It's one of the toughest industries in the world to break into, but young QUT fashion graduate Gail Reid is already tasting success.
Gail will showcase her spring/summer designs during Mercedes Australian Fashion Week in Sydney next May after winning the Queensland final of the Mercedes-Benz Start Up program last night.
The competition aims to encourage fledgling fashion designers and its judges couldn't go pass Gail's strict black and white collection.
The 23-year-old Teneriffe designer won $5000 in cash to help develop her label, Gail Sorronda, and scored a spot in the "New Generation" show during the prestigious spring/summer Mercedes Australian Fashion Week.
Gail finished her studies at QUT this year and is one of a select group of students graduating from the university's fashion design course for the first time.
This debut group of graduates will unveil their final-year designs at a special event - aptly titled First - this Thursday night (November 18) at QUT's Creative Industries Precinct at Kelvin Grove.
Gail's Mercedes-Benz Start Up prize also included a place in a mentoring program that will give her access to key industry leaders in the lead up to Australian Fashion Week.
Her win follows another QUT fashion coup last month when first-year student Ashleigh Downes won the student designs category at the Australian Fashion Design Awards at Brisbane City Hall.
Media contact: Mechelle Webb, QUT media office, 07 3864 4494 or ml.webb@qut.edu.au
