Fashion & Textiles alumna on freelance success, sustainability and the allure of Cornwall

From designing interiors for Lamborghini and Land Rover to exhibiting her work at Harrods and the National Portrait Gallery, Alice has forged an illustrious freelance career from her studio in Cornwall. She also supports emerging designers in her role as Senior Technician, and through her master's studies has begun to explore and innovate with biomaterials.

In our latest episode of Ones To Watch we visited Alice in her Cornwall studio, where she chatted more about her successful freelance career, her research into biomaterials and her love of rural Cornwall.

"I'm Alice. I'm a textile designer specialising in digital embroidery. I graduated from Falmouth University 10 years ago in Textile Design and have spent that time being a freelancer. Since then, I've just finished my MA in Sustainable Fashion.

"So, when I first graduated, I won a whole load of awards for my graduate piece. And from that I had gathered enough money to be able to get a purchase loan on my very expensive digital embroidery machine. I started down the fashion route and then when someone suggested 'oh, I'd really love this as an interiors piece', I then started producing my cushion and soft furnishing collections and it's kind of snowballed since then.