Meet the women who have turned their hobby into a career

From passion to profit – can you really turn your hobby into a career? Ciara McDonnell meets six women who did just that.

THE DESIGNER: ALI WHEELER

Once upon a time, your average woman’s knowledge of knickers was more or less limited to her own experience of wearing them. But not anymore. I’m not sure when this changed exactly– maybe in the 1990s when the low-rise jean with peeping-out thong became ubiquitous, I don’t know- but it has: now, in 2017 knickers are no longer a secret.