TWENTY-FOUR aspiring fashion designers from the Hong Kong Polytechnic's Swire School of Design had a chance to stretch their imagination and display their creativity at a recent design competition.
The challenge was to come up with a uniform for the Asian Youth Orchestra (AYO) - one that would symbolise youthful vitality.
Jan Stevens, the course leader in fashion design for the polytechnic, involved her first-year fashion students in the competition, proposed by AYO founder and executive director Richard Pontzious.
''I thought it was such a stimulating thing to do and being youths themselves, they were in a better position to relate to it,'' Ms Stevens said.
Two winners will be selected and each will get a return ticket to Europe, sponsored by Cathay Pacific.
Five finalists were shortlisted from the 24 participants, many of whom took their artistic licence to the limit, with designs inspiring enough to grace the catwalks of international fashion shows.