Discover Melbourne Fashion Hub’s 2023 artists and designers from Holmesglen, RMIT, and Whitehouse Institute. Their work spans editorial to accessible fashion, all focusing on responsible practices.
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Abi Wright
HOLMESGLEN (GRADUATE)
Brand: MANDISSA Instagram @_mandissa
Sustainable/Genderfluid
Collaborator: Mandissa Collection A/W 2022
My name is Abi Wright; I recently graduated from Holmesglen Institute, where I gained a Bachelor of Fashion (2021), and am currently building the foundations of my brand MANDISSA. This year I have collaborated with designer Alice Edgeley for A/W ‘22 (EDGELEY x MANDISSA).
Design Practice
In my design practice, I am often led by a strong sense of personal style and something quite visceral. Qualities in fabric, colour, and structure are often used to explore my vision. I work tirelessly to see the right fit and proportion come to light. My most recent collection, E.W., is heavily inspired by the 1966 Czech film Daisies, where notions of surrealism and a sense of odd-comedy are brought through the collection.
I often look to old media for inspiration. Last year (and before the blockbuster!) I was obsessing over 1960’s-1990s Barbie clothing. Lately, I have been compiling images of boxers of the 1950s and 1960s.
Baaqiy Ghazali
WHITEHOUSE INSTITUTE OF DESIGN
Brand: BAAQIY Instagram @baaqiy
Casual, tailored, womenswear, menswear, activewear/gender inclusive, size-inclusive/ sustainable/ locally made
Finalist – MFW Student Collections Runway 2022
Winner – Myer Emerging Designer 2022
Baaqiy Ghazali is an emerging fashion designer with a background in architecture and fine art, specialising in sculptural garments. Baaqiy approaches fashion as a tool to investigate the behavioural effect of fashion on human psyches; “why do we wear what we wear?” and “can avant-garde design be desirable?”. An accomplished designer highly skilled in pattern-making and tailoring, Baaqiy was awarded two Designer of The Trimester awards. Baaqiy was also given the opportunity to preview her graduate collection “Love Is Calling For Wonderland” on the Melbourne Fashion Week runway, as well as designing a custom garment for St.Ali and becoming a member of the Melbourne Fashion Hub 2022/2023. Baaqiy is the winner of the MYER Fashions On The Field – Emerging Designer Award 2022, and her winning design will be featured in VOGUE Australia in a 2023 issue.
Design Practice
I have always been inspired by the world of high fashion and the avant-garde movement. As a designer and artist, I like to incorporate both aspects in my designs. I utilized volume and fabric manipulations in my design to achieve interesting silhouettes while utilizing my original prints to bring the garments to life. My designs have always been the marriage of high concepts with practicality; however, I do not shy away from designing showpiece garments where the intentions are to showcase construction techniques and to bring art and fashion together.
Design techniques and Sectors
In my design journeys so far, I have experimented a lot with unconventional shapes in garments. Exaggerated silhouettes represent a protective cocoon, which is something I personally feel through fashion. Clashing prints and patterns have been a specialty of mine, as well as using my background in architecture to engineer understructures for a lot of my designs. Achieving volumes and textures through fabric manipulations is something I enjoyed as well. My designs are for all genders. I believe that clothing should enhance your psyche, which can be from a dress, jacket, or shirt.
Bronzen Taylor Bogaars
RMIT UNIVERSITY
Brand: BTB Studios Instagram @bronzenbronzen
Streetwear and Casual wear/Gender Inclusive fashion/zero waste
Established in 2021. BTBstudios is a sustainable and ethically based streetwear/ artisanal denim brand run by Bronzen Taylor-Bogaars, a 19-year-old Melbourne-based fashion designer born to a half-Sri Lankan/Australian Family. Bronzen has also formally studied fashion design and technology for three years, previously at Kangan Institute and now at RMIT, but has been studying fashion independently for over 8 years.
Each design/Garment goes through many processes to reach its final stage, with the use of recycled/reclaimed materials and fabrics being a large focus area for the brand as it attempts to break away from the fast fashion norm. Each piece is Handmade and made to order, which helps give customers pieces to express their individuality in the world. All pieces from the brand are handmade by Bronzen, with multiple hours spent working on each individual piece.
Design Practice
BTB Studios is a sustainability-aware brand that encapsulates the ideas of zero-waste clothing by using many different traditional mending and patchwork techniques and deadstock fabric within some designs. Its designs also explore the practical side of clothing, such as 1930s workwear, but in a way that is new and different from things seen before; its designs also draw many inspirations from the history of denim.
Daniel Mizzi
RMIT UNIVERSITY
Brand: Comos Bassington Instagram @Comosbassington
Causal Wear/Queer and Gender-Diverse People
Revival Runway 2022
You know that moment when a really hot person passes you in the street, and their scent lingers in the air, and you feel… dirty? Odds are they were wearing my clothing. Flared, crisp, tight, and low, my design aesthetic exists at the crossroads of sex and comedy. Does size matter? I’d say so, hence why my designs are big. Big cuffs, big collars, big boots.
I work with pinstripe because it has consumed me to the point where I now see the world in vertical stripes. Velvet, because it reminds me of life’s little pleasures; the first sip of champagne or the last puff of a cigarette. Pleasure by the meter! Satin, because when I line my garments with satin, my Bassington Boys can shine from the inside out. Leather, because it’s hot. Duh.
Design Practice
I’m a futurist, so naturally, my design practice looks to tomorrow. What are my future aspirations? I want to follow in the (bare) footsteps of the original trendsetter, Jesus Christ. I can’t turn water into wine, but I can turn it into tequila. I can’t raise the dead, but I have been known to resurrect myself after a late night out. With these striking parallels, B.C. will surely adopt a new connotation- before Comos.
Emilia Lay
WHITEHOUSE INSTITUTE OF DESIGN
Instagram@emillmhan
High-end ready-to-wear/Womenswear/size inclusive
Runner Up – Myer Emerging Designer 2022
My name is Emilia Lay, and I am a Melbourne-based upcoming designer
from the Whitehouse Institute of Design. After graduating, I plan to enter Melbourne’s luxury fashion market and introduce my innovative approach to tailored luxe fashion solutions.
Focussing on women’s ready-to-wear, I aim to introduce durable, high-quality, and custom designs. My craft aims to evoke self-love and confidence in those who wear my creations.
Design Practice
As an emerging designer, Emilia intends to enter Melbourne’s luxury fashion market and introduce an innovative approach to tailored and voluminous luxe fashion solutions. With a focus on women’s ready-to-wear, she hopes to introduce long-lasting, high-quality, and unique designs.
With a passion for postmodern art, Emilia’s work is based on combining bold contrasting colours and fabrications to create each garment. Her style combines the elements of slick tailoring and voluminous silhouettes that aim to make the wearer the “centre of attention” in an effort to create a casual, effortless look while being size inclusive. Her designs are intended to showcase a sense of modernity for the current and future fashion industry with the intention that it remains a staple piece.
Joel Conroy
RMIT UNIVERSITY (GRADUATE)
Brand: JOEL CONROY Instagram @_joelconroy_
Elevated Casual Wear/Gender and Age inclusivity
Joel Conroy designs and creates elevated garments at his home studio in Melbourne. He offers bold and dynamic options for individuals looking to express and enhance their individual style.
In 2019, Joel completed an Associate Degree in Fashion (Design Technology) at RMIT University. During his time studying, he worked as a production intern for two of Australia’s leading womenswear designers, Toni Maticevksi and Jason Grech. These inspiring opportunities further cemented Joel’s deep appreciation for high-end aesthetics and instilled in him a commitment to utilise local suppliers and manufacturers wherever possible.
Upon graduating, Joel started working as a production and design assistant for luxury Australian women’s label Anna Thomas. The brand’s approach to using quality fabrication and thoughtful design resonated with Joel’s own values and presented a brilliant learning opportunity for him gaining invaluable insight into designing and producing high-quality garments.
Design Practice
In 2021, Joel completed a Bachelor in Fashion (Design Technology) at RMIT, where he found an unexpected interest in digital fashion. Embracing this new skill, his design process starts out by trialling out ideas and fabrications virtually. This eliminates waste in the concept phase of prototyping and reduces the number of samples needed in the lead-up to producing physical garments. He is keen to explore more ways that digital fashion can assist real-world designers.
Most garments are cut and sewn together by Joel himself in his home studio. He loves working with natural fibres, and is setting up a strong supply chain for sourcing deadstock and surplus fabrics from luxury European fashion houses.
Adding a local manufacturer to his supply chain, Joel has recently started working with Melbourne-based knitting mill Hatch + Make on some knitwear pieces for his AW23 collection.
Jordan Anderson
WHITEHOUSE INSTITUTE OF DESIGN
Instagram @jordananderson.design
Tailored high luxury
Finalist – MFW Student Collections Runway 2022
As a designer, I want to showcase rebellion and edginess by making fashionable wearable armour. I want to push the boundaries of fashion through dark concepts and bold design choices that showcase a narrative to each collection I present. I like the audience to feel emotion while looking at my garments, to look further than the clothing itself.
Throughout studying at Whitehouse, I was awarded two Designer Of The Trimester awards in 2021 and 2022. While creating my recent collection, I was honoured to have the opportunity to feature in Melbourne fashion week’s student runway and Melbourne Fashion Hub, which has been vital to learning more about fashion within the industry.
Coming from a background in different art mediums and being a competitive amateur boxer and state swimmer, I have learned the love of learning while also incorporating discipline, self-motivation, competitiveness, and passion for success.
Design Practice
The collection focuses on The seven deadly sins and how they are part of human nature. Everybody has felt pride, wrath, lust, sloth, envy, Greed, and gluttony. The importance is how we learn to rise above our shortcomings and how we learn from the mistakes of being human. The collection celebrates the imperfections we hide.
The garments are designed to represent a contemporary version of female armour and lingerie. The garments’ silhouettes play on the female figure with tailoring techniques and structure. Fabrications include faux leather, latex, and chiffon. Hardware has been brought into the collection to provide edginess and rebellion, using silver chromed bullets to showcase the sin of wrath, silver chains to represent the adornment of pride, and piercings and studs to represent lust, and Greed has been highlighted with a 12-meter-long chiffon dress to express that desire and need for more will never have fulfillment.
Kylah Palis
WHITEHOUSE INSTITUTE OF DESIGN (GRADUATE)
Gender inclusive/Sustainability
Brand: Kylah Owo Instagram @kylah_owo
Winner – Stitch Don’t Ditch: Sustainable Fashion Competition 2022
Self-expression is a rebellious art and language. When our differences are used against us, we have to power to own it. After rebellion comes self-development. Don’t you want to strive for the best version of yourself? The most confident, creative, unapologetic version of oneself.
‘Being yourself’ is vital. You never know who you will inspire or where it will guide you. You are destined for something greater. Recontextualising something existing, even unwanted, is sustainable.
The designs have ‘underground’ aesthetics– the youthful Zeit Geist she chose to grow up in. This underground world of music, art, and fashion bursting with attitude, non-conformity, innovative subcultures, and a sense of belonging. Her alter egos, ‘Vampress’ and ‘Princess,’ represent two sides of a coin- darkness and sweetness.
ABC News, Converse™ ANZ, Wyndham TV, Fashion Awards Australia, and Melbourne Fashion Hub have presented her fashion journey and her ethos of self-expression and sustainability. She is a double annual winner of Fashion Awards Australia and winner of the Geelong food and wine festival.
Design Practice
Self-expression is reflected through Kylah Owo made to order designs, whether it be my iconic colour palettes of pinks and blacks referencing my alter egos ‘Vampress’ and ‘Princess’ or the designs itself.
It commands attention in whatever room you walk in. Many times, people want garments no one else has. The beauty of made-to-order is I am able to make decisions when it comes to the details and also create custom measurements.
I value unique and ‘out there’ designs and appreciate chaos or ‘controlled chaos’ in my aesthetics paying homage to the underground. I embrace perfect ‘imperfections’ but also hold it to a high standard.
I create original prints and textiles, always on the lookout to incorporate sustainable elements into my work regarding the materials I use. I keep my waste to a minimum by finding innovative ways to recontextualise what already exists to save it from adding to landfills.
Maya Williams Augustincic
WHITEHOUSE INSTITUTE OF DESIGN
Instagram@bluejeanorbit
Streetwear/edgy evening wear/LGBTQ + gender inclusive
Maya Williams Augustincic is a Melbourne-based Fashion Designer who goes by the brand pseudonym bluejeanorbit. The designer is inspired by art, technology, and nostalgia and uses these elements to create original fabric prints, contemporary silhouettes, and considered colour palettes. Maya’s major source of inspiration can be pinned down to 1990s grunge culture and 1960s whimsicality, which she translates into her brand. She aims to make the wearer feel unique, powerful, and expressionistic, just as music had made her feel in her adolescence, with bands like no doubt and blink-182. She does this by creating unique garments and accessories that add personality and excitement to any wardrobe.
Bluejeanorbit falls into sustainable, inclusive, and expressive fashion design sectors, and they do so by aiming to provide ethical and creative garments to diverse groups, which are some of their core brand values. They are vegan and cruelty-free, with no plans to change this in the future. Bluejeanorbit is proudly queer-friendly and welcomes creatives from all cultures, and they hope to become a safe space for all.
Design Practice
Maya’s graduate collection, titled You Are Driving Me Into Manic, is inspired by 90’s grunge, Victorian harlots, and human anatomy. These timely influences have created a sense of cool nostalgia and sleaze and are infused into unassumed silhouettes, considered prints, and high-end textures. This collection has a strong focus on sustainable elements, all while exploring reconstructed ideas, deconstructed features, and refined details. When conceptualising a new collection, Maya enjoys finding contrasting themes and creating unexpected ways to showcase them. These are just some of the considerations she develops within her design practice, both in and out of this collection.
A range of recycled fabric prints, deadstock materials, and upcycled fabrics have been utilized; sustainability is a key feature throughout this collection, and she aims to further focus and develop ethical sustainability in her design career.
Sustainability practices:
Bluejeanorbit practices sustainability by outsourcing majority designer deadstock, organic cottons, remnants, and recycled materials. We also repurpose second-hand clothing and fabric scraps. My brand sources locally to reduce our carbon footprint, using local fabric retailers and printing houses with sustainable options. The main fabrics used in our current collection include; deadstock wool, organic cotton, recycled polyester, recycled eco-denim, fabric scraps, denim remnants, and hardwares from local small business and/or repurposed from second-hand clothing.
Marvi Barillo
WHITEHOUSE INSTITUTE OF DESIGN
Brand: Marvi Barillo Design Instagram @marvibarillo.design
Streetwear / Casual wear/Sustainable fashion and innovative textiles
Finalist – MFW Student Collections Runway 2022
Marvi has always been drawn to garments that can be styled in different ways, often working with modular fashion codes and being able to create numerous garments from one look. Her goal is to create versatile pieces which can be used for any occasion, allowing the garments to be cherished for a long time.
Being fascinated with fabric manipulation, Marvi’s design aesthetic is often described as “classic contemporary with a twist” and focuses on silhouettes that flatter any body type. She has been inspired by how these techniques give the garments depth and texture.
Over the course of the degree, Marvi has received the Designer of the Trimester Award and a Student Award twice at Whitehouse Institute of Design. Apart from this, she has also had the opportunity to showcase her graduate collection at Melbourne Fashion Week.
Design Practice
As a designer, Marvi has always been drawn to a sustainable way of thinking and designing, working with modular fashion codes and being able to create numerous garments from one look. Her goal is to create versatile pieces which can empower the wearer. Craftsmanship is also key to Marvi’s design practices; every piece is meticulously made, allowing the wearer to have a piece to be cherished for a lifetime and wear and style into many different age demographics. Innovative textiles is another important key to round out her design practices, creating innovative textile from her remnant fabrics left over from each body; this considered approach to waste does not see these remnants as waste but rather as a space for innovation and interest.
Mona Mostafa
WHITEHOUSE INSTITUTE OF DESIGN
Instagram @monaa.mg
Avant-garde/Ready to wear
Finalist – MFW Student Collections Runway 2022
Originally from the United Arab Emirates, Mona Mostafa is a fashion designer with an eye for contemporary fashion and developing new silhouettes. Through exaggeration and the use of unconventional materials, Mona brings to the industry garments that evoke a sense of fun and can be experienced through many senses, such as touch, sight, or humour.
Design Practice
She has managed to find her aesthetic philosophy that translates local stories, deep-rooted cultural influences, and rituals into design craftsmanship. Mona embraces exploration by touching into an Avant-Garde style that manages to defy cliché and simultaneously fuels the eagerness to discover and rethink the unknown. Frumpish clothing, bizarre shoulders, and clashing archetypes are a few of her many design characteristics. As a designer, she wants to normalise wearing out-of-the-ordinary garments for all sizes, genders, and cultures. The ideas of what she creates are never limited to what the public has already seen or is used to seeing.
Ruth Hadinjoto
RMIT UNIVERSITY
Brand: Ruth Hadinjoto Instagram @ruthhadinjoto
Homemade textile and Cultural Appreciation
Finalist – Global Design Graduate Show 2022
Semi-finalist Redress Design Award 2022
Finalist – MFW Student Collections Runway 2021
Ruth Hadinjoto is a Melbourne-based emerging fashion designer. She graduated from RMIT University with a bachelor’s degree in fashion design (honours) in 2021. She is passionate about exploring her cultural heritage as a Chinese-Indonesian. She aims to cultivate traditional techniques and craftsmanship by fusing them with her interest in pattern-making, draping, and modern technology.
In 2022 she became the finalist for ‘Global Design Graduate Show in collaboration with Gucci’ by Artsthread in Sustainability Fashion/Textiles category for her graduate collection ‘Folklore’ and a semi-finalist for Redress Design Awards. She also had her graduate collection showcased during the Students’ Collection Runway in Melbourne Fashion Week in 2021.
Design Practice
Ruth’s practice explores her Indonesian cultural heritage through traditional batik textile printing merged with contemporary fashion design. Textiles in the collection use modern laser cutting technology to create stencils, which are used to apply wax, as substitutes for tjanting.
Through her textile development process, she also practices a sustainable approach through natural dyeing techniques. The motif she chose for her batik textile designs is called Megamendung, which was introduced by Chinese immigrants or peranakan who have been contributing to Indonesian cultures. Combining traditional craftsmanship with pattern-making and draping techniques, she aims to create unique pieces with her cultural identity through a sustainable and ethical process.
Tanya Bhatia
WHITEHOUSE INSTITUTE OF DESIGN
Instagram @tanya.bhatia_
Size inclusive
My name is Tanya Bhatia, and I am a fashion design student at the Whitehouse Institute of Design. Born in India, I arrived in Australia at a very young age and had the opportunity to grow up in the countryside. While I was able to completely immerse myself in the Australian native culture, my parents always managed to sustain a bit of the Indian roots while growing up. I discovered my passion for arts and design through the traditional art form of batik printing. My father owned a textile company back home, and during our yearly visits to India, I would get to see the centuries-old fabric printing techniques come to life through local artisans. Upon returning to Australia, I would always imagine ways in which I could introduce those colours, prints, and textiles into everyday western wear.
It was with this goal in mind that I chose to study fashion design, hoping to marry both my identities as an Indian-born Australian citizen and bring those designs to life.
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Design Practice
As someone of a multicultural background who is always facing constant competition between my Indian and Australian identity, it’s the idea of bringing those two together that is my core design inspiration. Indian textile has always had such a rich and vast historical journey; I always find myself hunting through historical books for references. Whether it be mythical history or real-life events, exploring the changes between then and now is the message I always explore in my collections.
Many of my designs merge traditional Indian prints with contemporary silhouettes to maintain a sense of my heritage while still remaining modern for the current and future fashion industry. I am motivated by creating inclusive fashion which inspires women of all shapes and sizes to feel comfortable in the clothes they wear and encourages them to celebrate the phenomenon that is the female figure.
Wilson Jedd Adams
WHITEHOUSE INSTITUTE OF DESIGN
Instagram @wilsonjeddadams
gender-inclusive and size-inclusive
Finalist – MFW Student Collections Runway 2022
Australian Wool Education Trust Award 2022
Wilson Jedd Adams is an emerging artist, fashion designer, and photographer. Primarily starting off in visual arts and intending to fuse the worlds of art, fashion and design across his work. During his Bachelor of Design (Fashion Design) at the Whitehouse Institute of Design, he has been fortunate to be in the Student Runway for Melbourne Fashion Week. His works draws from and reference’s queer themes. Throughout his studies, he has been in Melbourne Design Week and the recipient to Australian Woolmark Grant.
Design Practice
Wilson Jedd Adams design practice focuses on prints, upcycling, and drawing from elements of nightlife. His practice focuses on working with stretch, fusing elements of tailoring and volume. Throughout his work, there are elements of maximalism, clashing, and nods to grunge. The queer nightlife has been an integral influence on the creation of designs.
Winnie Zhang
WHITEHOUSE INSTITUTE OF DESIGN
Instagram @nalbi_studios
High-end ready to wear /gender fliuid
Hi, my name is Winnie, and I will be one of the designers showcasing at Melbourne Fashion Hub 2023. I’m a current fashion student in Melbourne, and I will be sharing my work under the name Nalbi Studios. As someone who grew up in a very culturally diverse area, I met many different kinds of people and was exposed to various niche subcultures.
From a young age, I loved to draw, paint and create things. I loved the genres of horror, thriller, and adventure, which fueled my imagination.
Creating takes time so I value inclusivity and the underlying beauty in things. Addressing the translation of emotions and care through my work is what’s important to me. The bond an object can have with a person is an experience only the individual knows. This emotion inspires me and is what I aim for. Coming from an Asian heritage, showcasing the beauty and richness of the tradition of the culture is a personal aspect I am exploring for the pieces that I’m preparing for the Hub. Through elements of traditional sewing processes and sourcing vintage materials to aid sustainability with minimal waste, I conjoin these elements with my personal ‘ kitsch’ design style.
Design Practice
Alongside colliding my design persona with a given concept, utilising the beauty of a material and expressing it on the body is apparent throughout my past projects through manipulations and tactile textures. Supporting seasonal change and invoking comfort on the skin, I focus on fabrications that are gentle to the touch, such as silks, wools, and other natural fibres.
The factors of gender fluidity with little to no size constrictions, which appeals even to an older generation, is apparent in traditional wear. Through androgynous silhouettes and layering pieces, I wish for people to have the freedom of comfort and express themselves through their day-to-day wear in a non-constrictive and fluid fashion.
Pursuing elegance and beauty should never be constricted and I hope that through the Hub I will be able to connect to individuals who seek accessibility, comfort, and beauty in their clothes.
Yongbin Zhang
RMIT UNIVERSITY (GRADUATE)
BRAND : Zybinsteel Instagram @zybinsteel
Gender & size inclusive/Costume design
WINNER: Emily McPherson Award 2022
MFW 2022 CAPSULES: EMPORIUM MELBOURNE
FINALIST: National Graduate Showcase at PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival 2022
FINALIST: Australian Fashion Foundation 2021.
Yongbin Zhang is an Australian fashion designer. Winner of the
‘Emily McPherson Award 2022’ and finalist for the ‘National
Graduate Showcase’ and the ‘Australian Fashion Foundation 2021. Zhang is a graduate of RMIT’s School of Fashion & Textiles renowned Masters in Fashion Design program. Her Master’s project explored the relationship between 2D and 3D, inspired by Chinese Peking Opera, culminating in the creation of her ‘Pure Spirit’ collection. Since graduating, Zhang has collaborated with various stylists and photographers. Her work in both design and production has been featured in Melbourne’s RISING Festival, The Wilds’ Program ‘The Siphonophores’; SAMSUNG’s ‘Walk the Night’ video, promoting the Galaxy S22 Series part of Melbourne Fashion Week, as well as RMIT’s showcase presentation to Catherine Martin, Oscar-winning costume and production designer, promoting her film Elvis 2022.
Design Practice
Experimenting with conceptual design, Pure Spirit plays with the relationship between 2D and 3D forms through a series of layered tulle objects in striking colours such as blue, red, black, and white. The collection is marked by expressive silhouettes that are enhanced by movement and the body – it’s a vibrant approach to design that celebrates positivity and inclusivity.
Yuen Stafford
RMIT UNIVERSITY
BRAND: Taxi xo Instagram @taxi.xo
Gender-inclusive/streetwear
My Name is Yuen Stafford (20 years old), and I am currently building my career in fashion practice. Over the years of building Interest through arts exploration, I felt best expressing myself through visual presentation, being fashion. Taking my interest to a serious level, building some years of sewing practice, I undertook the bachelor of fashion design at RMIT. Completing the first year in 2021, then in 2022 switching to the associates. Being exposed to true fashion practice and business, I felt inspired to build my portfolio within my own label (Taxi xo). With my passion being at an ultimate high and recently moving to Melbourne from Geelong. I want to take every chance/opportunity to truly promote my perspective of expression through my pieces.
Design Practice
Within my fashion practice, I love breaking down every small detail about a garment and re-innovating its construction whilst still staying true to its look. Re-purposing fabrics and accessories are guaranteed. Love exploring op-shops for existing garments and their materials. I approach my designs in a spontaneous way, loving the flow of instant ideas that appear as I’m a visual person. Spending days on a singular garment, I love the story to be told, how materials have flown from existing garments into my hands. I’m inspired by the past, heavily drawn to the ’90s/early 2000s of casual fashion wear. I’m all about proportions, which this era I feel I love. Baggy bottoms to slim top fittings, which I achieve throughout my pattern-making practice. There’s so much to be learned about previous generations of art, and showcasing it from a modern point of view
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