How the Harbutt Fund enabled me to design my graduate capsule collection 'Tonal Tides'
I'm soon to be a BA (Hons) Fashion Design graduate and I am ecstatic to have completed my sustainable fashion collection as I've envisioned it. It has taken me years ( !!! ) of research, preparation and development to get here. I can proudly present 'Tonal Tides' as a transeasonal, unisex circular fashion collection - which would not be what it is today without the support of the Harbutt fund. I was initially inspired by photographs of my parents sailing the world together, their mood of comfort and ease encouraging my sailing wear and soft tailoring research. Then, striking colours of salt evaporation ponds in aerial pictures led to investigation around the idea of life and death in nature, encouraging the circular design system within my work: where all items return to the Earth as 'food, not poison'. In this way, all of my fabric choices are biodegradable (natural fibres), naturally dyed by hand (reducing toxic