Arnside teenager has designs on a career in fashion (From The Westmorland Gazette)

Arnside teenager has designs on a career in fashion

5:15pm Thursday 4th March 2010 in

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A STUDENT has beaten off competition from thousands of applicants to study at London’s College of Fashion.

Lucie Sharp, of Arnside, is one of only 200 students to gain a place on the foundation course in Art and Design at the esteemed college, the only one in the country to specialise in fashion.

“It’s the best thing ever,” said the 17-year-old. “I’m really looking forward to being in London, it just looks so fun and there are so many different cultures there.”

The pupil of Dallam School in Milnthorpe, who is learning sign language and plays in a Caribbean steel band, went through a long process to secure her place.

She was interviewed in London before giving a presentation on her work to a small group of other applicants.

"I was so nervous,” said Miss Sharp. “It was horrible.

"After I’d finished it I didn’t think I’d done that well.”

But it appears she had done well, as her proud dad Richard Sharp can vouch for.

“She was absolutely bouncing when she found out,” he said.

“She’s now one of the privileged few to have been taken on the course.

“Since her early teens she has always been very orientated towards fashion and she’s always been very artistic.

"She’s always had a flair for design and a tendency to push the boundaries and do things differently.”

Miss Sharp now only needs to pass one of her A Levels in Art, Spanish, Sociology, Drama and General Studies. She will be sitting her exams this summer.

London’s College of Fashion was founded in 1906.