Team TFS Takes Project Creativ Catwalk for Sixth Time in Just Seven Years

It was a feverish three days of sewing and stitching, but in the end, it was the red-carpet ready design from Toronto Film School Fashion Design Diploma students that took home the top prize at in the Project Creative Catwalk contest at this year’s Creativ Festival.

Creativ Festival, is Canada’s largest “do-it-yourself” consumer show dedicated to the creative arts of sewing, knitting, beading, spinning, weaving, felting, quilting, crocheting, stitching, scrapbooking, crafting and other fiber, textile, needle and paper arts. This year it was held Oct. 24 to 26, 2014 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in downtown Toronto.

Each year Creativ holds the Project Creativ Catwalk where top fashion design schools, including the Toronto Film School, compete over the three days to create the best outfit in a given theme. They are given a $200 budget and must use only supplies purchased on site at the festival.

This year’s challenge was for students from five fashion schools to create a red carpet outfit for a 20-something starlet. For their outfit, the team from Toronto Film School, created four pieces, two skirts, a bustier and a jacket. One of the skirts and the jacket were reversible from black to blue and all of the pieces glimmered with detailed embroidery and rhinestones.

The team from Toronto Film School, made up of students Sandra Al Dabbagh, Habib Teimuri and Wesley Tang, said they took their inspiration from Oscar winning actress Jennifer Lawrence and from the infamous “Angelia Jolie’s left leg”.

The win marks the sixth time students from the Fashion Design Diploma program at the Toronto Film School (formerly through the Academy of Design) have taken the top prize in the past seven years.

See the dress and hear what the team and faculty advisor Keith Richardson have to say about it in this video.

For more information on Toronto Film School and it’s Fashion Design Diploma click here.

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