Belle Flaneur graduates
Last night we graduated. Some graduated with a Diploma of Visual Merchandising from TAFE Sydney Institute, others graduated with a Bachelor of Education in Adult Education from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Together we are the founding collaborators of Belle Flaneur – a progressive, experiential & collaborative learning space. We celebrate each individuals creative…
17 May 2012
Surfaced – Reportage captured by Sheree Aitken
Surfaced – Reportage captured by Sheree Aitken Submerged in the deep blue sea, swimming with creatures who have escaped to an underwater world of dreams and possibilities… looking through the reflection, I breathe in the surrounding water and let it run through me, taking me under and pulling me in. The echoes of mermaids voices…
15 May 2012
Surfaced – from sea to shallow land
Surfaced – from sea to shallow land Photos – ishootmermaids Stylists – Nicole Ashley & Lara Camilleri Models – Elisha Galic & Steph Rodrigues Hair – Samantha Lee Make-up – Casey Nobel On set photos – Sheree Aitken & Steph Scortis (reportage posts soon to follow) Metal hand crafted head pieces & armlets – Elle…
12 May 2012
Mei + Picchi mannequin sale & Robby Ingham window bump out!
Be sure to catch the Robby Ingham Access All Areas windows before it’s too late. They look different again in the white light! We are out of the blue, we ’accessed all areas’ & we’ll be ready to bump out next week & access other places, spaces & faces Thank you Reverse Garbage for another…
4 May 2012
ANTHROPOLOGIE reef awareness window installation
Anthroplogie creating as always, beautiful hand crafted props in their original window installation concepts. Currently they’re bringing genius design & underwater reef awareness to their audience. One world, one ocean & a vanishing beauty. Anthropologie from art to activism!
2 May 2012
Belle Flaneur cocoons Danielle Chiel & Mie+Picchi
Who: Lara Camilleri, Sheree Aitken & Nicole Ashley @ Belle Flaneur What: Naturally Nude Cocooned in Wool for Danielle Chiel - Mei & Picchi mannequins cocooned in Australian luxury hand wool knits & hand crafted headpieces. Where: Danielle Chiel, Double Bay, Sydney Why: To celebrate Australian Wool Week & to link the window concept to…
1 May 2012
Belle Flaneur Splash down
We’re on a roll & wading deeper into the blue. Lara Camilleri & Nicole Ashley are driving our Mermaid inspired fashion shoot as the 2nd phase of the oceanic awareness concept. Supporting David Hempton’s petition for ‘Passive Use Areas’ Bondi beach & resurrecting the Bondi Mermaid sculptures. Bondi Mermaids on Vimeo www.bondimermaids.com From researching Ben…
17 April 2012
Belle Flaneur celebrates Mei & Picchi mannequins
Thank you Karen Lewis at Mei & Picchi for coming on board for this underwater, backstage, front row Fashion Week extraveganza in Sydney! The Mei & Picchi gloss white mannequins are perfectly devine for our fashion installation. Twenty five boxed up manni’s received by BF’s Nik Ashley, unpacked & put together by an appreciative audience…
16 April 2012
Aqua Siren by Toni Daniels & head jewellery by Elle Hopton
Offer a collection of metal pieces, metal cutters, plyers, paint, wire & a mission to create something spectacular in the artistic hands of both Toni Daniels and Elle Hopton and watch the wheels of imagination start to turn. We are so excited to post these creations we have changed our Belle Flaneur masthead (that sits…
14 April 2012
Mei & Picchi Mannequins in all their glory by Dave Thomas
Into James’s blue lighting design we dive, swim & sustain at Robby Ingham stores Oxford St and Directions Double Bay. James with the cool support of Jon Watts both pumped up their big blue hearts to bring this blue dream into spectacular lighting reality…but only just enough reality…for pure creation is but a dream… It’s time to…
12 April 2012
Belle Flaneur’s Joan Banda presents Luminous Tide for Robby Ingham
Joan Banda’s hand went straight up & he siezed the opportunity of creating the ‘ah ha light bulb moment’ installation piece at Robby Ingham’s Access All Areas Fashion week 2012, when it was first presented for collaboration. Joan a lover of light & movement charged forth & built his ‘Luminous Tide’- a two meter high…
9 April 2012
Belle Flaneur’s Joshua Lunney presents Liquid Silver for Robby Ingham
Joshua Lunney’s mermaid is a seductress of sublime beauty, teasing us with alluring sophistication yet displaying a vicious streak of metallic shimmer. After countless hours of crafting the mermaid tail shape to fit the Mei & Picchi mannequin with wire, metal shards, repurposed belt buckles, lights & over 3000 blue hand tipped cable ties (all…
4 April 2012
Belle Flaneur-Lara Camilleri inspires 4 Robby Ingham ‘Access All Areas’
What a privileged it was to sit, collaborate & convey this audacious installation concept to Robby Ingham and his power retail manager Sue Rainger. An overwhelming experience for me, a young budding stylist & especially on the day of my 22nd birthday! What more could a young stylist ask for than working alongside such talented…
2 April 2012
Belle Flaneur presents Robby Ingham Access All Areas 2012 Fashion Week
Tails up! Belle Flaneur’s next sustainable concept installation is underway! We will be front row, back stage, in the paparazzi pit & accessing all areas to present Robby Ingham 2012 Fashion Week. Submerged in a hue of blue this oceanic awareness installation incorporates repurposing objects & transforming discarded materials into a sculptural dreamscape. We are…
31 March 2012
Anti-Gravity by Nickola Bowden
Who: Nickola Bowden What: ANTI-GRAVITY - denim clad upside down hanging mannequins installed in a collection of industrial memories. Where: Visual Merchandising Department, TAFE Sydney Institute Why: Originally inspired by heavy industrialism and its many facades, lines and shapes drove me to create a window reflective of the longevity of materials such as wood and…
20 March 2012
Heidi Collett – Beach House No. 9
“To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.” Isaac Newton Introducing Heidi Collett, a young beach combing installation artist, whose creation No. 9, is made of found objects sourced from her local beach- both rubbish & natures refuge. We sat upon No.9′s edge…
16 March 2012
Reptilia Sun Scorched Warrior by Lara Camilleri
This Sun Scorched Warrior fashion story is a submission for Mimco’s Dreamwarp Society. Mimco is hosting a styling competition & this collaborative fashion story needs your vote! Get thee to Mimco’s Dreamwarp Society & LIKE The Sun Scorched Warrior- love her up! The dreaming of this sequence is of a sun scorched land. This reptile warrior…
7 March 2012
The Making of REPTILIA – fashion editorial by Lara Camilleri
Inspired by sea, sand, Mimco’s colour descriptors & concept brief- a Sun Scorched Warrior was born! An uber early start to the day meant we greeted our sun in shining glory. Sparkling across the landscape & reflecting the shimmering colours of black, petrol, charcoal, bronze, milky way and white the desert dreaming materialised. Sun blazing rays…
7 March 2012
Belle Flaneur loving the free fall!
Sometimes you just gotta let go & free fall into another stratosphere…call it what you will! Take the meaningful journey. Glow! We found this fantastic site for free falling into the creating zone! Check it out for more genius creations
2 March 2012
Belle Flaneur does Gear & Surface
We’re loving the contrast of this giant structure on the sandy strip where the sea meets the land at Manly beach. The gear on this surface created some amazing shapes & patterns. There were unfortunately no waves for the surf carnival so we took in the sport of capturing the other sights in, on &…
19 February 2012
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