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2011 Calico Brides Competition

Sonya — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:27:13 +0000

Liezl Boshoff’s Design ‘Linea Houdini’ – winner of the 2011 Highly Commended Award

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.

Julian’s Future Fashion has Electric Style

Admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:07:19 +0000

Congratulations to our Diploma of Fashion Design student Julian Napier for his win at the ‘Electric Playground Club Couture’ fashion competition last night! The competition was held by the newest nightclub venue in the Valley (Brisbane) – Electric Playground, their mission is to evolve the nightclub cuture in Brisbane and with that theme in mind, the brief for the competition was to design your view of club wear for the year 2050!

Julian, along with classmate Masa Gracanic were selected as finalists in the competition after submitting their designs in to be judged in late June. Selected finalists finished garments were then paraded at the Electric Playground on Thursday the 22nd of July to a panel of judges including fashion and beauty editor at the Sunday Mail – Kellie Alderman, Francis Leon designer Katy Lysaught, founder of the Brisbane Clothing Exchange – Cassie Wood, award winning designer & retailer Daniel Alexander and moel booker from Tamblyn Models – Courtney Smith.

Julian won a fantastic prize including $500 cash from Electric Playground, $250 credit towards fabrics from Spotlight, a portfolio photoshoot with Nick Art and Photography worth over $500 and will have the opportunity to have his design featured in the front window of the Daniel Alexander Couture store in Fortitude Valley for two weeks in August!

Little Green Dress Winners!

Admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:42:06 +0000

Check out this article about our past Diploma of Fashion Design Student Nicole Walker on GoldCoast.com.au Coast Confidential: http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2010/06/15/228191_gossip-news.html

Nicole won the Wearable Art category at the Little Green Dress Competition Final held at Kurrawa Park in Broadbeach on Sunday the 13th of June.

The Winner of the Student category and Overall Competition Winner was our Diploma of Fashion Design student Masa Gracanic! Our students Cynthia Coetzer and Grace Denniss were also finalists in the Student category of the competition!

http://greendayout.gecko.org.au/whats-on/little-green-dress-eco-fashion-competition/

Designing a Fashion Career Winner

Admin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:25:34 +0000

Congratulations to Renee Enoka who won the ‘Designing a Fashion Career’ program that we ran for the National Retailers Association Business GC Fashion Incubator on the Gold Coast. Renee was announced as the overall winner at the Australian Fashion Design Awards gala dinner and has won a scholarship worth $2000 provided by AMP Capital shopping centres to study fashion! For more information visit: http://www.nra.net.au/businessgcfashionincubator.html

Students in class at the Gold Coast Fashion Incubator