After graduating from the London College of Fashion in 2007, Zanditon made her debut at the London Fashion Week in 2009 with her collection "The Colony", which was inspired by the plight of endangered bee species. After winning the Masters of Linen – Creativity award, also in 2009, Zanditon was able to create her first
ready-to-wear collection, and was also chosen for the
British Fashion Council's eco-fashion mentoring programme, improving her business under the guidance of Bev Malik.
2010 Zanditon's third appearance at the London Fashion Week was in February 2010, when her bat-inspired collection "Echolocation" was featured. In the fall of that year, her Spring/Summer '11 collection "Pyramora" captured significant attention at the first London Fashion Week
sustainable fashion catwalk show, organised by
Prince Charles and
Anna Wintour. She also won the EFF & Fairtrade Foundation's Innovation Award at the
Somerset House that year. In February, she was commissioned by jewellers Ingle and Rhode to design the first ever fairtrade, fairmined gold necklace. Zanditon was also chosen to be one of fifteen high-profile designers to be a part of the Fairtrade Collective that year, for which she designed a scarf made entirely of fairtrade cotton.
2012 Her second film, done for her A/W 12 collection Simia Mineralis, was inspired by the endangered
mountain gorilla, and evokes cultural turmoil sparked by the industrial revolution. For her S/S 2013 collection, Zanditon continued her effort to use fashion as a campaign to raise awareness about endangered species, this time highlighting the plight of the
Asian tiger through her collection "Tigris Reign". The film associated with the collection follows the story of the Tigress and the Hunter, and the adventure that eventually brought each unable to do the other harm. The Tigress is featured wearing many of the silkier, more flowing pieces of the collection, while the Hunter is featured primarily in the pieces inspired by British Indian Army uniforms.
2013 For her A/W 2013 collection, Zanditon continued her effort to raise awareness about the Asian Tiger, this time with the collection "March of the Tigress". After an inspiring trip to
Sri Lanka, Zanditon based her S/S 2014 collection, "Aqualibrium", on the
endangered sea turtle, as is evident in the associated video "She Who Changes", in which all of the collection pieces, which includes several pieces of swimwear, are modelled underwater. Half of the collection is incredibly vibrant and colourful, while the other half is mostly black and monochromatic. The inspiration for the colour pieces is drawn from the patterns on the turtle shells, with the colouring of Sri Lankan
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