Interview with two Fashion students from CIT

"Fashion is Art on the body"

Interview with Hannah and Morgan

Hannah and Morgan are current CIT fashion students, and they shared their veiws on the evolution of fashion.

 Their intrest in fashion begain at an early, and it something they hope to contiune throught their lives.

Describe fashion in three words

Hannah: well I hate the word fashion with a passion, ‘cause people say fashion, clothes, trend! There is so much more into it and we have to use that word. It is typically what we are doing, but not for a trend.

Morgan: I remember people asking me what do you want to do when your older, I’d responds oh a fashion designer, people would just roll their eyes. But now I can say it with so much confidence , I know what I’m doing, I know what I want to do, I know what I want to result with and it’s something I love doing. I love creating clothes I love the whole process of it. When people roll their eyes at you, they’re just not worth talking to! They ask “well where are you going to get in the world?” Well where are you going to get in the world? It’s one of the biggest industry/ markets in the world.

Hannah: In Australia I think its 2nd or 3rd industry making the most money. It makes billions of dollars every year. It’s not just the aesthetic side of it; it’s the functional side of it. of course it requires talent and brains; a lot of creativity.

Hannah: And coming up with new functions, that even the “eco” kind of world comes in, where they can come up with new things, so much technology goes into it, like technological fabric that has memory, electrical currents go through them. 

Morgan: There is so much technology and money put into the fashion industry It’s hard to describe in three words but, forever, changing and essential.

Hannah: last century, like coming up with new silhouettes we look at clothes and think oh that’s so 60s, 50’s to 20’s and whatever and we are starting to get into it again and we’re like oh fashion is just like a circle, but I really think we are breaking and coming into a new section with this new technology. The world that we are in, climate change and I think that’s going to bring a complete new trend that we haven’t seen before, so that’s when the cycle starts to die down, but I think it’s important to hold onto those, we will always have aspects, like we automatically think shoulder pads, oh they’re so 80s when really they are the 30’s, they first surfaced after a global crisis the great depression. The 80s a financial crisis, and just recently a financial crisis shoulder pads have come out straight after. 

Morgan: Well it is an ever changing thing and these days we’ll see things like oh that’s so typically 80s and there is lots of designers who just copy and may just change their fabric and things like that.  Then you see huge designers who really want to make a difference and they’ll take little aspects and they’ll make it there own and it becomes this era, this style of time we just can’t see it because we’re living in it.  In ten years time we’ll look back and realize that was actually new and original.

Hannah: But yeah Art for the body I have to say; they can be your three words.

What do you have planned for the future?

Morgan : I have no idea my plans are forever changing at first when I wanted to do fashion I also wanted to do three years at ANU textile design, I loved the idea of designing my own textiles. After being overseas last year, for a year. I really liked the idea of making shoes. So I think the future will involve more designing.  I don’t really want a job yet; I want to experience the world and study. I met a designer in Paris and she makes hats and pretty much she just told me “ learn as much as you can If people offer you something take it, learn it.’ She is a designer for Gucci and Chanel, she’s a huge designer and she’s like “Don’t ever plan on making money if you want to stay original and stay with your own company”. So learn as much as you can because she was telling me there was a hat she had to make, she had never made a hat like this before, even with 30 years experience of designing hats. She had no idea how to approach this hat because she’s never learnt.  So for me in the future involves more learning, learning whatever I can and giving whatever skills I have to people.

Hannah: Basically it’s the kind of industry that’s never ending for learning. Whereas you look at others, you go to University and you get your degree, you’re kinda sweet and you can get straight into your job. Where this is a never ending learning process.

Interview by: Hannah Dehelean Picture drawn by: Alice Costanzo