'At Manchester Metropolitan University, fashion student Rachael Gibson, 22, is preparing her final collection, working from 9am to midnight every day. "The dresses I'm making require hand-stitched linings, but it's so much work I've had to get my mum in to help me." She submits next week, but it will be just the first hurdle; she still has to compete with students nationally for a catwalk place at Graduate Fashion Week, seen by many as the key to a job in the industry.'
Education Guardian 23:05:06 p.12 [more]
LIKE most 20-year-olds Rachael Gibson spends hours
scouring clothes shops for the latest fashions.
Now one of the items in the window is her very own creation – after
she won a national design a T-shirt competition with high street store
New Look.
Her ‘lucky’ horseshoe T-shirt proved lucky indeed as she beat
off competition from young designers across the country to scoop the £4,000
award.
Rachael, a first-year student at Manchester Metropolitan University, one
of the top fashion schools in the UK*, said she somehow knew she would win.
“The design was a good omen! I’m delighted that my friends and
family can walk into New Look and buy my T-shirt.”
Rachael, from Sheffield, plans to become a full-time fashion designer when
she graduates from MMU in 2006.
Caroline Visca, of New Look, said: “Rachael was a strong, striking
design with attitude and a contemporary cut.”
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