Designer Talibah doesn't spend her time out partying instead she spends most of her waking hours sitting in front of a sewing machine creating new and exciting fashion pieces.

She learned to sew when she was very young and from the age of 12 has been creating wearable outfits, and now some of her designs will go on display at the The Bermuda Collective Fashion Show, tomorrow at City Hall (see separate story.)

"After a while people knew that I sewed, so they would ask if I could show them something that I made, but I was never in the position to say, 'here is my collection, this is what I do'."

That changed when she met Charles Anderson. "I ran into Charles maybe two years and I told him what I did and he told me that he was a photographer.

"He then offered to do a photo shoot for me. From that moment on, I thought, 'Wow, maybe I can make something of this?'.

"Charles then started talking about having a show at the Bermuda Society of the Arts and… it is finally here. I am so excited and I'm like, 'Charles, are we really going to do this?'"

Although she is excited, she is also a little nervous. "There are people in this show who probably have degrees in fashion design," she said.

Her garments are mainly made out of both new and recycled denims. "I usually shop at Quija or at The Barn and Salvation Army when they have their $5 bag sales," she said.

"When I do that, I get old jeans and shred them, take off the buckles, belts and everything and get creative from there, because I love working with denim, it is kind of like my trademark. Even if I have made a flowy dress, I would put a denim patch on it to make it me."

When Talibah, 24, is creating a garment, she said she knows where she wants it to fall, so she knows instinctively where to cut the fabric.

"I make my own patterns," she said. "I used to use (bought) patterns about ten years ago, but just in the last few years I have been free-styling my own shapes and my own fits, because of the lack of patterns (being sold) in Bermuda."

Of her designs, she has a host of patchwork and sequins to set the audience alight. "It is very funky and I like to describe it as sophisticated funk, so it is still funking off the wall, but you can still be pert and classy."