EYE-CATCHING clothes designed and made by students at York College featured in a catwalk show at the Principal Hotel.

Young people studying for degrees and diplomas in fashion took inspiration from topical themes including ocean pollution, recycling and gun control.

Fashion tutor Marie Neal Smith said the budding designers also used unconventional materials to create men’s and women’s items as well as gender-neutral clothing.

She added: “Degree student collections were inspired by broad-ranging contemporary themes. Sustainability was a key feature, one collection saw research translated into creative designs inspired by the issues of plastic in the sea and another designer set the challenge of upcycling and recycling to produce a collection out of zero waste."

Collections showed "diversity, creativity, commercial awareness" with "unconventional fabric combinations".