At 22 years old, designer Bianca Pavlic is slowly changing the way Canberrans see fashion.
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From her home in the small town of Wamboin, only half an hour from Canberra, the young woman has been designing clothes since she could remember, doodling dresses on scraps of paper, until she finally decided to follow her dreams in college and pursue fashion.
After beginning to sell her designs in 2014, Ms Pavlic launched her fashion label in her backyard not long after, promoting on Instagram as @biancapavlic.thelabel.
"I started sharing what I was designing and I got approached by photographers and stylists that wanted to do collaborative work," she says.
"From there people started messaging me asking where they could buy my stuff."
Twenty metres from her house, in the studio her dad converted for her, Bianca spends a minimum of 50 hours a week hand-making pieces from start to finish, and sending them around the world to the United States, Canada, Great Britain and New Zealand.
"At the moment it's challenging, I have orders for Splendour in Grass coming up and I work two jobs," she says.
"On my days off, I work on The Label and during all my spare time I'm thinking about what I can do next, what I can design and talking to people about what they want."
Her creativity - influenced by her family - has led to Ms Pavlic's designs being shown on stage at Canberra's very own Fashfest in 2017, published in New York's Promo Magazine in 2018 and displayed in Meraki, a fashion show she started with fellow creative soul, Maryanne Irhia, that made its debut earlier this year in Kingston.
A huge supporter of ethical, sustainable fashion, she sources all the fabrics herself from all over the world and finds the fast-fashion industry "disheartening".
She takes pride in the fact that she has complete creative control and creates every piece from start to finish, including designing, pattern-making, sourcing fabric, cutting and then making the garments.
"I wish the people who don't know about my label will one day know who I am and what I do; that I do everything from start to finish. It's not like I just do one thing like designing and someone else makes it, I do absolutely everything," she says.
"I try to source sustainable fabric from the US or I'll try to go to op-shops to find fabrics and up-cycle.
"I use all of my scrap fabric to make other things like bralettes and scrunchies. I'm definitely using all the fabric where I can and I try to be sustainable where I can."
Ms Pavlic is also a strong advocate for Canberran designers and she wishes the public knew about the talent in the ACT and surrounding areas.
As she begins planning the 2020 Meraki fashion show, she's focusing on using locals to help inspire budding designers.
"Supporting local means you're supporting a single person who is generally doing something from start to finish," she says. "Canberra needs more bright, young people that are willing to show the world who they are. It pays off in the end."