When Sian Lloyd, ITV's celebrated weathercaster, was invited to host the annual motor sports awards held at the Yacht Club in Monte Carlo shortly before Christmas, she decided she wanted something special to wear. 'It’s a very glitzy, high end event,' she said 'and I needed a really spectacular dress for the occasion.'
Rather than go to one of her favourite designers she chose to challenge the fashion students at Newport University to design and make something suitably eye-catching - and to ensure a unique result she selected a silk satin digitally printed with a scan of obsidian from the Earth Images collection. The patterns in obsidian - or volcanic glass - retain the fluidity of their formation and worked perfectly with the classic lines of the winning design.
Rather than go to one of her favourite designers she chose to challenge the fashion students at Newport University to design and make something suitably eye-catching - and to ensure a unique result she selected a silk satin digitally printed with a scan of obsidian from the Earth Images collection. The patterns in obsidian - or volcanic glass - retain the fluidity of their formation and worked perfectly with the classic lines of the winning design.
