Ex Static by Zuzanna Cieslewicz from Old Bawn Community School, Tallaght, voted RT Wild Card
Zuzanna Cieslewicz's design, Ex Static' has been voted RT Wild Card by the public and will now go on to take the final spot at the Junk Kouture World Final in Abu Dhabi later this year. The RT Wild Card was announced today on the Tracy Clifford Show on 2FM after weeks of online voting on www.rte.ie/junkkouture.
Ex-Static was among five wild cards shortlisted by the Junk Kouture judges - Louis Walsh, Roz Purcell, Soul and Stephen McLaughlin - one from each of the five regions, each with its own inspiration and story. The five RT Wild Cards were revealed on rte.ie/junkkouture on Thursday 19 May, following the Junk Kouture TV Highlights Programme on RT 2 and RT Player, when voting opened to the public. As the RT Wild Card, Zuzanna's design becomes the 10th design to represent Ireland at the World Final.
Junk Kouture Powered by RT is not just about sustainability and great design, it's also about the people who take part, the inspiration behind the designs and being empowered through creativity.
Commenting on her winning design, Zuzanna, who is a student at Old Bawn Community School, Tallaght, Co. Dublin, said: My design is inspired by a tech-gothic style. The shiny plastics, black garbage bags and wires reminded me of old, broken or abandoned tech, so I decided for my headpiece to be an old tv. I added gothic style features for detailing and as I thought the black colour would suit the trash part of my outfit. My design is made from plastic trash bags, grocery store fruit bags, old insulation foam cardboard, old tape and string. I used different crochet techniques for detail pieces, crocheting the gloves and corset accessories. I used the double crochet and slip stich techniques in my design. I used the spare wires we had in school and wire scraps from my personal art projects to not be wasteful. I also decided to use household items to limit waste.
You can continue to enjoy the documentary, Junk Kouture: Behind The Seams and the Junk Kouture Dublin City Final 2022 TV Highlights on RT Player.
Hosted by presenter rla Morris Toolen, Junk Kouture: Behind The Seams follows five Junk Kouture participants on their journey to the 2022 Dublin City Final and highlights the creative process behind the design all before hitting the final runway at the live event. Five teams from the North, South, East, West and South-East of the country explore key pillars of Junk Kouture including youth activism, climate change, inclusivity and diversity, fashion design and self-expression. Watch as the designers make their imprint on the world one Junk Kouture design at a time.
WATCH IT: https://www.rte.ie/player/movie/junk-kouture-behind-the-seams-e1/286120488049
In Junk Kouture Dublin City Final 2022 TV Highlights, 60 haute-couture designs made from 100% recycled material created and modelled by talented young designers aged 13-18 from post-primary schools around the island of Ireland who battle it out as they make their bid to be chosen for the first ever Junk Kouture World Final later in 2022. This is a programme of creativity, performance, and inspiration, a celebration of young people.
WATCH IT: https://www.rte.ie/player/movie/junk-kouture-dublin-city-final-2022/284931112225
Good luck to Zuzanna and the nine other designers representing Ireland at the Junk Kouture World Final later this year.
For more on Junk Kouture, visit www.rte.ie/junkkouture and www.junkkouture.com.
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Ex Static by Zuzanna Cieslewicz from Old Bawn Community School, Tallaght, voted RT Wild Card
