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Hi My name is Sophia Ramsey, I am from Gateshead
and I’m about to start my first job at Abercrombie and Fitch in Womenswear Design.
My course was Fashion Product and Promotion at Sunderland University. I was initially
attracted to the course here at Sunderland because it is very broad and I haven’t always
wanted to do fashion. I was able to try out multiple different things,
so you will have a computer lesson that will teach you how to illustrate on the computers
and you’ll have a construction course where you will do how the garment construct pattern
cut to actually make the clothes. Some students would be focusing on the photography
side of things and their work would be to completely digital and photographic, and then
other students like myself would do illustration work.
Then we were lucky enough to have some live projects so we did a project for Vivienne
Westwood for her Shoe Exhibition, where we had to create a piece of work, photography
and a painting and illustration which portrayed shoes and what your vision of shoes was and
kind of linking Vivienne Westwood in with that.
We also had a live project for Tommy Hilfiger where we designed T-shirts, so again you could
use photographs, you could do illustration, graphic design, anything that brought your
skills into the kind of ‘fashiony’ side of it.
We went down to Graduate Fashion Week in London where my work was spotted by a recruiter from
Abercrombie and Fitch. These are some of the pieces of work which
I had on display at Graduate Fashion Week. This was a project I did for a company called
Dsquared which was a Menswear collection based around fishermen and what they would wear,
but they kind of looked at this, the recruiters, and it’s very commercial, its wearable.
At Graduate Fashion Week Abercrombie and Fitch recruitment people go round and look at everybody’s
portfolios and they are obviously looking for specific requirements in the work.
They were able to kind of look at this and see what my potential was, which then led
on to me doing a project for Abercrombie and Fitch in which I focused on Hollister, and
I did some designs for them. I created two full outfits for them and then
you go to a series of different interviews and meetings and skype interviews and you
have got to do a project for them, and then you find out either way whether you’ve got
the job or not. Students who are going to go on this course,
the advice I would give to them is to work really, really hard.
Don’t put off a deadline, always, always do the best you can at every single project
and then you always know that you’ve done the best in your work and you are going to
get somewhere with the work that you’ve done and it’s your own work and your own
ideas.