Semester One at Whitehouse has been a busy one and we can't believe we're already halfway through!

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Better City, Better Life, Beijing

Louise Murer, a third year Fashion Design Student from Whitehouse Institute of Design has represented Australia in the 18th Hempel International Young Fashion Designer Contest in Beijing, 25 March 2010.

Louise's collection was one of 28 shown by young designers from 19 countries shown in a wonderfully staged runway show held at the prestigious Beijing Hotel, officially opening China Fashion Week 2010.

"This has been the most amazing experience. I never imagined it would be like this," said Louise at the Official Dinner after the show.

Louise presented a modern, elegant and beautifully designed and constructed collection featuring a colour palette of pastels, neutral colours, greys and nudes in the style of 1940’s tailoring. Louise's aspiration after completing studies at Whitehouse is to continue her education at the Accademia Italiana in Florence, and hopes to secure the scholarship at the end of the year.

Congratulations to all entrants and winner of the 2010 Gold Award, French student Emmanuel Maria.

Stephanie + Audrey = Leiela

When Stephanie Paladin received an email from Whitehouse with details of the Leiela Lady Accolade Design Award, she never imagined she would win.

With only days to go until the deadline, Stephanie, a third year Fashion Design student at Whitehouse, decided to seize the opportunity and put her head down and got drawing! Inspired by Audrey Hepburn, Stephanie created the winning design. “I was thrilled and overwhelmed to be the winner, and the most exciting part is having my design included in the LEILA collection,” tells Stephanie.

Not only does Stephanie have judges Sarah Wilcock of Style Melbourne, Jan Breen Burns, Fashion Editor - The Age and Kate Rhodes from Artichoke to thank, she owes her boyfriend some too. Driving her final submission to the Leiela studios, he gave her the words of encouragement she needed, “I had decided not to enter on the morning of the submission because I didn’t think my design would suit the collection but he convinced me to do it,” says Paladin.
In addition to winning, Stephanie’s design will be included in the upcoming LEILA collection, “This was my starting point of the year, I am very ambitious and I am going to push myself as hard as I can in my final year of study, says Stephanie.

Graduates at the Gallery

Whitehouse Graduate and Project Runway Series 2 Finalist, Lauren Vierya, delivered the first Alumni speech for the 2009 Cohort of Bachelor of Design Graduands at the Art Gallery of NSW on Friday 19 February 2010. The Ceremony saw 54 degrees conferred and an award for outstanding achievement in VET in Schools was presented to Dreem Qin of Pymble Ladies College. Professor Suzi Vaughan, inaugural Head of Fashion at Queensland’s University of Technology inspired students, recounting her journey as a designer, from studying alongside John Galliano in London to working in New York, Hong Kong, India and Paris, and finding her perfect fit right here in Australia. Congratulations to all Graduands, may your journeys be creative and rewarding!

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

Let the image do the talking

Becoming a stylist has never been so, well, stylish. Recent Whitehouse Graduate Maya Wyszynski (work featured) is the new fashion assistant at women’s magazine NW. Maya has always been dedicated to her field of Styling & Creative Direction, gaining extensive field experience to further her studies, through internships at publications such as Grazia, Harper’s Bazaar, 9to5 Magazine and assisting many of Sydney’s leading Stylists on photo shoots.

As a Graduate of the Whitehouse Bachelor of Design, Styling & Creative Direction degree there are many great areas to work in, these may include: creative director, event stylist, art director, life stylist, illustrator, trend forecaster, visual merchandiser, fashion buyer, fashion/ beauty journalist, as well as design practitioners in related fields and design academics.

Staff Profile | Louisa Dawson Unravels her Artistic side

Louisa Dawson divides her time between teaching computer illustration to students of Whitehouse Institute of Design, Australia Sydney campus, and working as an artist on large-scale public works sculptures.

Louisa’s sculpture ‘Unravel’ was developed in response to the brief issued by the City of Sydney and was the first project to feature in the Taylor Square Temporary Art Program. Her approach was to look at the vehicular and pedestrian history of the site - once a very busy intersection before the eastern distributor was built, where there were many accidents – and respond with a representation of a section of road that is being rolled out or unravelled, perhaps suggesting a return to the past. The use of the actual road material of asphalt has reference to ‘the skin of the city’.

“A lot of my works are developed through the relationship between the environment, being site specific, and the materiality of the work,” says Dawson.

Some of Louisa’s works have been short-listed for the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award (2004, 2005 and 2007) and exhibited in Victoria. She has also shown in Sculpture by the Sea (2001, 2005, 2006 and 2008). In 2007 she was the recipient of the RIPE Award, (Art and Australia and the ANZ Bank) and was awarded an Australia Council studio residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York.

Louisa is working towards more opportunities for public or private sculpture commissions and says “I would love to have a work in the Socrates Sculpture Park in New York City.”