A TRIO of sisters from Malvern Link are celebrating after enjoying separate success in the world of fashion.

While Clare and Jenny Tough are keeping the family tradition going by snapping up top design prizes, sister Catherine is already an established designer in her own right.

Clare, 20, is the latest Tough girl to prove her design credentials after winning a Master's Medal in the RSA Student Design Awards.

The former Hanley Castle High School pupil originally won a £1,000 travel award in the Fashion Fabrics category of the awards in April. She has now gone one step further to fight off the challenge of all the category winners for the top prize of a Master's Medal.

Clare, who has just gained a first class textiles degree at the Chelsea College of Art, was up against 2,500 entries from all over the country. Her winning entry was a range of clothes inspired by chevron road markings and diagrams in car manuals.

Past winners have gone on to work at some of the leading design consultancies and in- house design teams.

Sister Jenny, 23, has been winning awards as well, recently collecting the Accessories Design Award at the Graduate Fashion Week at the Planet 2000 exhibition hall in London. The former Dyson Perrins CE High School pupil worked with British design company Mulberry on a collection of leather handbags and received a prize of £750.

She has just completed a BA Hons in Design, Marketing and Product Development (Footwear and Accessories) at Cordwainer's College at the London College of Fashion.

Both Clare and Jenny previously studied at the Hereford College of Art and Design.

Eldest sister Catherine, 26, meanwhile, completed a Masters Degree at the Royal College of Art two years ago and now runs an interior textiles company, Catherine Tough Textiles, in Shepherds Bush.

In the past she has designed for Nicole Farhi and was featured in the Telegraph Magazine last weekend.

The girls' father, Robert Tough, said he is very proud of his daughters and extremely pleased.

"They've been interested in clothes and art since they were very small," he said. "But my wife and I are scientists, so they didn't get it from us!"