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Media Alert: RMIT Master of Fashion (Design) showcase at MPavilion - RMIT
13 Nov 2018 1:21 PM
Media Alert: RMIT Master of Fashion (Design)
showcase at MPavilion
WHAT
A collaborative
presentation of the 2018 RMIT Master of Fashion (Design) students’ mastery of
advanced fashion. Each designer will show their collection in response to the
unique MPavilion architecture and site in an immersive experience. The event is
a celebration of a culturally diverse, critically and aesthetically potent
group of RMIT Master of Fashion (Design) graduates.
WHEN
Thursday 15 November
4.00pm: Students and models
depart from RMIT to take the tram to MPavilion
6.00 – 8.00pm: Presentation
at MPavilion
WHERE
MPavilion: Queen
Victoria Gardens, St Kilda Road, Melbourne
NB: As has become the
custom, the students and 32 models wearing their creations will travel by tram
from RMIT along Swanston Street and St. Kilda Road to MPavilion, St Kilda Road.
WHO
The
three Master of Fashion (Design) graduates are:
Amanda-Agnes Nichols
Prior to commencing her Masters of Fashion
(Design) at RMIT, Mandy has worked as a costume cutter with film credits
including Baz Luhrmann’s Australia and The Great Gatsby. In 2015 she received
the Churchill Fellowship to further develop expertise in corsetry and couture
technique, working in the Parisian ateliers of Givenchy and Schiaparelli.
Mandy’s unique training within these worlds of feature film costume and haute
couture have developed a multilayered practice that interrogates the complex
connections and intentions between them.
Benjamin Garg
Benjamin
Garg hails from the small town of Mudki in Punjab, India. His fashion practice
revolves around an interest in traditional Indian textiles, particularly those
of the Punjab and Rajasthan region. Through utilising and developing upon these
textiles, Benjamin reconsiders the traditional context and often quite
specific applications. His unique approach to colour, layering and silhouette
stem from his belief in clothing as a joyous expression with strong links to
other traditional Indian artistic expressions such as dance, theatre and music.
Rutika Parag Patki
Rutika’s
approach to design stems from a personal interest in conserving values and
traditions of her beloved India and an overwhelming awareness of her own
generation’s rapid departure from these. Rather than dragging these traditions
into her practice and the twenty-first century, Rutika dissects them and
their multilayered functions, attempting to re-imagine within a contemporary
context how they can sit within the way she perceives contemporary India. Her current
focus is the hand-me-down saris, passed through the beautiful matriarchs of her
family. For Rutika, these saris embody so much of these traditions and values
in a single piece of woven cloth.
Image 1: Design by Rutika Parag Patki, 2018, Photograph by Phebe Schmidt
Image 2, Benjamin Garg, 2018, Photographer_Phebe Schmidt.jpg
Image 1 Rutika Patki 2018 Photographer_Phebe Schmidt.jpg