Fashion Capsules

Begin your Fashion Capsules journey at this collaboration with fashion label North. The capsule shares artwork by Aboriginal artists Hilda Nakamarra Rogers and Shanna Napanangka Williams. Their artwork is inspired by their Jukurrpa, or dreaming stories, each celebrating their culture and history.

Melbourne is known for its street art and made-to-measure fashion. It’s home to over 140 cultural backgrounds and its diversity continues to support these two characteristics of the city. Inspired by the market’s fresh produce, works include oversized corsages and elaborate bejewelled pieces from esteemed accessory makers and milliners.

Featuring: AKEXI FREEMAN & Tessa Blazey, Amanda May, Amano by Lorena Laing, Anastasia La Fey, Angie Jackman Design, Anita Marshall Millinery, Cappellazzo Couture, Chris Ran Lin DELPHINE GENIN,  ERIK-YVON, Felicity Northeast Millinery, Garments for the Grave, Grace Lillian Lee, Kim Fletcher Millinery Art, Kim Wiebenga, Lisa Carroll, Lisa Carroll, Louise Macdonald Milliner, Lisa Carroll, Louise Macdonald Milliner, Love Lotus Millinery, Melissa Jackson, Micky in The Van, Millinery Jill, MNDATORY, NAXINGTON, Paperlab, Rachel Henry Millinery, S!X, Sara Awamleh, Serena Lindeman Milliner, THAT Millinery, Victoria Triantafyllou and X NIHILO.

Located on Swanston Street in front of State Library Victoria, RMIT fashion and textiles students exhibit their work celebrating the ingenuity, creativity, resourcefulness and capacity to design within limitations of fabrication and scale. This capsule curates a selection of swatches that make up a garment, a design, and the potential for a larger piece. These swatches represent new thinking and future scope in line with the collective experience of COVID-19, and the challenges posed for the fashion community.

Featuring work from Briar Griffiths- Kemp, Adam Kassar, Cloe Johnston, Evangeline Hoare, Faith-Emily Bailey, Fotini Kazakeou, George Stewart, Iabelle Scopelitti, Charlotte Plumb, Louisa Christie, Louisa Petti, Madeline Woodman, Olivia Fagan, Olivia Perrignon, Rebecca Francis, Sharon Li, Tasha Radzi-Stewart and Yuzin Xie.

Get an insider’s look at the creative process of Melbourne-based artists, designers and makers as they perform their craft live in Emporium Melbourne. Watch this revolving cohort create works characteristic of their individual art practices in this open, fully functioning creative space located on Level 2 between the Scanlan Theodore and Zimmerman stores.

Featuring That Wig Guy and Simon Setter, Hannah Berry, Paula Maggs, VISIONBYALAIN, Millinery Jill and Corde Macrame.

Experience a colourful fantasy garden that juxtaposes elements of couture and nature. Visitors can immerse themselves in this Capsule which aims to help passers by escape from the outside world. It features experimental pieces that the designers have created without constraint.

Featuring work from Jason Grech, One Day, Troy Emery, Stephanie Spencer, Louise Macdonald, Jill Humphries, Felicity Northeast and Grace Lillian Lee.

This Fashion Capsule Piinpi: Contemporary Indigenous Fashion brings together a selection of garments and textiles by First Nations designers and artists from around Australia and celebrates Indigenous art, history and culture through the lens of contemporary fashion. Piinpi, an Indigenous word commonly used across regions of East Coast Cape York Peninsula, refers to Indigenous ‘seasonal changes’ and the regeneration of Country. Across the landscape of Indigenous fashion today designers and artists are sharing their stories through beautifully crafted fabrics and wearable art. The capsule is representative of the exhibition currently on display at Bendigo Art Gallery. 

Featuring work from Lyn-Al Young, Dora Kodjdjan Diaguma,  Tashara Roberts, Belinda Kalidjan Kuriniya, Jacinta Lamilami and Janet Marawarr

This capsule shares the story of a couple whose love is sustained by their passion for style and food. Depicting a local café, the artwork shows a meal being prepared by a Nonna who has seen the couple’s love grow from the beginning and while waiters prepare for the night ahead, the lovers only have eyes for each other.

Featuring work from Preston Zly at VAULT 389, Husk, BONAPARTE MEN’S BOUTIQUE, rpmmelbourne and Digby’s Boutique.