THE fashion forward pupils at St Anne’s Primary School in Rathkeale had some designs on success when they took home the top prize at the national Classroom Kouture competition.
The girls in the school’s fourth class group took home the top prize, as well as €1,000 from Derek Downes of Eurospar Rathkeale, for their perfectly tailored in pink and blue ‘Lunch in Bloom’ dress.
Modelled after the Junk Kouture sustainability fashion design competition for secondary school students, Classroom Kouture is open to primary schools across Ireland to design and create high fashion on a low budget.
The St Anne’s girls took home the top prize at this year’s competition with the help of their teacher Val Foley.
They can also look forward to visiting Dublin’s RDS in October where their design will be displayed at the Eurospar stand in the Dublin City Junk Kouture finals.
Stephen McLaughlin, contest judge and fashion designer at SML London, said he was “so impressed with the wide variety of skills and techniques” from the pupils taking part, adding that the “future of Irish design is in safe hands”.
Limerick ladies also performed well at this year’s Junk Kouture World Finals in Monaco in February, where three Limerick students – Harjass Kau, Aisha Khan, and Khadija Bibi from Coláiste Nano Nagle – took home the culture award.
