Students from four colleges will be involved in this weekend's Trinity Tia Maria fashion show. The show, which takes place in the imposing Georgian surroundings of the college's dining hall, is the first major student-run fashion event to be held in TCD.

Sixty models and dancers, all TCD students, will be taking part in the event, but this is no amateur production: a professional choreographer and a leading model has been involved.

The theme of the event is the millennium and those who will make the future. With this in mind, students from Limerick Institute of Technology (see story, page opposite) as well as the National College of Art and Design and the Grafton Academy will be giving full vent to their creativity.

"It was actually a piece of good fortune: the students in Limerick had already done a collection for the millennium," says one of the event's organisers, Karen Deignan.

During the first half of the show work by more conventional and well-known designers and labels such as Ciaran Sweeney, Mark O'Neill and Benetton. Although the show is being targeted primarily at TCD students, all are welcome (if they can get hold of one of the 300 tickets available) and Deignan hopes that the professional approach taken will attract parents and friends to see the bright young things strut their stuff.

The show takes place on Saturday and Sunday, tickets are £15 and all proceeds go to the Barretstown Gang Camp.