Sustainable fashion is becoming more popular, with people choosing to shop on sites like Vinted and Depop instead of going for fast fashion brands. And Aoife Harvey is making her mark on the industry - as the 23-year-old from Derry takes her sustainable designs to the screen in a BBC show.
Aoife will appear on the second series of ‘A Stitch Through Time’, which returns on July 17. The designer told BelfastLive how her passion for sustainable design first started, and how it has since grown into something she is determined to make a career out of.
The designer says it all started while she was studying Art and Design at the NWRC in Limavady, and completed a UAL Foundation Diploma there. “In that foundation year, sustainability was getting big, and as a young designer you don’t have a lot of money [when] you’re trying to find ways to make clothes,” she said.
