Local votes could help Rochfortbridge students win national prize

 

Fashion fans could help push a Westmeath school project to victory in the national final of the prestigious Junk Kouture competition – of they go online every day between now and Friday and vote for the project.

The “Timeless Fashion” dress crafted by a team from St Joseph’s Secondary School in Rochfortbridge has to be seen to be believed – which is why we switched on our video camera to let the students themselves talk us through their efforts, which were overseen by art teacher Niamh Sweeney.

The dress is fashioned from coffee filters, broken CDs, pieces of an old washing machine, and a range of genuine steampunk-style cogs and other metal machine pieces – with a striking shoulder adornment created from an old bicycle gear

Kelly Sheerin raided her father's shed to find most of the materials – and the bicycle gear was retrieved at 5am from a ditch at the foot of the Hill of Croghan.

Also involved in the design was Tom McClelland, while the innovative hair and make-up styling was done by Hannah Reilly, who very cleverly even used some of the steampunk items as facial adornments.

Wiktoria Grabarcyzk modelled the outfit, and reveals that for the duration of the creation process, the art room was where the team spent most of their time, in their effort to perfect the outfit.

Even the shoes that Wiktoria wore were part of the outfit, being decorated with nuts, bolts, screws and cogs from Kelly's dad's shed!

e dress is fashioned from coffee filters, broken Cds, pieces of an old washing machine, and a range of genuine steampunk-style cogs and other metal machine pieces – with a striking shoulder adornment created from an old bicycle gear.

Kelly Sheerin raided her father's shed to find most of the materials – and the bicycle gear was retrieved at 5am from a ditch at the foot of the Hill of Croghan.

Also involved in the design was Tom McClelland, while the innovative hair and make-up styling was done by Hannah Reilly, who very cleverly even used some of the steampunk items as facial adornments.

Wiktoria Grabarcyzk modelled the outfit, and reveals that for the duration of the creation process, the art room was where the team spent most of their time, in their effort to perfect the outfit.

Even the shoes that Wiktoria wore were part of the outfit, being decorated with nuts, bolts, screws and cogs from Kelly's dad's shed!

 

TO VOTE: Log on to junkkouture.com; enter the “Western” region, and vote for “Timeless Fashion”.