A King’s Ely student has reached the finals of a prestigious fashion design competition. Namo Sajarattanachote, who is in Year 13, has been named a finalist in this year’s RECO Young Designer Competition, hailed the largest upcycling fashion design contest in Thailand. Sponsored by Indorama Ventures PCL, the competition is organised to raise awareness about how polyester ‘waste’ can be used...
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Paige's work Fashion and Textiles students at King’s Ely are celebrating success in two prestigious competitions. Paige Newell, Year 12, and John-Oswald Crichton, Year 11, have both been highly commended in this year’s Young Fashion Designer UK contest. They submitted outstanding fashion design ‘mood boards’ with supporting text, where they explored a decade of design by their chosen fashion...
EBC Fashion Show As part of her Gold Arts Award, Eastbourne College student Sasha Marlow, aided by Assistant Producer Liz Helmin, delivered ‘Recycled Runway’, a fashion show designed to raise awareness of marine pollution. Over a period of eighteen months she designed and adapted over 80 outfits inspired by seven themes linked to the sea. All clothes in the show were second hand and recycled...
A budding fashion designer from Burgess Hill Girls, who modelled her own outfit on the runway at the NEC Birmingham, has been chosen as a finalist in a prestigious national schools competition. The theme of this year’s annual ICHF (International Craft and Hobby Fairs) Fashion Icon competition was the Met Gala Ball, the iconic New York event which raises fund for the city’s Metropolitan Museum’s...
A Sixth Former at Malvern St James Girls’ School (MSJ) has raised over £600 for a leading marine charity after creating a fashion show to raise awareness of the harm that plastic is doing to Earth's oceans. Lily Rawlings, Year 12, drew on her love of fashion for her Extended Project Qualification to design and make 14 unique outfits that were modelled in a catwalk show – ‘Trashion’ – at...
Farlington School will host a fashion show next week as part of its Arts Week. The event, which is open to all members of the community, will showcase the latest collections from local fashion retailers and the school's textile design students, with pupils and staff modelling the outfits. Local fashion boutiques including La Vida Boutique, RetroEsque and Doodie Stark will take part in the event,...