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Japanese fashion designer Dai Fujiwara at RMIT Gallery
Dai Fujiwara, Creative Director, ISSEY MIYAKE Creative Room, will be at RMIT
Gallery this week as part of The Endless Garment exhibition and the L’Oréal
Melbourne Fashion Festival.
Mr Fujiwara will present a public lecture on Wednesday, 17 March, from 6pm to
8pm at RMIT Storey Hall. He will speak about his recent works, and the creative
process of the ISSEY MIYAKE Collection.
RMIT Gallery Director, Suzanne Davies, said that as RMIT was the leading
educational institution for fashion and textile education in the southern hemisphere,
it was fitting that RMIT Gallery was hosting a public lecture by a fashion designer of
Mr Fujiwara’s calibre.
“We are thrilled that internationally renowned designer Dai Fujiwara has agreed to
give a public lecture specifically tied to this exhibition, which explores the new craft
of machine knitting,” Ms Davies said.
“We have had an overwhelming response to the public lecture from both students
and industry. They can view the ISSEY MIYAKE A-POC project at RMIT Gallery
and then hear how the concept was developed by its creator.”
Mr Fujiwara joined the Miyake Design Studio in 1994, after graduating from the
Dyeing and Weaving Design Course, Tama Art University.
After working as a member of the ISSEY MIYAKE Collection design staff, Mr
Fujiwara launched the A-POC project with Mr Issey Miyake in 1998. He was
awarded the Good Design Award for A-POC in 2000 and Mainichi Design Award
for A-POC design in 2003. In October 2006, he was appointed ISSEY MIYAKE
Creative Director.
Mr Fujiwara is now expanding from fashion into wide-ranging international genres
while participating in workshops and lectures in Japan and abroad.
Dai Fujiwara public lecture for RMIT Gallery: 17 March, 6-8pm, Storey Hall
auditorium. Limited seating is available for the lecture, bookings essential:
(03) 9925 1717.
The Endless Garment: The New Craft of Machine Knitting – at RMIT Gallery
until 21 March.
For media enquiries, photos and interviews: RMIT Gallery Media Coordinator,
Evelyn Tsitas, (03) 9925 1716, 0418 139 015, or evelyn.tsitas@rmit.edu.au.
15 March, 2010
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