February/March 2009

 

Hi there,

Welcome to the February/March 2009 issue of the White Review.

Upcoming dates for your diary:
Sydney Open Days Friday 26 & Saturday 27 June
Melbourne Open Days Sunday 21 June & Sunday 9 August
Winter Short Courses Melbourne from 29 June; Sydney from 13 July
Brisbane Workshops from Monday 21 Sept

For more information on any of these visit our website www.whitehouse-design.edu.au

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Art Gallery of NSW hosts Whitehouse Graduation

 

The first cohort of Bachelor of Design students graduated from Whitehouse Institute of Design at a ceremony held at the Art Gallery of NSW on Friday 20 February, 2009. Professor Andrew Gonczi, Whitehouse Institute Academic Chair and Honorary Professor - Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney presented the first Bachelor degree qualifications to students at the evening ceremony.

The presentation of Designer of the Year was awarded to select students who demonstrated excellence in design and technical ability within their specialist area of study. Recipients of this award include Kate Armstrong, Fashion Design; Kai Ieraci, Interior Design; and Claire Hansen, Styling & Creative Direction. Each of these students has already gone on to take up creative roles within their respective industries.

Graduates please visit HappyMediumPhoto.com.au to purchase your photo.

 

Vogue Supports O-WEEK Melbourne

 

Whitehouse Melbourne campus welcomed 138 new students and staff with an exciting O-Week schedule with opportunities to learn, socialise and discover the design culture Melbourne has to offer. Over 30 students have joined us from interstate and overseas including America, Norway and Malaysia so we are in for an exciting year of design!

Students embarked on a creative journey through the streets of Melbourne’s CBD uncovering hidden gems that will assist them in their studies. Vogue Living and Niche Publications showed their generosity by suppling our Interior Design students with a stocked gift bag, while students of Fashion and Styling & Creative Direction were treated to goodies from Vogue Australia and GRL mobile. O-Week Melbourne wrapped up with lunch at Melbourne hot-spot Riverland, where students mingled and took in views of the Yarra River from the bluestone vaults below Federation square.

 

Win a Whitehouse Short Course with GRL Mobile

 

GRL Mobile has partnered with Whitehouse to offer you a chance to win an Introductroy Short Course at both our Melbourne and Sydney Campuses this Winter. Visit GRL Mobile Competitions for your chance to win!

GRL Mobile - the official telecommunications partner of the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival - is Australia’s hottest mobile phone service for chicks. Visit GRL TV to watch the Whitehouse 2008 Graduate Parade.

 

 

Harbour Cruise concludes O-Week Sydney

 

Leanne Whitehouse welcomed 114 new students to Whitehouse Sydney Campus on Monday 2 March. Each student was given an O-Week bag supplied by ‘The Fabric Store’ full of goodies including an Oyster Magazine. Students participated in a full program during O-Week which included a group exercise of model-making using drinking straws, and several guest lecture sessions, one of which featured Robert England, who presented the latest trends from Northern Europe. Students finished their O-week experience with a treasure hunt where they were tethered together as they wandered the streets of Surry Hills and Sydney’s CBD ending up at Wharf 8 for a well earned cruise around Sydney Harbour.

 

Myer at Whitehouse for L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival

 

Australian department store Myer chose Whitehouse Melbourne Campus as the venue to launch its 2009 Autumn Winter Collections. Guests were treated to a spectacular showcase of Australian Design with champagne, celebrities and a 13-metre LED screen providing a backdrop to the runway.

Current Whitehouse students assisted backstage to dress the models, while the runway showcased collections from former Whitehouse students Yeojin Bae and Camilla Freeman-Topper of Camilla and Marc. The “Who’s-Who” of the Australian fashion industry were in attendance beside Rupert and Annabelle Myer and Charlie Brown’s muse, Lauren Dundervic (Miss Universe). Myer ambassador Jennifer Hawkins closed the show in a lavender one-shoulder evening gown designed by Whitehouse graduate, Yeojin Bae.

To see official coverage of the Runway Parade visit LucasDawson.com.au

[Photograph by Lucas Dawson]

 

Australian Fashion Designers talk to Whitehouse students

 

Australian Fashion Designers Charlie Brown, Akira Isogawa and Robert England spoke to students at Whitehouse Melbourne Campus, sharing their stories of professional development and giving students a diverse and insightful view of the fashion design industry.

 

Charlie Brown

 

Report by Lauren Turnbull , First year Styling & Creative Direction Student

Charlie Brown delivered a personal insight into her role as an Australian Fashion Designer to Whitehouse students. Charlie has been able to build her business by relying on her strong sense of business, marketing and of course design talent. Charlie encouraged students to be ever-mindful of the business aspect of the fashion world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Akira Isogawa

 

 

Report by Simon Debattista, First year Fashion Design Student

Akira Isogawa was invited to use the Melbourne campus showrooms to present his new collection to clients. In a question and answer forum with our students, Akira shared his design philosophy to ‘stay true to yourself’. His way of keeping this mantra alive is to “surround himself with inspirations” and suggested that students keep their eyes open, as inspiration can come from simply seeing something in the street.

[Photograph by Steven Ward]

 

 

 

Robert England, Fashion Agent

 

Report by Chloe Smith, second year Fashion Design Student

Robert England was on location to show Sarah Pacini’s Autumn/Winter 2010 collection – a fashion forward quality commercial brand. Robert gave the perspective of both a buyer and a representative. Using the example of Sarah Pacini, Robert spoke of the importance of establishing the package, from technical drawings to fabric swatches and targeted marketing that appeals to the consumer. It was insisted that an understanding of future trends and the client’s needs in the current economic times was imperative.

 

 

 

 

 

Doing it Melbourne-Style with Chloe Smith & Penelope Efthimiadis

 

Second year Fashion Design students Chloe Smith and Penelope Efthimiadis of Whitehouse Melbourne Campus, were invited to assist Franco Schifilliti, Senior Melbourne Stylist organise the Myer 2009 Autumn/Winter Runway Parades from concept to completion. The students met and worked with industry partners to accomplish the tasks given to them. Both students take with them knowledge and experience in the processes involved to deliver a major Runway Parade.

Several first year students also demonstrated their enthusiasm by assisting as dressers for models backstage at the Victorian Racing club's Beautiful Girls Fashion lunch Runway Parade held at Flemington Racecourse as part of the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival.

 

InStyle Magazine Interview with Sarah Carter-Jenkins

 

Sarah Carter- Jenkins, Whitehouse Institute Design & Illustration Lecturer has provided the illustration for the Women of Style Awards article in the April edition of InStyle Australia.
Sarah Carter-Jenkins created gorgeous multimedia illustrations for each of the Women of Style categories for InStyle Magazine; Sarah answers their questions below:

1. What does style mean to you?
Every truly stylish person I know manages to dress, think, work and live just a little outside the box...if they choose to do or wear something it's because they love it, not because it's fashionable. That's what style is to me. Oh, and fabulous accessories don't hurt either.

2. Where do you get your inspiration?
I always adored classic films from the 30's and 40's...if I could con my Mum into letting me have a sick-day off school I'd watch the midday movies; it was a whole other world of sophistication and glamour. When I illustrate, some of that always creeps in. I'm no good at grunge.

3. What's the one thing you can't live without this autumn/winter?
My Mela Purdie cashmere wrap cardie; people tend to stroke me when I wear it.

For more information visit InStyle Australia Online

 

“Remnant and Reliquary” by Melissa Laird

 

Melissa Laird, Whitehouse Academic Coordinator presented a component of her Doctoral thesis in an exhibition held at Sydney’s Hyde Park Barracks on Sunday 8 March.

“Remnant and Reliquary: Fragmentary traces of Frailty and Passion” is fundamentally a study in design, where reading and registering the lives of women through material culture research forms the primary focus of the thesis, as a means by which to frame womens’ historical memory.

The exhibition consisted of a series of narrative interpretations of the lives of Colonial women. Melissa specifically chose to present her work on March 8 this year in celebration of International Women’s Day. The official IWD websites states that “IWD is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future”. The significance of investigating the objects designed, made and used by Australian Colonial women, 1788-1901, is the framing of womens’ historical memory for the contemporary viewer and reader, to better inform our future; a physical link between memory of our imagined past and the tangible ephemera of the early colony.

Guests to the exhibition included many familiar Whitehouse faces, both Staff and Students, as well as distinguished guests from several major Universities. The overwhelming response from those who attended was that the synergy between the Barracks archaeology, the environment for display and the artwork was very fine. Some responses from the general public were particularly noteworthy; several women commented they were moved to tears when viewing the mourning jewellery. "This is exactly the sort of emotive response I was seeking from a contemporary audience " commented Melissa.