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LMFF Cultural Program and iSpyStyle present ‘Fashion Careers Workshop’

Saturday March 13, 10.30-1pm and 2.30-5pm

iSpyStyle Fashion Workshop is about being inspired, informed and connected. Join a group of industry panel experts who will share their knowledge and experiences, get realistic tips, advice and guidance about a career in fashion and learn how to network in an industry where its all about who you know.

Session 1 – Creative Careers in Fashion (Design, Styling and Visual Merchandising)
10am Registration for 10.30am – 1.00pm

Session 2 – Business Careers in Fashion (PR, Marketing, Media, Production and Events)
2pm Registration, 2.30pm-5.00pm

Speakers include: Philip Boon (Celebrity Stylist), Aimee McCallum (Freelance VM ‘Husk Stores'), Kate McKibbin (Managing Editor, Drop Dead Gorgeous Daily) Jade Roberts (PR Manager, Sportsgirl), Rachel Tuffery (Director, Pronto Productions) and Cathryn Wills (Creative Director, Mimco). 

Cost: $55 all day or $35 per session (Pre Sale Only) Not including booking fee
Venue: Level 5, Whitehouse Institute of Design, 672 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Bookings: ispystyle.net

LMFF Cultural Program and Ethical Clothing Australia present ‘Growing Ethical Fashion’

Consumer awareness and concern with sustainability and ethical production is Increasing. According to Mobium Group (2008), the consumer market for natural, healthy and sustainable products and services in Australia is expected to reach $22 billion by 2010. But what is an ethical fashion garment and how do consumers and fashions houses ensure that the products they are making or purchasing have minimal impact on the earth and its people?

The presenters will offer practical advice and resources for fashion designers wanting to tap into the growing ‘ethical’ market and also help consumers navigate their way through the sea of sustainable products on the market.

Speakers Include: Emer Diviney (National Coordinator, Ethical Clothing Australia), Steve Tighe (Futurist & Director) Chasing Sunrises, Karen Rieschieck (Owner, Alice Euphemia), Sue Thomas (Lecture, RMIT Fashion), Andreas Skimkus (Senior Industry Advisor, Council of Textiles and Fashion Industries Australia), Nick Bez (Director, Mobium Group), Cameron Neil (Operations Manager Australia, Fairtrade), Alasdair MacKinnon (Consultant Brand Developer, Otto & Spike), Michele O’Neil (National Secretary, Textile Clothing & Footwear Union of Australia) and Patricia Brien (Teacher Fashion in Sustainability, RMIT University).

Cost: Free

Venue: Guildford Lane Gallery,

Booking: (03) 9419 0222 or roque@ethicalclothingaustralia.org.au

Image Credit: Image courtesy of Ethical Clothing Australia

LMFF Cultural Program and the National Gallery of Victoria present ‘Dressing the Goddess’

Sunday March 21, 2-4pm

From the motif of beautiful garments in the myths of the love goddess Aphrodite to the use of drape in contemporary fashion design, join us for a discussion on dressing the goddess, from ancient times until now.

Including talks by: Paola Di Trocchio, Assistant Curator, International Fashion and Textiles; Gwendolynne Burkin, Designer and Dr. Heather Sebo, Historian.

Cost: $27.00 Adult / $18.00 NGV Member / $21.00 Concession / $15.00 Student
Venue: Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, NGV International, 180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
Bookings: (03) 8662 1555

LMFF Cultural Program and The Australian Poetry Centre present ‘Poetry in Fashion’

Saturday March 20, 2.00pm-4.00pm

A panel of poets, wordsmiths, writers, designers and fashion folk discussion, debating and dissecting poetry ‘in fashion’ and poetry in fashion.

Speakers Include: Cassandra Atherton (Poet and fashion aficionado), Emilie Zoe Baker (Poet, performer and radio presenter), Jenny Bannister (Designer), Sarah Gale (Judge, Project Runway and founder, Fashionista Business Consultancy group), Lisa Gorton (Poet for the new clothing line A Stitch in Rhyme), Amber Renae (Editor, X and Y Magazine), Alicia Sometimes (Poet, producer and presenter of RRR's Aural Text) and Mikala Tai (L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival).

Cost: Free
Venue: The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Bookings: http://www.trybooking.com/Booking/BookingEventSummary.aspx?eid=2175

LMFF Cultural Program and the State Library of Victoria present ‘Fashioning Melbourne’

Thursday March 4, 6.00pm-7.15pm

Join a panel of fashion leaders, as they reflect on past and current fashion trends in Melbourne. Featuring fashion luminary Robert Buckingham, The Age fashion editor Janice Breen-Burns, Debra Mar of Blacklisted (available at The Fashion Workroom), Sener Besim, GM of Scanlan & Theodore and JC Lloyd-Southwell d'Anvers, co-proprietor of Madam Virtue & Co.

Cost: Free
Venue: Experimedia (Entry 1, Swanston Street) State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Bookings: (03) 8664 7099 or bookings@slv.vic.gov.au

LMFF Cultural Program and Guildford Lane Gallery presents ‘Fashion in Images’

LMFF Cultural Program and Guildford Lane Gallery presents ‘Blogging Fashion’

Saturday March 13, 1.00pm-2.00pm

Explore the world of online fashion. Come and meet the people behind the blogs and websites that are leading the way in Melbourne's online fashion community. Whether you are thinking of starting an online store or want to hear how garments get profiled on websites this is the forum discussion for you.

Speakers include: Alistair McCann (melbournestreetfashion.com), Angie Réhe (patsyfox.com), Phoebe Montague (ladymelbourne.com.au) and Nathan Sampimon (lovebento.com.au).

Cost: $8
Venue: Guildford Lane Gallery
Bookings: (03) 9642 0042

LMFF Cultural Program and Craft Victoria present ‘Craft as Fashion’

LMFF Cultural Program and I SPY 2 present ‘I Spy The Start of Something’

Wednesday March 17 at 6pm.

Get behind the work of leading fashion creatives and discover the inspiration at the heart of their forward-thinking designs in this L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival forum. Presented by Chimere Cisse and Simon Winkler, the curators behind the fashion photography exhibition series, I SPY. Come hear how the I SPY series was created and the inspirations behind the images that make up the second in the tri-annual series.

Each of the exhibitions images offer an insight into the ideas, colours and compositions that inspire the work of contemporary designers Yeojin Bae (Yeojin Bae), Dhini Pararajasingham (Dhini), Monika Tywanek (TV), Kate Rodgers (Dazed & Confused/Conde Nast) and Karla Way (Karla Way). This public talk allows even greater access to the creative process involved in these designers' work, discussing their original designs from conceptualisation to realisation.

Cost: Free

Venue: Seminar Room, City Library, 253 Flinders Lane Melbourne 3000

Bookings:libraryevents@melbourne.vic.gov.au or (03) 9658 9500

Image Credit: Image courtesy of Kate Rodgers.

LMFF Cultural Program and RMIT Gallery presents the Creative Director of Issey Miyake: Dai Fujiwara

Wednesday March 17, 6.00pm-8.00pm

Dai Fujiwara the Creative Director of ISSEY MIYAKE Creative Room will speak about A-POC, the ISSEY MIYAKE brand and his recent works at a special public lecture.

Cost: $20.00
Venue: RMIT Storey Hall
Bookings:  (03) 9925 1717