The School of Fashion and Textiles is world-renowned as a dynamic and progressive educational leader whose impact influences the future of fashion and textiles. Informed by global awareness, astute knowledge of industry, and a commitment to responsible practice, the School leads in creative and entrepreneurial domains. Staff are engaged as both practitioners and researchers and are active as fashion and textile designers, curators, technology drivers, business innovators and industry leaders. Their expertise and active engagement with all levels of the industry allow students to stay up-to-date with current sector needs throughout their studies, meaning that graduates are highly sought after by industry and can find positions in all areas of the global fashion and textiles value chain. Students make their mark through sustainable and independent design practices and contribute significantly to management and business operations through strategic fashion entrepreneurship.
The School of Fashion and Textiles continues developing new program delivery environments. The main campus at Brunswick houses ‘state of the art’ facilities, including design studios, enterprise hubs, advanced manufacturing and bespoke making spaces. While the city campus has an integrated design, making, thinking workshop space for the 4th year of the Bachelor of Fashion (Design) (Honours), and Bachelor of Textiles (Design) (Honours), as well as Masters of Fashion (Design) and creative practice HDR candidates.
Student Name: Santiago Vender-Zambrano
Capsule collection title: Niño No Llores
Concept collection: Niño No Llores is a meditation on finding liberation within the suffocation of otherness and colonial indoctrination, using fashion design as my medium to gain awareness of myself as a complete human being and to connect cross-temporal links across my heritage and diaspora. This collection is an explosive depiction of my lived reality, my history, and my dreams as an Afro-Colombian individual; this collection is about the crying child on the steps of a bright blue house…I can hear him still.