This year is the year, 2015 I expect big things from you. Every year I tell myself the same thing this year is the year, get over the fear and chase those dreams, and 365 days later I look back and I’ve taken a detour, the fear has crept back and the excuses start to roll off my tongue like a memorised exam paper from 1999. For as long as I can remember my goal was always to design my own label, I studied textiles at university, I then went onto to study Fashion Design. I wound up deflated and disillusioned when the Head of RMIT design school told me I would never make it and failed my 2nd year assessment. I never went back for my third and final year, and I didn’t pick up a pen for many years after that, maybe in hindsight this was a blessing in disguise, because who I was at 23 is much different to who I have become in my 30s, so 2015 you are finally my year.

Wearing | Top & Skirt by Me (Audrey the label) | COS bag | Topshop shoes | Celine sunglasses