Fashion aficionados in different eras tend to sought after different fashion trends and popular styles. Owning a personal design label that is being loved by the market and thus becomes a hot trendy label is the dream of every fashion designer. There are many very talented and creative young people in Macao and they all have the same passion and aspiration, working hard to go after this very same dream.
“Diploma Programme for Fashion Design and Manufacturing” is the key education programme organized by CPTTM. The objective is to cultivate fashion design talents for Macao while improving the level of local fashion design expertise. It is an 18-month programme which covers fashion design, fashion illustration skills, use of fabrics, technical terms, tailoring techniques and marketing. It is a first step for people who want to become a professional in the fashion industry.
A total of ten students completed the 2015/2016 programme. They have, with their own two hands, created their first fashion collection for the graduation show. In order to encourage the efforts of this young fashion designers and to offer the public an opportunity to appreciate the works of this group of talents, the Macao Fashion Gallery has especially organized the “Transformation – Works Exhibition of Diploma Course in Fashion Design and Manufacturing” to showcase the first collection of these ten new fashion designers.
A total of 13 pieces from the ten graduates will be shown at the exhibition. Items in display include that of championCelestino Maria Cordova, who had also won the Best Academic Achievement Award; First Runner-Up Yuna Leong who has also won the Best Color Coordination Award; and Second Runner-up Mickey Che, who has also won the Grand Trendy Award. Other graduates include Wind Mo, Jessica Lam, Jasmine Lai, Kary Cheng, Mini Tai, Sasa Sam and Sleepy Ngan. Each piece is a work of art with distinctive design style and characteristics. Their creative inspirations are quite diversified, from Japanese culture to electronic music, architectural structure, and natural environment. Techniques being used included indigo dyeing, digital fabric printing, 3D printing, and many different or latest fabric and design elements. They made good use of what they have learned in class, integrating their knowledge into their individual sense of beauty, using their skillful hands and creative minds to turn their interpretation of fashion into reality.
