20 July 2004
Rachel’s lucky look wins UK competition
More glory for MMU fashion
LIKE most 20-year-olds Rachael Gibson spends hours scouring clothes shops for the latest fashions.
Now one of the items in the window is her very own creation – after she won a national design a T-shirt competition with high street store New Look.
Her ‘lucky’ horseshoe T-shirt proved lucky indeed as she beat off competition from young designers across the country to scoop the £4,000 award.
Rachael, a first-year student at Manchester Metropolitan University, one of the top fashion schools in the UK*, said she somehow knew she would win.
“The design was a good omen! I’m delighted that my friends and family can walk into New Look and buy my T-shirt.”
Rachael, from Sheffield, plans to become a full-time fashion designer when she graduates from MMU in 2006.
Caroline Visca, of New Look, said: “Rachael was a strong, striking design with attitude and a contemporary cut.”
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*Final-year students on the BA (Hons) Fashion course at MMU scooped three awards at London Graduate Fashion Week in June 2004, more than any other UK fashion school.
To contact Rachel, please call MMU Press Office on 0161 247 3406 mob. 07748 111322
