Kangan Batman TAFE's Fashion Studies students to showcase their hat designs in a millinery soiree
3 October 2003
Some of the hats on display at the millinery soiree held last year at the Churches restaurant in Richmond.
Millinery students from Kangan Batman TAFE's Richmond campus will showcase their best of the best hat designs at a millinery soiree to be held at the Fenix Restaurant in Richmond on 15 October 2003 from 6.30pm.
The millinery soiree will also coincide with the launch of Kangan Batman TAFE’s new Fashion Industry Training Centre due to open in 2005.
The display will include designs by many award-winning students among them Catherine Grounds of Arthurs Creek who has won the Tertiary Student-Millinery Award at the 2003 Golden Gala Awards held in Wagga Wagga recently.
The soiree will include a display of hat designs, a parade and a data show of the work done by the students. Guests will include prominent members of the millinery and the fashion industry.
The students are busy preparing for the upcoming soiree. Catherine Grounds, award winning millinery student, feels that it is the class environment that makes the students the best in what they do.
“Class-room discussion is very valuable. We bounce our ideas off each other, respect and enjoy each other’s differences, appreciate the creativity and the experience of our teachers and all get on well together. All in all I feel it is team work that makes us succeed,” she says.
The past decade or so has seen a resurgence in millinery courses and Kangan Batman TAFE has a proven record of providing the best training in the field.
Architects and Interior Designers, Mclldowie Partners will also be presenting art-work and plans of the new fashion studies centre at the Kangan Batman TAFE Richmond campus due to open in the beginning of 2005. The construction of the centre is due to commence in November 2003.
Kangan Batman TAFE has received $3.5 million in State Government funding for the centre.
The current fashion school at Kangan Batman TAFE, which is currently based at its Broadmeadows campus, will shift to the Richmond campus and be renamed the Fashion Industry Training Centre.
According to Mandy Penton, the Manager of the Fashion Studies Department, the new centre will consist of a heritage-listed building which will be fully refurbished and linked to a new building by a glass walkway and atrium.
“The atrium will house a built-in catwalk for displaying the work done by our students and fashion shows. It will be like a showpiece for the fashion industry,” says Mandy.
