Junk K

Junk Kouture

Medusa themed dress

Junk Kouture, for those of you that don't know, is a national competition where you create an outfit out of recycled materials. Each team has to come up with a theme for their dress and decide on which materials they will us in order to make their dress.

My group  decided to go with a medusa themed dress. Our plan was to make a large snake made out of CDs that would be raped and sown around the modal, we also plan to make great head piece out of tapes from old video to give the outfit that mysteries look. At the very beginning of the year I shaped the chicken wire around the modal and cut it to the correct size and shape. Myself and the rest of my team wove the newspaper in between the holes in the chicken wire in order to create a base for the paper mâché. We then pasted the stripes of newspaper onto the chicken wire to create the first layer of the paper mâché using PVA glue. We repeated this method until the dress was solid enough. We collected over a 100 CDs from our friends and family. I then cut them all up and stored them in a box. At present we are drilling the holes in the CDs so that we are able to sow them onto the material which will be wrapped around the dress. We are also dismantling old electrical equipment, we will us some of the electrical components to add some detail to the dress. 

Here are some picture of our dress though the different stages:

Paper Maché Dress 

Sowing on CD's to our snake

CD's on Snake

Bottom of dress

All of our cut up CD's

A fashion Show was held in school at the beginning of December to show case all of the unique dresses made out of recyclable materials. Each group had to pick a song which was suitable to the theme of the dress and also give a 90 word description of the dress while another member of the team modeled the dress on the "runway".

Here are some of the dresses made by the TY's. The last picture is our dress on the leftmodeled by the beautiful Orlaith! ;) 

You can also check out what other groups got up to during the competition on our TY art Junk Kouture blog:
http://www.tyartblogmsdos.blogspot.ie/

Rachel's dress in the picture above has got through to the regional finials of Junk Kouture so you can vote for them here.