ECU Contemporary Fashion 2009 – Bare Exhibition

I thought 2009 fashion and textile graduation shows were all done and dusted in December. As I pointed out though a few days ago in my post, ECU Contemporary Fashion 2009 graduates had their exhibition and parade just last night at the ECU Mt. Lawley Campus. I didn’t even know that ECU had such a course – Contemporary Fashion. It’s actually a part of the Bachelor of Contemporary Arts degree and you can have Contemporary Fashion as a major. There you go. If you’re thinking of studying fashion there’s another option for you.

From what I hear ECU’s Contemporary Fashion is more about conceptual and analytical study of fashion rather than industry,technic or commercially focused study. It is understandable as ECU is a tertiary institution. If you want the latter you’d opt for TAFE colleges.

Has it been the norm from the beginning? Not all schools do that but they all seem to want to have some sort of a display (be it formal under a banner of ‘Exhibition’ or informal with just a few dressed dummies) before any parade. Bare – ECU’s Exhibition/parade – was certainly not an informal one. It was all very interesting but it would have been better if I could find out who did what and what the concept was (sorry, if you guys did put your name tags there but I didn’t see them)

I guess most striking display was a corner filled with garments and black and white images covering the wall. Another one was Victoria Vidovich’s display of tulle based short dresses. Wonder what they are actually called. I’m sure my fashion expert readers will know.

The guest had more than two hours to enjoy the exhibition. (don’t think it was intentional) Anyway, I was slightly panicking as I could see that there was a ‘runway’ going across several rooms including a main stage outside with virtually no lighting. It was going to be one of those theatrical shows. I knew that I wouldn’t be able to get a decent shot for each garment. The models won’t stop for a ‘pose’. At any case, I had to make a decision – roam around or stay put. I opted to pick a spot and stay. Not sure if I made a right decision. I’d never know really.

So it happened the show was massively delayed. A model I know was actually walking around the venue without hair and make up done after 8pm..by then we’ve been there for 2 hours. The show didn’t start until after 8:45 ish. Okay, about the parade, I’ll let you be the judge as I’ll post them tomorrow. If you know my flickr and facebook account you’d have already seen them.

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