Check out and support the area’s newest fashion designers, makers and menders.
ARTFIT is a 10-week sustainable fashion design program, looking at self expression through repair, decoration and upcycling.
During the program, these artists have imagined, created, and upcycled their own new work with the guidance of world-renowned designer, Gary Bigeni.
Join us for a fashion show celebrating their work on Saturday 27 June at Bankstown Arts Centre, featuring local DJ joj bouk.
ARTFIT Fashion Show
Bankstown Arts Centre
5 Olympic Pde, Bankstown
Saturday 27 June
12-3pm
Featuring work by: Aluat Doong, Asma Nayim Ullah, BEA, Caroline Lie, Isaac Fenech, Jashi K, Lucy (Thi Ngoc Le Nguyen), Nae, Ramneek Thind, Rana, (Rani) Maharani Sirris, Safa Al-Bekaa, Saffy Lazenby, Sophie Lambourne, Tanish Tanjil, and Zara Saad
This program is generously supported by the St George Foundation.
About ArtFIT Mentor: Gary Bigeni
Gary Bigeni pushes the limits of fashion as individual expression through his custom made-to-order fine art collections.
Even as a young Maltese boy living in Sydney, Australia with his three siblings and mother, creativity was always present for Gary Bigeni. As a child he would sneak into his mother’s wardrobe and cut large circles out of the bottom of her dresses so he could create collections for his GI Joes and Barbies. Years later, following fashion training at East Sydney Tech, Gary Bigeni launched his eponymous label and secured himself as part of the Australian fashion cohort.
With multiple fashion week shows, presentations, artist collaborations and celebrity muses, Bigeni built a reputation for masterful drape, intelligent silhouettes and artful use of colour. Over time, Gary Bigeni’s collections have evolved; whilst still created on a foundation of masterful fabric manipulation and soft tailoring, his once quiet palette now exudes the vibrance and joy of his own style and personality.
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