Working 9 til 5?

The sewing machines are running overtime, fingers are bleeding, heads are hurting and nerves are at the end of their tether. Students are working 12 hour days to get their collections ready in time, enrolling the help of friends and family to stitch, sew and fix. The workshops and studios are a complete mess but awash with creativity and very loud music to keep the volunteers awake.

Cat Hill campus is filled to the brim with energy and passion. Patterns are scattered over the workshop floors, countless water bottles and chocolate wrappers cover the worktops and there's so many pieces of material floating around you could easily make Joseph another Technicolour Dreamcoat. It's this time of year that the hard work pays off. There's less than a week to go until the big unveil of the fashion show!

The fashion students aren't automatically eligable to display their work at the Art & Design Degree Show - around twenty students are chosen from the courses to partake in the fashion show and Graduate Fashion Week. But before they can do this, they have to create a brand new collection to showcase at the events. This is where the stress begins!

Some of the snaps below really sum up what the atmosphere is like at the moment, and all the hard work which is going into preparing for next Thursday.