A FASHION student has pocketed more than £1,000 and a trip to the States in a prestigious design competition.

And despite having met a bevy of beautiful supermodels and top designers, Paul Roughley shuns the glamour and glitz of the catwalk and harks back to his Preston roots where his passion for fashion began.

The former pupil of Leyland St Mary's High School praises his tutors at Preston College, and says he just wants to earn a decent crust doing what he enjoys.

Paul dazzled judges with designs combining ethnic and western styles. He was interviewed by nine fashion experts including The Clothes Show's Jeff Banks.

He will fly out to America in August for a whirlwind tour of top fashion houses such as Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Nike and Patagonia in California where they make fleece jackets from recycled plastic bottles!

He said: "I'm not in fashion for the fame and fortune - it's just to earn a living doing what I enjoy.

"A lot of the big designers are surprisingly skint, and then you have Calvin Klein which makes billions of pounds of profit a year."

Ultimately, Paul wants to design sportswear in America. He said: "I design comfortable and functional clothes I would wear, not ridiculous outfits you get mocked at for wearing.

"Men are becoming more vain than women so I rarely get teased by my mates about my work."

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