Seeds of Fashion

Seeds of Fashion

Whanganui UCOL’s School of Fashion has announced details of its 2007 Graduation Show, a key event in the city’s social calendar.

The show is titled ‘Now For The Seed’ and will be held at the Royal Wanganui Opera House on 9 November at 7.30pm.

Eighty students, in the first, second and third years of their degree study, will take part in this year’s show. The students themselves came up with the title and theme which represents “germinating ideas” and “sowing the seeds for glittering careers in the fashion industry.” They also promote and organise the show themselves.

Posters for the show take the form of an old fashioned seed packet, promising: “A Packet of Fashion Year 2007.”

Head of the School of Fashion, Sally-Jane DeSalazar, says this year the students have drawn together their work to create an entrancing and tantalising show. “They have brought to life a series of dialogues which speak of memories and captured movements, finding beauty in both the ordinary and extraordinary,” she says.

“Vital concepts and ideas can be drawn from places that captivated us in some way; places that have entertained us, places which hold certain value for us or places either real or imagined.”

First year students were given a novel assignment for the show: They were asked to identify and base their designs on three “Little Treasures’, items that have special meaning for them. First year students model one outfit each.

Second year students were asked to take a more commercial approach, using different fibres and fabrics supplied by Manawatu Knitting Mills and choosing a design that fits with the company’s design philosophy.

Third year students, who show five or six outfits each, were given absolute freedom. “They chose their own theme and took it wherever they liked,” says Sally-Jane.

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