20-30 people are given a place each year.
Over 500 apply, some places more.
You need to have the grades. a good portfolio and be seen as enthusiastic, the type of person who could surive.
In the interviews, paticulary for one, I have to give a spontaneous presentation on a question they give me. As I have a "friendly face", she told me this will usually be as to why you love fashion.
Ain't gonna lie, I had no idea how I would answer this.

Then I found this;



Apart from the obvious that I've been a talented artist from a young age..
When I was 5 years old, my dream was to have a brown horse as a pet, and if I remember correctly I also wanted to be a butterfly. Who also designed dresses for princesses on the side.

This will have basically no relevance to fashion for almost everyone. But to me; this is fashion.

Imagination, creativity, fun and plain absurd at times.
It's more than just the clothes you see, that's only such a small part of it.
There's the psychology and emotion of how the dress was thought of and created, through to the person who purchases it and what they see/ do while wearing that piece of clothing.
It's what defines part of a persons personality. It's peoples opinions, everyday we have a choice about what we want to wear and pick what we do as we like it.
Whether you wear a £10,000 dress covered in jewels, or you wear jeans with a t-shirt. It's fashion. It's never "boring". It's what you like, it's what you are, and that's fashion.

I genuinely believe my dreams would come true. I never thought imagination was exactly that, never reality.
But fashion is imagination. It allows a simple thought, to become something phenomenal.
I never think I will quite live out the dream of being a butterfly, but I can live out every dream I have each day of a piece of clothing I want.

So that's why I love fashion.
Because it is anything, and everything.
It blurs the border between imagination and reality.
Ever since I made that first dress, I felt like I found what I am meant to do.
It's like eating pringles, once you've had one, you have to keep eating and eating.
You can never have too many.
And maybe one day, you'll get full and fed up of pringles.
But until then you keep on going, each one tasting better and better, getting even more addicted.

So, I'm going to go into my interview and talk about my dreams of being a butterfly and my love of pringles.
I'm gonna take the dresses I've made, and the drawings I've done, and not be ashamed they're not perfect or they are far from designer standard right now.
Because I've only just begun eating the pringles, and the best is still to come.

And I'm starting to realize, that without the thought that I may have a slight shot at getting on this course, i have nothing.
So bring on 2010.
The year I've been waiting for since I wrote about my dream, when I was 5 years old.