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Fashion designer Casanova, a cast member from the eighth season of “Project Runway,” will kick off Project Fabricland, a sewing competition based on the television series, during a fashion show at 2 p.m. May 1 at North Plainfield High School, 34 Wilson Ave.

The event will benefit The Skin Cancer Foundation.

The show features 26 aspiring young Central Jersey fashion designers ages 10 to 17 who have taken advanced sewing classes at the Sewing School at the North Plainfield-based Fabricland in preparation for this event. Gift-certificate prizes totaling $1,500 will be awarded to the top winners.

For this year’s “Inspired by Music” challenge, all contestants have chosen their own commercial patterns – but have personalized them by creating an outfit that was influenced and inspired by a specific musical artist, genre or song.

The young designers include Cara Benevenia, Samaiyah Brookins, Nina Buck, Sydney Buck, Kristen Crasto, Grace Entwistle, Morgan Freeman, Abby Herrmann, Elaine House, Gioia Kelleher, Mary Patricia Livingstone, Jessica Longo, Eileen Moran, Margaux Natiello, Charley Randall, Ellery Jane Ring, Julia Roe, Zari Rose, Juliet Sabella, Christiana Sallard, Mary Sauerland, Lydia Seaman, Abby Smith, Samantha Squeri, Emily Wexler and Tatiana Zalewski.

During the sewing course, which is taught by school director Nancy Plominski and teachers Kim Rhodes and Chris Gonch, students are instructed on pattern alteration, sketching, draping, sewing and finishing techniques and runway modeling.

Judges for the competition include fabric designer Michelle Engel Bencsko, Pam Hastings of Simplicity Patterns and Gayle Schliemann of

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