Fashionista … Brittany Smith shows off her winning T-shirt design. 54357
By Danielle Galvin
SIXTEEN-year-old Brittany Smith is no fashion designer. In fact she wants to be a criminologist when she gets older.
But her flair for drawing and a spontaneous idea saw her take out the Brimbank Central Youth Fashion Festival’s top prize.
The competition invited teens to design a mural, with the winning design to be used for a T-shirt.
Miss Smith’s T-shirt design showed two hands coming together, cradling a flower.
“I just sat down and started drawing,” she said.
“My design symbolises young people coming together, bringing new life and new ideas.”
The Catholic Regional College student’s T-shirt will be showcased at Brimbank Central shopping centre, and will be available for purchase.
“It’s cool that my T-shirt design will be sold,” she said.
“I’ve been wearing mine around a lot.”
All proceeds will go to the Butterfly Foundation – a charity dedicated to the prevention and treatment of eating disorders.
“I’m glad that the proceeds are going to a worthy cause. That makes me feel good.”
While this young artist has dipped a toe in to the fashion industry, she doesn’t have plans to start a fashion label just yet.
“I want to be a criminologist. I got the idea off Criminal Minds.”
