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It was a case of 'daddy cool' as the King's School's fashionistas wowed a sell out audience with the songs that were a soundtrack for their parents' generation.
The King's School, Macclesfield Fashion Show raised a stunning £20,000 lifting the total donated to The Christie Charity to well over £120,000 in the show's 25th anniversary year.
The extravaganza gets bigger and better every year, with nearly 400 tickets sold for the syncopating, sensational spectacle featuring blockbuster films from the Seventies through to the Noughties.
Stand aside Travolta, Cruise and Zeta-Jones, the young Macclesfield students oozed panache, elegance and machismo as they mimicked famous scenes from Grease, Saturday Night Fever, Chicago, Top Gun and High School Musical.
Organised by three enterprising Year 13 students Cece Stanley, from Alderley Edge, Daisy Webb, from Macclesfield and Michaela Quinn, from Tytherington, the show had young and old dancing in the aisles of the King's School's Main Hall.
But why go back almost 50 years for your inspiration? Cece explained: "These films feature some truly great and timeless music which we grew up listening to just as our parents did."
Commercially astute Michaela added: "And of course, we felt that would attract more sponsorship and more money for the charity, and that's what it is really all about."
But it wasn't just mass appeal that attracted the funds but graft and guts. Daisy explained that she had walked all 55km of the Gritstone Trail from Kidsgrove to Disley in 15 hours 50 minutes to raise funds. "My friend and I were certainly tired but it was worth it," she smiled.
King's Chemistry teacher Madison Dawson, who oversaw the event, said: "The students were fantastic: they came up with the ideas, the choreography and got together a troupe of over a hundred Year 12 and 13 students. I was able to take a back seat and just enjoy really."
Cece concluded that The Christie is special to everyone in the North-West and beyond, particularly her own family. "I didn't actually know but when I was raising money my grandfather told me our family had special reason to thank The Christie as my uncle Alfred Pace hadbeen treated for cancer and I know there will be thousands and thousands ofother families who feel the same debt of gratitude."
