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Perth Fashion Festival: Rockingham girl’s designs featured

Gabrielle JefferyWeekend Kwinana Courier

ROCKINGHAM fashion student Rachel Mears is upcycling defunct banners, which will feature at Perth Fashion Festival.Rachel and other Polytechnic West students are creating a unique runway collective for the festival.

The students were told to choose any type of disused banner they liked " cloth or vinyl " to go crazy and design something outrageous, provided it still looks like a banner.

Rachel said she chose an old Perth City Music advertising banner.

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"It was something I already had in mind, the lines and notes of music," she said.

"My outfit is inspired by music."

She said she chose a vinyl banner as it was a harder material to work with and she wanted a challenge.

"It's all about fashion sustainability " I just used rope to put it together, but you could use other materials or dye the banners," she said.

"It took about five days to put together and I kept cutting my hands with fly wire I used in it."

Born and raised in Rockingham, Rachel said an overseas trip sparked a love for fashion.

"I have always been a creative person, but I wasn't into fashion," she said.

"I went to Europe with mum and saw all the fashion over there; it was so different from here.

"I just loved it.

"When I came back I signed up to fashion."

Rachel, along with the rest of her class, will unveil their designs on the catwalk at Fashion Central, Forrest Place, on September 18.