Research: My Future Bio

Our task was to write our future bio for a year or two in advance, with our ambitions of what we can achieve this year. This is how mine went.

500 words

Melissa-Kate is a Wirral-born fashion designer trailblazing in the world of wearable art and digital advancements. She focuses on the dark ‘black mirror’ type realistic horrors of the modern world and expresses that through her knowledge and experience of pattern cutting, both in physical and digital form. Her work takes you through an experience of reinventing the traditional and constantly questioning, ‘what really is fashion?’
Melissa-Kate’s fascination with tv-glitching comes from her viewing the world with visual snow. A condition which means everything looks static in her vision. Her visual migraines also add to this view of the world, seeing colours and patterns as well as heightening senses in a disturbing way.

The scary future of capitalism and technology are the ethics behind her concepts. Melissa-Kate Is a well known leftist and challenges the reality of the elite through her art forms. Her collections surrounding technology are how Melissa-Kate views the world both literally and metaphorically.
Using hand crochet, zero pater cutting techniques and digital drawings for prints, she has mastered the art of glitching and uses the different mediums to her advantage, showing just how varied her branding can stretch.
After studying pattern cutting for over 10 years at just 24, the silhouettes have caught the eyes of multiple musicians including Doha Cat, Ashnikko and Milly Cyrus. The eye catching designs making waves on the red carpet.

She interned in 2019 designing for ASOS, PrettyLittleThing, boohoo and New Look to name a few. By then she had already designed collections for love islanders and Sam Faiers from Towie, making fast fashions biggest sellers. However fast fashion didn’t fit her ethical and moral goals in fashion.

Melissa-Kate knew she was going to make waves in fashion before the age of 5, her mother supported her in this from the get go, buying every book and toy fashion related. Melissa-Kate jokes her life has come full circle, it started playing dress up games online and is now heavily focused on digital 3D prototyping and development.
The development and sales of Melissa-Kate’s NFTs became the finances of Melissa-Kate Studio, the digital is continuously allowed to become physical from this.
Melissa-Kate put on one of the largest fashion shows of 2022, allowing in all press and students to assure there is no hierarchy for the elite. Her shows are something of the future, an entire art piece to get the audience thinking.

She sells capsule collections, more wearable pieces in selfridges and Dover street market, advertising as investment pieces to slow consumption under capitalism.

Her catwalk pieces are reserved for installation displays and loaning for red carpets, music videos and other creative collaborations – they’re truly one off pieces.
the brand is at the forefront for digital inspired fashion and truly a brand of the future.

150 words

Melissa-Kate is a Wirral-born fashion designer trailblazing in the world of wearable arts. She fuses together her leftist views about the dangers of the elite and technology with her view of a tv glitch world experienced through her migraines.

Her love of digital brings realism to the digital world through 3D prototyping and artwork whilst also bringing digital to real-life through her concepts as seen on the catwalk and in exhibition spaces.

Melissa-Kate studio ready-to-wear is available in selfridges and Dover street market. Whilst digital NFTs are available through her website and on the Dress X app.

Her collections have caught the eyes of major gen-z celebrities and continue to be a talking point of the fashion industry with major recognition from Anna Wintour at Vogue.

I think writing this out has really set my intentions clear for myself and narrowed down a lot of my ideas into a clearer plan. Also it taught me I can truest set my ambitions high as it’s my chance now more than ever to be aiming for that success. I think some things may change or become more detailed in my plans after continuing my research but I’m happy with moving forward with putting these manifestations into reality.

I didn’t ever think about having to talk about myself and my brand in third person. It really got me thinking, What is Melissa-Kate studio? Even though i believed i knew everything about myself and my brand on the inside, I had never needed to explain and talk through every detail aloud. Now more than ever i know the importance of being able to articulate everything i am thinking into a sentence. Its shown me more clarity but also everything i am missing for my brand, anything contradictory and those questions i really need to answer.

More than anything i know i need to completely summarise my plans in a way everyone will be able to understand as that’s something i really struggle with. And i should be asking myself questions all the time to ensure i always keep a strong idea of what i am manifesting into reality.