I just finished studying BA (hons) Fashion Design at the University of East London. I specialised in my final year into 3D pleating for my final project, after discovering it while on placement. After working with these processes in industry I wanted to develop them so I could do it from the studio. So I began to plan and make my own pleat patterns by hand as well as my own steam box. These pleat designs became a core element of my collection mixed together with my research derived from family photographs I found in the loft of the whaling stations in South Georgia.