K Rd. What the frock!?! Join in...
Want to leave your mark on a city landscape?...
...and, at the same time, meet other people who live, work and play in Auckland's Karangahape Rd?
Be part of a street installation designed to make K Rd more fashionable - even if just for one night. Placed in specific locations along K Rd, 'What the Frock' is a collaborative work involving fashion, rubbish, recycling and repurposed materials that show all the magic and glory that is K Rd, its present and its past.
Our mission is to dress up K Rd as part of First Thursdays and the New Zealand Fashion Festival and the bodies will be the bins along the street.
To capture K Rd's magic and glory from both its past and its present - you will 'own' a site and we can help you understand the story behind its particular location. It may now be a shop but in its past could have been a brothel, someone's home, a pub or a bank - Edward Bennett [K Rd's local historian] will join our first making session to give you some background into each location.
We will provide the 'skirts' for the collaborators to embellish.
To help you get to work on your outfit, we will have a number of working sessions where you can meet your neighbours and get cracking on your outfit. Bring along your great ideas and your making toolkit and get down to work.
Skirts must be finished by 28 February - to be installed on 1 March.
Keen collaborators with some making skills and an aesthetic for design
Contact Margaret on mobile 027 446 1071 or email BEFORE Monday 30 January with
- your contact details [name, email and mobile],
- your design experience,
- your relationship with K Rd [live here, work here, play here, past connection]
- why you'd like to be part of this event and
- an idea for how you might dress a rubbish bin [we won't make you stick to this as your idea may change].
Our first get-together is Tuesday 31 Jan at Suite 205, Ironbank, 150 K Rd from 5pm- 7pm
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Margaret LewisIts not just about fashion. I live a life surrounded by textile - in particular wool. Its in my room, in my car, on my desk at work... Designing handknits and selling them is not my sole source of survival but it is what I love. I'm lucky that this love is supported by other things that I love, including working for The Big Idea and also helping to facilitate the careers of emerging artists. I feel truly blessed.
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