I am a womenswear designer specialising in contemporising historical silhouettes and innovating disability design through creative pattern cutting. My approach to designing lies within submerging myself within antique and flamboyant visuals, and reinvents them through daring scale and contextual storytelling. As a disabled designer, I am committed to designing beyond the limits of sample sizing and restricted functionality, yet, determined to not lose a refined style, I create garments that find the balance between extravagance and comfort. My inspirations and motivations vary from eras of the Victorian period, theory and literature, and the history of disability within womanhood. From these influences that surround my work, I balance the personal and societal contexts throughout projects and garments to create a multidisciplinary selection of conceptual pieces. I aim for my personal and interpersonal approaches to fashion communicate moments in history that deserve a new rendition, and the people that are often forgotten within fashion; women, those who are excluded due to size or physical difference, and the makers behind it all. DEFORMITO-MANIA is a F/W25 womenswear collection that explores 1890s aesthetics, abject and grotesque theory, and the application of my disabilities within creative pattern cutting and accessible garment manufacturing. This collection aims to develop disability within fashion from limited accessibility options, into a pattern cutting process that innovates how contortion can become a key element of the designing process. My collection revels in ‘abnormal’ silhouettes and the visual flamboyance of the Fin de Siècle era, which is brought to life through exaggerated scale and the repurposing of antique textiles.