BA (Hons) Fashion Design

Saona Tomlinson

Biography

The starting idea of my collection was sparked in early 2020 whilst I was living away from home and feeling a little bit homesick; when a letter arrived in the post from my family it immediately filled me with joy and almost felt like the handwritten letters were a physical extension of home! When it has never been easier to send a message online, there was something different about receiving a physical letter as it kicked off the start of my love for the classic ‘snail mail’ and this is what has inspired my graduate collection – “Sent With Love – Happiness In An Envelope”.

My collection focuses on garment transformations and allowing my clothing to fit the individual wearing whether it be changing the length or personal aesthetic preference. Adjustable string and washer disks inspired from my research of connection and envelopes are attached at points of the garments which allow personalisation by adjusting the strength of the pull causing different gathering of fabric and the order/arrangement of the strings transforming the shape of the garments depending on which disks are pulled together. This allows my garments to have many possible outcomes for styling and can be modified to suit the body type of any person wearing them.

Read more about me