20/11/2023
I can't believe it's been a year since my collection walked the runway.
I designed We Be Dragons with the ideas of womanhood and my own experiences of being a woman in this world. I took the examples of women like St Joan of Arc and Queen Boudica, as my inspiration, taking my own journey and creating a collection that empowered me. This collection was meant to be a testament of my strength after all the pain I had struggled for simply being a woman. I took the pain and trauma of my sexual assaults and the strength and dignity of those around me who got me back to who I am meant to be.
Creating this collection was meant to be a reflection of who I can be as a woman. Unfortunately it was at the end where my body reminded me that even though I was painting this picture of an unshakable and undefeatable woman, the hope I had for my future left me and it gave me more pain than I thought possible. When I lost my daughter at such an early stage in her life and development it broke me.
I was faced with all these ideas of strength and power and I clung onto that over those weeks and months of mourning what I had lost.
This collection became a reminder of the things I had been through, but it also reminds me constantly that I can get through anything that comes for me. That thou I am little (small in the eyes of the world) I am fierce. I am strong and I can overcome.
I hope in the future I can continue to design pieces that inspire others to think and feel as deeply as I do.
