Guest lectures
Guest Lecturer Tamie McLachlan and Taryn Leibowitz
After the never-ending late nights spent completing assignments, and enduring a loss of social life, it was refreshing to see that all the hard work has paid off for former Whitehouse students Tamie McLachlan and Taryn Leibowitz, the duo behind established interior design firm Leibowitz and MacLachlan. The pair kindly paid a visit to second year styling and first year interior design students to provide an insight into the day to day roles required within their boutique interior design and styling business.
Tamie and Taryn provided an outline of how they manage to obtain and maintain close relationships with their clients, placing particular emphasis on cooperation and honesty with clients as the best means in achieving a strong result. They also provided general information about the way their business runs, inlcuding the usual timeframes for projects and the need for clear budgets to allow for successful completion to occur.
Overall Tamie and Taryn provided students with a real and honest description of what their job entails on a daily basis, which allowed students to gain a strong understanding of the interior design industry firsthand from two young and successful Whitehouse alumni.
Visit leibowitzandmclachlan.com for more information.
Guest Lecturer Ingrid Verner
Guest Lecturer Ingrid Verner (one half of the fashion label TV) came into COR 205 Design in a business context class on Tuesday 29th September to discuss their background, how the label began, their achievements and their growth from a business point of view.
Guest Lecturer Jenny Bannister
"The Jenny Bannister label was launched in 1976. While Jenny's early designs has a radical inventive spirit (remember it was the 70s), they evolved into couture and up-market boutique ranges for the wholesale market. But the label's upbeat design signature has endured, from the plastic clipped mini dress (1979, Powerhouse Museum) through her own snakeskin wedding dress (1985, Australian National Gallery), to more recent designs such as a fully boned and quilted silk satin corset (1996). More recently, collective pieces have been sold through the prestigious Christies in London. The Jenny Bannister label is consistently represented in the Melbourne Fashion Festival and the Australian Designer Collections, and maintains continued press coverage and a faithful following of television, film, sport and music personalities who choose the label when attending the most prestigious and highly exposed events. In 2005, Jenny was declared an Australian Fashion legend and honoured with a postage stamp." www.jennybannister.com.au
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