Description
CUT and SEW FASHION ART craft panel – This is a unique top model trophy to award the fashion model or fashion designer you know. It is also a pin cushion where the pearls on the swimsuit are the pearl heads of the pins. It is also fun to make dresses for this fashion mannequin doll. It stands about 17 inches tall. Sublimation printing process on poly fabric.
TO COMPLETE THIS PROJECT YOU WILL PROBABLY NEED:
- Dowel as inner support
- Sand to weight the base
- Plastic bag
- Thin piece of wood cut to fit the base
- Masking tape
- fiberfill stuffing
- Pearl head pins for pin cushion
HISTORY OF THE KIFFI
In 2006, Sylvia entered a competition sponsored by the magazine, DollCrafter. Everyone used the same pattern supplied and the object was to design a festive over-the-top doll that could be used as a party place- setting. Her design was printed in the magazine along with 3-4 issues of more contestants’ creations. She did not win. Her husband Jim, however, liked it very much. It reminded him of the animated movie, Nightmare Before Christmas — odd and quirky.
In 2007, plans for the Keizer Iris Festival Fashion Show began to emerge. Time was short so it was decided that the doll would be given to the Best In Show at the event. After a few days of laboring over an acronym, Sylvia came up with Keizer Iris Festival Fashion Icon. It was the “icon” part that took the most time. Since then the KIFFI (move over Oscar) has been registered as a trademark. Much to Jim’s disappointment, Sylvia did not show her own fashion line that year, so she did not win and bring the KIFFI back home as he had hoped. The doll went to a new home. So the following Christmas, Sylvia made a replica of the first KIFFI and it stands on the fireplace mantel again.
In 2008 the KIFFI had its name and year printed on the base. Each year’s KIFFI would be a little different from the others. This is because they are hand made by Sylvia and she likes to experiment a little. They all have some similarities too. Sylvia likes to use vintage beads and old dried corsages that make the figures look a little like boutique items — or perhaps a vintage piece one might stand on a dressing table to pin corsages to. Dried flowers and corsages appear in various places around the artists house as well. And just to make things more fun one year, Sylvia constructed a life-size KIFFI to be in the parade in 2008. The parade moved along River Road in Keizer, Saturday morning before the fashion show.
In 2009 it became evident that the spectacular children’s designs were ignored by the judges because the instructions to choose a winner to use on the next poster made a child winner impossible. The poster might be mistaken as advertising a children’s event. Sylvia had wanted to redesign the KIFFI from the very hurried beginning so this was now the time. The new BABY KIFFI design was completed now but did not quite fit with the off-beat charm of the original KIFFI. So a new, sleeker KIFFI was designed. While designing the new version, Sylvia experimented with legs. The result was so clever that she had to find a way to incorporate it into the show. Of course the top model should receive it! But what if the best model is not wearing the winning outfit? Hmmm. So the new rule is, presentation has to count. The three contenders for the winning design will now have a “walk off” of sorts. The best model will tilt the scales and win the awards for herself AND the designer.
TOP MODEL KIFFI now appears here by special request. You can use it for your own “walk off”. Sylvia’s Humpty Label is printed on the bottom of the base.
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