Opening: Future Fashion 2025
Future Fashion is back for 2026, see the upcoming program here.
Join us for the opening of Future Fashion, an annual display spotlighting the next generation of Australian fashion designers. This exhibition features the collections of four stand-out graduate students from leading Sydney tertiary fashion and textiles schools shaping the future of fashion.
Gain insight into the creative practices of the featured graduate designers from TAFE NSW, Torrens University Australia, University of Technology Sydney and Whitehouse Institute of Design. Go behind the scenes of the Powerhouse Collection with curator-led tours and take part in hands-on workshops that explore 3D fashion design and material innovation.
Program
In Conversation
11am Future Fashion students Alec Boyajian, Shiva Yousefpourshahrivar, Yishan (Eva) Yao and Suzaan Stander discuss their graduate collections, artistic practices and how they imagine the future of fashion. Hosted by Laura Washington, Head of the Fashion Design Studio, TAFE NSW.
BTS: Collections Storage Tour
12.30pm and 1.30pm Join us for a behind the scenes look at more of our textile collection and storage spaces where we house the Powerhouse Collection.
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Powerhouse Materials: Textiles Talk
1.15pm and 2.15pm Join Powerhouse curators for an insightful talk on the objects featured in the new Powerhouse Materials: Textiles exhibition.
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Demonstration: Catwalk Photography with Torrens University Australia
1pm and 2pm Experience fashion photography in motion and gain insights from professional photographers in real time.
Workshops 10am–4pm
Generating 3D Forms with Whitehouse Institute of Design
Create paper-based sculptural forms and wearable accessories modelled on miniature mannequins or your own body.
CLO3D Experience with University of Technology Sydney
Visualise true-to-life virtual garments with a live VR demonstration of CLO3D fashion design software.
