The Future of Fashion?

So today M and I did a little presentation and held a 'fun fashion activity' for some high school kids who visited UTS. These were year 10 students from priority schools in NSW (there were even some who'd been flown in from Dubbo) who had been chosen by their schools as bright young talent who would benefit from a little nudge towards a university education.

It was really interesting to see the students' reactions to our powerpoint presentation- we'd kept it a bit informal and silly, but talked about what studying fashion was like at UTS, especially compared to studying it at other institutions. What was really amazing was the enthusiasm shown by the students when they got to the activity- we came up with a short list of characters, for whom the students had to create costumes for with just newspaper and sticky tape. We'd asked them to think about how to best portray the characteristics and personalities through their clothing.

We were so happy to see the students really consider silhouette, volume, line, and a few groups even created heads for their dressmaker's mannequins, showing that they were really thinking about who their character was, not just what they wear. Here are a few photos:




I really think that we might see some of these students at UTS doing some design course or another, and it feels great to know that we were able to share our passion and hopefully inspire someone to follow their dreams too.