Â鶹ֱ²¥\u2019s largest-ever cohort of fashion graduates has offered an insight into the runways of the future by showcasing their unique and creative final-year student designs at the 2019 HAUTECULTURE event.<\/p>\n
The students not only conceptualised and crafted the unique garments for their end-of-year graduate showcase, but they were also responsible for the entire event\u2019s organisation, ticket sales, promotion and creation of marketing materials for the runway event at Claremont Showgrounds.<\/p>\n
Among the vibrant and creative student designs featured at the student showcase included a lobster look-a-like handbag designed by Joshua Rees; urban nomadic lifestyle inspired clothing by Tylo Broadhurst; and a brightly coloured festive collection entitled Beautiful Menagerie<\/em> by Brittany Chancellor-Maddison.<\/p>\n Dr Anne Farren, Coordinator of the Fashion Design Major at Curtin, said every fashion student was asked to reflect, redefine and find ways to remain relevant in the always-changing fashion industry, which is continually challenging conventional industry practices.<\/p>\n \u201cFashion is emerging to be a more sustainable, environmentally-focused industry, and we\u2019ve asked all student designers to consider these issues when creating their capsule collections,\u201d Dr Farren said.<\/p>\n \u201cThis year\u2019s graduating cohort is 32 students – our largest group to graduate through Curtin\u2019s fashion program, which is wonderful to see. I wish them all the best for their future careers in the fashion industry.\u201d<\/p>\n One of this year\u2019s graduates, Lauren Boucher, presented her capsule collection M\u00e9moire de Perle, inspired by her memories of ballet and the tutu.<\/p>\n \u201cUsing tulle textures, my collection celebrates the tutu, and the personal memories I associate with it,\u201d Ms Boucher said.<\/p>\n \u201cI started taking ballet lessons when I was three, and one of my fondest memories is dressing up in the tutus my mum would make for me.<\/p>\n \u201cPutting on a tutu changes the way you feel \u2013 bringing joy, empowerment, and for me, feelings of nostalgia. For my collection, I wanted to take the tutu and bring it into an every-day wear fashion space, to capture those moments and recreate them for its wearer.\u201d<\/p>\n Another 2019 Curtin fashion graduate, Michelle Teles, used laser-cut marine plywood in her capsule collection Fragilient.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter initially drawing each piece, the wood was then laser cut, and then I added it on to the sheer fabrics used throughout my collection, to form the design, shape and movement of each piece,\u201d Ms Teles said.<\/p>\n \u201cFragilient has several motifs throughout the collection that explore the skeletal system, connective tissue, adipose tissue and the body on a microscopic level.<\/p>\n \u201cEach piece tells a different story about our bodies, which are both fragile, yet resilient.\u201d<\/p>\n Ms Teles will be presenting pieces from Fragilient at the upcoming RAW Artists exhibition in Perth in February 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Â鶹ֱ²¥\u2019s largest-ever cohort of fashion graduates has offered an insight into the runways of the future by showcasing their unique and creative final-year student designs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":11980,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,3,94],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-19447","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-and-design","category-campus-and-global-community","category-fashion"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Reszied-for-web_1588x840_4_Lauren_Curtin-Fashion_IMG_1438-1000x500.jpg","author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Â鶹ֱ²¥"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/19447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/19447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19447"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=19447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}