Designer thrilled withWOWshowing
Louisa Paterson is already making her next character.
Fresh from entering this year’s World of WearableArts, the makeup student at the Cut Above Academy is back in Auckland working on her next assignment – making a mask for a galaxy fox.
They are a far cry from her WOW entry, A Queen and Her Two Ladies, which made the finals of the Weta Workshop Costume & Film section but didn’t take out a prize.
The Stokes Valley designer said her main aim in entering the competition was to see her creations get through to the finals, like she had in 2014 and 2013.
Her parents and aunt watched the award presentation with her on September 23.
Her favourite pieces were t Goodbye Versailles Starring Madame Du Barry’s Monkey and the winner of the Cirque du Solei internship who created a hovering Egyptian through 3D printing.
‘‘They are on another level, while I’m just using my humble sewing machine.’’
Although she said she kind of ruined her experience of the show by criticising her own costumes, she was glad the models had understood how to play the characters, as comical and sassy.
They were inspired by her time working as a wig supervisor for the first staging of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert on a cruise liner, where she was responsible for styling and maintaining the 21 performers’ multiple wigs and headpieces.
‘‘It was a funny spin of an extravagant realm,’’ she said of this year’s theme for the film section of Baroque/ Rococo.
‘‘They had too much money, it was a disgusting culture really, living to excess because they could.’’
She hoped to tailor some of her course work to use for next year’s WOW when the film section will have a science fiction theme.