Dress:UP
Studying Arts and Events Management its our duty to put on one live event per year to showcase our desires within the arts industry as well what we’ve learnt academically throughout the year. And therefore I present my first year event: Dress:UP. With a group of another 6 girls, we wanted to showcase something a little different, something that apart from being enjoyable - got the audience thinking, questioning and exposed to something they’d never seen before. Up-cycling was our answer. With myself, and other group members having a ‘passion for fashion’ as you could put it, up-cycling is the process where by which used, unwanted clothes are transformed into new outfits, a modern day ‘make-do-and-mend’. Being in very much so a fast fashion society where the likes of Primark are a easy solution to finding a cheap, quick buy and therefore we knew we would have an interested audience in our cause.
As months of planning went past, pieces started to fall into place and we were able to gain sponsorship from Janome sewing machine, press coverage from bloggers and Start UK, and acquire a guest speaker and her collection, the wonderful Julia Roebuck, graduate from the London College of Fashion specialising in our chosen topic - Upcycling.
The show was an amazing success. Through the stress of it all, we pulled together and produced a fashion show that portrayed exactly what we wanted it to, a brilliant set of designers, models, photographers and makeup artists at the ready and music and lighting to set the show on fire.
Just a few pictures above, that although amazing can’t ever translate our event. Like a proud little mum… unleash future events!! Especially if they all turn out to be as exciting as this one was.. XO
