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Sponsored By :	The show will take place during Kinsale Arts Week, probably on the evening of Wednesday 19th July at The Trident Hotel. It will be the culmination of a project, which starts in January 2006, with participants designing and making outfits based on a theme of water. It will be a professional style catwalk show with sound and lights, a paying audience and, of course, the nation’s paparazzi!! Participants must be between 13 and 18 years of age, working individually or in small teams. You should include in your team someone who is prepared to wear the costume on a catwalk in front of an audience. You must be available on the day of the show to rehearse, and there will be several workshops in Kinsale, run by the organizers of this event – Dianne Ryan and Flicky Howe. Dates and locations for these workshops will be posted to the web-site in due course and sent to you when you register to participate. When you sign up for this project, you are committing to research, design and produce at least 3 costumes, which will become part of Kinsale Arts Week Fashion Show. The theme of the collection is "Waterworks", and there are four main colour stories (as shown in the pictures here). Using the theme and the colours as a starting point, you can choose a subject matter, which is connected to water in some way.

When you sign up for this project, you are committing to research, design and produce at least 3 costumes, which will become part of Kinsale Arts Week Fashion Show. The theme of the collection is "Waterworks", and there are four main colour stories (as shown in the pictures to the left). Using the theme and the colours as a starting point, you can choose a subject matter, which is connected to water in some way.

Participants must be between 13 and 18 years of age, working individually or in small teams. You should include in your team someone who is prepared to wear the costume on a catwalk in front of an audience. You must be available on the day of the show to rehearse, and there will be several workshops in Kinsale, run by the organizers of this event – Dianne Ryan and Flicky Howe. Dates and locations for these workshops will be posted to the here in due course and sent to you when you register to participate.

REGISTRATION
First of all, you must register your participation by completing a registration form which can be downloaded from this site and returned by post to: Adrian Wistreich, Ballinacurra, Kinsale, Co.Cork. All participants under the age of 18 years will need a parent or guardian to sign the form as well. Download the Registration Form Here

RESEARCH
Discuss your ideas and collect inspiration resources. These can be images from books and magazine cuttings or they can be photographs you’ve taken yourselves. You can sketch you subject matter if possible or you can make a visual interpretation of song lyrics, poems or film scripts. Keep a scrapbook or notebook to fill with any ideas, big or small. Those you may not need initially may be useful when finalising your costume .Create a mood board of your own that includes drawings, photographs, words, magazine cuttings, found objects and any other material that inspires certain shapes, colours of textures. You don’t have to be too particular about what you place on your board. Ideas you are researching can now be eliminated or developed as the project progresses.

Think about the kinds of materials that will reflect your subject matter. Should the materials you use be manmade or natural? Should the texture be rough or smooth? Does your research suggest lightweight floaty fabric, or is it a layered, voluminous fabric structure, which is required to convey your design? Use your imagination and don’t be afraid to exaggerate!!

DESIGN
With all of your ideas researched and together with the visual information on your mood board, you can begin to design your costumes. Remember that your creations are a division of the overall "WaterWorks" Collection. Each group of 3 has a specific subject matter. It is the styling within each group that creates variety, yet the clothes still carry out the central theme.

Things to consider when designing:

• Silhouette - How will the shape of the costume alter the silhouette of the body? Are your 3 silhouettes similar with slight differences or are all 3 completely different? How does this reflect your subject matter?
• Colour - Are all your costumes uniform in colour or do you want them to vary?
• Detail - You may want to/need to emphasise sections of the garments, like the sleeves or the neckline, to fulfil your designs.
• Surface Texture - What you add to your fabric surface of what you create the fabric from in the first place should give the audience a sense of what your subject matter is.

MAKING
It is worth waiting to start making the clothes until after the first workshop when materials can be discussed and your ideas reviewed.
Technique - You will be mainly ‘customising’ existing clothes, by deconstructing them and adding sections to them, but you can also make costumes from scratch using any material you like. Your creations can be sewn, glued, woven, twisted, paneled, scrunched, pleated, mixed materials and moulded to name a few! Think about possible materials and techniques when designing your costumes, as these will play a huge part in how the final garments look.

INSPIRATION

Here are some words and phrases to help you get started

Weather & Seasons Shells
Earth, Sea and Sky Seaweed
Rain, Clouds, Storm Pollution Rainbows Dunes, Grass & Sand Spray
Gods & Goddesses Drift Ashore
Local Folklore Deep Blue
Sea Mythology Calm Waters
Seaport/Nautical Sea Life
Seashore and Coastline Rivers, Lakes & Waterfalls
Waves & Ocean Currents Iridescence, Shimmer & Sparkle
Springtides & The Moon Fishnet
Beaches Corals
Pirate Tales Rust, Decay, Corrosion
Set Sail Rainforests
Natural Elements Lush Vegetation
Sand Swamps & Marshes
Damp Mists