Floral fashions
Post categories: Tom Sumner
| 12:38 UK time, Friday, 11 July 2008
The first port of call for all fashionistas should be the Floral Art marquee, which this year is themed around 'Followers of Fashion'. 
All the displays have a fashion theme and there are some really unusual exhibits including floral spectacles and hats that you wouldn't normally associate with flower arranging.
Chairman Tina Wallis from NAFAS Surrey Area talked me through the displays.
"This year our theme is fashion because we wanted something to catch the publics attention. We have 9 classes, all of which express an aspect of fashion or a theme relating to it."
"One the most striking classes is the group classes, in which each exhibit represents a different fashion icon from Elsa Schiaparelli to Jean Paul Gaultier each one is created by two people from our different Surrey groups."
"I've given a special chairman's award this year to an exhibit in this class inspired by Vivienne Westwood. It's really clever, when you look closely it's made of thin layers of seaweed like you use when you're making sushi. I think it's wonderful the way they've created the design on the skirt, it's such a bold exhibit you can't miss it."
While we're on the subject, it's very difficult to be fashionable around the showground with all this mud and rain, wellies and plastic ponchos are certainly the order of the day. I have spotted more than one visitor wearing a pair of white shoes and feel very smug stamping around in my work boots.
All the displays have a fashion theme and there are some really unusual exhibits including floral spectacles and hats that you wouldn't normally associate with flower arranging.
Chairman Tina Wallis from NAFAS Surrey Area talked me through the displays.
"This year our theme is fashion because we wanted something to catch the publics attention. We have 9 classes, all of which express an aspect of fashion or a theme relating to it."
"One the most striking classes is the group classes, in which each exhibit represents a different fashion icon from Elsa Schiaparelli to Jean Paul Gaultier each one is created by two people from our different Surrey groups."
"I've given a special chairman's award this year to an exhibit in this class inspired by Vivienne Westwood. It's really clever, when you look closely it's made of thin layers of seaweed like you use when you're making sushi. I think it's wonderful the way they've created the design on the skirt, it's such a bold exhibit you can't miss it."
While we're on the subject, it's very difficult to be fashionable around the showground with all this mud and rain, wellies and plastic ponchos are certainly the order of the day. I have spotted more than one visitor wearing a pair of white shoes and feel very smug stamping around in my work boots.
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