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The August Issue (FASHION / STYLE special edition)

It wasn't until about two weeks ago when I decided to do a FASHION / STYLE special edition focus for the Brisbane Creative Industries eNews.  But it makes sense, right?  There's the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival, Follow the Fashion, there are all these related events surrounding the industry (see August Highlights ) and I somehow manage to find myself talking to groups and individuals that focus on fashion.  

On the left hand side, you will see Twitter accounts and Facebook groups that are all related to each other in what they do in the industry!

Thanks to the inspirational events around Brisbane which have contribute to this eNews' fashion focus, I have decided that this may be the start of a monthly concept for BCI.  Stay tuned!

xx

Hannah Suarez

Brisbane Creative Industries

Can't see the Google Calendar? Please drop by at www.briscreativeindustries.com for the full list.

August Highlights

4 Designs on Fashion

"Panelists include QUT's Head of Fashion Wendy Armstrong, Fashion lecturer and industry professional Kay McMahon and Fashion PhD student Nadia Buick.

8 Eco-fashion with Margot Riley

"Dress historian Margot Riley presents this workshop, showing you how to create your own fabulous vintage wardrobe and explaining the trend of wardrobe remixing."

13 Institute of Modern Art: Fashion Focus

"Fashion collector Gene Sherman (Director, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation) and Bonnie English (Associate Professor, Art and Design Theory, Griffith University) discuss Japanese fashion design."

18 QUT School of Design and the State Library: Interior Design and Fashion with Kirsti Simpson and Robyn Healy

"Kirsti Simpson is Principal Interior Designer and was Queensland Government Smart State Designer of the Year 2007...Curator of fashion cultures; Robyn Healy’s practice engages with public collections and contemporary fashion trends."

19 Reverse Garbage: Jewellery making using salvaged computer components

"Learn how to make beautiful wearable art- necklaces, bracelets and pendants using a range of discarded computer parts and plastics."

20 Design Institute of Australia Bubble and Speak Series: Thea Basiliou (Blonde Venus), Stewart Russel (Spacecraft Australia)

"Thea Basiliou is the owner of cult fashion boutique Blonde Venus in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley. She studied fashion at Mt Gravatt College of TAFE before opening Blonde Venus in the CBD’s Elizabeth Arcade in 1990."

23-28 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival

"Timed to coincide with the arrival of Queensland’s strongest fashion season, the Festival will run from Sunday 23 through until Friday 28 August 2009 and will feature an exciting array of top local, national and international design talent, events and parades, accessible to a rapidly growing consumer audience."

25 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival: "Fashion After Hours" - Eccentricity & Creative Thinking

"Panelists include: Thea Basilou, owner of Blonde Venus, Alison Kubler, freelance curator & writer, Meghan Carlsen, filmmaker, Clare Press, writer and designer: Mrs Press"

26 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival: "Fashion After Hours" - Curating & Collecting Fashion

"Panellists include: Amber Long, Director, Jean Brown, Roger Leong, Curator, International Fashion & Textiles National Gallery of Victoria, Frances Parker/ Miranda Wallace, Co curators of Easton Pearson, Gallery of Modern Art, Suzi Vaughan, QUT"

27 Brisbane Fashion Industry August Meetup

Highlight // Red Eclipse Photography

The High Road

High Fashion has been in vogue throughout the international fashion scene for a number of years and its finally hit Australia. With Melbourne and Sydney fashion already resembling this global style, it seems that Brisbane is hot on their stiletto heels. But why, we ask, has Brisbane been struggling to compete? Is it a smaller market? A lack of talent? We think not! Brisbane boasts internationally renowned designers as well as talented newcomers ready to climb the national and international fashion ladder. Brisbane is a brewing pool of talented fashion professionals, from designers to photographers.

Ready to snap up Brisbane’s progress is a talented duo of photographers, Jacquie Green and Daniel Sangermani of Red Eclipse Photography. This pair are on a mission to help Brisbane get up to speed with the rest of the fashion world through their creativity and innovative visions for beauty and fashion photography. This high fashion-oriented style of photography has recently gained a wide audience, reputation and recognition in Melbourne and Sydney and its time for Brisbane to jump on the bandwagon!

In a fairytale story, Jacquie and Daniel met in 2007 at the Mt Coot-tha Lunar Eclipse (hence 'Red Eclipse Photography'...romantic isn't it) sparking an instant connection which led to the opening of their photographic studio early last year.

The pair are now on the up and up, impressing industry heavyweights at their own 'A Night of Fashion' held at the Alhambra Lounge in 2008, while shoots in Amsterdam in December did wonders for their international reputation. In 2009 Red Eclipse has been capturing events wherever fashion was at it best as well building successful relationships with Brisbane’s best modeling agencies, most renowned designers and other fashion professionals.

So keep an eye out, if you notice some changes in Brisbane's photography scene in the coming years, it'd be a safe bet to assume the Red Eclipse team was part of it.

Written by Murray Wenzel

[Hannah: Congratulations to Red Eclipse for being hired by Napoleon to be their official backstage photographers for the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival!]

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