2025 GRADUATES
FDS proudly presents the graduate collections of the Bachelor of Fashion Design’s class of 2025.
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INDUSTRY SHOW 25 November 2025 | 6:30 PM Running Order
2025 GRADUATES
Alana Grigaliunas
From a top shapeshifting into a dress … what else can it turn into?
Griga is more than a brand — it’s a movement. A movement to recycle, recover, and reconnect with the planet. To redefine the art of versatility and cultivate a community where creativity and consciousness coexist.
The brand's core embodies comfort, slow fashion, perspective, versatility and innovation. Minimal in form. Transformative in spirit. Imaginative by design. It’s also a provocation in modularity.
Alana Grigaliunas designs garments that evolve with the wearer. Each piece merges minimalist form with personal expression — designed to be reshaped, reattached, and reimagined. Adapting to trends without overproducing.
Every design is an invitation to play — to adapt, combine, and discover new forms of self-expression.
The debut collection, ‘La Madre Naturaleza’, channels inspiration through textures, roots, and layers of the earth — capturing the raw energy, and ever-changing spirit of nature herself. A dress takes new form in old yarn, unravelled, respun, re-knitted to mimic the shapes of branches. Upcycled fast fashion is puzzled back to patchwork. Each piece embodies the pulse of the forest: grounded yet fluid, powerful yet nurturing. Through organic and minimalist forms, and modular construction, the collection explores human creation and the natural world.
Amaliah Muir
MALI is about a celebration of creativity and self-expression. Designed by Amaliah Muir, MALI captures the magic of dressing up and becoming anyone you wish to be. Designed to empower an exploration of identity, expression of individuality and reconnection to your inner child. MALI honours the art of craft and the beauty of conscious creation.
This collection draws on memories of a childhood home, centred around a glowing fish tank and a lifelong connection to water. The ocean, a place of comfort and belonging, shaped early years and continues to inspire.
Nature holds a pivotal connection for Amaliah and has always been central to her values as she endeavours to honour this by using existing materials and forgotten textiles, giving them new life through thoughtful design. In doing so, Amaliah hopes to create pieces that will give these fabrics a new life, and in turn will allow for people to make new memories in my clothing.
More than just a fashion brand, MALI is an invitation to play, to dream and to dress for who you are.
Angelina Geroeva
Guided by a belief in enduring beauty, Heroeva crafts pieces that transcend seasons. At the heart of the brand lies a devotion to honesty, craftsmanship, and timeless elegance.
Born from the intimate dialogue between structure and softness, tradition and modernity; architectural lines meet delicate details. The silhouettes exude both strength and grace.
Every stitch speaks of longevity— these are garments designed to be worn, passed on and remembered. More than fashion, Heroeva is a reflection of spirit. It's about artistry. Quiet confidence. The courage to embrace the poetry of femininity.
In this collection, designer Angelina Geroeva explores a signature theme—the poetic tension between structure and softness. Here, architecture meets emotion, and masculinity dances with femininity. It is a study in balance.
She draws inspiration from Henri Matisse, and his bold use of colour and organic form subtly echo through these sculptural silhouettes and expressive detailing. The garments become living compositions: vivid hues breathe life into precise tailoring, while delicate embroidery softens the architectural lines.
Annalise Emmi
Annalise Emmi is a luxury Australian womenswear label that embodies soft, graceful yet structured silhouettes, encapsulating the delicate balance between past and present.
Each piece is meticulously crafted in order to preserve and celebrate the value of refined artistry, whilst maintaining functionality and ethical processes that are kind to our planet through prioritising deadstock and natural, biodegradable fibers. Each look in the collection highlights craftsmanship through slow processes such as screen printing, beading, laser cutting and smocking.
Annalise Emmi’s debut collection ‘The Golden Hour’ explores the beauty of memories, moments and keepsakes. The garments are precious reminders of love, loss and stories that have defined our being through time, designed to be well-worn and passed down for generations to come.
Reflecting on cherished memories of her grandmother, with this collection the designer unveils a homage to old photographs, heirlooms, handwritten letters, gardens, 70’s house interiors, nostalgia and love; fragmented and intertwined, through delicate silhouettes, intricate prints and embellishments.
Arella Yuill
Hljoo (pronounced hly-oth, means sound in old Norse)
THE PURSUIT OF OUIET is Arella Yuill's debut collection.
Print-led, colour drenched, it seeks to reconcile the apparent contradictions of solidity and transparency, the kaleidoscope of colour, and the sound it conveys. Arella is fascinated by how people respond to colour and its energetics. Her work uses clothing as a visual language, translating her experiences, travels and ideas of people and the world into artistic womenswear. Long inspired by the forms of Australia's east coast landscape, and the art and objects she was exposed to by her family, it was a journey to Mexico City and Central America that broadened Arella’s understanding of the scope of colour and the effect it has on us.
THE PURSUIT OF QUIET reflects that – combinations, applications, and evolutions; how saturated yellows, reds, blues and pinks evoke the sounds, smells, and feelings of her past.
This is her conceptual exploration of 2-dimensional prints reinterpreted into 3-dimensional forms.
What began as an exploration, from painting abstract prints onto fabric using the heat sublimation process, evolved to hand-painting onto silk screens—set using algae. Each print, or evolved fabric manipulation, varies in intensity and placement in each garment.
Primarily using silk organza (prized for its opacity) the collection documents the evolution of her prints and their outcome.
Bee Star
B. Star is an Australian designer whose work moves seamlessly between craftsmanship, innovation, and performance. Through her label B108, she creates garments that honour time, process, and care - pieces designed to resonate beyond trends. and invite a meaningful connection with the wearer.
Rooted in responsible design and on-demand making, B. Star’s practice blends artisanal handwork, hand dyeing, hand-painted fabrics, and with digital techniques to craft garments that are striking both on stage and in everyday life.
Her work is informed by a strength in textile experimentation, a love for colour mixing, and a background in performance arts, allowing her to design for special events while seamlessly merging statement looks with elevated casual styles.
Mentored by Akira Isogawa, B. Star has honed a keen sensitivity to texture, colour, and form. She is also deeply committed to size, age, and gender inclusiveness, ensuring her designs are empowering and accessible for a wide range of wearers.
With B108, she envisions a conscious, circular approach to fashion - where each garment is artful, intentional, and crafted to be experienced, treasured, and shared.
Her debut collection, Resonant Bloom, contemplates hope and dismay in an age of polycrisis. It asks: what does it take to endure, to stay present, and to transcend the relentless tide of doom and gloom that defines our times? For B108, it begins with a ritual - an immersion in creativity inspired by art, nature, and movement. Through this process, beauty becomes an act of resilience, and making becomes a form of renewal.
Bthina Alrzeghi
Inspired by the Ultimate Creator—God’s artistry—Alrzeghi is a modest fashion label that celebrates design as a reflection of divine brilliance. We believe the Earth holds materials and inspirations entrusted to us to create, innovate, and preserve. As stewards of this world, we embrace the responsibility to honour what has been given, crafting consciously with reverence and purpose.
Our collections are sustainable yet innovative, balancing avant-garde design with timeless restraint. Drawing from nature’s intricate details and the depth of human artistry, each garment tells a story—of faith, humility, and the beauty of intentional creation.
Through clean lines, modest silhouettes, and thoughtful construction, Alrzeghi offers fashion that transcends trends—an expression of faith, creativity, and responsibility.
Our debut collection Rūḥ Magna (The Soul of Magna) explores the juxtaposition between civilisation and nature through the ancient city of Leptis Magna, once the vibrant heart of North Africa. This collection reflects on the passage of time—how the Earth quietly reclaims what humanity once built, merging ruin with renewal.
Inspired by the remnants of Roman architecture intertwined with wild flora of the North African coast, Rūḥ Magna captures the poetic tension between structure and decay, permanence and transformation. Through textural contrasts, sculptural silhouettes, and organic surface manipulations, the collection mirrors this dialogue between the human hand and divine nature. It stands as a meditation on rebirth—where modest, avant-garde design becomes a vessel for storytelling, honouring both heritage and the living Earth.
Chiara Voigt
At the heart of Voigt is a vision that redefines femininity, where strength and vulnerability intertwine, and where fashion becomes both armour and exposure.
Voigt is a conceptual fashion house that speaks to the modern woman, who embodies emotional depth, independence and unapologetic presence.
This collection balances contrasts, power and softness, rawness and refinement. Hand painted artworks are transformed into custom textiles where each fabric tells a story, making every garment a one of a kind expression.
Wearing Voigt is not just about style, it is about stepping into an identity that is commanding and deeply human.
Emily Corlett
EC Designs values longevity, durability, waste reduction and connection. The label strives to evoke a sense of belonging, comfort and nostalgia by creating an avenue to escape from everyday monotonous life through fun, playful designs.
EC Designs puts emphasis on the tailored and knitted elements in collections which create a juxtaposition between structure and fluidity where bold hues of green and blue mix with soft pastels to explore a romantic narrative, rooted in nostalgia.
‘Returning to the Fairy Garden’ is the label’s debut collection which hopes to transport people back to a childhood of imagination and wonder.
Gamze Uzunlar
Gamze Uzunlar's graduate collection for her demi-couture label M’Zee is a poetic nod to her ancestries and ancient Cyprus.
The designer, born in Sydney to Turkish Cypriot heritage, travelled extensively while growing up - and this expansive outlook feeds her vision.
The collection, titled ‘Ganimet’, explores the notion of modern nomadism through a demi-couture lens, blurring the boundaries between couture elegance with tailoring versatility. Each piece evokes a fragment of history, the scattered artefacts, treasures and architectural relics left behind.
Her process involves draping, deconstruction, reinvention and intricate details. The work explores asymmetry, volume and movement - the push and pull of shapes. Sustainability is important, and plays out in natural dyeing techniques and using deadstock materials to create unique textures.
M’Zee was born from the belief that regardless of their shape, size, colour or gender, everyone is beautiful and unique in their own ways, and should embrace being so in one-of-a-kind garments.
Each piece evokes a fragment of history, resulting in fluid, versatile pieces crafted with artisanal sustainable practices.
Harriet Choi
Storytelling is deeply rooted in our cultures and clothing. Harriet Choi's brand Nabi manifests itself by drawing from our past and forming connections, to our stories and our culture. Exploring the intersections where art becomes clothes and clothes become meaning.
Nabi’s collections are inspired by folklore, stories so old they were only relatively recently written down - yet still lived on. These stories are our history told by friends and family, woven into our lives, remembering our hopes, our dreams, dread and sorrow, our love and our loss. Folklore remembers our past lives, the lives of both the ordinary and extraordinary.
The Selkie’s story is one of a seal turned human and taken as a bride, ripped from her home and forced to live a life that is not her own. As the years go on and time breeds affection the emptiness only grows. And when the chance to leave arrives, will she take it? And what will she leave behind?
Nabi’s debut collection ‘Seal’ tells this tale through fibres and fabrications. Through historical silhouettes, traditional embellishments, and hand-drawn illustrations. Creating a bond between the dream and reality.
Connection is a constant throughline, looking at practices around care, repair, how we prolong the lives of our clothes by embellishing them with pieces of our stories. Mending them when they are damaged, caring for them when they’re not (in sickness and in health), really loving our clothing.
Indigo Rees
Tragedy Child is created for "the other", designed for those who are not given a voice, or given the chance to have one. Combining traditional tailoring with the counterculture community, this is heritage craft for the punk goth.
The opinion of the collective does not determine the worth of the individual, so why design for the masses when I value the individual more.
This collection, titled "The garden of Persephone", explores the juxtaposition of what is expected of you with who you really are.
Combining classic, rigid tailoring with influences from the natural living world, visualised through the Victorian language of flowers. This collection invites you to be all aspects of yourself.
Isabella Panebianco Fenech
It always begins with materials. Many of the fabrics used by Australian label Isa Bianco have lived previous lives - found, thrifted, gifted. Bed sheets, table cloths, much-loved linens, passed down from family. This is the Italian glory box tradition - respecting what has value. Making use.
That is not to say we never use anything new. Our Australian mohair, for example, is locally sourced. It’s about fostering connections.
Our artisanal approach focuses on producing less but better, using only natural, biodegradable fibres that are comfortable, repairable and easy to care for.
By embracing local sourcing and sustainable practices, Isa Bianco aims “to do no harm and do more good” - prioritising both human and environmental well-being. This is the labour.
The debut collection ‘Labours of Love’ explores the complexities of love, sacrifice, and cultural identity.
Inspired by mythology (thinking about Hercules’ impossible tasks), heritage, and personal experience, this collection uses handed-down glory box fabrics transformed through traditional techniques like natural dyeing and knitting. By merging past and present, the collection honours heritage while embracing growth and evolution.
Our gender non-conforming designs transcend conventional boundaries, inviting all to experience the comfort and elegance of truly sustainable clothing.
Jessica Andrianakos
“Quod est superius est sicut quod inferius, et quod inferius est sicut quod est superius.”
No Vacancy is a Sydney-based women’s wear label focused that focuses on story telling and connection to divinity through dressing. The label aims to reflect the beauty and depth in the mundane, adopting the infamous paraphrase of the emerald tablet “as above, so below” as a mantra that informs all processes and design methodologies. Drawing inspiration from popular culture and mysticism, No Vacancy presents a unique vision that merges these contradictory themes and explores the veil between the physical world and the spiritual world, offering wearers and audiences a vessel to contemplate their relationship with mystical concepts and the unseen.
No Vacancy’s aesthetic merges the freedom of the bohemian spirit with luxury and sensuality. Using bold colour palettes, unique textile development, flirty silhouettes and eclectic upcycling, designer Jess Andris creates one- of one garments that stand as their own story, whilst also being contained in their respective collection’s contextual world. No Vacancy’s The debut collection “My Secret Salvation” was inspired by New York City’s iconic Chelsea Hotel and the Catholic concept of the seven deadly sins.
The Chelsea Hotel’s rich history offers an abundance of stories to draw on for visual inspiration. Looks 1-7 are a journey through the sins of Lust, Discord, Greed, Hedonism, Wrath, Idolatry and Pride, grounded into physical form through each also being connected to a real story from the Chelsea Hotel’s prime time of the 1970’s - 1990’s. Look 8, “Enlightenment”, is symbolic of the growth and ascension experienced when one faces their truth and rectifies the clutch that each sin has on their physical reality. Thematically, the collection discusses the binary between sin and virtue, karmic retribution, the artists’ experience and the deeper meaning behind earthly matters. Aesthetically, the collection is reminiscent of the 70’s and the bohemian lifestyle commonly adopted at the Chelsea.
Leah Maier
What is slow fashion? How can we change fashion for the better? Create without the Earth paying the price?
Aroona Designs is Leah Maier's response to these troubling questions. An artistic exploration, rooted in the practicality of doing fashion differently.
Aroona Designs is a bespoke label that celebrates craftsmanship, circular design, and the emotional connection between people and clothing.
The debut collection, Of Earth and Thread, investigates the environmental degradation driven by the fashion industry, and encourages reflection on how we create, consume, and value our wardrobes.
The garments draw on the contrasting beauty of our natural world, from fragile ecosystems to landscapes reshaped by climate change. A tailored shirt made from silk dead stock, eco printed with eucalyptus and rust. Pants natural-dyed with onion skins and iron powder. Upcycled embellishments, hand appliquéd, and a full-length knitted dress made from 100% yarn waste.
Crafted almost entirely from reclaimed and repurposed textile waste, the collection pushes the boundaries of circular design, transforming discarded materials into luxurious, deeply considered garments. Through bespoke tailoring, upcycled construction techniques, and hand-crafted textures, Aroona Designs honours the stories embedded in every fabric.
As Aroona Designs continues to evolve, the mission remains clear: to design clothing that protects the planet, honours the maker, and empowers the wearer.
Leah Elizabeth Schier
Leah Elizabeth creates beauty within the unpleasant, through the exploration of critical intrusive philosophies and humanities historical context to provoke thought and narrate intricate stories. By honouring traditional artisan elements, and reimagining forms and figures through experimentation, the bounds between fashion and artforms are blurred; creating a harmonious innovative expression that encourages reflection between oneself, and the world around them. The prioritisation of environmental practices is involved in every step of the design process, encompassing Leah Elizabeth's ethics of protecting the beauty of the world around us, especially whilst expressing these world-viewing ideologies within fashion design.
The ‘Memento Mori’ Collection creates a curious subversion between unspoken fear and discomfort of death into a compassionate representation of the fragility of life, and the beauty of choosing to live within the right perspective. Where form follows meaning, every garment tells a complex narrative to spark curiosity and reflection, whilst weaving the connection between art and fashion to express the intense critical intricacies of the human experience.
Luke Rutherford-Durney
“Seek the strange when beauty is not enough.”
Born between Spanish and Anglo heritage, Luke Rubén moves in duality — where satire becomes sincerity and rebellion refines itself into grace. Creating focused avant-garde sustainable design rooted in the rhythm of streetwear, Luke Rubén treats fashion as both theatre and thesis: a place where myth is parodied, elegance is questioned, and identity fractures into reflection. An exaggerated design language melds comfort, function and spectacle throughout a scope of dominant silhouettes.
His debut collection, ‘Book of Janus’, gazes in two directions — towards the ghosts of Medieval Europe and the street silhouettes of tomorrow. Distant ideas are spliced together, eras collapse into each other, and from that collision of caricatures, something resonant emerges.
The scavenged textile language of this cast includes upcycled second hand materials, original Australian mohair knits, recycled-fibre latch-hooking, and preserved premium deadstock fabrics, enriched with natural dyes and fabric printing techniques.
Pre-loved pelt pieces are featured in moments, to respect and represent the significance of fur clothing to ancient and medieval peoples which inspired the archetypes in ‘Book of Janus’. Reclaimed from broken and donated garments to ensure no support of virgin fur production. At the same time highlighting the environmental toll of synthetic fur alternatives, which remain pollutive in creation and garment life.
Marissa Franjie
To be seen. To be heard. To be unstoppable. To take STRIKE.
STRIKE is a brand that sees beyond existence, radiating unrelenting energy and capturing life’s highs; the way music or your favourite song hits your chest, the rush of being fully yourself; confident, untouchable, alive. Rooted in Marissa’s Lebanese heritage, it brings bold, rich colours, gold accents, and commanding silhouettes to life, creating an undeniable presence. STRIKE is fearless, unapologetic, and electric, a force that pulls people into their power and lets them move through the world fully, without compromise.
UNPLGTCLY.ME (Unapologetically Me) embodies the moment you stop shrinking yourself and step fully into your impact. Each piece rejects softness for comfort’s sake, embracing presence; loud, raw, unfiltered. The collection leans into sharp structure, deliberate tension, and commanding energy; every line, edge, colour, and texture amplifies confidence and asserts power. Every garment holds its ground with a bold, unapologetic force that invites the wearer to do the same.
Designer Marissa Franjie creates from instinct, emotion, and heritage, channelling the strength and vibrancy of her Lebanese roots. Her work balances delicacy against defiance, chaos against clarity, always pushing boundaries while remaining intimately tied to personal truth. With a transformative approach to fashion, she crafts pieces that don’t merely clothe but amplify, bringing the wearer’s most unapologetic self to the surface.
This is STRIKE.
Marlo Clutton
From the imagination of designer Marlo Clutton, comes a new Sydney-based fashion label, Effraya.
Effraya is a creativity focused brand that is Centred around artistic expression and storytelling, our label's niche is drawing inspiration from darker areas of life and combining them with playful, provocative aesthetics.
Inclusivity and representation are core values of Effraya, every design is considered gender neutral and we encourage anyone with any body type to wear our garments.
Being LGBTQI+ owned, Effraya has deep roots in the Sydney queer community, and draws inspiration heavily from drag queens and queer icons.
Effraya’s debut collection “Ravish Me Raw” is inspired by the fictional portrayal of cannibalism as a metaphor for love, exploring its tragically romantic aspects along with its darker, uncomfortable tones.
Despite its origins of inspiration, The designer has interpreted the concept as consuming traits and qualities of their loved ones, and this collection is a dedication to the designer's friends and partner. The designs garments are largely influenced by the playful and seductive nature of burlesque, combining teasing elements with lavish satins and laces materials, hand-painted elements and glamorous, unique embellishments.
Noa Taylor
created with love….
Rooted in gratitude for the past and guided by a vision of beauty for the future, withlove.noa creates garments that honour the gifts offered to the world of creativity. Each piece is crafted with intention — a reflection of the belief that true design reaches beyond appearance, transforming what already exists into something newly beautiful.
Through this philosophy, withlove.noa champions sustainability not only as practice, but as a perspective, expanding the way we see, create, and appreciate art where cherished trinkets and heirloom textiles are thoughtfully recreated. In doing so, we invite a renewed sense of wonder at the endless possibilities of human expression and the quiet poetry found in what once was.
Dearest Joy,
Designing with a connection to history opens the door to exploring personal memories. The label’s debut collection celebrates the beauty found in forgotten treasures. Each garment is shaped by its own story, designed around the soul of its material.
Sourcing lies at the heart of withlove.noa’s creative process. Each piece is crafted to highlight the hidden elegance of discarded fabrics, giving them new life and meaning. The designs draw inspiration from childhood memories spent in a grandmother’s home—where every object, trinket, and cherished item tells a story. Through this lens, the collection captures the beauty of the old, celebrating the warmth and wonder of a world built from decades of care and collection.
Homes hold the echoes of those who came before us. They shape the way we see, the way we feel, the way we become. This collection is an ode to that inheritance of the gentle, enduring ways a loved one’s world weaves itself into our own.
Noah Vey
ETHERO is an avant-garde fashion label founded by designer Noah Vey, rooted in the art of deconstruction, reconstruction, and material transformation. At its core, ETHERO explores textiles as living artifacts – reimagining the boundaries of garment-making through unconventional materials and experimental craftsmanship.
Each ETHERO piece is a fusion of luxury and innovation, combining hand-finished detailing with cutting-edge textile development. The brand is renowned for its use of repurposed and unexpected elements, ranging from antique spoons to door hinges, studs, and spikes, to create artifacts from another universe. Each piece is multi-functional and gender-fluid, challenging conventional silhouettes. while offering transformative wearability.
Rooted in the belief that fashion can serve as mythology, ETHERO tells stories through fabric, form, and texture, as well as crafting one-of-a-kind garments that exist at the intersection of art, architecture, and identity.
ETHERO’s world is a tactile, cinematic, poetic, and otherworldly space where every garment becomes a relic of a timeless narrative due to its meticulous craftsmanship with experimental design.
2025 graduate debut collection “The Fall of Aether” A story narrative was written by ETHERO.
In a world where celestial beings once walked on the earth, there was a family born from the aether, as the triplet children of a fallen angel, bound to both the light of the heavens and the shadow of the underworld. Their journey is one of reckoning, power, and a quest for freedom.
Their lineage, caught between the realms, is reflected in their clothing, where gender and form are fluid, transcending earthly distinctions. Their garments echo their story, luxurious, dark yet majestic, with elements of both strength and vulnerability.
Oliver Parry
Oliver Parry is a form of entertainment—a connection, not a combatant, devoted to the ritual of dressing. His practice explores hereditary fashion, where garments become inherited gestures of creation and decomposition. Rooted in severe craftsmanship and monumental conceptualism, Oliver Parry treats fashion as language—spoken through cloth, textiles, and transformation.
The Stockman Sacrifice reimagines ancient Swedish folklore through salvaged linen sheets, cotton paint tarps, antique furs, and silks dyed with seasonal flora.
The Stockman Sacrifice envisions decay as resurrection, reforming and deforming the desirable human effigy, and beneath the cycle of ruin and renewal, Oliver Parry creates a world for all to see—and to douse upon their bodies.
“Son fine”
Sabera Jamali
Mahgul takes its name from Persian roots, where Mahgul means “moon flower”, symbolising beauty, grace, and timeless elegance. The brand embodies a balance of tradition and modernity, reflecting sophistication, individuality, and self-expression.
Our aesthetic fuses classic refinement with bold, contemporary design, empowering wearers to express confidence and strength through fashion. At the heart of Mahgul is the belief that modesty represents liberation, not limitation, allowing diverse cultures to showcase their identity with dignity and elegance.
Sustainability lies at our foundation. By using natural and recycled fabrics and embracing slow-fashion principles, every garment is crafted responsibly and beautifully, honouring both people and the planet. Guided by integrity, purpose, and faith, Mahgul Collections is dedicated to leaving a lasting impact on the world of fashion, through thoughtful design and craftsmanship, where beauty meets responsibility, and individuality is celebrated with authenticity and grace.
Anar: Threads of Life, our first and latest collection, draws inspiration from Afghan heritage and the symbolism of the pomegranate,representing prosperity, resilience, and renewal. Through structured tailoring, rich silks, and deep crimson tones, Anar reimagines Afghan tradition with modern strength and timeless beauty.
Sarah Dandie
Back again Odysseus - why?
Surely we launched you well, we sped you on your way
From the tactility and rootedness of an upcycled tweed suit, through deconstructed tailoring, the artful use of deadstock leather and meticulous handwork, Sarah Dandie creates modern heritage pieces that honour the ritual of dress.
Sirce is her womenswear label, carefully crafted and ethically resourced. That means natural fibres only - she was raised on pure wool and proper tailoring fabrics, with her grandmother to thank for that. For leather, Sarah apprenticed with Julio Valdes, learning from a Sydney master craftsman.
In her work, traditional techniques are combined with innovative processes to speak truth through story. Strong conceptual foundations underpin garments that are playful, irreverent and cerebral - combining sculptural forms, strong textural experimentation and considered embellishment.
One look, “Alexander/ Raffaella”, hints at the community support that provides structure. This extraordinarily caged hoop skirt was conjured through a family affair - Sarah’s mother and father contributed many hours of hand-tying Japanese crown knots in hundreds of meters of silk dupion rouleaux.
The debut collection, ‘Heretic, Hangman, Luckless Stranger’, explores Homer’s epic The Odyssey through a neurodivergent lens. Each look investigates or celebrates an aspect of crip being and moving through the world, whilst enfolding the stories and memories of others.
In memory of Paolo Arimado.
*With thanks to Dr. Raffaella Cresciani’s insights on crip theory.
Sophiyan Shah
Sophiyan Shah is a designer whose creations express a deep harmony between nature, emotion, and modern femininity. Her demi-couture label RABBANA transforms elements of the natural world into sculptural garments that balance structure with effortless flow.
Spring/Summer 2025 Call of the Wild, is a poetic homage to the beauty and fragility of our planet. Featuring eight distinct looks —Trees, Sand, Rocks, Snow, Air, Volcano, Water, and Insects— the collection captures the movement, textures, and rhythm of nature through delicate craftsmanship, fluid draping, and refined detailing.
Blending traditional couture artistry with digital innovation, Sophiyan uses CLO 3D to perfect patterns and visualize form and motion before garment construction. Her process includes hand-dyeing, beadwork, fabric manipulation, and layering of organic materials — techniques that mirror the raw surfaces and evolving transformations found in the environment.
Through RABBANA, she invites the contemporary world to slow down, reconnect with nature, and rediscover the beauty in stillness — where fashion becomes a reflection of both art and mindfulness.
Tate Boswarva
Through ATTÈ, Tate Boswarva is challenging fashion’s accepted ways of doing things - reimaging materials from a new baseline. Beginning with the textile design, fusing innovative techniques with refinement, these pieces provoke a new view.
The upcycled denim is meticulously laser-cut, Cynotype dyed then hand-laid out to form a totally new textile, the space between the circles framing what’s left behind. Tate’s inspirations - feminism, environmentism, protecting the oceans - are as much about what isn’t disclosed, as what dominates.
One dress looks like lace, but the real story involves water soluble fabric and countless hours of stitching into the negative spaces.
Handblown glass forms accessories but then, pushed to its limit, is turned into a top. Conceptual, but also wearable.
This debut collection, Vestige, explores the power and pain of the female body transcending through time.
Each garment draws visual and emotional parallels between the physical traces left on the body, and the shifting, eroding landscape of the ocean.
This dialogue of transformation becomes both a tribute and a reclamation of the female form.
Tegan Wing
Jade Kwan is a brand that exploresd the duality of the human experience, where fantasy and reality converge. Rooted in storytelling and emotion, the brand it challengesd the boundaries of imagination, redefining the balance between form, practicality and artistic expression.
Through sculptural silhouettes and unconventional constructions, Jade Kwan pushes challenges the limits of wearability, transforming garments into extensions of the self. More than fashion, Jade Kwan is an ongoing exploration of identity. A visual language for those who find poetry in contradiction.
Jade Kwan’s debut collection, Sitagrata Agape, delves into the intricate emotions of intricacy; the tension between idealised love and its inevitable unravelling. Telling the story of a mythical romance of a knight and reverse mermaid, the collection redefines beauty through dark fantasy and sensual expression. Each piece embodies the vulnerability, desire, and transformation that defines the human heart.,
@jade_kwan_
Thi Thu Thao Truong
Katis Truong is a designer inspired by nature, cultural heritage, and the philosophy of stoicism. Her work blends traditional craftsmanship with modern minimalism to create timeless, meaningful pieces.
Her debut collection “Nguồn” is a personal journey back to the designer’s cultural roots, and a story told through authenticity. Inspired by the natural beauty of wood grains, leaf veins, and the traditions that shaped who Katis Truong is. Fine pleating in natural tones, highlighted with bright floral inspirations interact together to tell a story of culture, heritage and hope.
Through her work, Katis hopes to encourage others to slow down, ground themselves,and reconnect to where they come from. “Nguồn” is the source we all return to. Katis thanks you for being part of this journey of origin and renewal.
Travis Elmir
"Give Me Your Diary" is an invitation: to document, to express, and to redefine the meaning of uniformity.
The debut collection from TRAVISELMIR explores the tension between conformity and individuality, reflecting on the societal norms that place people in boxes. Tradition meets modernity, and identity finds its place in everyday wear.
A range of wool check and stripes are tailored in a vast array of silhouettes with themes from the collection showcased through braiding, hand embellishment, and appliqué.
Each collection's symbolism transcends the garments with meaning existing between the visible and the concealed, details inviting introspection, revealing meaning only to those who look closer, defying the systems that define us.
Zoe Markopoulos
MARKO is an emerging fashion brand that aims to redefine ideas of permanence and value in fashion.
With a focus on process and emotional resonance, the brand encourages a slower, more considered relationship with clothes and the wearer.
It’s debut collection ‘PATINA’ explores the process of curation and material storytelling, where textiles like leather, heavy canvases and waxed organza's are chosen not only for their aesthetic quality but for their ability to hold and reveal time.
Drawing from poetry and the rugged Australian landscapes of the designer’s youth on the South Coast of NSW, the collection evokes a sense of resilience, nostalgia, and the quiet romance of endurance, echoing the mythos of the cowboy.
Copper plays a central role in this narrative that has been directly communicated in my work, a material that naturally oxidizes, darkens, and transforms through touch and exposure.
Within ‘PATINA’, copper becomes a living emblem of change: a reflection of the body’s interaction with its environment, and a testament to beauty found in transformation.
Zoe Vaccher
ZOVA, designed by Zoe Vaccher, creates clothing that empowers the wearer, as a somewhat armour for each day, allowing us to step forward with confidence.
ZOVA prioritises craftsmanship and ethics with an heirloom approach to design as each piece is crafted from quality fabrics and featuring artisan techniques and detailing such as hand dyed silks, layered laces and beading.
With inclusivity at the core of ZOVA’s ethos, size adaptability has been integrated into specific designs. Each piece embodies a considered approach to silhouette, creating flattering and empowering shapes designed to hug and drape around the body in layers of bold colours and textures, cut to expose the body in ways that embrace the perfection of imperfection.
The debut collection ‘Fragments of her’ captures the raw, unfiltered emotions of navigating femininity through emotions, expressed through colours and textures. It is a dialogue between fragility and defiance, whilst discovering the self that is known and the self that is yet to be found.
Nature’s creation of flowers, specifically the orchid, symbolise both fragility and resilience. Intricate, sensitive, and able to survive in the harshest of conditions, they tend to be left with visible bruising and markings, much like the journey of self-discovery, they exist in a state of quiet strength.
Yuting Liang
Yuting Liang
Chennie by Yuting Liang is built on the idea that every traditional craft carries the breath of its history, and every stitch embodies the devotion of artisans who made it. These creations deserve to be reinterpreted and cherished in the present.
Chennie’s garments are not merely clothing, but an extension of culture and emotional weaving of handcraft and modernity, a dialogue between tradition and contemporary. They are also about listening to the stories of artisans and the voices of consumers, allowing clothing to become a bridge in everyday life, awakening each person’s sense of uniqueness and freedom.
The first collection, “SONG”, is inspired by the Song Dynasty in China and its “Four Elegant Arts”—painting, flower arranging, tea making, and incense. Each theme is shown through two outfits, inspired by the beauty and lifestyle of women from that time, but translating the mood for today.
Mixing thoughtful design with traditional crafts, such as velvet flower and traditional embroidery, the collection brings back the style of the Song Dynasty with a modern edge.
“SONG” is both a way to remember the past and a way to express today, where culture and fashion meet again.
The Fashion Design Studio acknowledges that the use of preloved and vintage real fur can be a sensitive and polarizing topic. We recognize that for some individuals, the inclusion of any form of animal-derived material may be seen as distressing or offensive. We encourage careful consideration of all fabrics chosen and as creative educators we support, where reasonable, the student's right to explore complex narratives and materials with intention and integrity.
Those who have chosen to incorporate preloved or vintage real fur in their work have done so with careful consideration. Their choices reflect a conscious exploration of historical and cultural storytelling, and ethical discourse within fashion practice. We encourage ongoing dialogue, respect for differing perspectives, and thoughtful reflection on the evolving role of materials and ethics in design.
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