Last Friday night (the 7th of October), eleven of our first year fashion design students participated in the 2011 Queensland Brides Design Awards student category – Calico Brides. The competition was held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre in South Bank, where the student paraded their bridal designs made from seven metres of calico alongside professional bridal designers gowns. AICD student Liezl Boshoff was awarded the ‘Highly Commended’ award for her bridal gown titled ‘Linea Houdini’. Watch the parade below:

Entrants in order of appearance: Angela Ashton, Tyler Giudes, Alana Schlener, Emma Harvey, Helena Hill, Sharnee Lamb, Belinda Masterson, Dorothy Sullivan, Liezl Boshoff, Brooke Campbell and Alice Newman.

Tania Tuetue

Cynthia Coetzer

Rheya Minard

Julian Napier

Sara Hultman

Thank-you to the following sponsors for their support!

• Sanctuary Cove
• Gold Coast Fashion Incubator
• Sass Design
• Brad Kay Photography
• Katz Management
• Division Model Management
• Boss Models
• Reeder Models
• VM Photography
• Advanced Gold Coast Photography
• Hot Chilli Pix
• Ivy Nine Designs
• The Little Cupcake and Cookie Shop
• Sushi Train
• Tobi Atkins DJ
• Watts Clean: 0432 447 362 / 0422 582 462

If you missed the parade last night, there is another parade tonight at Sanctuary Cove starting at 6.30pm! See you there!

For those of you who were unable to come, here is a little sneak peak of what you missed – unfortunately the video quality isn’t so wonderful, but hopefully we will be able to update you again soon with a better video and some photos from the night.

Another big thank-you to our sponsors – Light Space, Kylie’s Professional Mineral Makeup, Fredlein Films, Bj’s Sound and Lighting, Boss Models, Ally.d Skin and Body Centre, Mirror Mirror Agencies and more.

We hope you had a wonderful time and enjoyed the show!

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Australian Institute of Creative Design Certificate III in Styling students present the ‘For the Love of Fashion – Winter Chills and Fashion Thrills’ fashion parade featuring Brisbane’s finest up and coming designers at Light Space exhibition space on Friday the 3rd of June 2011 from 7.30pm. Tickets are $10 at the door and all proceeds go to the Ronald McDonald House Charities Australia. Come along and support Brisbane’s up and coming stylists and designers! Click here to go to the facebook event page.

Come along to support six of our Advanced Diploma of Applied Fashion Design and Technology students as they showcase their latest collections at Sanctuary Cove on Tuesday the 14th of June. The parade will showcase the designs of Rheya Minard, Sarah Hultman, Marie Gleeson, Cynthia Coetzer, Julian Napier and Tania Tuetue and will be featured as part of Sanctuary Cove’s Winter Festival from the 4th – 19th of June. Tickets are $5 at the door – all proceeds go to the Macleod Accomodation Support Service – Women’s Welfare. Please RSVP to evolvefashionshowcase@gmail.com or 0411 461 855. Click on the picture above to view the facebook event details and click here to visit the Evolve Fashion Showcase page for more information.

The competition invited entries from all over Australia to create a textile design for a Billabong Girls Bikini with the winner having their design sold as a Billabong limited edition piece through the Surf Stitch website. Out of hundreds of entries, Katie’s design was selected as one of the two finalists to go head to head in the ‘Bikini Showdown’ for the most votes on the website in the week leading up to the Design for Humanity event held in Sydney, with the final votes cast on the night by attendees via SMS.

Katie Styles with her winning swimwear design ‘Retro Excitement’

The Design for Humanity event, held at Oxford Art Factory in Sydney was a mix of fashion, art and music created to raise funds for UNICEF’s Pakistan Food Relief Appeal. The event featured musical performances from The Vines and Operator Please with 100% of proceeds from the ticket sales being donated.You can now purchase Katie’s design on the Surf Stitch website, but you must get in quick as there are only 50 available!

You can check out Katie’s winning design in the Unborn Treasure’s exhibition at the Sanctuary Cove Village Theatre on Tuesday the 14th of December from 5-7pm.

Come along to the ‘Unborn Treasures Parade and Exhibition’ at the Sanctuary Cove Village Theatre on Tuesday the 14th of December from 5 – 7pm to see the work of our Diploma of Fashion & Textiles Merchandising students! RSVP by the 3rd of December to unborntreasures@gmail.com.

On Friday the 8th of October, students from around Queensland presented their Bridal Designs in the Queensland Brides Design Awards student competition ‘Calico Brides’ at the Brisbane Convention Centre in Southbank. Students given the challenge of designing and making a wedding dress out of Calico, of which they are provided with 7 metres from Gardam’s Fabrics. Each year we see student’s present their innovative bridal designs to a panel of judges and an audience of soon-to-be brides and proud parents. This year we are proud to congratulate our student Jane Andrewartha for winning the Runner Up prize in this years competition with her gorgeous ‘Frills by Frills’ bridal gown.

Check out the video below of our student’s entries into the Queensland Brides Design Awards ‘Calico Brides’ Competition!

Congratulations Jane Andrewartha!!!

For those of you who missed it, you can check out the video of the parade below: