Bakewell fashion student’s lockdown pizza nights spark Domino’s dress

Sister Tony models the striking dress - Picture by Fauve Wright

Fauve Wright used 20 discarded pizza packages to craft the unusual culinary couture for her final year university project.

An eye-catching photo shows the billowing-style dress modelled by younger sister Tiny, 15.

Covid-19 lockdown forced Fauve - in her final year at the Fashion Communication course at Northumbria University - to come up with a fresh idea for her last project.

Fauve Wright crafted a couture classic from Domino's pizza boxes

So she made and photographed a number of garments made from any objects she could find around the house she shares with her parents and three siblings.

Alongside the pizza dress she made a clown’s ruffle from toilet rolls and a head-piece made from wire.

She said: “Coronavirus has made me think in a different way - you have to just get on with it and work with whatever you can get.

“I’ve got a very big family and we had all these takeaway nights but I kept the boxes thinking maybe I could do something with them.”

Though Fauve, 20, admitted ‘pizza boxes are harder to work with than you’d imagine’ she told how she sculpted the cardboard creation by pinning the boxes to her sister then ‘staggering’ and bending them into shape.

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Fauve - who would like a career in creative direction photography - said the dress was more a creative image than a garment to be worn on a night out.

Though she added: “It looked good for the picture but she (sister Tiny) could wear it out if she wanted to.”

Another creation was a clown's ruffle made of toilet rolls - picture by Fauve Wright

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