Finding Fashion Forum

Talking identity, place and style in Australian Fashion! Join us for three conversations with Brisbane’s leading fashion designers, makers and academics as they explore fashion’s role in shaping a distinctly Australian culture. Presented in collaboration with Brisbane’s The Stitchery Collective, learn how bold style can create identity, why fashion connects communities and how makers innovate for a bright and sustainable future.

Featuring iconic Australian fashion designers Akira Isogawa, Pamela Easton and Lydia Pearson (Easton Pearson) and Gail Sorronda; fashion writer Glynis Traill-Nash (Fashion Editor, The Australian) and fashion trailblazers James Bartle (Outland Denim), Shannon Brett (LORE), Jackie Ruddock (The Social Outfit) and Rachel Burke (@imakestagram) in this special fashion event.

Sat 2 Mar 2019
1pm – 2pm | 3.30pm – 5pm | 6pm – 7.30pm
Varied prices, bookings required
Dome Lounge

BOOK ALL THREE SESSIONS:
https://museumofbrisbane.rezdy.com/273517/finding-fashion-seminar-package

SESSION 1: What’s in Fashion?
1pm – 2.30pm | $25 ($18 conc.)

Curious about how you get Beyonce to wear your next design? Lydia Pearson of Easton Pearson, Gail Sorronda and Rachel Burke [@imakestagram] will look at how rapid changes in technology, accessibility and society have influenced the way fashion is conceptualised, created and consumed.

From inspiration to Instagram, pattern to runway, hear directly from the designers how their creative visions have adapted and grown with the shifting cultural landscape … and how big influencers might just end up wearing your designs.

BOOK SESSION 1
https://museumofbrisbane.rezdy.com/290862/finding-fashion-seminar-session-one-fashion-in-context

SESSION 2: Fashion as Change Agent
3.30pm – 5pm | $25 ($18 conc.)

For any conscious fashion consumer, this session will ask the big questions … How is fashion connected to the world and accountable for its impact? What are the opportunities for changing consumer and producer behaviours? How does fashion revitalise communities? Join academic and researcher on ethical fashion Lauren Soloman as she talks to founder of Outland Denim James Bartle, Jackie Ruddock CEO of The Social Outfit and Shannon Brett creator of pioneering label LORE.

James will share how his denim brand is providing ethical employment and training to women rescued from human trafficking and exploitation in Cambodia.

Shannon will share her experience and knowledge as a designer who engages in respectful collaborative design processes and a nuanced understanding of intellectual property.

Jackie will explore how an ethical trading social enterprise can provide employment and training in the fashion industry to people from refugee and new migrant communities.

BOOK SESSION 2:
https://museumofbrisbane.rezdy.com/290863/finding-fashion-seminar-session-two-fashion-as-change-agent

SESSION 3: Fashion Icons
6pm – 7.30pm | $25 ($18 conc.)

Join Glynis Traill-Nash for a conversation with celebrated Australian designers Lydia Pearson, Pamela Easton and Akira Isogawa. Together they will explore the concept of fashion legacy and how design aesthetics are shaped and developed by culture, context and place. Hear Easton Pearson and Akira reflect on the curatorial process to create major Museum retrospectives of their work. With extensive collections spanning season after season, uncover the forms and techniques that built the fashion language of these enduring brands.

BOOK SESSION 3:
https://museumofbrisbane.rezdy.com/290864/finding-fashion-seminar-session-three-fashion-in-retrospect

Image: LORE. Photographed by Shannon Brett.