Midlands Schools Take On Junk Kouture Final

There up against other countries in the competition.

Three Midlands schools are representing Ireland tonight in the Junk Kouture World Final.

Heywood Community School in Laois, and St Joseph's Rochfortbridge and Moate Community School in Westmeath will put their fashion designs made of recycled material to the test on the world stage.

They'll battle it out against teams from countries like the US and France to be crowned World Designer of the Year at the Helix in Dublin.

Moate Community School's entry 'Blueprint' took five months to design and is created from single use medical jackets with a four elements theme.

5th year student Hannah Higgins is part of the group that created it and says a lot of thought went into it:

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