FF Magazine Scotland Issue 1 - Launch | Page 9

What made you want to be a fashion designer? I have always had a keen interest in fashion as cliche as that sounds. I had worked in construction for roughly 5 years and spent my spare time designing. This was well before the G69 label. I then reached a point where I looked into the possibility of studying design. in me achieving a HND in Design edge to menswear staple pieces. & Manufacture. Keeping our quality of fabrics & finishes etc to our normal high Following college I was fast standards. tracked into 3rd year of a fashion business course at university. Inspiration is taken from I spent 8 months studying but many different aspects of our ultimately decided it wasn’t right surroundings,I believe, from for me and left the course to architecture to art for example. fully focus on G69 Clothing. I learned this from my time I applied to Cardonald College studying design. for a spot on their design & We are currently between manufacture course. The college collections. the first was a nod For me personally, I view each is well known for it’s fashion to representing Glasgow & garment as a basic shape or programmes, Scotland with the use of tartan form. I try to visualise how to throughout. The next collection alter that to deliver a new idea, if Christopher Kane is one of is more subdued you could say. possible. it’s most well known former I’m looking to concentrate on students. I was successful with minimal style details which still my application and this resulted offer a modern contemporary Model: Calum Location: The Biscuit Factory, Edinburgh