MCAST Designers:
Aisling Guidera
Designer: Aisling is an Irish designer who relocated to Malta to study at MCAST. With a background in textile design, Aisling is passionate about bringing texture into her designs and taking inspiration and textures from nature combining textiles techniques with traditional fashion design techniques.
Collection: This collection takes inspiration from the different stages of Aisling’s life, building each layer, creating a journey throughout the collection. Using the tactile medium of crochet, nature inspired textures will tell the story throughout each garment in an organic journey similar to the complexities of ever-changing life.
Annmarie Azzopardi
Collection: In Lucid Play, Annmarie Azzopardi explores a girl's journey through fear, illusion, and awakening. The haunted house mirrors her isolation, while distorted creatures embody a mind unraveling in paranoia. Darkness looms, feeding the sense of being watched. Yet, resilience flickers—she adapts, slowly growing stronger. Her self-imposed cage, once protection, becomes her prison. Entrapment tightens… until liberation erupts. She dismantles her fear, revealing a defiant, radiant self. Lucid Play blurs dream and reality, mirroring the girl's inner war between confinement and clarity. Lucid play masterfully captures the painful, beautiful process of breaking free—from fear, from silence, into vivid, conscious freedom.
Jethro Schembri
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Lara Busuttil
Designer: Lara is a 23-year-old fashion design student from Malta with a passion for styling, subcultures, and artisanal craft. With experience in creative direction, social media, and teaching, she blends contemporary fashion with cultural depth, currently exploring these themes in her final-year thesis.
Collection: Euphorie is a sensory escape into bold elegance and raw emotion. Blending vibrant energy with delicate contrasts, it captures the rush of freedom, intimacy, and individuality—where fashion becomes a personal high.
Miriana Bugeja
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Rebecca Calleja
Collection: Unrequited Love is an exploration of the delicate tension between desire and despair — an emotional journey encapsulated in five looks, each inspired by the fragmented beauty of longing. This collection draws from the timeless vulnerability found in poetry, particularly the verses of Petrarca & Sappho, and the symbolism of dried roses — a motif that mirrors love's fading bloom. The garments trace the path of unreciprocated affection, translating complex emotions into tangible expressions through fabric, form, and detail. Each outfit embodies one of five emotional stages: Control, Passion, Rejection, Euphoria & Longing.
Roxanne Debono
Designer: I'm a passionate designer driven by creativity and self-expression. With sewing experience across countries, I explore unconventional yet comfortable styles, blending geometric forms and subtle details. I thrive on learning new skills and love experimenting beyond the norm to create unique, wearable art.
Collection: This collection explores how opposites interact, revealing that they’re not always in conflict but often interconnected. By blurring lines between concepts like good and evil, it reflects life’s complexity, where meaning is found in contrast, tension, and unexpected harmony.
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