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Michelle Jank

Michelle Jank 2007
[image from Iqons]

Michelle Jank graduated with a Diploma of Fashion Design in 1999 from East Sydney Tech. Her design portfolio includes fashion and jewellery and as well as styling. Her latest collection of jewellery can be views at Iqons.


[image from Iqons]

Michelle Jank is the fashion wonder from Australia, who wowed the critics with her debuted collection in 2000, at the Australian Fashion Week. Known for her exquisitely embellished demi-couture, Michelle offers an array of reworked clothes that are sexy. For her Spring 2002 collection, she used antique fabrics reworked into finely fitted and finished dresses and tops with ragged jumbles of excess fabric draped and trailing in side bustles. She has worked in exotic silks and laces, faded miniature Australian flags, fragments of old flour bags and crocheted baby shawls, with zig-zagged hemlines trailing with long, shredded tendrils of lace and silk around the ankles.

[text extracted from fashionwindows and fashionista]

For more information, visit the showcase of Michelle Jank at Iqons.


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A Walk in the Wardrobe

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A Walk in the Wardrobe is a suggestive exhibit recently organized by a group of 7 fashion curators from the MA in Fashion Curation at the London College of Fashion. As a collective, they operate under the name Glass-case, and are currently exploring aspects of fashion curation. Glass-case is committed to developing new ideas in the presentation and interpretation of the dress. They aim to push boundaries and challenge the traditional museum approach to curation. The exhibition was held for a week at the Ada Street gallery.


Invite to A Walk in the Wardrobe.

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Glass-case went beyond just visual to explore the intimate relationship between fashion and memory. A Walk in the Wardrobe was set out to trigger lost and forgotten memories through the sense of sound and smell. The soundscape of muffled noises sounding like people walking and rummaging through closets; was paired with bygone scents of moth and lilac, quite reminiscent of grandmother’s wardrobe.



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The exhibit was held in two rooms. The first room showcased a more masculine wardrobe, where the walls were lined in black top hats. The other was dedicated to a more feminine feel, featuring white dresses from assorted eras, hung from the ceiling through a system of fishing wires. The whiteness of the dresses, evoked an eerie and ghostly quality.

[text extracted from Fashion projects and Glass-case.]

For more information, visit Fashion projects; Glass-case; and poireton.


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ThreeAsFour

From ThreeAsFour Lookbook: Human Plant
[images from ThreeAsFour]

ThreeAsFour is the international design collective previously causing a stir as AsFour. The original quartet consisted of Gabi, originally from Lebanon; the Adi, from Israel; Ange, from Tajikistan and their German colleague Kai.


From ThreeAsFour Lookbook: Kindergardens and Inferno
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Their fashion extravaganzas are often described as elegant, innovative, timeless, strange and curvilinear. The collective made a big impression on New York's underground fashion scene in 1999 with ‘Puppencouture', a performance installation peopled by 44 miniature puppets that were modelled on AsFour's members. It was an interactive happening, in which the public had to prevent the dolls from falling. ‘It was a nightmare,' Ange remembers. All the same, they followed it with more multimedia shows that agreeably push the boundaries between fashion and art. In 2002 they won the American Ecco Domani Award for new designers.

Their highly original designs have attracted clients such as Björk, who they dressed as a mermaid, as well as Mariah Carey. Their most famous design is the ‘circle bag', a concept that started as a joke: a circle with a hole in the middle. Helmut Lang thought it was wonderful. Since ThreeAsFour has been operating as a trio their output has become less conceptual: ‘We're over that now.'

Their commercial work includes designing clothing, accessories and rugs for the American label Kate Spade.

[text extracted from the 2007 Arnhem Fashion Biennale]

For more information, visit ThreeAsFour.


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Julian and Sophie

JULIAN AND SOPHIE - autumn / winter 2003
Pyjama Combat; No: J&S15
[image from Blow PR]


Julian Roberts is a London fashion designer, film maker, graphic/web designer, and Professor of Fashion at the University of Hertfordshire. He has created 13 collections under his labels, nothing nothing, Julian And, JULIAN AND SOPHIE and Parc deS EXpositions.

Sophie Cheung graduated from Printed & Knitted Textiles from the Glasgow School of Art in 2000, and obtained a Masters Degree in Mixed Media Textiles at the Royal College of Art in London, in 2002.


JULIAN AND SOPHIE - autumn / winter 2003
Pyjama Combat; No: J&S12
[image from Blow PR]


JULIAN AND SOPHIE - autumn / winter 2003
A limited range of "Pyjama Cases"
[image from Blow PR]

Julian is the inventor of a new style of garment construction called ‘Subtraction Cutting’, a free-hand method he has demonstrated at the Royal College of Art, Central Saint Martins, Glasgow School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, Kent Institute, Bath Spa University College & the University of Hertfordshire.

The Royal College of Art invited Julian and Sophie to teach their pattern-cutting method to nine MA textiles students over a three-day period. They have published three techniques on their online Pattern Cutting School in full and free for all.

This is the work of Emily Parsons from the RCA class project.
[image from Blow PR]

Julian also helps support 25 of the newest cutting-edge designers represented by Blow PR/ The Off-Schedule Guide, to which he donates show production advice, designs websites, show videos and graphics.

[text extracted from Blow PR]

For more information, visit Julian and Sophie.


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