Threads by Sophia Bennett

Author:Sophia Bennett
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781905294985
Publisher: Scholastic Australia
Published: 2013-12-16T05:00:00+00:00

Back at home, Mum puts the Yves Saint Laurent award date in capitals in her BlackBerry and in red ink on the kitchen calendar, which now hangs under one of Harry's photos and beside two framed pictures of Crow's dancing girls. I haven't had anything on those walls since I was five, when I apparently grew out of my ‘naif’ style.

Granny comes up to town and insists on hearing the whole story from start to finish. She also adores the dress design.

Edie mentions the competition in her blog and has the decency to admit that she's getting far more hits now it's at least fifty per cent about fashion and less about recycling and clean water.

Jenny spends ages mentally designing the dress she'll wear to the ceremony and is horrified to hear that Crow won't be allocated enough tickets for her to go.

‘But I'm her best client!’ she says, petulantly.

‘Apart from the supermodel,’ I point out. Jenny has to admit this is probably true.

Even Harry mentions the ceremony at least once a day, as it'll be the first chance he has to meet up with Svetlana again. He's tried to fix a date with her but she seems to spend most of her life on planes and must have the carbon footprint of a major company. (Edie is appalled and blogs about this too. Hits go up exponentially. It may help that Edie puts up a few images of Svetlana to illustrate her point.)

Crow ignores us all, except for Granny. They hole up in the workroom, plotting something, and only emerge for food, school (Crow) and cigarette breaks (Granny).

On the subject of the competition, Granny is less concerned about my feelings than Crow seems to be.

‘Darling, I gather you entered too.’

I admit I did.

‘How sweet. Can I see the designs some time?’

‘I didn't keep a copy.’

‘Sweet’ is not a good word in the Nonie Chatham dictionary. As soon as I can, I dig out my folderful of copies and make sure I religiously shred each one.

We don't make such a bad crowd as we get ready to go out on the big night. Mum comes downstairs in Dries Van Noten, which is very sculptural and severe, but looks good with her cheekbones, and Granny is drop-dead gorgeous in vintage velvet. Yvette Mansard is wearing an exquisite silk print dress she designed herself, although she admits Crow helped her arthritic hands with some of the tricky bits. I'm in a silver leotard (I'm still in my metallic phase) and two of Crow's original nylon skirts, which hang like delicate snowdrops – and aren't so see-through if you wear them in pairs. Crow herself is in a red brocade dress she got from a charity shop and has customised by wearing it back to front. It looks as though it's been made out of a pair of curtains, but she says there's something about the colour that makes her happy, which seems a good enough reason to choose it.

As soon as we

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