BOSS is organising the inaugural Scenic Rim Sustainable Fashion Designer Showcase, an event to be held as part of Fashion Revolution Week, on Saturday April 18 at The Centre, Beaudesert.
Fashion Revolution Week is an annual event that was started in 2014 in acknowledgment
of the need for ethical and sustainable fashion practices following the tragedy of the Rana
Plaza fire where hundreds of garment workers were killed in Bangladesh in 2013.
The Designer Showcase will feature collections by Scenic Rim fashion designers to highlight sustainable locally made fashion from the region and will also include an Upcycle Op Shop Challenge which will be open to individuals of all ages and experience.
The Upcycle Op Shop Challenge offers five categories with one of these being a dedicated category for students only, although students are most welcome to enter other categories as well if they choose.
Categories have been created to reflect lifestyles and living in the Scenic Rim and to offer a broad variety of options to inspire clothing that could be worn by visitors and locals alike attending some of our much-loved annual events and activities. All are non-gender specific or age group limited. We welcome diversity!!
Categories are:
- Active & Healthy Scenic Rim: Sports and leisure wear, wellness apparel, active sportswear for the many varied activities on offer here, from swimming to yoga, hiking to equestrian, croquet to tennis, mountain biking, and more.
- Farm Gate Trails & Picnics: Casual wear for relaxed weekends touring the region or on the farm, enjoying the many delights of Eat Local Month, our Farm Gate Trails, and festivals.
- High Teas & Long Lunches: An excuse to dress up during the day and also enjoy delectable foods made from local produce right here in the Scenic Rim, where a little extra style will never go out of fashion.
- Scenic Rim Student Creatives: Showcasing and supporting our talented High School creatives to design and create their own clothing and explore textile design and construction. Any choice of garment genre is suitable: from sportswear to evening wear, fantasy, workwear, wearable art, whatever you wish to make.
- Show Ball Glitz & Glamour: Our region has a long history of show balls and gala evening charity events, where Evening Wear can be elegantly simple or a riot of glamorous extravagance.
Categories will be judged by sustainable fashion industry professionals, with prizemoney generously sponsored by Beaudesert and District Community Arts Projects Inc (BADCAP) and Boonah and District Cultural Foundation Inc.
Prizemoney for each category will be: First Prize $250, Second Prize $100, with an additional prize for the Most Creative Outfit $500 chosen from the five category winners.
Terms and conditions can be found here, and the online entry form can be found here. Entry forms are due midnight Wednesday 25 March.
The Upcycle Op Shop Challenge will feature in the morning, followed by the exciting Sustainable Fashion Designer Showcase after lunch, when nine Scenic Rim based slow fashion designers will join forces for the first time to show capsule collections of their unique creations.
Trade and designer displays, as well as hands-on stitching activities during the event, will fill out a full day of sustainable fashion inspiration, networking, and learning.
Tickets for this fabulous full day of sustainable fashion design are $25 including morning tea and a light lunch, and are available now here.
The
intention of this event is to encourage community to consider the impacts,
ethics, and benefits of slow vs fast fashion, the value of mending and
repurposing rather than throwing garments away to landfill, and the wellbeing
and mental health benefits of stitching, designing, and creating.
BOSS has been working in the sustainable fashion space for many years and holds annual Community Clothes Swaps, and monthly Share and Repair pop ups in Boonah as well. We also hold street stitching sessions to encourage and teach passers-by mending and slow stitching skills during Fashion Revolution Week on global Mend in Public Day, which this year for us will be Friday 24 April.
For more information regarding the showcase, contact Julie on 0435 992 798, or Erica on 0417 720 352 or email boonahboss@hotmail.com
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