Leave The City collection explores my personal battles with depression and anxiety. It’s about the days when everything feels too much, when the only thing you want to do is stay in bed and ignore the world because nothing seems to matter. It explores the pressure to fit in, the constant push to act “normal” or fix yourself, whether from family, society, or the people around you.
At the same time, it celebrates the places, things, and routines that helped me feel alive and grounded, the small spaces where I could be myself and breathe without judgment. The collection moves through these emotions toward a kind of messy freedom: the realisation that being truly yourself isn’t always neat or easy, but that it’s okay to feel all the complicated emotions that come with being human.
This work isn’t about fixing yourself or achieving perfection. It’s about honesty, about letting people see what it actually feels like to be overwhelmed, to struggle, and to slowly discover that freedom and self-expression, even when messy, are worth experiencing.
Category
Fashion Design
Diploma in
Apparel Design & Merchandising
Key Skills
Fashion Design
Fashion Illustration
Drafting
I used to want to design big, dramatic, avant-garde pieces that felt like wearable art. But as I’ve grown and started thinking about adapting my big dreams into something more wearable, my priorities have changed. I care a lot about wearability and affordability. I want to design clothes people can actually live in, repeat, and style in their own way. Instead of focusing on big spectacles, I’m making thoughtful, well-made pieces that feel relevant to everyday life and accessible to more people, while still keeping a little bit of that drama in my designs.
