years old. She went to the London College of Fashion
and the Ravensbourne College of Art, among others,
to hone her skills at art history, photography, fine art,
fashion and costume design. During her education, she
flourished while engaged in two internships, under the
tutelage of Alexander McQueen and Hussein
Chalayan, both of whom she says inspired and greatly
influenced her decisions to focus on couture in her
work. Indeed, since 2001, when she was a full- time
senior designer at an international fashion label, she
has incorporated high fashion into her artwork,
regardless of the medium.
In 2007, Mitchell’s career took a drastic turn when a
personal illness convinced her to begin taking a break
from fashion design and pick up a camera with a
conviction for the first time. While she had dabbled in
photography before, Mitchell says that she had “never
looked until it was through a lens.” The advent of
photography into her life forever changed her
approach to artistry; she says that she began to “fall in
love with the faces of strangers” and yearn to
photograph all that she could and capture the magical,
previously overlooked and neglected facets of life and
nature. Kirsty focused on street portraiture from 2007
to 2008, photographing strangers on the streets while
she hid behind the lens, using the camera as a means
of escape from reality. She turned to self- portraiture
in later 2008 to 2009.
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