The Trusts' Trash to Fashion ® Awards are underway for 2004. The call is out for creative people to recycle the rubbish around them into costumes for the stage. Those wishing to take part must register by 30th July. Entrants have until 16th October to deliver completed garments, which are then showcased at two special award nights in early December.
The Trusts' Trash to Fashion ® Awards are underway for 2004. The call is out for creative people to recycle the rubbish around them into costumes for the stage. Those wishing to take part must register by 30th July. Entrants have until 16th October to deliver completed garments, which are then showcased at two special award nights in early December.
Trash to Fashion ® attracts entries from a variety of cultures and age groups including school students. Project Director Amanda Wright says that it provides a platform for emerging and established designers to experiment with how 'recycling' fits into contemporary design and fashion:
"The garments always inspire a reaction - the audience is fascinated with how disposable items can be reinvented. In the process of making them the designers have to take a second look at what's possible with so-called 'throwaway' objects."
Entrants compete for prize money across eight categories with the Supreme Award valued at $4,000, runner-up $1,000. Winners of the adult categories each receive $1,000, runner-up $500. Amanda Wright says the range of categories allows plenty of scope for designers to create wild and imaginative costumes from the futuristic to the glamorous:
"We've described the categories using language from the digital age but designers can interpret each category however they wish. The menswear section proved such a hit last year with the audience, that it's now a permanent part of the show. The ultimate aim of Trash to Fashion ® is to deliver the 'reduce, reuse, recycle' message in a fun and celebratory way."
Originated by Keep Waitakere Beautiful and run by Waitakere City Council, the Trash to Fashion ® event is now in its ninth year with "The Trusts" as the new naming rights sponsor.
For a registration form visit www.trashtofashion.com or phone the Council's 24-hour Call Centre on (09) 839 0400.
Categories 2004
The Trusts' Trash to Fashion ® Awards
We invite you to create "real time" costumes for unreal times
Fun and Games (primary & intermediate school students)
Log on and look through your windows. Who and what do you find? Retrieve the best bits from the recycle bin and create your own hero or heroine for your virtual playground.
Txt- U - All (secondary school students)
Download ur imagination, network ur ideas and go live! Cut and paste the deleted into fresh designs ready-2-wear in the wireless age.
Hardwear (futuristic category)
Gadgets reach their use-by-date faster than we can hire purchase them. Select the obsolete from industrial skips, computer graveyards and backyard junk heaps. Convert this man-made rubbish into body art for a new world.
Softwear (fashion category)
Search through the fashion archives for the off-cuts and cast offs, the pre-loved and out of date. Re-boot the styles of the past and upgrade to the upbeat urban chic of now.
E-male (menswear category)
It's a long hard drive for the modern man on the I.T. highway. Design a garment that will keep him up with the play and fit to navigate his desktop from the inbox to the outbox.
Global roaming (cultural category)
Become an explorer of your local and global roots. Attach meaning to what you discover, and insert the colours and textures of your culture into a costume that reflects your origins.
No-tech (organic category)
Switch off your mobile and disconnect. Retreat to a natural paradise where remote means no coverage and technology can't intrude. Hunt and gather for organic materials and create a costume that is a gift from Mother Nature.
Flashwear (glamour category)
Click OK and find the pathway to the "Big Night Out" where anything goes from the risque to the romantic. Empty the cache and create megabytes of panache with a costume that dazzles and accessories that excel.
For a registration form visit www.trashtofashion.com
or phone the Council's 24-hour Call Centre on (09) 839 0400.