(feel free to ignore the 'Sunday' face in photo 2.) i was torn between which white furry + beautifully tactile monstrosity to adorn myself with for university one day last week; i ended up going for option #2.:
the following outfit was thrown together twelve minutes before attending a Fashion/Business talk by the fabulously talented Ana Diaz. she has just graduated from my current course of Business/Fine Arts (Fashion) at QUT, and has become wonderfully successful already, in being selected as the only Queensland graduate representative at the recent Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, and has been selected to collaborate and produce a small capsule collection with Sportsgirl - to be in store around this time next year. so exciting ! her talk was really intimate, held in the 'Glasshouse' space within the QUT Creative Precinct in the Kelvin Grove campus. she reflected on some of the reasoning and conceptual ideas behind her recent graduate collection; the final assessment task for the course, which takes the final year to put together from beginning to end. interestingly, Ana even constructed the shoes, more or less from scratch, that were used in her line.
i was reading a review of her show at LMFF and i found it interesting, and quite important to note, that the critic praised Ana for the wearability / commerical aspect of her garments - that a lot of graduates try too hard to be 'artsy' within their graduate collections, perhaps in the aim of gaining attention (which cannot be discounted / discredited, as Fashion is evidently an industry in which it is most definitely about WHO you know instead of, sadly, WHAT you know - at least in the beginning stages of a career).
Ana was wearing the olive green dress, as you can see here, and it was so incredibly detailed in person. so inspring.
my favourite part of the whole session, however, was just the whole sense of security that i further gained in regard to my current position. while Ana has obviously put a mind-blowing amount of time, hard hard hard work, and heart, into her work and final output; there is chance for a real career and for doors to be opened at the end of my degree. it is credible, and people have, and continue to, really go places after graduating. so reassuring.
i just remembered an app called Oblique Strategies that i had on my ex-ipod touch, years ago. it was a deck of cards that provided varying phrases / sentences / words that were created in order to prompt decision-making, and thoughts outside of the box. some favourites:
- a line has two sides
- accept advice
- don't be afraid of things because they're easy to do
- don't be frightened of cliches
- honour thy error as a hidden intention
- listen in total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly
- remember those quiet evenings
- use an unacceptable colour
- water
the following outfit was thrown together twelve minutes before attending a Fashion/Business talk by the fabulously talented Ana Diaz. she has just graduated from my current course of Business/Fine Arts (Fashion) at QUT, and has become wonderfully successful already, in being selected as the only Queensland graduate representative at the recent Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, and has been selected to collaborate and produce a small capsule collection with Sportsgirl - to be in store around this time next year. so exciting ! her talk was really intimate, held in the 'Glasshouse' space within the QUT Creative Precinct in the Kelvin Grove campus. she reflected on some of the reasoning and conceptual ideas behind her recent graduate collection; the final assessment task for the course, which takes the final year to put together from beginning to end. interestingly, Ana even constructed the shoes, more or less from scratch, that were used in her line.
i was reading a review of her show at LMFF and i found it interesting, and quite important to note, that the critic praised Ana for the wearability / commerical aspect of her garments - that a lot of graduates try too hard to be 'artsy' within their graduate collections, perhaps in the aim of gaining attention (which cannot be discounted / discredited, as Fashion is evidently an industry in which it is most definitely about WHO you know instead of, sadly, WHAT you know - at least in the beginning stages of a career).
Ana was wearing the olive green dress, as you can see here, and it was so incredibly detailed in person. so inspring.
my favourite part of the whole session, however, was just the whole sense of security that i further gained in regard to my current position. while Ana has obviously put a mind-blowing amount of time, hard hard hard work, and heart, into her work and final output; there is chance for a real career and for doors to be opened at the end of my degree. it is credible, and people have, and continue to, really go places after graduating. so reassuring.
i just remembered an app called Oblique Strategies that i had on my ex-ipod touch, years ago. it was a deck of cards that provided varying phrases / sentences / words that were created in order to prompt decision-making, and thoughts outside of the box. some favourites:
- a line has two sides
- accept advice
- don't be afraid of things because they're easy to do
- don't be frightened of cliches
- honour thy error as a hidden intention
- listen in total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly
- remember those quiet evenings
- use an unacceptable colour
- water
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