Fashion Stills at Brunswick Street Gallery

sabio designs is proud to be a participant in the L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival  Cultural Program for 2011. sabio designs examines the intricacies of fashion communication and style. Using an in-depth design process focusing on geography, status and history this collection tells the story of Tasmania’s colonial history as documented in photography.  Tasmania’s environment is condusive with photography and settlers embraced the newest technologies to record the lives influential individuals and places. This exhibition is in Melbourne from March 18th - 31st at Brunswick St Gallery, Fitzroy, and in Hobart from April 8th - 23rd at Spacebar Gallery, Salamanca. View high resolution

sabio designs is proud to be a participant in the L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival  Cultural Program for 2011.

sabio designs examines the intricacies of fashion communication and style. Using an in-depth design process focusing on geography, status and history this collection tells the story of Tasmania’s colonial history as documented in photography. 

Tasmania’s environment is condusive with photography and settlers embraced the newest technologies to record the lives influential individuals and places.

This exhibition is in Melbourne from March 18th - 31st at Brunswick St Gallery, Fitzroy, and in Hobart from April 8th - 23rd at Spacebar Gallery, Salamanca.

Proudly announcing our first home-town stockist - Spacebar Gallery, located in Woobys Lane, Salamanca, Hobart. Opening its doors to the public this Saturday, December 11th 2010! View high resolution

Proudly announcing our first home-town stockist - Spacebar Gallery, located in Woobys Lane, Salamanca, Hobart.

Opening its doors to the public this Saturday, December 11th 2010!

Hobart Stockist…

We are super excited to finally be able to supply our local supporters and admirers with a place to view and acquire pieces from sabio designs current and up-coming collections.

The Spring/Summer collection Death or Liberty and a pre-season sneak peak of the Autumn/Winter collection Borrowed Company will now be available at the new retail gallery [Spacebar] which is situated within the Salamanca Arts Centre and can be accessed via Woobys Lane.

Spacebar will open their doors for the first time this Saturday, December 11th! Pop in and explore the newest gallery in Salamanca!

There hasn’t been enough time to organise a champagne fuelled fanfare which normally accompanies exciting occasions as this, hopefully there shall be an event in the coming months along with feedback and some happy customers!

Here is a preview for the autumn/winter ‘11 Ready-to-wear collection. This collection will be in-store March 2011. I have begun exploring Tasmania’s colonial buildings in more depth.  Details in the garments include prints of buildings such as the servants outhouse at Woolmers Estate, Longford, Rose Cottage which was once a black-smiths at Jericho, and a small cottage in Oatlands. Fabrics used in the new collection include Tasmanian and Australian wool, silk/linen blends, cotton, silk and leather trims.  I have continued using these natural fibres because of their handle and drape, and also their contextual appropriation within the concepts and narratives which inspired the collection. View high resolution

Here is a preview for the autumn/winter ‘11 Ready-to-wear collection. This collection will be in-store March 2011.

I have begun exploring Tasmania’s colonial buildings in more depth.  Details in the garments include prints of buildings such as the servants outhouse at Woolmers Estate, Longford, Rose Cottage which was once a black-smiths at Jericho, and a small cottage in Oatlands.

Fabrics used in the new collection include Tasmanian and Australian wool, silk/linen blends, cotton, silk and leather trims.  I have continued using these natural fibres because of their handle and drape, and also their contextual appropriation within the concepts and narratives which inspired the collection.

boards for the new autumn/winter ‘11 collection

For this collection I’m inspired by Tasmanian colonial architecture, both urban and rural. 

On foot in the city

Without the cumbersome particulars of having a car, I’ve again been exploring Hobart on foot.  I find inspiration in the urban landscape, the chronology of the architecture and its shapes, lines, textures and colours.  Ideas of silhouettes, colours and patterns are falling into frame.

I walked from the city to the suburbs and back again, noticing the subtleties and the not so subtle transitions in the psychogeography.  Once out in the burbs walking along the main road, feeling quite exposed to the oncoming traffic, I witnessed a domestic out the front of a 1920’s town house.   After moving off the main roads I discovered large stand stone buildings, with ornate decorative detail, scattered around the landscape and tucked away behind all types of 20th century houses.

After walking through cityscapes, traversing the present context of sounds and shape, I was conjuring new silhouettes and references to architectural detail in garment designs and prints.