After winning the Redress Design Award 2017, Kate completed her prize of designing an upcycled capsule knitwear collection for Hong Kong luxury brand, The R Collective, which launched in 2018. She currently works as a Knitwear Technologist for Burberry.

Kate holds an MA in Fashion Knitwear Design from Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom where, before moving to work in industry, she developed the concept for a fashion brand called CROP which provided fun-filled, cruelty-free, vegan knitwear using zero-waste and minimal seam production techniques on plant fibres . Kate gained first prize in the 2017 Shima Seiki Design Competition, was shortlisted for The WGSN + ArtsThread Future Creator Award 2017 and CROP was recognised as ‘Best Wool-Free Brand’ in the 2017 PETA Fashion Awards.