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Enterprise Legal Fashion Week 2023
The Enterprise Legal Fashion Week is an annual event held as a prelude to the Fairholme Spring Fair.
The aim of the Enterprise Legal Fashion Week is to celebrate and promote fashion in the Toowoomba Region and provide students and interested adults with a variety of opportunities through which they can learn about and experience the fashion industry from a variety of perspectives.
- Fairholme Fashion Awards
- Fairholme Fashion Parade
- Pop-Up Market
Thanks to our major sponsor:
2023 Enterprise Legal Fashion Week Theme
Whimsical Garden
This year we celebrate country garden flowers and trees and take inspiration from the book, ‘Secret Garden’, a classic English Novel. The romance of our whimsical garden theme sets a perfect backdrop of inspiration.
In the creation of your design/s, we ask you to consider the environment in the natural and sustainable fabrics you choose to use.
Be inspired by the playfully, quaint, or fanciful theme, creating an ensemble that is a self-expression of your creativity for the season Spring/Summer 2023.
2023 Fairholme Fashion Awards
Award Categories – Producing/Sewing an ‘Outfit’
We invite fashion designers from the Southwest and Southeast Queensland regions to submit original fashion ensembles for judging in the 2023 Fairholme Fashion Awards.
Category One
Open Category (18 years & older)
Entry fee $30 per entry
Category Two
Senior School Category (Yrs 10-12)
Entry fee $10 per entry
Category Three
Middle School Category (Yrs 7-9)
Entry fee $10 per entry
The above Categories invites you to try your hand at Producing/ Sewing an “Outfit” inspired by the theme context. Your outfit should celebrate everything playful, fanciful and quaint in a whimsical interpretation of lively prints and colours for Spring/Summer 2023.
Submission Requirements
Your Produced/Sewn Outfit must reflect the theme context:
- The outfit must comprise of a 90% Natural Fibres/Fabrics.
- The outfit must be hand made from start to finish by the entrant.
- Made to fit a Fairholme model (student) between sizes 8 to 16.
- The outfit must reflect original ideas inspired by the ‘Whimsical Garden’ theme and noted through an A4 mood board which includes sketches of proposed design/s
- May use a commercial pattern that is adapted to suit the brief
- Photos (at least 3) of the construction process and evidence of the recycled outfit used.
This category will be judged on the following criteria:
| Criteria | Possible Score |
|---|---|
| Creative use of Fabrics | 10 |
| Degree of Difficulty | 10 |
| Garment Construction/ sewing skills | 10 |
| Originality v/s Inspiration | 10 |
| Catwalk Judging | |
| Catwalk Appeal: impact of the visual effects | 10 |
| TOTAL SCORE | 50 |
It is essential that the Entry Conditions » are read prior to commencing design work.
Note: All Entries and documentation (mood board and photos) are submitted to Fairholme Administration, Wirra Wirra Street, no later than 4pm Monday 16 October 2023.
Please allow time for postage if entries are to be sent to ensure garments arrive by submission date.
Entry Fees: See above.
Cash Prizes
Open - Category One
Open Champion Designer - $850
Open Emerging Designer - $450
Senior (Years 10-12) - Category Two
Senior School Champion Designer - $400
Senior School Encouragement Award - $200
Middle (Years 7-9) - Category Three
Middle School Champion Designer - $300
Middle School Encouragement Award - $100 Grand Central Gift Voucher and $50
Other Prizes
Year 11 or 12 Emerging Student Designer - 3-Day Workshop at the Whitehouse Institute of Design
Emerging Model - Kaye Foley Workshop valued at $900
Fairholme Fashion Parade
The Enterprise Legal Fashion Week culminates with the Fairholme Fashion Awards where the winners of the three categories will be announced.
Saturday 21 October 2023: Fairholme Fashion Parade
Doors open at 10am for 10.30am start
Venue: College Assembly Hall
Cost: $15. Tickets can be purchased at the door.
Pop-Up Market
Join us for an evening of Fashion & Art at the Enterprise Legal Fashion Week Pop-Up Market.
Browse our stalls of pre-loved fashion and wander through the gorgeous art of The Toowoomba Gallery, while indulging in wine and cheese.
Date: Wednesday 18 October 2023
Time: From 5.30pm
Venue: The Toowoomba Gallery, 3 Railway Street
Free Entry
Fashion Breakfast
Join us for a special Fashion Week Event featuring Fairholme Old Girl, Georgina Pola and breakfast by Impressions.
Georgina Pola was a third generation Fairholme girl, graduating in 2013. Completing a Bachelor of Design at Whitehouse Institute of Design in 2019, Georgina was chosen to be one of the graduates of the year to present at the ‘Emerging Designer’ showcase. In 2020, Georgina studied her Master of Design with her exegesis and post-graduate collection focusing on the production and subcultural style of ‘upcycled’ clothing. This post-grad collection was chosen to present at Melbourne Fashion Week Student Runway for 2020.
Georgina has also had her designs featured in Fashion Journal, Cobber Magazine, advertisements for Crumpler and, her favourite, an advertisement for Nike. Her designs have also been worn by triathletes, models and musicians, including Illy and Tones and I.
Date: Friday 20 October 2023
Time: 7am - 8.15am
Venue: Fairholme Homestead
Cost: $30 per person
Please purchase tickets prior to the event.
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