How Do I Look? Australian Designers Chat
11am - 1pm, 11th March at 25 Fraser St, Clunes.
Clunes Booktown collaborates with Chill Out Festival on Saturday 11 March for the special event ‘How Do I Look?’, a Saturday chat about queer fashion and costume design.
A colourful group of well-known artists, photographers, curators, creative producers, and designers will gather to chat all things queer fashion and costume design. Joining the conversation will be Gregory Ladner, Ashe, Joseph Noonan, and Jordyn Smith. The conversation will be chaired by Leigh Raymond, a journalist and writer with an eye for all things queer.
Followers of fashion are invited to come along to the event, dressed up or down in favourite queer fashion or even bring along a fashion item to show and tell. One of Australia’s most enduring fashion designers Gregory Ladner will be selling and signing copies of his entertaining autobiography A Boy and His Bear after the chat.
Gregory Ladner has had a remarkable fashion career spanning more than four decades. Gregory studied fashion at Swinburne University, worked for the legendary Melbourne establishment, Le Louvre, and was head-hunted to revive Hong Kong’s luxury fashion house, Shanghai Tang. Gregory is also the creator and designer of the hugely successful fashion accessory company that bears his name.
Angela Bailey is a curator, photographer and creative producer who is Vice President of the Australian Queer Archives and currently Frank Van Straten Fellow at Arts Centre Melbourne.
Ashe is a queer, multidisciplinary artist living and working on Dhudhuroa Country. He creates works that are both poetic and evocative, exploring the complexities and nuances of identity, belonging, and marginalization.
Joseph Noonan is a costume, set and production designer who has worked on award winning films and theatre productions; the Australian premiere of the opera of The Handmaid's Tale; the musical Sweet Charity; and queer cabaret for Mardi Gras.
Jordyn Smith is a Ballarat-based COVID-19 pandemic fashion graduate who is currently trying to find her place in industry. Jordyn is a fashion and footwear designer, with a budding interest in conserving textiles. This event is hosted by Clunes Booktown, a festival of everything storytelling and books hosted in the beautiful historic town of Clunes running March 25 - 26.
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25 Fraser Street, Clunes VIC 3370
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