SHE might only be 11 – but that has not stopped Aimee Levitt having designs on the world of fashion.
The budding designer, from Hebden Bridge, has already wowed audiences at a catwalk competition with her clothes.
Judges in the annual White Rose Young Fashion Designer of the Year award said her puffball teal and black dress was "very hot" for this season and claimed it would not be out of place in the shows of London, Paris or Milan.
Aimee, a pupil at Calder High School, Mytholmroyd, was one of nine youngsters who got through to the finals of the contest at the White Rose Centre, Leeds, after a record 1,500 entries from children aged nine to 16.
The lucky nine had their sketched designs – Aimee's being the first from Aimee Lou Collections – made into real outfits and wat-ched as professional models strutted up the catwalk in them.
Aimee, a former pupil at Heptonstall Primary School, plans to spend her first prize of £500 White Rose shopping vouchers on a tailor's dummy and cloth for her next dress designs.
She said: "I love clothes and I'm always designing things but this is the first time I have entered a competition like this. I definitely want to be a fashion designed when I am older."
Aimee couldn't believe it when the judges announ-ced she was the winner.
"When they said my name I just screamed my head off. I couldn't believe it."
Her mum Caroline was there to share the big moment and Aimee had also invited one of her friends along.
Head judge Brad Taylor, a fashion designer and stylist to celebrities, and Mel Hurley said they were extremely impressed by Aimee's design and model Sarah Lucas was amazed that her dress had been designed by an 11-year-old.
And that 11-year-old has a hot fashion tip for this season: "My favourites at the moment are really skinny jeans or very flared jeans."
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