WESTMINSTER STUDENTS MISS LARA CROFT

By Gavin Pearce

Students showed off their colourful designs at the final of a national student fashion competition - but no one from Westminster showed up.

Harrow Campus fashion students were conspicuous by their absence at Cancer Research's annual Recycled Fashion Show.

Last Thursday’s central London show featured eight finalists from Essex to Glasgow, who made the outfits from second-hand clothes.

Ex-Lara Croft model, Nell McAndrew, paraded the winning costume made by Anna Scott, a student at Glasgow Caledonian University.

Entry to the student competition was a mandatory part of the Glasgow course, unlike Harrow's fashion school where no one was entered.

Ms. Scott said: "At my college we didn't have a choice about entering this. Now I'm glad because I've won work placements with three fashion designers."

Wendy Malem, head of the Harrow campus fashion school, said she was unaware the contest had been taking place.

"We didn't enter anyone because we didn't know anything about it. We will make sure we enter the next one though," she said.

But Ms. Malem said her students were encouraged to enter other competitions.

"We regularly enter the one run by the Royal Society of Art, in which one of our students has been short listed this year," she said.

While modelling the winning costume, made from recycled strainers, gun-toting Nell McAndrew showed off one of her bazookas when her bodice slipped.