Junk Kouture

Junk Kouture is an all-Ireland competition for second level students, where they are challenged to create High Fashion Couture outfits from old every day junk.

           For Junk Kouture I am in a group with Corrie and Rosie . The theme we chose for our piece was 'nature'. For the first few weeks we designed our outfit.We decided to make a skirt out of leaves , a top with an owl design, a tree house head piece and many more accessories .

          This task seemed daunting at first but now we are a few weeks in it is becoming more realistic. So far we have made our skirt from chicken wire ,paper maché and leaves. Corrie dried the leaves with kitchen towel and heavy books leaving them for a week or so to fully dry out.We carved chicken wire into the shape of my waist. We next paper machéd the chicken wire which took a few weeks. We then PVA glued the leaves onto our skirt.

          Next we began to make the top we are still in the process of this. We have decided in using felt and rope and various other materials for our top. I am very excited to see the finishing product of all our hard work , I will keep you posted!