One of our amazing young Fabric Technology students, Nicky Zaayman, has had an outfit she made chosen for New Zealand Fashion Week – but sadly Lockdown has stymied the opportunity.
Never-the-less, this is still an awesome achievement for the Year 10 designer. Nicky says her Fabric Technology teacher showed the class a poster for the I Am Fab competition, where students could win the chance to have their outfit modelled at NZ Fashion Week. Nicky decided to go for it.
“My outfit is a stylish two-piece with a corset top and a simple shorts bottom made of sequins,” she says. “The sequins were very hard to work and I snapped 10 machine needles! The back skirt was relatively easy to make it is not connected to the shorts, but it does clip on to it at the sides just to keep it on nicely.
“I am very proud of this outfit because I have been drawing the same half skirt on dresses and pantsuits and every outfit I could think of since I was eight – so when the opportunity presented itself, I thought I would finally try to make the outfit.”
Nicky says she found out she’d won via email. “I was so excited the whole bus must have known I got happy news! I immediately called my mom and grandma – I woke up my gran because it was 2am in South Africa!
“I was going to be backstage at NZFW at the beginning of the show, and then I would have been able to watch a little after my model was done. Plus there was going to be a get-together after the show.”
The self-proclaimed “science nerd” says she is keen on designing but thinks her career will lie in the medical profession – preferably paediatrics.
Here’s hoping this talented young designer gets another chance to have her work modelled.