 JAN
08 - Pakistan's promising student fashion designer, Hassan Ashraf Butt
studying at the Pakistan School of Fashion Design (PSFD), won the
‘Country Prize’ at a fashion designers’ competition in France.
Fashion designers studying at various fashion institutes around the
world participate in the competition each year. The 23rd such
competition called the 2005 International Young Fashion Designers
Competition was held in Paris on December 15 last year.
“I am happy and feeling great at this achievement,” Hassan, a final
year student at the PSFD, told the media. He said that he had
designed a top with digital printing, which caught the jury’s eye at
the competition. The theme of the competition was ‘Art, Fashion and
Industry’. He said that he had chosen pop art and jazz music as the
inspiration for the top.
The young designer said that he was impressed by a foreign fashion
designer, Andy Warhol, who rebelled in the 1960s and 70s against
conventional art shows and introduced wild ideas at art exhibitions.
He said that Andy used ordinary things as a medium to express art
and culture.
Hassan won 450 euros at the competition, but he said that he had not
received the cash yet.
A Slovakian female model set the ramp ablaze as she cat walked
wearing the top, he said and added that he had designed the top in
three months. He said that 10 students from the PSFD participated in
the competition, but he was the lucky one because of his
unconventional approach towards fashion.
Five Pakistani fashion student designers participated in the
competition. They are besides Butt, Amaima Sheikh, Hejab ali Khan,
Syed Zubai Hassan and Aisha Khalid Randhawa. |
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A model presents a creation by designer
Syed Zubai Hassan of Pakistan from the Pakistan School of Fashion
Design during the 2005 International Young Fashion Designers
Competition in Paris Dec 15, 2005. |
A model presents a creation by designer
Ayesha Khalid Randhawa of Pakistan from the Pakistan School of
Fashion Design during the 2005 International Young Fashion Designers
Competition in Paris Dec 15, 2005. |
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