The theme of the years competition was to celebrate the legacy of 2012 by creating a garment that combines elements from Britain’s great design heritage with their own vision of being British today.

 

My design was based on Queen Boadicea who was a great Warrior Queen who led an uprising against the Roman Empire. The first stage of the competition was to make a toile of the garment, then in the finals, we had to make the final garment as shown above. Everything was hand made, the garment had a very intricate structure which was described as 'a feat of engineering' by the judges as the design used the weight of the material to open up a laser cut section on the bodice, whilst the

asymmetric skirt section defied gravity with the use of supporting structure and physics.

 

To find out more about the competition, follow the links below:

• https://youtu.be/VRQF986EUyU

• http://www.fad.org.uk/archives/38802012_ff/index.php

• https://fadfashionfutures.wordpress.com/2012/09/20/stitching-the-town-red-white-blue/#more-1646