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My final collection explores a modern countryside girl who inherits her family’s secret responsibility of hiding stolen gowns and jewellery originally taken by her great-great-grandmother, a Victorian lady’s maid. Inspired by the crinoline silhouette once used to conceal these objects, I reinterpreted exaggerated Victorian volume through contemporary knitwear and outerwear. Using Harris Tweed MacLeod tartan and hand-knitted textiles, the collection explores ideas of concealment and inheritance while questioning what it means to inherit not only clothing but also identity and responsibility across generations. Ultimately, the collection explores clothing as a form of storytelling and preservation and questions how fashion can hold memory, history and secrecy within it.