Junk Kouture 2012

This year, my art teacher encouraged myself and my friend Shauna to enter the Junk Kouture competition, a contest where you design and create an outfit, purely out of recycled materials. Unfortunately, Shauna decided in the end not to do it so I entered myself.
I decided to model my look around the song Candy Man by Sammy Davis Jr. When I think of that song I think red and white shirts and bow ties, and those old fashioned sweets that come in jars. I'm not quite finished yet, I've still to finish the head piece and the shoes, but I have the skirt, top and jacket done (see the photo below) and hopefully I manage to make it through the first round!
My friend Maria will be modelling for me.

The skirt is made of plastic bags tied on a string, the top is made of sweet wrappers and tin foil, and the jacket is all bubble wrap.

Shoes-wise, it was obviously impossible to make shoes, so I've covered a pair of heels in newspaper and have dicky bows on the front. 

I've made bracelets and necklaces out of sweets, and a head piece out of wire and Styrofoam.

Once I have the completed look I'll post a picture!