2010 - Stacey Isaac

Stacey Isaac from Whitehouse to Italian fashion house

After Stacey Isaac Graduated the 3 year course in Fashion design and management at Whitehouse Institute of Design, Australia in 2000. She has enough talent to keep her on the corner of right now and going straight to the top. Stacey started her runway to the top while at college when she was awarded a prize for a cue competition while at Whitehouse which led to work placement with Cue design for a year which then continued into a design assistant role at Cue after she graduated Whitehouse. The success did not stop there, she was also awarded the part scholarship to go to Accademia Italiana in Florence, Italy.

While on the scholarship her love affair with Italy and European life began. However Stacey was offered work in Sydney which brought her back to Australia for a few years. In Sydney she worked as the head designer for Lili at Charlie Brown/ Discovery Group for a few years, before deciding to head back to Europe in 2004, to London, England.

In London she has been working for a Japanese/London Design house called Michiko Koshino as a womenswear designer and then more recently working with them developing the collections in Italy after she moved to Italy in 2008. At Michiko she has worked across the board with everything from denim, knitwear, leather and silk. Textiles and development of new washing techniques are always the basis to the research of the collections.

http://www.michikokoshino.co.uk

After moving to Italy she also started working as a freelance womenswear designer for a company called Masons.  The company specialises in treating and heavy washing on the garments to give a 'used and vintage feel' to the clothes as with Michiko Koshino. As a freelance designer she was able to work on more than one brand at a time and also able to travel all over Italy to visit the factories, suppliers, fairs, and wash houses and embroiderers as well as to London for meetings with Michiko which was great to keep in touch and enjoy London life.

In Italy she has been able to work with many different companies for washing, dyeing, treating, embroidery, printing as well as frequenting the fashion fabric fairs every season in Milan. This has been a great experience to work in the fashion industry in Italy which is so vast and historical. She is now settled living in Tuscany with her Italian boyfriend of 9 years and so the love affair continues!