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Marist Student Wins Newmarket Young Designer
Media release
Newmarket Business Association
Wednesday 21 October 2009
Click to enlarge 2009 award winner Nicole Petra Wesseling with award organiser Lea Worth.
Sixteen-year-old student Nicole Petra Wesseling from Mt Albert's Marist College has won the supreme 2009 ‘Looking to the Future - Newmarket Young Fashion Designer Award.’
The young Aucklander has
taken out the nationwide competition, winning a trip for two
to New York flying Qantas with four nights accommodation
courtesy of Business World Travel where she will work
back-stage at Karen Walker's showing at the New York Fashion
Week in February 2010 as we'll as $1,000 spending money.
She has also won a 12-month scholarship with
Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design to attend its BFA Year
One Certificate of Arts and Design Programme, and a two-week
'Taylor' internship in the Taylor Design Workroom.
Blair Wheeler, also 16, of Glendowie's Sacred Heart
College was 1st Runner Up, receiving a $1,000 prize donated
by The Greg Whitecliffe Memorial Charitable Trust and
Servilles. While two 17-year-olds tied for 2nd Runner Up:
Duncan Lamont Brown of Whangarei’s Kamo College, and Gemma
White of Iona College in the Hawkes Bay, each took away a
$250 cash prize and $250 Centrepoint Voucher.
Five of
the 35 finalists were awarded Highly Commended: Tess
Florence Landon Lane (17) of Marlborough Girls College;
Sarah Hynes of Auckland (18); Bridget Daulby (16) of Iona
College; Zoe Ellis (16) of Diocesan School for Girls; and
Ruby Porter (16) of Northcote College.
Westlake Girls'
High School student Annabelle Fitzgerald (16) won the
People's Choice Award taking away $500, while Gemma White of
Iona College also won the Creative Journal Award ($250).
"The judges were blown away by the detail and the
sheer craftsmanship of Nicole Petra Wesseling's design and
her ability to interpret the brief which was to take
inspiration from 18th century fashion. Nicole Petra's design
took an 18th century African twist and the judges loved it.
“It's an amazing achievement given the talent from
the 68 initial entrants from around the country. Her trip to
New York Fashion Week will be truly life changing," says Lea
Worth, award organiser and marketing manager of the
Newmarket Business Association.
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