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'Recycled Metro' dress student turns her talents to magazines

Thursday 28 July 2011

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Following coverage in the national press of dresses made by Art Foundation students Amiera Mohey, Maddie Knight and Amulet Li out of old copies of the Metro newspaper, Amulet has gone on to be invited to make an outfit entirely from old copies of a fashion magazine.

Five paper dresses were commissioned especially for the Designer Pages event, part of the Earl's Court Festival 2011. The commission required the entrants to design and fabricate a dress entirely from the pages of magazines donated by the publishers. The garments were then exhibited on mannequins at Gallery 286, a private gallery situated in a Victorian townhouse in Earl's Court.

Amulet, whose dress was fashioned from 10 copies of iconic fashion magazine Wonderland and took a month to create, said: “It was exciting to be selected for this project, especially as a Foundation course student.” She hopes to be a dress designer for a designer label when she graduates,

The dresses are on display at the Wapping project (an arts centre based in the former Wapping Hydraulic Power station) until Monday 1st August.

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The University of East London (UEL) is a global learning community with over 28,000 students from over 120 countries world-wide. Our vision is to achieve recognition, both nationally and internationally, as a successful and inclusive regional university proud of its diversity, committed to new modes of learning which focus on students and enhance their employability, and renowned for our contribution to social, cultural and economic development, especially through our research and scholarship. We have a strong track-record in widening participation and working with industry.

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