Taima’s opening speech:
Hello everyone and welcome to our first-ever DIS Trashion Show.
Let’s get a round of applause for the dancers for their amazing performance which they put a
lot of time and effort towards
This evening we will show you a series of amazing performances from our own DIS students as
well as incredible outfits from our designers made entirely from recyclable materials. This idea
stemmed from the head of the design and innovation council, Abdullah, who has unfortunately
not been able to attend this event.
We would also like to welcome our special guest Abdul Majid who is the CEO of ZERO which is a
sustainable tech company focused on making a better future for us and our future generations
Our vision with the Trashion show was to create a movement to shed light on sustainability and
why we so desperately need it
Though sustainability goes into every aspect of society we really wanted to focus on how it
affects the sea which is 71 per cent of our world and shows the detrimental effects it has on
such a big part of what we call our home, earth
Now I will pass it to Roxanne our head girl and Sahana our new Head Girl Candidate for 2023. I
hope you have an amazing evening and enjoy the show.
Continued Rox and Sahana:
I’d like to introduce our judges – internally our judge our miss amber Ahmed who the head of
textiles here in dis, we are so grateful to have our external judge `mr. `Abdul Majid CEO of
`ZERO’. They will be judging using the following criteria: creativity, uniqueness, detail, stage
personality and sustainability.
Intro – excited . .
1. First, we have Yasmeen from 8f representing Saluki house. She is wearing a dress made
from balloons, pearls, and fishnets. Balloons are extremely damaging towards the ocean
as they are not biodegradable and marine life often mistake them for food, however,
Yasmeen is showing off how to reuse this material in such a creative way.
2. Sedra – from 6b Next we have Sedra from Saluki house, who has mimicked the coral
reef through her beautiful dress made from colored plastic bags and wrapping paper.
She is also wearing a hair accessory and bag to promote ‘Save the Sea’. This is an
amazing representation of how sea creatures survive
3. Bashira – 3e Thirdly we have Beshira representing Tahr house who is wearing a
stunning skirt made from plastic bags and shirt made from plastic plates. She is a
colorful hat and wonderful representation of our need to save the ocean
4. Next, we have hafsa 6d representing oryx house with her colorful skirt and shirt made
from plastic bags, water bottle caps, mini cups to show the ipact it has on the oceans
5. Next, we have Shennadri 3e representing Oryx house. She is wearing a colorful coat
made from plastic bags. She wanted to educate people on the dangers of plastic bags as
they can become entangled with marine life and cause damage to our ecosystems.
6. Next, we have Aekuss 8a representing Oryx house. He is wearing an accessory set that
consists of a hat made from newspaper, a mask from old T-shirt sleeves, Bracelet made
from safety pins, a Necklace made from paper mâché, and a bag made from recycled
paper bags. He chose accessories instead of an outfit to bring variety and uniqueness to
the show as well as to show the different everyday materials that can be recycled.
7. Sarron from 6b representing oryx house with a skirt and top made from bubble rap,
paper and black plastic bags which shows “u can turn anything into something u can”
8. Nabeel from 5f representing tahr with a shirt and hat jellyfish made from plastic bags
and straw, cable wire, cardboard caps
Gorgeous, gorgeous outfits. Now before continuing with the Trashion Show and catwalk, we
would like to present the DIS dance juniors from our primary school with their dance called
‘Save our Seas.
9. Next, we have Taima representing Tahr house. She is wearing a two-piece outfit that
consists of a corset made from her old comic book, and pants made from newspaper.
She wanted to show how fashion and sustainability can walk together hand and hand.
Another great performance from our dance company highlighting the importance . . . .how
plastic has affected our sea life and how we need sustainability to intervene over 1 millio
seabirds and 100000 marine mammals are killed by oean plastic every single year and how 8
million tonnes of plastic as well as 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic waste enter our oceans every
yeat
Up next is our second set of designers.
Next, we have ib2 Taima representing Tahr house. She is wearing a two-piece outfit that
consists of a corset made from her old comic book, and pants made from newspaper. She
wanted to show how fashion and sustainability can walk together hand and hand
10. Fatima from 5b representing oryx house, wearing a stunning dress from plastic to
highlight the volume of plastic we unfortunately use in our daily lives.
11. We have Zahra 6b representing Saluki house. She is wearing a two-piece outfit that
consists of a Shirt and skirt made from trash bags, scraped newspaper and cardboard.
She wanted to convey that these everyday items can be extremely damaging to our
environment.
12.
Twins Omran and Jawaher from 3e representing the Tahr house. Omar is representing a
jelly-fish and pearl theme through recycled paper showcasing the icey arctic waters
whilst Jawaher is wearing recycled yarn
13. Next, we have Nidhi 8f representing Tahr house. She is wearing a shirt and skirt made
with food wrappers as well as sunglasses that are covered with chocolate wrappers. She
has collected all her trash from the past 2 weeks to show the amount of waste one
person produces.
14. Of course, next we have Nai wearing a dazzling shirt and skirt made of straws, CD’s,
bottles and coffee filters. She is wearing a gorgeous headband of coffee cups to
emphasize the importance of reusing plastic.
15. Next, we have Rose from 7b representing Oryx house. She is wearing a beautiful dress
made from old dry-cleaning bags, newspaper, plastic bags, bottle caps, and shopping
bags. This is her interpretation of fast fashion, she wanted to educate people about the
dangers of buying fast fashion by using bags from shops such as H&M and Zara.
16. Last but not least, we have Dia 6b who is representing Tahr house. She is wearing a
jumper and pants which display the countless amounts of single-use products that we
use in our daily lives. These products include stationary, old juice boxes, old toys,
scraped board game paper, and snake wrappers.
17. Nour from …. Representing the …. House who is wearing a gorgeous dress mirroring the
ocean star. There are such vivid and bright colors here from the reused plastic
Thank you to all the designers for their amazing outfits. Now the judges will deliberate and
discuss the winners. While they do so can I please invite the DIS Secondary Band to perform a
selection of songs
Sahana:
Thank you for that great performance from the DIS sustainable band. Now welcome Majid from
Zero to announce the results and to hear more about his company ‘Zero’.
When presenting the awards may we please have all the fabulous designers up on stage.
(Majid says his speech on sustainability + announcing the winners)
Taima’s closing speech:
Thank you everybody for coming and enjoying the show. I would like to say a special thank you
to the sustainability council as well as the design and innovation councils for helping with the
décor such as the plastic straw coral reefs you see on the tables, along with the IB1s and 2’s,
tech team, year 11, and backstage who have supported and helped with the creation of the
Trashion show. As well as Mr. Abdul majid for his time and Miss Flynn and miss lynn for helping
organize the event. Last but not least I would like to thank miss Keyworth for making this a
possibility. The Trashion show will just be the beginning of DIS stepping into the world of
sustainability.
Thank you and I hope you have enjoyed your night.
