Lee-Anne Raymond – Painting 10A – are the burqa and nica a matter of fashion or choice? #Melbourne #painters

isochronos metamorphosis with nicab by lee anne raymond

Lee-Anne Raymond currently exhibiting in a group show Painting 10A, at the Brunswick Street Gallery #Melbourne. A range of artists will be represented, all are painters. Lee-Anne has created 4 new works challenging the misconception that the burqa and nicab are a matter of fashion or choice providing the wearer with security and empowerment.

Painting 10A
Until 14th July, 2010
Brunswick Street Gallery
2/322 Brunswick St
Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia

www.leeanneart.com
Humanist Transhumanist Catalogue

HiGH ViZ Vogue – Bike #Fashion Jam #Melbourne #bicycles

DIY cycling gear workshop to keep the cops and the fashion police happy

11:00 – 13:00
Saturday 19 June 2010
Coburg Library
Cnr Victoria & Louisa Streets, Coburg

Craft Cartel, alarmed by sights of fluoro lycra clad cyclists and equally aghast at the thought of coming a cropper while partaking in our favourite form of transport, are proud to present a solution: High Viz Vogue, a DIY bike fashion workshop.

This event, part of the Moreland City Council Coburg Carnivale, invites members of the public to adapt helmets and other clothing bits they’d like to make roadway and catwalk friendly, or to start from scratch using supplied materials. Local designers Miss Viz will be on hand to provide guidance and there will be displays of innovative bike fashion solutions such as designer Ann Maher’s ‘biker bustle’.

The event will culminate in a fashion parade with prizes supplied by Crumpler and will be followed by a celebratory ride through Moreland to parade the new hip gear led by Sugar Spokes all female bike crew.

“We don’t think riders should have to choose between having a sore body and being an eye-sore,” says Cartel co-founder Casey Jenkins, “You can look hot while you’re cycling and still keep yourself safe, we’re going to show you how.”

Free! No experience necessary! All materials supplied. Ace prizes to be won.

Produced by Ann Maher, Rahne Widarsito & Casey Jenkins

Media contact: Casey Jenkins, casey(at)craftcartel(dot)com ph.0439 354 560

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Melbourne Craft Cartel
www.craftcartel.com
for crafty types who don’t dig rose-scented doilies

The iDress & iTee – iPad compatible iClothing – designs by Davina Reichman & Luke Staley

iPad Fashion Clothes

Now the iPad has launched, iClothing innovates with fashion and technology by bringing the two together with a flair of style. Ordering the iDress and iTee is easy and online at www.iclothing.com.au.

The Unisex iTee comes in white and black. The protective almost invisible front pouch store and carries your iPad with you on the move. Perfect for men and women with a digital lifestyle. Made from 100% cotton jersey, the simple tee has never been so technologically compatible.

The iDress is a black, above the knee, short sleeved dress with a built in protected pocket to carry and store your iPad without hindering your movement or style. Constructed out of durable cotton sateen, the iDress is the perfect work/day dress, comfortable and iPad compatible.  From the office to the cocktail lounge, read your iPad comfortably on your way to the next party in town.

“iTee & iDress feature reinforced padded pouches which are comfortable and almost unnoticeable. Perfect storage for the iPad.” says Davina Reichman, Managing Director, iClothing.

“Developed with the digital lifestyle of Apple lovers in mind, they are 100% Australian made and designed.” says Luke Staley, Creative Director.

ABOUT DAVINA REICHMAN
Davina Reichman, Managing Director of iClothing and Fashion Entrepreneur, developed the unique concept of iClothing. Davina graduated in 2006 as a Master of Business Administration (MBA), specialising in Strategic Management (UTS) and holds a Bachelor of Computer Science (USyd). Davina is the Managing Director of Being Born Again Couture – www.beingbornagain.net

ABOUT LUKE STALEY
Luke Staley is the Creative Director of iClothing and the founder of Alconleigh. Alconleigh’s design philosophy is grounded in timeless elegance, luxury and wearability. It’s for women of spirit – women who are not afraid to be women.

Angie Réhe brings Patsyfox to Guildford Lane for L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival

Patsy Fox 2010

As part of the 2010 L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, the gallery will host an array of fashion-related works from some of Melbourne’s most talented artists, designers and photographers.

Angie Réhe has been working in the fashion industry since graduating in the late eighties. After years of travelling the world and designing for some of Australia’s favourite fashion brands, she now mixes freelance design and illustration with lecturing, web-based reporting for essential fashion industry news site WGSN.com, maintaining her illustrated blog www.patsyfox.com, and designing cards and stationery.

Angie’s illustrations will appear during Melbourne’s Fashion Festival at Guildford Lane Gallery against a backdrop of fashion events such as forums and launches, and alongside the work of industry contemporaries. Including portraits of the fashionable, the famous and the just plain fabulous, her work will be on display from the 10th – 21st March 2010, with an opening event to be held on the 11th.

New for 2010 and launching during LMFF at the gallery is The Patsyfox Drawing Salon, evening classes in fashion illustration for both beginners and advanced.

Illustrator and designer Angie Réhe brings the beautiful work of her alias, blogger Patsyfox, to Guildford Lane Gallery this March.
www.patsyfox.com
www.guildfordlanegallery.org
www.lmff.com.au

GUILDFORD LANE GALLERY
20-24 Guildford Lane, Melbourne 3000 Australia
PO Box 12179 a’Beckett St., Melbourne 3008
Ph 61 3 9642 0042 Mobile 0422 442 363

New York, Threading the Needle, The Future of Fashion Design Conference

NFashion Research Institute invites you to attend Threading the Needle: The Future of Fashion Design, the first virtual world-based fashion design conference in history.

Fashion design is changing rapidly in response to many factors. The recent economic collapse, coupled with a coming petroleum crisis and a wave of new technologies with a global emphasis have sent ripples through the industry. Young designers and design students are faced with an array of choices for their careers, many of which weren’t even an option a few years ago.

Threading the Needle gathers eight fashion industry thought leaders to present their views on a range of topics designed to help a global audience of new designers and fashion designers ‘thread their needle’ and launch their careers. And as anyone who has ever had hand sewn a hem knows, there is a trick to threading a needle.

Join in on Thursday, December 3rd from 8 am – 5 pm EDT at this free conference for fashion design students and new designers.
Details, etc: at Shengri La Fashion Institute Blog

Pic of the day, That Hussy killed Domo.

Source Picture is Unrelated

DIY Project: Window Films

“…using contact paper and a white paint pen, i’ve created some decorative window films that are easy to change, replace, move, etc. if you don’t feel super comfortable with your drawing skills, you can easily print out images or text and trace them onto the contact paper…

What You’ll Need:
1. contact paper, clear (this is for lining drawers, you can find it at hardware or drug stores)
2. ruler
3. scissors or exacto
4. paint pen
5. tape…”

For the complete instructions and examples, visit Design Sponge.

A bespoke season of film dedicated to Marc Jacobs at ACMI

Drag queens, porn stars, washed-up rock stars, A-list fashion personnel and D-list celebrities - Marc Jacobs has a coterie of followers that hang onto him tightly, despite his insistence that he’s not cool. The designer who brought grunge to the catwalk is celebrating 25 years in the fashion biz, and continues to successfully operate mostly on intuition, Moxie soft drink and a dose of self-induced terror.

To applaud the man behind the superbrand ACMI has hooked up with Melbourne Spring Fashion Week 2009 to weave together Marc Jacobs on Film,  dedicated to the designer’s career, creations and collaborations. The season kicks off with the Australian premiere of Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton. Director Loïc Prigent turns his camera lens towards the designer extraordinaire and Creative Director of luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton just in time for the birth of the handbag to beat all handbags – made up entirely of earlier Vuitton handbags!

The four screenings of this film will be introduced by festival guest Bryanboy who came to notoriety for his cybermusings on all things fashion. The internationally-adored superblogger is here to brag about the ‘BB Bag’ created in his honour for the Fall 2008-09 Collection by Marc Jacobs.

Saturday 29 August – Sunday 6 September 2009
Full $13 Concession $10
3 Session Package: Full $30 Concession $24

Full film program at ACMI.

Dare to wear tights with printed veins?

These printed tights were imagined and made by Studio m + o (Olivier Gonnet and Marion Dubois, a French designers duo behind the brand “Les Queues de Sardines”). And even so, fashionable or not, could you wear tights with printed bugs on? Or tights with printed veins on? Where’s the limit between accessory and main fashion statement?

Source: Stylefrizz

A Stitch In Time – The History Of Frocking Up – Comedy @ Trades

Got some fashion skeletons in your closet? A Stitch In Time – The History Of Frocking Up is a sartorially satirical look at the crimes hidden in all of our wardrobes, from satin to sequins, lame to lamé this show is a must for
the fashion tragics amongst us all.

It is time to put on your finery as Miss Kat and Miss Jane take you on an adornment adventure about frocks, furious frills and flares. This spectacular spectacle is  From inventions to invasions, pop music and economic crashes plunging lower than Pammy’s neckline, this show will take a peek into how it impacted what people chose to wear on their sleeves (or just perhaps how to wear their sleeves).

Finding the funnier moments and ghosts of fashion past, A Stitch In Time will take you on a vibrant and entertaining exploration of what drove hemlines up and back down again; and whether the clothes maketh the man (or woman) and what made the man make the clothes.

To book: http://www.comedyattrades.com.au/program_guide/show_133/

Runs April 1st – 12th, 2009