Consider this an official shout out to all the young fashion designers out there (you know, the ones with the freakishly calloused fingers). We’re currently looking for designers to feature in our next issue’s photoshoot! Interested? It doesn’t matter what you design; mens or womens, day or evening wear, swimwear, jewellery, lingerie, pajamas or halloween costumes for your ferret… we wanna hear from you!

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Even if you have never experienced a mind-blowing arts and crafts orgasm like this little old lady, you can still hopefully appreciate art when you see it. And surely enough when I stumbled across ALLUSIVE COLLECTIONS - a collabrative art project that aims to showcase artists by using clothes as a canvas - I thought to myself “fuck, that’s cool”. But several minutes of Facebook stalking failed to provide me with enough information, so we asked founder, Jason Hazle, a few questions about Allusive Collections and how he hopes to spread the word(image) of local artists.


Who is behind Allusive Collections?
Allusive Collections was started by myself, I wanted to help promote new artists and have them involved in clothing, as well as selling their prints and holding exhibitions. The artwork on our shirts is hand drawn only, we want to stay away from anything graphical or done by a computer. Jesse Dolman and Will Duncan are my main two artists and they come up with the designs on the clothing.



Where are you guys based?
In Mermaid Beach on the Gold Coast.

Why did you guys decide to use clothing as a way to showcase different artists?
Clothing is just one of the ways we showcase the artists work. It’s a good way to promote the artists because so many people can view their work this way which then, hopefully, will get people interested in the company so they will check out the website or come to an exhibitions and see other displays by the artist which will help to get their name out there.



Do you think there is a fine line between art and fashion?
Art to me is just some drawing or painting and it’s up to the viewer whether to like it or not. Fashion, I think, is how someone tries to look good, so they are a little bit different in my opinion. What we are doing is art based clothing in the form of t-shirts, whether people like it because of the art or because they think it’s in fashion that’s for them to decide but I think the line is definitely there, I suppose they’re both creative expression.

What are your plans for the rest of the year?
We want to hold some more events with a bunch more artists and bands and hopefully create another range. We are only new so we are still trying to build and promote the company and we are hoping to get some more artists involved to promote.

We saw you guys had an exhibition last month which looked super rad! Any chance you’ll be putting on another one some time soon… maybe in Brisbane?
Our goal is to hold at least four a year and hopefully we can double that in future, we would love to start holding some interstate and if people would be interested in us holding one is brissy it is something we would defiantly be interested in, maybe Bats can cover it??



What’s your advice to other local artists who are looking to get their work seen?
Get a blog or a website going and promote your work, get involved in the art scene and start hitting up people who run events or galleries to see if they would be interested in showcasing you. If all else fails: hit up Allusive Collections.



Where can our readers find your threads?
At the moment we are stocked in, Black Anchor Collective, Hello Friend, House of Humility, Hollow & Whisker, Fred & Ginger, Atlas Divine and Mofo but you can check us out at allusivecollections.com if your after art work.

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Local Brisbane label, YELLOWCAKE, has just released their 3rd collection which designer Rachel Burke reluctantly admits was inspired by Enid Blyton’s novel The Faraway Tree - a book that was declared a favourite by Rachel’s older sister who then subsequently received years of torment for liking books whose characters were named “dick” and “fanny” (it was a weird time in the 1940s - a secret Blyton no doubt took to her grave).

And it was only recently that Rachel revisited the story, taking guilty pleasure in the acclaimed children novel, finding inspiration within its pages and turning words into garments for her new collection.

The collection captures the whimsical innocence and playfulness of the characters with lots of colourful patterns, yet to avoid looking like costumes, the dresses are brought to modern day with deep necklines and cheeky (yet tasteful) cut outs. Feast your eyes on the photoshoot for Yellowcake’s new collection, done by photographer Andrea Jankovic and also featuring our own blood (Bats’ team member Bette Ward) as a model.

I Heard They Eat Cigarettes have been giving metaphorical birth to some of the sickest tees and jeans over the years (not to mention throwing the biggest and baddest warehouse parties in and around Melbourne).

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