Internship Case Study

“The patterns for my clothing are quite easy because the focus is on the textiles” she says, rolling her cigarette using her pattern cutting intern’s pack of Amber Leaf tobacco. Bob DyWilliams in lan’s ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ is Sadie her workshop in playing in the background of Hoxton, London the workshop when I enter that day. Sadie Williams, a fashion and textile designer from London, graduated in 2013 with a Distinction for her work on the ‘Textiles For Fashion’ pathway, and currently works freelance for companies wanting to capitalise on her strength in innovating fashion-aware textile and print design. She has so farworked me onto the Newgen with J W Anderpanel. son, Marc by Marc I can’t afford to have G: Do they provide you Jacobs and Katie with finances for your anyone work for me right Hillier to name a few. I sat to ask her now, I just have to work collections, or do you have to front a lot of the questions on her money yourself? very, very hard. career and work so S: A third/quarter of far. the money pays for G: Describe showrooms in London, and a third goes on hiring your experience of being models and making lookbooks and invitations. I sponsored by Newgen. make a lot of my income through collaborations.

S: I met a journalist who folG: Do Newgen ask for a lot of press help from you? lowed me for a while since S: Yes, I have to tag them in my social media posts my graduation, and she got and do a lot of interviews with/for them. I designed phone stickers that were sold in Topshop and given away at my show in February.

G: What has been the most rewarding project?

S: Working with &Other Stories, and Barbie was a well paid project also.

Words by Georgia Roberts