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Speaking to my mentor Abbie Cook in person was such a good experience. She is so knowledgable and I feel she will bring a lot to my third year at UCC. We discussed a lot of information today in our meeting. I first went through my project with her and she gave me a lotContinue reading “Mentor Talk 28/11/19”

I got invited by UCC attend the Quality Assurance Agency meeting. this invoked speaking to a panel about our course, and the university rules, regulations and support. I gained a lot of experience by attending this as I got to discuss the course and how I felt it was doing within a respectful and professionalContinue reading “QAA Meeting”

Having Merlyn come in to speak to us was very insightful as she has a lot of experience in the industry. She started her career at age 13 with a small business making circle skirts, when she got older she did a Foundation in Weave. She decided this wasn’t for her so pursued a degreeContinue reading “Merlyn talk”

Before Uni -Buyer in sports retail for roughly 10 years which progressed to Assistant Head of retail for 3 years. Role- In charge of everything that related to the merchandise such as buying, managing suppliers, online orders, wholesale and marketing of products. During Uni -Bridal consultant  -Vintage Company (Bestdays) Role- Making/altering/customising clothes and some shop workContinue reading “Abbie Cook Career Path”

I recently got allocated my mentor and I am very pleased with mine. I knew a little bit about Abbie as she had been in third year when I was in first year, but I do not know much else apart from what I have seen of her work at university. I emailed Abbie andContinue reading “Contacting my Mentor”

I contacted Lavenham jackets in regard to getting some fabric from them for my collection. They were very helpful and enabled me to drive over and collection 4 roles of old quilted fabric they no longer needed. This exchange between myself and the company was very insightful as it helped me practise how to approachContinue reading “Lavenham fabric collection”

Visiting Woolcrest, a large fabric warehouse in London that sells cheap fabrics was brilliant to start of the selection of fabrics in my collection. It gave me some great inspiration for my garment designs and I found some very alternative fabrics that I could use. It also enabled me to negotiate with the seller, andContinue reading “Woolcrest and Claudette”

As part of my third year project I have decided to use old unused sails to create my collection with. I had to source some sails to start with so I contacted a few companies to see if they had any available. Wivenhoe Sailing Club got back to me and said they had some sailsContinue reading “Sail Sourcing”