Unwrapped and Perth Fashion Festival 2009

While I was busy at work all day my gmail inbox getting filled with lots of interesting stuff. Long time coming actually, after nearly four weeks of boredom. Mind you I wasn’t actively looking for anything as I haven’t been that mobile due to an injury. I’m getting better now so back to business.

Image from Perth Fashion Festival 2008, Graduate Collection, Jessica Shirras

A couple of exciting media releases arrived today. One of them was about Unwrapped market place getting included in the Perth Fashion Festival 2009′s program.

What does it mean exactly? Well, new and upcoming talents will gain more exposure as Perth Fashion Festival is the biggest fashion event in Western Australia. Also, this means the program is becoming more diverse. It’s no longer just about mainstream fashion and major retailers. We’re are getting more of ‘fringe’ stuff which can only mean a good thing. Having said that Unwrapped is pretty major when it comes to the street market scene in Perth anyway.

Images from unwrapped South Perth, April 2009

I say to you all who are into designing clothes, jewellery and anything wearable to go and apply for your spot at The Sunday Best by Unwrapped. Applications will be accepted from Friday 10 July to Friday 31 July and are open to all WA designers that design and manufacture their products within Australia. Not much details are available at this point but check out the Unwrapped website a few days later. I also suggest sending a quick mail to unwrappedperth [at] gmail.com to get listed in their mailing list.

Although it’s a little cold things are gearing up in my neighbourhood. All graduate shows are lining up. I don’t say this often but watch this space. There will be interviews with student designers, well known designers, retailers and all fashion goodness all over the place. I’m happy to say I’ll be taking a week off from work to just cover Perth Fashion Festival 2009. How does that sound?