QUT's 10th graduating class of 24 will launch their final-year collections at Tenfold, a fabulous three-night showcase in Brisbane this month (November 19, 20 and 21).
Tenfold is designed to spectacularly mark a decade of QUT fashion graduates who are spread throughout the world working in all areas of the fashion industry in diverse creative careers.
Over the past 10 years, QUT fashion has produced a slew of award winning QUT fashion graduates and where are they now?
Jimmy Choo, Mimco, Rodd & Gunn, to name a few.
Name dropping aside, QUT Head of Fashion Kathleen Horton said graduates from QUT's fashion degrees had found fame and made their fortune in the highly competitive world of fashion around the world.
"Isabelle McGreevy is a design assistant at Australia's most exclusive accessories label, Mimco, Phoebe Younger is in digital marketing for one of the world's most-loved luxury brands, Jimmy Choo, while others have designed for iconic Australian labels - Anna McIntosh for Quicksilver and Jana Beer for Billabong," Ms Horton said.
"QUT fashion grads have also designed collections for Target (Gail Sorronda), Sportsgirl (Ana Diaz) and Hannah McDonald (Cotton On)."
QUT graduates are also leading the way in cutting edge independent design.
"Gail Reid of the Gail Sorronda label has forged a flourishing international career and a cult following from her Brisbane base, Clea Garrick of Limedrop has recently opened a flagship store in Melbourne's Flinders Lane and Jo Turner of Francis Leon, is selling her super chic leather wear in Harvey Nichols (London) and Barneys (New York City)."
Ms Horton said the world of fashion had many facets and QUT graduates had proved that they were capable of mixing it with the best that the industry had to offer.
"Every year we have a sell-out house over the three nights of our grad show and this year it will be even more extravagant as we celebrate the graduation class of 2014 and look back at the extraordinary variety of career paths our QUT fashion alumni have taken," she said.
"For example, Shilo Engelbrecht is living in Stockholm designing exquisite textiles for Alv, and you'll find Sophie Mollinson in London designing fashion prints while both Holly Ryan and Paula Walden have gone on to become successful jewellery designers.
"Another grad, John Prikryl is general manager of Rodd and Gunn and Ashlee Hill is a freelance stylist who's travelled the globe styling for Vogue."
Ms Horton said the most exciting thing about QUT graduates was the ways in which they were forging entirely new sorts of careers.
"In Brisbane, new ways of making fashion and its history accessible can be found in Nadia Buick and Madeleine King's online publication The Fashion Archives, which documents Queensland fashion-makers.
"Carla Van Lunn and Carla Binotto's partnership, Maison Briz Vegas, recently showed an experimental recycled artisanal collection at Artisan Queensland.
"QUT's contribution to Brisbane's fashion culture can also be seen in the work of The Stitchery Collective which is currently running a public program at GoMA in connection with the Future Beauty Exhibition."
Tickets to the not-to-be-missed Tenfold are available here.
Media contact: Niki Widdowson, QUT media officer, 07 3138 2999 or n.widdowson@qut.edu.au.
