Designed by Lucy

Designed by Lucy Fashion Design with Textiles student
Specialising in embroidery🧵🪡


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Graduate showcase 2026 🎓🩷I am very honoured to say that I won the ‘Creative Vision Award’ for exceptional originality, i...
06/06/2026

Graduate showcase 2026 🎓🩷

I am very honoured to say that I won the ‘Creative Vision Award’ for exceptional originality, innovation and forward-thinking ideas.

These past 4 years have been a mix of amazing and challenging, I am so thankful to my tutors for their support and especially to my friends and family for believing in me when I didn’t believe in myself.

Seeing an idea in my brain come to life was beyond exciting. I am truly proud of everything I have created for my graduate collection, it perfectly encompasses my Ukrainian heritage but with my own, contemporary twist.

If anybody wants to see the graduate collection it will be on display in the Barbara Hepworth building of The University of Huddersfield from today 6th June - 20th June.

25/05/2026

Textiles Sketchbook part 2

Another speedy flip through of a sketchbook I produced as part of my textiles module for my final year. ‘Peonies and Poppies’ fashion developments, I have used my textiles samples on the stand to explore different placements for the textiles integration within my final collection.

I had so much fun creating these sketchbooks and textiles samples. I loved seeing my ideas come to life. I hope you all enjoy looking through it all as much as I do 🌹🌸❤️

Concept board, mood board, customer board and final range plan of CAD technical flats
20/05/2026

Concept board, mood board, customer board and final range plan of CAD technical flats

Outfit 1 from my graduate collection🩷🧡❤️ I can’t wait to share the whole collection with you but for now here are some c...
08/05/2026

Outfit 1 from my graduate collection🩷🧡❤️

I can’t wait to share the whole collection with you but for now here are some closeups of my first outfit!

Model -
Photography by me

Outfit 1 and outfit 2 toiles have been created. A few adjustments are still needed to make the perfect but I’m so happy ...
25/02/2026

Outfit 1 and outfit 2 toiles have been created. A few adjustments are still needed to make the perfect but I’m so happy with the results.

The scary part now is well underway, I am making them in the final fabrics.

A sneak peek of my textiles integration for the back of Outfit 2’s jacket is on the 3rd slide and I made a last minute decision to include a concealed placket🙈

Some very exciting things have been happening today, I learnt how to screen printt and have been trying to make the pigm...
15/01/2026

Some very exciting things have been happening today, I learnt how to screen printt and have been trying to make the pigments as neon as possible when they are printed onto a black fabric🎨

I cant wait to show you all the finished product and how I will be incorporating this screen printing into my final collection🙈

2025 has been a busy year for me and sewing. I started the year leaning more about pattern cutting and making myself som...
24/12/2025

2025 has been a busy year for me and sewing. I started the year leaning more about pattern cutting and making myself some new garments, I did a lot of alterations for friends and family. My biggest achievement of the year was my first custom order for a graduation dress, it came with a lot of challenges, I made the pattern myself and did a lot of alterations to get it perfect. I ended the year going back to university for my final year and have loved seeing my visions come to life.

I can’t wait to see what next year brings, it’ll be a lot of hard work but I’m so excited to bring you all along on my journey☺️.

Term 1 or final year is officially over🥹Here’s some highlights of the last few months of me figuring out what I want my ...
19/12/2025

Term 1 or final year is officially over🥹
Here’s some highlights of the last few months of me figuring out what I want my final collection to be based on and some techniques I have enjoyed experimenting with.

1 - neon flowers, I have decided my collection will be all done in black fabrics with neon prints and embroidery shining through.

2 - a poppy digital embroidery sample in neon pink😆.

3 - the sky looking stunning after uni.

4 - some more flower collages again in neon because you can never have enough neon.

5 - another gorgeous sunset.

6 - a super volume sleeve toile, I was very happy with the volume I managed to create.

7 - finally me with all my stuff I take to uni every day studying fashion design = a lot of bags all the time 😅.

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