Known for her unique hand-painted leather jackets and caricature illustrations, Barrow does not view being an artist and a designer as mutually exclusive, but rather integrates both aspects into her work.
She studied at Conyers School in Middlesbrough and did a BTEC National Diploma in Fashion Design at Cleveland College of Art and Design (now the Northern School of Art),[2] before she moved to London in 2008 to study Fashion at the University of Westminster.
Before graduating, she received her first big break from the fashion editor at British Vogue, Fransesca Burns.
After her graduate collection was featured on the catwalk, Fashion East founder Lulu Kennedy quickly picked her up.
This prompted "the Retro-Spective" her own fake retrospective, which combined the two demonstrating that she's both an artist and a fashion designer.