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Billie Tuttle,
a fourth-year student in fashion knitwear, won the European
DuPont Hosiery Competition and netted £1,500 for her effort.
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Some of Billie's designs ... |
She was
set the task of finding a new look for hosiery as part of her
university studies, and came up with 'engineered look' that
flatters the shape of the legs.
Billie,
who is 22, admits she was inspired by Levi's engineered jeans
that features a seam that curves around the leg, and she applied
the idea to hosiery.
She not
has only won the top award at Paris, but now a Leicester firm,
Melas, has decided to make the stockings and is calling the
product Billie.
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| Billie
with some of the high-tech machinery at the university. |
The young
designer has already spent a few months at Marks and Spencer's
design centre in Baker Street.
She also
travelled to Ohio in America where she had an inside look at
the American fashion trade with Abercrombie and Fitch, a top
retailer of trendy clothes.
For a young
lady who didn't even wear tights until she started designing
them, Billie now hopes to put hosiery back in the fashion game.
She is ready
to graduate later this year, and now has more good news: Selfridges
has placed a large order for her design, which should be on
store shelves this summer.
Learn about
a Nottingham University high
flyer or see some fashion high flyers
from Nottingham Trent or top photography student Ikuko
Tsuchiya.
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