Sissy Rooney

Sissy Rooney founder of The Street Style Surgery

A platform for the youth of today, and the socially disadvantaged to express themselves creatively though fashion design and clothing, while promoting individualism, pride and confidence.

The Street Style Surgery's aim and focus is to host exciting and inspiring fashion workshops in schools, playshemes, after school clubs, and organisations who provide services for the young, socially disadvantaged and people with learning and health difficulties and male & female young offenders institutions. TSSS workshop gives the pupils a chance to express their own fashion style. One of the projects consists of taking a blank garment, e.g. t-shirt and fully customizing it by means of fabric applique, heat transfer and decoration. Either to a set theme or to the pupil's own individual design tastes. The t-shirts can be decorated by various means, eg laser iron-on print outs, fabric cut out letters and shapes, fabric paint, pens and sprays.