WoW

As the lights brightened on the stage, they revealed a typical garden with a big pile of leaves, shrubs and a compost heap. Here we entered the world of a young boy who was playing in his backyard. He fort an imaginary enemy with a wooden sword which took him behind the sheets on the washing line revelling the shadow of the young boy and a pirate that he was fighting. This was the opening of the children's 'Blow the garden' Section in the World of Wearablearts. From the sheets came all the wonderful creators from a Childs imagination. These include fairies, goblins and the beautiful wining costume of a dandelion (The Dandelion Clock, Tracey Koole, Auckland.) which consist of three models that could brake apart to look like a dandelion blowing in the wind.  As the children left the stage the shrubs started to bounce up and down, the compost heap turned around to revel a man with a very large hump, the leaves broke apart to about 5 or 6 different people. The shrubs then climbed out of the ground as people in suits with shrubs for hair. The entire show was full of the little twist and turns like these as it pulled you deeper into the imagination of the designers and their 165 creations through the various categories which include graffiti art, magic gardens, super heroes, dancing cowboys, charming creatures from the dark and a parallel universe.
All of the costumes in the show were amazing, but the effort that must have been put into them made them even more breathe taking. Like that of David Walker's Lady Of The Wood (which won the Supreme award and the avant garde section).Lady Of The Wood is an Alaskan carpenter's 17th Century ball gown made entirely of  mahogany wood and lacewood with 52 strips of maple and cedar veneer for the hooped skirt and a wig made from wood shavings.
The show was hosted by the Top Twins…and I must say I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. I especially loved it when a disco ball Minnie was on stage with body builders standing around it in glittery short shorts posing, while the Top Twins yodelled with topless Cowboys dancing in the crowd in glittery (revelling) costumes. My mums comment was "oh it wasn't as gay as last year…" I can only imagine what last years show must have been like!
The World of Wearablearts is an amazing show that has to be seen to be believed! It really has a fitting name…it was simply WOW.




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