Read all about it! Aspiring designer, 16, makes dress from 1,000 pages of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday
- Madeleine, 16, used 1,000 pages from the Daily Mail over a base dress
- She folded, cut and gathered 20 copies of papers which took around 25 hours
- Her grandparents had stored the papers for recycling at their home in Gosport
She turned heads at a fashion workshop in a dress made from copies of the Daily Mail.
And here aspiring designer Madeleine Haddock showcases her creative talents – appearing on the same pages she used as material for her ‘sustainable’ masterpiece.
Madeleine, 16, used 1,000 pages from the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday newspapers over a base dress bought from a charity shop to realise her crafty design.
Making headlines: Madeleine Haddock in her paper creation
She folded, cut and gathered 20 copies of the papers in a process which took around 25 hours, and said she liked working with the two papers as they ‘were very colourful’.
Her grandparents, avid Mail readers Sheila and Ron Judd, both 80, had stored the papers for recycling at their home in Gosport, Hampshire – before they were re-purposed into the striking silhouette.
Madeleine’s mother Wendy, 54, said of her daughter: ‘Once she gets going on something she’s passionate about, she doesn’t stop.’
The teenager, from Waterlooville, Hampshire, attends Chichester College, West Sussex, and has been interested in fashion and design since she was three. She made the dress for a Model Minds Workshop run by Dani Geddes Photography in Portsmouth.
Madeleine, who also works as a sales assistant at Fred Perry, said there were ‘lots of gasps’ when she unveiled the dress. She added: ‘I was quite happy with my masterpiece. It was amazing, I absolutely loved it, best thing ever. I want to do it again.’