How the Australian Wearable Art Festival Inspired My Journey into Fashion as Storytelling

As some of you may already know, I’ve been honoured to be a finalist twice in the Australian Wearable Art Festival, an experience that changed the way I view both art and fashion forever. It was through this platform that I truly began to see fashion not as an industry, but as a canvas for expression a moving gallery where every thread, shape, and silhouette can speak a language of its own.

For me, fashion itself isn’t art. Traditional fashion chases trends, seasons, and sales it’s an economic engine that thrives on repetition and reinvention. Wearable art, on the other hand, breaks free from that cycle. It challenges convention. It invites chaos. It transforms materials into storytelling mediums, not commodities.

My approach has always been to treat wearable art like a painting that can move something that embodies narrative and emotion. Every piece I create tells a story: a moment of vulnerability, curiosity, or wonder that I want to share through form and texture.

Recently, I had the pleasure of working as a stylist-designer for Art Fashion Lifestyle magazine an incredible experience that allowed me to bring this philosophy to life. I was able to select pieces of my own work, place them on models, and create open storylines for the viewer to interpret. It’s one thing to hang art on a wall. It’s another to watch it breathe, move, and connect with human expression.

To me, that’s the essence of true wearable art the ability to create dreamlike worlds that transport us, even for a fleeting moment, into something magical and mystical. That intersection between human emotion and artistic form that’s where my passion lives.

As I continue to explore this space, I’m reminded that wearable art isn’t about fashioning beauty. It’s about revealing meaning stitching together stories that might otherwise remain untold.

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