Fashion - Bachelor

EPHEMERA

Ephemera: ‘lasting only a day’
Ephemera explores a feeling of transition; it's moving towards the understanding that memories are what make a person. The reason moments in life are so significant is because you can look back on them to re evoke what you felt. Throughout the collection, a range of memorabilia items were used to tell the story of a persons life as digital media advances.

Ava O'Halloran

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Love Notes

The Love Notes Skirt explores the preservation of affection through the written word. Crafted from textured suiting, the skirt features a sculptural accordion pleat section, constructed from vintage love letters. They capture the intimate correspondence of soldiers writing home in wartime. As one of the earliest forms of preserving memory, these letters become a way of keeping their stories and sentiments alive.
The skirt has been paired with a pin tucked cape, made of a stretch cotton twill from The Fabric Store, and a leather top made from recycled leather offcuts sourced from Reverse Garbage.

Negative Space

The Negative Space silhouette is comprised of crystal organza trousers, that explore the preservation of memories through the remnants of someone else’s past. Salvaged film negatives, were resin-coated and given a second life. They form a sculptural cage around the hips, in which each negative carries a fragment of another life. Transforming forgotten photographs into wearable artefacts. In addition, the pants have been paired with a blue knit top and an organza over shirt, with all fabrics being sourced from The Nest.

After the Music

The After the Music dress reimagines discarded cassette tapes as cascading, tassel-like tiers, bringing movement, texture into a corset style maxi dress. Paired with 100% cotton sourced from The Nest, the design transforms forgotten remnants of music into a statement of materiality and memory.

The Scrapbook

The Scrapbook jacket features an array of personal photos stitched into the main leather body, creating a wearable archive of memories. Alongside these, 3d cubes symbolise the fragments of identity and experience held beneath the skin, longing to be seen, but being held back under the skin.

This jacket has been paired with a darted leather bikini top, and a pin tucked, silk chiffon skirt, sourced from The Nest.

Ava O'Halloran

Ava is a Brisbane based fashion designer, she uses her designs as a form of self-expression. Exploring details of her life and inspirations in a transformed way, through the use of unexpected materials and sculptural elements that bring her ideas to life.

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