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

Tweet This Post 

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

Tweet This Post 

Pic of the day, That Hussy killed Domo.

Source Picture is Unrelated

Tweet This Post 

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.

Tweet This Post 

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.

Tweet This Post 

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

Tweet This Post 

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

Tweet This Post 

The Fox and the Crow at Guildford Lane Gallery

At the end of February, Guildford Lane Gallery will feature three artists who place meticulous craftsmanship, aestheticism and a hint of fantasy, at the heart of their work. From February 25 to March 8 2009 first time collaborators Nicole Collins, Amina McPhee and Rhiannon Smith will present The Fox and the Crow, an installation that follows their exploration into the evolution of garment design. Using traditional techniques in unexpected ways, this exhibition entitled The Fox and the Crow moves in a strange, poetic fantasy-world.

The Fox and the Crow, specifically designed for Guildford Lane Gallery, is infused with sculptural characteristics that transform garments into fascinating installation pieces. Inspiration first came to being through Aesop’s fable The Fox and the Crow and the inherent characteristics of animals and creatures of fantasy. These fables display inherent idealistic notions and have a large back-catalogue of visual representation, which have been translated into three-dimensional, garment inspired objects.

Moving well beyond fashion, style and adornment, this constructed realm will include visuals from Chris Cork, James Harmsworth, Dimitri Kalagas and Michael Watson. The visual imagery creates a narrative to support the garments, mixed with a sense of the surreal and absurd, promising to deliver an exhibition of wonder and delight.

WHEN:
Exhibition runs February 25 - 8 March 2009
Opens Thursday, February 26 from 6:00pm
12 - 9 Wed to Fri, 12 - 5 Sat & Sun

WHERE:
Guildford Lane Gallery
20 - 24 Guildford Lane
Melbourne 3000

ADMISSION IS FREE

Tweet This Post