Justin Chua
BA(Hons) Fashion Media and Industries, Class of 2021
Entry: POLYMORPHISM
Joshua Ng
BA(Hons) Fashion Design and Textiles, Class of 2021
LASALLE College of the Arts and Ong Shunmugam have announced the launch of the Fashion Forward Bursary and LASALLE x Ong Shunmugam Mentorship Programme, a first-of-its-kind initiative to support the next generation of fashion creatives in Singapore.
The word ‘fashion’ is changing: the way we know fashion today, in terms of runway trends, is expanding. Fashion is now a discipline that deals with physical and virtual bodies. It’s no longer just about tangible clothes, but about experiences: the way our bodies interact with spaces; creating avatars and alternate realities through the screen. Fashion educators in 2021 and beyond will continue to expand these perspectives and dialogues between students and ourselves. We want our students to become not just globally engaged creative thinkers, but also creative makers.
OPEN STUDIOS is the first-ever partnership between Cineleisure and LASALLE College of the Arts, targeted at engaging the next generation of creatives as well as giving back to the community.
Located on Level 2 of Cineleisure, OPEN STUDIOS will serve as an unusual city campus for LASALLE students to develop their creative thinking outside the standard school setting, and for them to create relevant work in a real-life retail environment. At the same time, mall visitors will have the opportunity to witness creativity in action and be inspired.
Lee Tianying was halfway through her Bachelor’s degree in business when she decided to drop out of school and switch her education path to the arts instead. She shared how self-studying art through online classes gave her the confidence and conviction to pursue her dreams, and she is currently a BA(Hons) Fashion Design and Textiles student at LASALLE.
Five BA(Hons) Fashion Media and Industries graduates had the opportunity of a lifetime to co-curate an exhibition at the Asian Civilisation Museum. Titled #SGFASHIONNOW, it showcases how locally-made garments fuse traditional tailoring, handicraft skills and modern elements. The graduates discuss their choice in featuring pieces designed by Baëlf Studio, Stylemart, Studio HHFZ and Time Taken to Make a Dress.
What started out as a competition, pitching our curatorial ideas for #SGFASHIONNOW organised by the Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) to a diverse panel of judges representing the fashion industry, turned into a huge opportunity that we would never have expected – a highly talked-about exhibition amongst Singapore’s fashion media and practitioners.
For their final-year projects, many graduates from LASALLE's School of Fashion were largely influenced by issues of sustainability, heritage and the pandemic. "Fashion is about the tangible and intangible embodied experience. After every pandemic, there is space for a re-birth and I think our students gave clear fashion statements on how they want to disrupt the current fashion system and reimagine it for a possible better future," said Circe Henestrosa, Head, School of Fashion, LASALLE.
LASALLE has collaborated with the Asian Civilisation Museum (ACM) to unveil its latest exhibition #SGFASHIONNOW, which showcases contemporary fashion from Singapore. This project offered five BA(Hons) Fashion Media and Industries students the opportunity to curate a public exhibition and their final selection presented works from Baelf Design, Stylemart, Studio HHFZ, and Time Taken to Make a Dress to tell a story about craftmanship.
The Asian Civilisation Museum's latest exhibition #SGFASHIONNOW offers a snapshot of Singapore's contemporary fashion landscape and for the first time, five students from LASALLE's BA(Hons) Fashion Media and Industries programme were part of the curatorial team. Student Celestine Wong discusses what she learnt from this collaboration and shares more about how craftmanship is part of Singapore's fashion identity.
