Bay Harbour: August 01, 2018

Wednesday August 1 2018
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• By Sarla Donovan
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MT PLEASANT costume
designer Tina Hutchison-
Thomas is a finalist in this year’s
World of Wearable Art Awards.
It’s the second time she’s
entered the long-running event
after her initial foray last year
– a futuristic ball gown called
Geogami – catapulted into the
avant-garde section finals.
The former Court Theatre designer,
who now works freelance
from her home workshop, admits
WOW is highly contagious.
“Once you see your costume
up on stage brought to life, you
want to keep going and designing
more. It’s a big buzz.”
While she can’t give many
details about this year’s costume,
Ms Hutchison-Thomas says it’s
based around hand dyed fabric
– and she hints the fabric “isn’t
something you would usually
hand dye.”
It also has 3000 rhinestones
bedazzling it, each individually
glued on.
The idea for the costume came
from the natural world.
“I love it when you go close up
on a moth or butterfly; the scales
are incredible. So that was my
inspiration.”
She confesses the design has
been time-consuming to make,
with around 150 hours spent pattern
making, sewing and decorating
on top of her paid work.
“There have been some long
work days.”
Coming from a more traditional
sewing background, she
had never thought of herself as
creative enough to enter WOW.
“I’ve always been a very traditional
costumier and I never
thought I was arty enough but
there was a window of opportunity
last year and I just thought
why not, I’ll give it a go . . . and
because it’s so highly addictive, I
wanted to do it again.
“I took all my family last year
as a surprise: my husband and
three kids, my parents and my
aunt and my sister all came up.
They’re doing it again this year
and I’ve got my husband’s parents
to come too.”
Following many years as a
costume designer and technician
for the Court Theatre,
Ms Hutchison-Thomas left to
become a freelancer a couple of
years ago.
Recent projects include
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CREATIVE: Mt
Pleasant fashion
designer Tina
Hutchinson-
Thomas is a
finalist in this
year’s World of
Wearable Art
Awards. ​
costumes for 1860s gold
rush film Stolen, filmed in
Canterbury, and for the New
Zealand Musical Theatre
Consortium’s 25th Anniversary
tour of Les Miserables, which
premiered in New Plymouth last
week and opens in Christchurch
in September.
Come September 28, Ms
Hutchison-Thomas will be in
the audience with her family at
TSB Arena in Wellington as the
2018 WOW Award winners are
announced.
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Fire rages, homes at risk
Family tree
planting at Orton
Bradley Park
TREES FOR Canterbury will
plant more than 400 natives at
Orton Bradley Park on Sunday.
The annual planting day is
part of an ongoing community
re-vegetation and biodiversity
enhancement project at the park,
which was gifted to the New Zealand
public by Orton Bradley on
his death in 1943 “for the benefit
and enjoyment of the people.”
Thousands of plants, grown
by non-profit group Trees For
Canterbury from locally-sourced
seeds, have been added to the
established collection of mature
trees in the park over the past few
years.
Trees For Canterbury manager
Steve Bush said winter was the
best time for planting as there
was good moisture in the soil and
it gave seedlings the best possible
start. “It’s a great time for families
to get together and the children
are all part of it. Last year we had
three-year-olds out planting with
their families. They’ll come back
in years to come and be able to
say ‘we helped with this.’”
Orton Bradley Park is in
Charteris Bay at the southern end
of Lyttelton Harbour. Signs will
guide people to the planting areas
be out from 10am on Sunday.
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