22.12.12

ipad, therefore i am

an embarrassingly long while ago (i can't believe it's taken me this long to put this post together), i was fortunate enough to score a reasonably last-minute ticket to the QUT fashion graduate show 'Chaos and Control'. from memory, i've only been able to attend twice so far (including this year's show), due to growing up outside of Brisbane..
this year was wildy inspiring. aside from the many awe-inspiring designers and collections, the whole environment continually made me feel giddy. when an award was handed out at the end of the evening, i got teary, even though i didn't know the girl in person ! i think that was partly due to a culmination of emotions throughout the entire night, which were sort of a result of the gradual realisation that in two shorts years i would be presenting my own pieces at a similar evening in the exact same room. totally surreal..

i found it quite difficult to get some good pictures of many of my favourites looks as i only had my phone camera with me, which didn't respond too well to the movement, distance and lighting. i also found the images that i did source elsewhere pretty poor in terms of captioning who the featured designers were.
so from memory (and i hope i have recounted all of these accurately), here were some of my favourite looks and guys / gals from the evening..

Georgia Grainger: Photobucket Georgia Grainger / Monique White: Photobucket Hayley Elsaesser / Georgia Grainger: Photobucket Paige Thorley: Photobucket Dobin Moon: Photobucket Dobin Moon: Photobucket Dobin Moon: Photobucket Dobin Moon / Hayley Elsaesser: Photobucket Austin Moro / Dobin Moon: Photobucket Austin Moro: Photobucket
i also particularly enjoyed Megan Pilon and Shea Cameron's womenswear pieces.

and a special note to some of the inspiration that i could find documented online:
Austin Moro - 'my collection plucks random ideas from the past and delivers them in a romantic and innocent way. i was inspired by The Life Aquatic, Bananas in Pyjamas, AndrĂ© Courrèges, and images of masculinity and seaside life from the 1960s. in fact, i wanted to look back solely at the 60s and only take the sweet things. we live in an imperfect world, but we don’t necessarily have to dress with that in mind. the overall effect is rather odd, but creates a world that empathises with people that do not fit into our own.'
Megan Pilon - 'a Second Skin revolves around the idea that reality and misrepresentation are ambiguous and dependent on the perceptions of the observer. the way people perceive themselves and the world can distort and pervert their sense of what is­ real. a 'second skin' – donned to conceal reality – became a theme in the collection, leading to a visual translation of contrasts and depiction of voyeuristic revelation.'

1 comment:

  1. how good was this show! so many inspiring designs!

    xx
    jess
    www.iamkonstantinos.com

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