Episode 2

Presenter Claire McCollum welcomes the four young designers back to the design studio to face more fashion challenges inspired by the needlework and thrift craft of the girls and women in the Ulster-Scots heartland of the Ards Peninsula.

Celebrating sustainability in fashion, the designers must first turn pre-loved men’s shirts into a dress fit for the catwalk, before taking on the six-hour challenge inspired by Ulster’s long tradition of delicate Ayrshire whitework, delicate embroidery, upcycling and patchwork quilting.

Once again, the designers will have to impress judges Katie Larmour and Una Rodden with their ambitious design skills, technical abilities and in how they have drawn inspiration from the women of the Ards peninsula in the 19th and early 20th centuries.