Fashion Extravaganza

The York and North Yorkshire Waste Partnership presents

Friday 28 May York Racecourse

Choose2Reuse

The Choose2Reuse campaign aims to prevent reusable goods ending up as waste. It does this by promoting alternative ways of reusing items, rather than sending them to landfi ll. The campaign works in partnership with, and benefi ts, charities and reuse organisations by encouraging people to buy and donate second hand goods. This in turn helps raise vital funds for numerous good causes around the world.

The Choose2Reuse campaign

The York and North Yorkshire Waste Partnership runs the Choose2Reuse campaign in North Yorkshire. The partnership, which is made up of City of York Council, North Yorkshire County Council and 7 district councils, regularly holds events and campaigns across the sub region to promote the reuse message.

The Choose2Reuse campaign

Donating and buying second hand saves the energy needed to make new products from virgin materials and slows down climate change.

Charity and reuse organisations rely on funds raised

from donations to continue their important and often

life saving work.

Of the 10 million items of

furniture thrown away in the

UK every year, 3 million could

easily be reused.

2 million shoes

are thrown in

to rubbish bins

every year.

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Textiles and furniture in landfi ll rot and

release methane and carbon dioxide,

powerful greenhouse gases contributing

to climate change.

Every year the UK throws away

between 1.1 and 1.8 million tonnes

of textiles, the equivalent of 220

million full black bin liners.

4 million children in the UK live

in households that cannot afford

to replace broken or worn out

furniture.

programme

1 Introduction to Choose2ReuseFashion Extravaganza

2 A collection by Bag It Upin association with the Yorkshire Air Ambulance

3 A collection by Save the Children4 A collection by Oxfam5 A collection by British Heart

Foundation (with live singer)

6 A collection by St Leonard’s Hospice7 A collection by Woodlands Respite

Care8 A performance by The Rock Academy

of Dance INTERVAL

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9 York College designers collection

10 John Quinnell-Hill millinery collection

11 Corrinne Evans jewellery collection

12 Victoria Footman t-shirt collection

13 Kate Horsefi eld collection

14 Performance from stand up comic Tim Riley15 Judges announcement of Most

Innovative Re-designer16 Presentation of prize to winning designer

17 Grand Finale

Bag It Up work with the Yorkshire Air Ambulance collecting unwanted clothing, textiles and shoes to sell to second hand traders for reuse and recycling around the world and in the UK. They reuse and recycle Yorkshire’s unwanted clothing and shoes to raise vital funds for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance and their life saving service.

Save the Children work fl at out to change the fact that millions of children around the world are still denied proper healthcare, food, education and protection. Save the Children campaign tirelessly to raise the funds necessary to ensure that premature child death and mistreatment becomes a thing of the past.

Oxfam is a global movement of dedicated people fi ghting poverty. From saving lives and developing projects that put poor people in charge of their own lives and livelihoods, to campaigning for change that lasts, Oxfam is a charity that takes action but needs support to maintain it’s momentum.

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British Heart Foundation’s vision is a world where people do not die prematurely from heart disease. British Heart Foundation’s charity shops support this vision by providing funds for their pioneering research and helps to ensure quality care and support for everyone living with heart disease.

St Leonard’s Hospice is a local charity based in York caring for people with life threatening illnesses often, but not always, cancer. St Leonard’s Hospice never charge their patients and rely solely on donations, legacies and fundraising through avenues such as the local charity shops around York.

Woodlands Respite Care centre is owned by the Multiple Sclerosis society and exists to provide high quality respite care for people affected by multiple sclerosis in a warm, friendly environment, offering support and motivation, and promoting each person’s individuality, privacy, dignity, choice and rights. As a charity, Woodlands rely heavily on donations to the popular charity shops, this shops contributes greatly to the ongoing improvement of Woodlands facilities.

Emily Musgrave My inspiration for my piece was ‘Royalty’. Designers such as Vivienne Westwood use royalty for inspiration for some of her most extravagant pieces. Her signature logo is an orb and she uses royal colours such as red and brown which made it easier for me to translate her designs onto my fi nal piece design. The top of the dress is based on the iconic Union Jack and I have used second hand blue velvet type material. To relate the top to royalty I used faux brown fur as a collar as fur is a luxurious material often seen on royalty throughout history. The skirt of my dress is made from newspaper articles based on Britain and royalty. The underskirts are made from an old net tutu from a charity shop and an old lace round table cloth. I also used old buttons and haberdashery to decorate the skirt, relating it more to fashion as well as recycling.

Sarah Fisher The theme for my fashion piece is nature. My fi nal design is inspired by a waterfall because I like the idea of the water rushing down and crashing at the bottom creating splashes and mists. The materials I have used are all recycled and re-used because the denim and blue materials are from charity shops and the plastic pompoms are white bin bags. I decided to use denim as a material for my piece because the colours of blue keep to my theme, also denim is back in fashion making my piece contemporary and there is a vast range of denim clothing in charity shops that can be cut up, taken apart, and re-styled into something new and different.

Mohini Pandya York College My fashion piece is based on the theme of ‘Insects’, specifi cally wings. I ordered recyclable material online to use as part of my design. I bought a dress second hand from eBay to be used as my base. I am using black and white netting as part of the design. The colours I have used in my outfi t are bright and there’s a lot of reds, oranges, pinks, purples, yellows and black. I think I have created a very current and fashionable piece and shown people that with a little bit of thought the simplest materials can become extraordinary.

Nathan Bell I wanted my fashion piece to have a strong urban feeling. The piece is attractive to teenage boys/men. The original design was originally inspired by the theme of games, space invaders and playing cards. I have used playing cards in my design, cotton materials and clothing I found in a charity shop. I wanted to show that with a little bit of thought anybody could turn a set of uninspiring materials into something current and fashionable.

Courtney Heugh My piece is based on the military, and I drew my inspiration from old WW1 ‘Razzle Dazzle’ camoufl age off old WW1 warships. This effectively dazzled the enemy into not knowing which part of the ship they were looking at. To make this I used old clothes, including an old hoodie and combat trousers. I cut the tee shirts up but left the hoodie and combat trousers intact.

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sAmy Bland My fi nal piece was based on the combat theme. I looked at Military styles due to its current infl uence over today’s fashion. The world war is particularly interesting for this project because of the ‘make do and mend’ scheme, and how people in that time used materials innovatively. My fi nal piece combines aspects of a raw make do and mend piece, and the elegance of 1920’s couture. I made a raw, very basic blouse out of crumpled biscuit polycotton, which had a seam down the front instead of the back. I also made a pocket with denim seams on the edges, which I stitched into the seam below the armpit on the back of the blouse. I made my blouse from a ruffl ed skirt. The base was constructed out of a shower curtain, onto which I stitched a mixture of heavy and lightweight strips of fabrics. To fi nish the outfi t, I added a coral day-glo sash around the waist, which ties at the front in a bow.

Ottilie Simpson In my fashion design, I was infl uenced by my theme of ‘Vintage Science Fiction’, (from 1900-1970). I researched into old comic book strips/illustrations, television programmes and movies. I came across a lot of futuristic shapes and metallic materials; especially in sci-fi buildings, robots, aliens, spaceships, etc. This infl uenced my fashion design. I used a recycled dress from a charity shop as a base for my design, and I used this to build upon. I also recycled old garden hose to make the hoops of my dress – I felt the green colour and pattern of this also gave it an ‘alien’ feel.

Michael Fairclough My garment has been inspired by the theme of war. I have incorporated straps, rucksacks, canteens and Blitz window tape within my designs. The tape helps to communicate the idea of search lights, propellers and the lights from helicopters. I am integrating recycled materials such as curtain tape, safety jackets and old tee shirts. I am also using chains which I found in a charity shop. I would like to feel that my fi nal piece gave a strong feeling of the military, aeroplanes and warfare.

Rose Weaver My theme for the design was insects and my dress is inspired by woodlice. It also aims to show the architectural structure of the opera house in Sydney with the 3D sculptural plates. The dress is made of a soft and light fabric and was bought from a charity shop. The dress is fastened on a slant so that as you unclip it, it gives the illusion of peeling away the woodlouse’s outer shell. I used natural browns and greens to refl ect the woodlouse’s natural habitat.

Elly Pashmoor The theme of my piece is sweets. Sweets have a great design texture and shape and also communicate youth and fun. My design includes trousers and a top bought from charity shops. I have distressed the fabric and sewn in the sweet shapes. I think that the design demonstrates how reused goods can make a real statement.

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James Hesp-Williamson I began with the theme of nature; this was a broad subject and I needed to focus on some of the most visually exhilarating aspects of the world of fl ora and fauna. I tried to give the piece an ornate and delicate structure refl ecting the transient quality of nature. I used reclaimed metals for the sculptural part of the design and will be using clothing and fabrics that I have either found or gathered from charity shops. With the high price of couture fashion it seems almost ironic to create a piece from recycled materials making something fashionable and desirable out of traditionally discarded and forgotten materials. For this reason I believe this show to be very important in terms of developing a recycling mindset and moving us towards a more ethical and green world.

Kitty Lee McFarlane My piece for the fashion show is inspired by nature, in particular fl owers and the colours that are in the landscape around us. My piece features a lot of paper which links to the natural element of my work and also the recycled element. Showing something ordinary can be turned into the extraordinary. I have used bold and natural colours that I feel refl ect nature, I have also used handmade paper and handmade felt that I made myself. I have incorporated recycled items in as many ways as possible to create a piece that refl ects both nature and how recycling can be used to make something beautiful.

Olivia Oyebola The piece that I have for my fashion project was based on the subject ‘Combat’. I chose this one because not only are there soldiers at battle all over the world but military clothing and combat boots are very in fashion at the moment in the industry so I felt I could relate with it. To fi t the reuse element of the project I used different sections of clothing I found and put them together to create this military jacket. Therefore I used a wide range of fabrics from linen to denim and metal but tended to keep to a limited colour palette; khaki, gold, navy blue.

Saarah Hussein For my piece I chose the theme of nature. I looked at different aspects linking to this theme. After researching into henna designs and patterns which include fl oral designs I decided to incorporate this idea into my fi nal design. I went to charity shops in Bradford and Birmingham, selecting certain fabrics which suited my design.

Ben Thornton The criteria for my design is recycled clothes with a royal theme. I chose the classic combination of plain jeans and a plain t-shirt and attempted to add style whilst keeping to the brief. My Royal inspiration came from the Egyptian Pharoah Tutankhamen.

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sCameron Ratcliffe My piece was originally inspired by the theme of Royalty. My piece for the fashion show is a skirt that bubbles out at the hips, using a wire frame under the dress to keep the shape. My skirt was made by using a vivid red velvet that I found in an old wardrobe with black bin liner slits around the front. I wanted to give it a shimmer and jewel-like feel. I have used old plastic bottles spray painted black which I cut into shards and carefully placed them under the slits. I then had an Elizabethan ruffl ed collar around a slick tight fl uted top, the collar being made from the ruffl ed hem of a curtain. Also I have included a three layered plastic belt. Spray paint was used to colour this with its bright and jewel-like quality of gold.

Emma Wilson My fi nal piece for the fashion show was inspired by researching the theme ‘the sea’. The colours that are used throughout my design came from researching sea urchins and corals, they are blues, greens, oranges and reds, the way they are all gathered together also shows coral at the bottom of the sea. The materials I incorporated into my design were netting and see-through pale colours. The recycled part of my piece is the dress itself as it was bought from a charity shop in York, along with some of the materials used to make the pompoms.

Emily Wass My chosen theme is nature, I chose nature because I thought there was a wide variety of colours and shapes. I enjoyed doing this project because I love fashion and I think its a great opportunity, I got the inspiration of my dress from Vivienne Westwood because she designed and made a similar dress for Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex and The City. The materials I used for my dress were, a bed sheet that hasn’t been used, tights, crochet fl owers, wire and curtain netting, all of these materials were re-used or recycled.

Seline Mulrony My theme for the project was all things plastic, which I think is a good thing considering the show. I did a number of techniques including crocheting. I took lots of recycled coloured bags and cut them in to strips and did lots and lots and lots of crocheting and I think that I produced a pretty exciting piece, I hope you agree.

Kelly Maloney My theme for this project was the sea, so I researched jellyfi sh and seaweed. I also looked at Alexander McQueen’s spring collection, which was a sea theme. I used an original dress and then used old newspapers to create the collar.

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John Quinnell-Hill I am a student milliner, training at Leeds College of Art. I try to make my hats an extension of the person, drawing inspiration from the persons interests. They are quite structured, with lots of embellishments. A hat should complement the outfi t not fi ght for it, so I try to work with the outfi t in mind. For this collection I have reused hats and clothing bought in charity shops, dissected them and turned them into something beautiful!

Corrinne Evans Corrinne is an up and coming jewellery designer. For her collection she has taken discarded materials and unwanted jewellery to reinvent in to contemporary modern pieces that truly demonstrate what can be achieved with used, unwanted and second hand materials.

Vicky Footman Vicky has created a range of screen printed T shirts, transferred from her own digital designs and then embroidered by hand. Vicky has demonstrated how to revitalize and reinvent old tshirts in a comtemporary way.

Kate Horsefi eld The theme of my outfi ts is vintage. I have been inspired and infl uenced by photography, specifi cally old fashioned black and white images. The theme is a mix of old and contemporary, bringing vintage in to the modern era.

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Thank you to the Jorvik Hotel on Marygate for providing a venue for all of the rehearsals.

Many thanks to Andre and Hilary Yaniw and all the staff from York College for all their help.

Many thanks to Dan Tuck from York College hair and beauty department and all of the students that offered assistance at the event.

Thank you to City of York Council’s design and print team for all their help in making the promotional material.

We would like to thank the staff and volunteers from Woodlands Respite Trust, in particular Rachel Chamberlain, for helping us with ticket sales, marketing and providing a location for the video production.

Many thanks to freelance choreographer Kelly Rawcliffe for her dedication in devising the routines and teaching all the volunteers.

Thanks to York Community Furniture Store for their help with the video production.

Thank you to all of the volunteer models and designers who played a vital part in making the event a success. than

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Many thanks to Oxfam, Goodramgate; British Heart Foundation, Goodramgate; St Leonard’s Hospice shop, Acomb Road; Bag It Up, Halifax; Woodlands Respite Care shop, Melrosegate and Save the Children, Goodramgate for donating all of the items showcased in the fi rst half of tonight’s event.

Many thanks to Kim Mellor, Tim Clarke and the Rock Academy of Dance for providing tonight’s entertainment.

Thanks to all the stall holders for their valuable contribution to the fashion show.

Thanks to the Choose2Reuse Action Group and participant charities and reuse organisations for helping to develop the campaign and promote the fashion show.

Thank you to Bethany Nicholls for designing the decorations for the event.

Thank you to all of the volunteers and runners at the event.

Many thanks to Minster FM for hosting the show.

The Choose2Reuse branding is copyright and used under licence from CCORRN; Contact www.ccorrn.org.uk for further information.

Academy Directors Joel and Sarah Chapman

Whether Latin, Contemporary, Ballet, Jazz or Ballroom, the Rock Academy of Dance aims to offer the highest level of expertise. Training with some of the world’s best instructors, including World Champions Matthew and Nicole Cutler and the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, the Academy now accommodates over 250 students weekly.

The Dance Academy was not birthed primarily out of its director’s love for dance but rather as a vehicle to express the passion in their hearts towards God. Joel and Sarah Chapman, Academy Directors, know how to release that untapped potential.

With the opportunity to perform in our annual Student Showcase, our students get to show off everything they have learnt and hopefully inspire others to have a go themselves.

If you would like more information on the Rock Academy of Dance or the 6th Annual Student Showcase, visit out website www.rockacademyofdance.com or call 01904 659475.

TicketsMain Auditorium - Adults: £8, Concessions: £6

Balcony - Adults: £5, Concessions: £3.50

Doors Open: 7.00pmStarts: 7.30pm

ContactRock-Plex Centre, Priory Street, York, YO1 6EX

Tel 01904 659475Email danceacademy@rockchurch.org.uk

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