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"There was not an empty inch of bleacher space to be had in the gymnasium of the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, a private school in Riverdale, N.Y., on a Tuesday morning earlier this month. Seating room (and standing room, for that matter) had been taken up by students, parents, and teachers cheering with the kind of enthusiasm usually reserved for a championship basketball game. The occasion? The school's annual fashion show.\n\nFor the past nine years, art teacher Nancy Fried as put on a runway presentation as the final project for her sculpture class. But forget patterns and sewing machines: Ms. Fried does not permit students to use traditional garment materials, forcing them instead to use creative substitutes like candy and newspaper. \"Otherwise it would be a fashion course,\" she explains.\n\nIt seems students are up for the challenge: what began with less than 20 pupils has grown considerably in size and reputation over the years. \"There are parents in the audience who don't even have kids in the show,\" says Ms. Fried, who has opened participation to all members of the student body (not just those in her sculpture class) in recent years.\n\nThis year, a record 68 looks--fashioned out of everything from marshmallows to Harry Potter bookmarks--made it down the catwalk. \"It blew my mind,\" says Ms. Fried. Needless to say, it was no small feat for the budding designers involved. \"I haven't done homework for a week and a half,\" said Julia Hammiemen, who crafted a frock out of scrabble tiles. \"But it was worth it.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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