Ruby Pickles
Ruby is a confident and explorative creative who has begun to specialise in styling and photography through her Fashion Promotion Foundation course. As she goes on to study Fashion Communication at a degree level, she is content with her growing ambition to become a creative director and hopes to develop in all areas of fashion promotion. Her final major project showed a real turning point for her work, as she looked at conveying a strong and personal message on the inclusivity in the dance world. Through target research, she found it abundantly clear that not everyone feels as if they are able to enjoy the movement of dance due to stereotypical and historical factors. Looking back through different eras in dance, Ruby found many contributors to the lack of confidence for people who for example, think they are "too big" or, don't fit into the gender categories. One of her main focus points was the lack of opportunities in dance for people of colour, as she constantly challenged popular advertisements and big companies who failed to show diversity. Interviewing people affected by the non-inclusive world became a channel for her to learn and discuss what exposure was needed to make dance an all-inclusive movement.