BA(Hons) Fashion Design and Textiles alumnus Rena Kok is the first Singaporean designer to be offered a collaboration with Shein, one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies in the world. The trendy China-based fashion retailer invited Rena to create an eight-piece collection and she saw this as an opportunity to reach new audiences.
The Straits Times: Designer Mazri Ismail plays with fluidity through his works
BA(Hons) Fashion Design and Textiles alumnus Mazri Ismail mixes masculine and feminine elements, as well as materials and silhouettes, in his designs. His fashion label Maz also specialises in modular garments, where pieces can be worn differently based on how a user manipulates the clothing.
LASALLE x RMIT: Imagining a post-COVID-19 world
What could a post-COVID-19 world look like? Would we be looking at a return to a pre-COVID normal, or a world that has adapted to new ways of living and working, and evolved to meet different needs?
Over a year on from the outbreak of the pandemic, these are questions that companies, governments and educational institutions alike are asking, and LASALLE’s Diploma in Fashion students took on the challenge of grappling with these issues in a collaborative project with RMIT University’s Diploma in Product Design.
Rohaizatul Azhar
Rohai is a lecturer at LASALLE’s School of Fashion, as well as a journalist who has spent a decade in publishing. Starting as an intern and stylist assistant with various publications in Singapore, he spent 4.5 years as a fashion and lifestyle journalist at Singapore's national broadsheet, the Straits Times, as well as its weekly fashion and beauty supplement, Urban.
See also
The LASALLE Show Exhibition 2021
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Exhibition, The LASALLE ShowThe LASALLE Show Exhibition is an annual exhibition by graduands from the Diploma, Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and Master of Arts programmes. Featuring the works of students from design, fine arts, film, animation, fashion, dance, music, theatre, Asian art histories, art therapy, arts management, arts pedagogy and practice and creative writing.
Book Launch: Embodied Performativity in Southeast Asia
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ConferenceThis is the launch event for Embodied performativity in Southeast Asia: Multidisciplinary corporealities, edited by Dr Stephanie Burridge with chapters by Dr Elizabeth de Roza and Shelly Quick; Dr Timothy O’Dwyer, Susan Sentler and Glenna Batson; Dinu Bodiciu, Dr Clare Veal and Dr Darren Moore.
Men’s Folio Designer of the Year Award
Latika Balachander
BA(Hons) Fashion Design and Textiles, Class of 2020
Entry: Blurred Bodies
The Straits Times: Fashioned for new beginnings
BA(Hons) Fashion Design and Textiles alumna Rena Kok has launched a new capsule collection that is exclusively available on an e-commerce platform managed by the Textile and Fashion Federation Singapore. As the winner of the Harper’s Bazaar NewGen Fashion Awards 2019, she was mentored by editor-in-chief Kenneth Goh and creative director Windy Aulia throughout the creation process. A bespoke designer by training, this seven-piece collection marks Rena’s first foray into the ready-to-wear market and she is excited to see where this opportunity takes her.
Design and Architecture: Developing a new way of thinking in design education
The next big thing in design is not going to be a new style of font or a penchant for primary colours.
Design, and design education, is about developing a way of thinking that can make everyday life easier to navigate.
From the way you move through a hospital, to integrating community needs and government departments, design makes a major impact on our lives.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought these concerns to the forefront more than ever.
Navigating through changing cultural and social contexts, designers must identify and reimagine their roles today.
