Avatar: from screenplay to screen print
Elle Simpas’ Avatar-inspired garment won second place in an international fashion competition.
Recent design graduate, Elle Simpas, will have the chance to study in one of the world's fashion capitals, after taking out second place in an international fashion competition.
The 21 year-old, who graduated from the Kangan Institute Centre of Fashion in Richmond last month, is thrilled to have won a one month scholarship at the Paris American Academy (PAA) for July next year.
The competition, run by the Institute of Textiles Apparel Association (ITAA) and PAA, required students to design garments based around the theme of 'Avatar'.
"It was a totally open theme and wasn't just about the film, it could be your own interpretation of it," Ms Simpas explains. "My inspiration was to do a representation of myself, I drew inspiration from my physical features and I manipulated the features I possess in the real world to represent a person in an avatar world, like a second identity."
Ms Simpas' final garment, a two-toned woollen coat with her 'avatar' design screen-printed onto the fabric and nails accessorising the lapel, was one of the top ten designs paraded for a panel of judges at the ITAA's conference in Montreal, earlier this year.
The Kangan Institute's Centre of Fashion millinery teacher, Melissa Jackson, told Neos Kosmos that Kangan submitted five students for the competition, with two making it to the final rounds.
"There were applicants from the world over, it was a good competition in terms of preparing the students to be more professional and presenting themselves," Ms Jackson said.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
More from this Section
- Back to school for Box Hill elderly
- Paniyiri in Brisbane
- What’s gambling really costing you?
- Οι Αρκάδες δώρισαν στο ίδρυμα «Αγάπη» $2,000
- 2012 Annual Hellenic Language Awards
- Kazantzis remembered
- John Cassavetes, the screen’s smoldering hero
- Odysseas Elytis: The language of poetry and the sanctity of light
- The line - live!
- Paschal Service and a big fry-up for Easter
-
Heavy metal fan Michela Rabia gets up close and personal with heavy metal editor Olivia Reppas.
-
Trivia night for cancer is on again! Enjoy a night filled with fun prizes, delicious mezes and a tad of healthy rivalry as all vie for the title of trivia master.
-
Nick Kaloterakis talks to Neos Kosmos about working with director James Cameron’s team to present a historically accurate reconstruction of the Titanic.
-
Language school groups have joined forces in a bid to pressure the ACT Government to increase funding for ethnic language schools in the ACT.
-
With only a little over half of Greek beaches manned by lifesavers, one Gold Coaster is doing his best to educate Greeks on swimming between the flags.
-
Compromise reached over new caretaker premier following tense meeting of party leaders.
-
Panayiotis Pikrammenos vows to safeguard country's 'standing, transition'.
-
The government and Jewish community condemned the leader of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn for saying there were no gas chambers in Nazi concentration camps.
-
Athina and her Daughters: a memoir of two worlds (in English and in Greek), by author Helen Nickas will be launched next week in Melbourne.
-
The 1st edition of the Greek Law Digest, The Ultimate Legal Guide to Investing in Greece has been launched.
-
Through the efforts of Father Antonios Mutyaba and his wife Charitini, poor and orphaned children in improverished Luweero Uganda have access to education, medical care, food and shelter. But even remote Luweero can't escape the clutches of the global financial crisis, with dwindling private contributions and escalating commodity prices creating a shaky future for these children.
-
The newly elected Premier of Queensland, the Hon Campbell Newman, attended the midnight Easter Saturday Service at the Greek Orhtodox Church of St George, South Brisbane.
-
Greek Superleague champions Olympiakos Pireaus are reportedly ready to make a bid for Glasgow Rangers goalkeeper Allan McGregor.
-
he Greek-Australian Cultural League (GCL) is funding scholarships for two students of Modern Greek at Monash University in Melbourne.
-
A new era began for the people of Kato Pyrgos and Limnitis on Thursday as the Limnitis crossing point, northwest of Cyprus, was opened during a ceremony by President of the Republic Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu.
-
The latest film starring Nia Vardalos in Athens.
-
The Federal Government is providing $215 million to assist General Motors Holden Australia's second best-selling vehicle manufacturer to keep its factories open in Australia.
-
Peter Kokotis looks at where all the Greek Australian soccer players have gone
-
Gaddafi is ruthless and brutal but a NATO intervention is not the answer
-
The Victorian Government has introduced legislation to enforce stricter penalties on people drinking alcohol whilst driving.
-
With the queues at Zara subsiding, Melbourne does it all again for UK store Topshop
-
Minx Nails is a genius alternative to nail polish and a new cult nail trend in Hollywood
-
UN mediator, Matthew Nimetz, calls for both Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to be 'flexible' on the naming issues.
-
The Greek influence over the development of milk bars is a place in history were Greek Australians really made a difference.
-
The World Press Photo exhibition Real People, Real Needs which highlights stark and graphic images of human suffering is currently on show in Limassol with Paphos and Larnaca on the schedule over the northern summer.
-
Dozens of prostitutes, most using headscarves or hoods to hide their faces, demonstrated in central Athens last week, demanding working licenses for brothels across Greece.
-
George Calombaris marks Mothers Day by sharing why his mother is special.
-
A survey shows Greece joins Italy and the Czech Republic on weak job prospects
Comments