In March, The Detroit Free Press announced a $500 contest for high school students to design prom dresses from newsprint. On Sunday it announced eight finalists.
The fact that there are fewer home-delivered print editions of the Free Press with which to make the dresses hasn’t seemed to slow anyone down. An extensive slideshow shows off the dresses, which are supercool — Ari Diaz’ painted dress, for instance, and Ashley Hicks’ complex dress made from advertising circulars — but the stories behind the dresses, collected in Sunday’s story introducing the finalists, are more fun.
Atiyah Anderson made her dress in three days. And if Emily Bankes wins, “she will buy a dress with the money for next year’s prom, since she’s not going this year, and use a bit for her creative pursuits, too.”
Most of the dresses are wearable; a few feature the Free Press’ masthead prominently.
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The fact that there are fewer home-delivered print editions of the Free Press with which to make the dresses hasn’t seemed to slow anyone down. An extensive slideshow shows off the dresses, which are supercool — Ari Diaz’ painted dress, for instance, and Ashley Hicks’ complex dress made from advertising circulars — but the stories behind the dresses, collected in Sunday’s story introducing the finalists, are more fun.
Atiyah Anderson made her dress in three days. And if Emily Bankes wins, “she will buy a dress with the money for next year’s prom, since she’s not going this year, and use a bit for her creative pursuits, too.”
Most of the dresses are wearable; a few feature the Free Press’ masthead prominently.
See full story
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