DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
These include a positive envisioning of future contexts for fashion and dress; ethical concern with how we engage with the materiality of fashion; recognition of the ways fashion and dress is embedded within the very fabric our culture; an active awareness of the craft of garment creation and the reality of fashion and dress, as an intimate and embodied phenomenon, and the ways that fashion is enacted and performed on the body. We are committed not only to the visual and experimental, but to the very materiality of clothing and textiles. Students draw on their own experience of how they see the world and how they can envision and thus construct a future for fashion through their work.
These projects engage with themes of cultural heritage of familial weaving practices, pre-covid experiences in nightclubs and being a part of a community of local performers, masculinity as intimacy and vulnerability of touch, capturing the joy of dress-up as a child or the absurdity of red-carpet and formal dressing.
The work of our honours students is founded on rich experimentation, iteration, and research, cutting through personal and cultural histories, the work is as diverse as the designers themselves, focused on change and upheaval of some long-held fashion systems.
Alyssa Choat, Course Director
CREDITS
UTS Fashion Staff: Dr Cecilia Heffer
Creative Director: Alix Higgins
Photographer and Videographer: Teel Studios / Liam Mahoney + Tom Fletcher
Beauty: Sean Brady
Hair: Fernando Miranda
Talent: Molly, Charli, Jordan, Ethan, Reem @ Priscillas
Assistants: Matilda Park, Bridget Matison and Jasmine Pearce
Sound: Joan Banoit
Website: Jennifer Wen & Xavier Carmo