Newbury College recently hosted Pangbourne Rotary Club's annual fund raising event. A number of Art and Design students were able to showcase their fashion skills at the event. The show was followed by a dinner and charity auction with an entertaining fashion show were £2000 was raised for charity.
Inspiration for the student fashion show was taken from a number of historical periods from Victorian Gothic revival, the 1920s and the 1950s and up to the present day. There was a variety of historical references that gave students the idea of a fashion show following different periods of time. Any gaps in the timeline were filled with clothes students found that they could style, which they were helped with by one of the College's very talented Learning support Assistants, Kim Broughton.
Jackie Heggs, Course Tutor for Art and Design, said, "Three students had experience in making garments but for the rest it was completely new. Although the group was mixed all students designed clothes for females which were designed for occasions ranging for 'A night on the town' and a day at the races to 'A Gothic tea party'.
Models of the show included Art and Fashion students Natasha Cockram who plans to join the Army in a few months' time, Jessica Brown, who will be studying Foundation Art and Design at the College, Public Services Student Jazzmyn Field and her friend Emma. Yaritza Baker had recently flown in from her home in Gran Canaria to attend an interview to return to Newbury College to study on the Foundation Diploma in Art and Design and also volunteered to help out as a model.
Some of the clothes featured in the show were; a top and skirt in burgundy satin with net petticoats fully accessorised with a cummerbund style belt, a shawl and fascinator, a red 1950's style dress with white polka dots, a short sleeveless contemporary dress in a floral abstract satin fabric, a black long evening dress with black and red laced bodice and a blue satin cocktail dress. All the clothes showed the fantastic talent of Newbury College's students.