Fashion

a bit of competition um will get anyone a bit fired up

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it's a bit of a push adding something extra into the curriculum and i think i like the drive that drive for competition [Music] focusing on materials that mx30 has and then kind of working with that instead of just going everywhere i was honestly interested in pushing myself [Music] being from australia and like sort of very inspired by sort of this mad maxi sort of australian thing i think i want to capture that [Music] so i am in it for the journey but you know in it to win it you know [Laughter] my name is maggie woods i'm the founder and creative director of victorian woods we're an australian fashion brand that focuses on very simple design and an underlying passion for sustainability so there could almost be off cuts of it as well yeah just structure on the body i think it's okay to start with a more conceptual way of thinking hopefully you know i could bring a little bit of a discussion around timelessness i've elected to really focus on using magnets and combining that with like clothing and just seeing sort of how they can change the form i think when i was like looking through the um mx30 it just looked smooth you know i'd be looking at maybe there's some really nice details of construction in other garments so whether you're looking like high performance or something like that some different types of kind of stitches could be really interesting to work with that's cool because i've to really like dove into those so i think it would be really interesting to see what happens i've been focusing on the idea of industrial materials but i've also explored the idea of movement through draping and yeah the movement of fabric

my concept for my designs kind of revolves around weaving and the idea that the body is alone it links back to the framework of a car you know when you make a car you have to build the metal frame first and then you create the sculpture around that what's happening with the typography of the numbers um so here i was really kind of inspired by the embossing on the mazda car so i kind of wanted to recreate that with certain numbers so i created a coordinates and i've weaved them together and i could really see that being reflected back onto the garment the sense of like layering the sense of like grittiness and yeah and connection to the to the earth that's sort of what i feel connects me to the car i think you're doing the right thing with your materiality and choices now it's really looking at other design um products and other design disciplines so really get in and have a look at how a tent's made take some of those ideas and then bring it back into apparel ultimately fashion is about how people want to feel you