Projects

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  Liberated BodiesImages from my portfolio that I produced in my honours year. It explores reproductive rights within the UK. Reproductive rights are the rights of individuals to decide whether to reproduce and have reproductive health. Although we are extremely lucky to have these rights in the UK, there is still a lot of stigma and lack of knowledge surrounding these topics and people are still made to feel embarrassed or guilty regarding them today. In different ways each of these rights have a focal point of
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  GNÈ-Honours PublicationThese images and graphics are taken from my honours project 'GNÈ'. The publication explores technology as an aid in the progression of sex positivity within fourth wave feminism. Concentrating primarily on the experiences of young women that form a large part of fourth wave feminists and the impact growing up in the digital age had on finding comfort in their sexual identities and gaining control over their bodies. There is a lot of negativity surrounding social media, however through my public

Work history

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Digital Content CoordinatorM&Co
Sep 2021Glasgow, United KingdomFull Time
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Fashion Commentator and Graphic DesignerHouse of Influence
Aug 2020 - Sep 2021London, United KingdomFreelance

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Skills

• Styling
• Styling Shoots
• Fashion Styling
• CAD
• Adobe
• Graphics
• Social Media
• Content Coordination

Education

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BA Fashion CommunicationHeriot-Watt University School of Textiles and Design
Sep 2016Galashiels, United Kingdom
I was awarded a second class (upper division) Modules included: Styling and Image Making, Events Management, Fashion Writing, Typography and Graphics , Film Making, Promotion and Advertising and Fashion Marketing