Mission: To create and work with the Brands Of The Future©

At Newromantic, we work to a core philosophy, the New Luxury© - a human-centered, circular, and responsible fashion, retail and textile economy.

We have developed a unique methodology - the Brand of The Future© which empowers and enables brands to transform their operations to protect, respect, and nurture the planet, and its people. This methodology is independent, but has been created to align with GRI standards, Bcorp standards, Australian Fashion TM and the United Nation’s Sustainable Development goals.

Working closely with our portfolio as their external sustainability & impact team, we drive meaningful and results-driven cultural transformation, enabling the next generation of cross-functional responsible brand leaders. We believe that the future leaders of resilient and healthy organisations are those that have a core understanding of purpose as a key cultural elements of a brand, and how to integrate society, environment, and economy into key operational decisions.

Our approach is positive and pragmatic, data and science-driven leaving members of the organisation excited to see opportunities over challenges.

My Name is Tracey Fincham. I am a fully twice accredited Personal Stylist, Image consultant and Founder of Style Central.
Based in Mackay on the beautiful Great Barrier Reef, I enjoy assisting clients throughout Queensland’s east coast and the Whitsundays down to Brisbane and the Gold Coast with looking and feeling great.
With over 15 years experience as a Personal Stylist, I have had the pleasure of managing and styling for many of Australia’s top Fashion Houses, including industry icons such as Carla Zampatti.
I have the privilege of working with many Celebrities, Public Figures, Corporate High Flyers and hundreds of amazing everyday women and men.
I began my career in the fashion industry obtaining my Diploma from the Australian College of Professional Styling and more recently updated and expanded my skills with the Professional Styling Academy.
Founding my own business was a natural progression as the demand for my services grew. I want to share my knowledge with my clients and my goal is to educate and inspire them to become the best version of themselves through creating their own individual style.

Offering Fashion presentation photography, Perfomance fashion photography, and Fine Art Photography. Our parent company, Jan Jeltes Ecosystems introduces a world of fashion content creation and aims to support premium clientele.

We’re a social enterprise that manage one of Australia’s biggest sustainability and community campaigns from September to November each year. The program works in partnership with governments and the private sector and encourages the reuse of pre loved goods and builds stronger more connected communities.

What we do is based on circular economy principles. Through the simple act of a garage sale, tens of thousands of them over two weekends, we aim to:

- Promote the buying and selling of pre-loved stuff
- Help Australians to see the positive difference their everyday actions can make
- Divert useable items from landfill
- Support communities and good causes to make or save money

UTS is the top-ranked young university in Australia. Our vision is to be a leading public university of technology recognised for our global impact. We’re known for our innovative teaching. We’re committed to practical innovation and research that benefits industry and society. We believe in social change to create a more just and equal world. We are creating Australia's first Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Fashion + Textiles with TAFE NSW.

You can study the creative and technical skills for fashion design and textiles development; or study the enterprise skills to work in fashion business. Free parking, Computer Aided Design (CAD) patternmaking, grading and illustration facilities, world class fashion design and textile forecasting resources, over 80 specialised industrial sewing machines, and a staff of fashion industry specialists, are key to our successes with our industry relevant courses, graduate employment outcomes and recognition in the sector.

Our courses include live work design projects where you will be involved in external design exhibits and Perth fashion shows, meeting guest lecturers, industry excursions, design internships and designing for local Western Australian labels. Our graduates work here and overseas in fashion design, fashion production management, patternmaking, specialist construction, sourcing and buying, spec-writing, fashion event management, fashion marketing and social media, e-commerce, small business ownership and more

We offer support and consulting for your sustainable and ethical design and product development requirements.
We also create sustainable design and industry workshops for students, groups and industry.

Our founder Natalie Johnson is an NFT Thought Leader and keynote speaker. Our team has extensive experience in digital fashion, 3D wearables, blockchain, NFTs and the metaverse. We can help create strategies for your brand to enter the NFT and Metaverse space, or assist with your current plans. We can create 3D renders of your garments, accessories and shoes. We can create an NFT marketplace for your brand and/or you can sell on our neuno marketplace - a destination for Fashion NFTs and digital wearables.

Think of a circular jigsaw where garments + textile resources come in and out of our circular systems to ensure they are made sustainably, plus the "waste" stays local and out of landfill and the resources remain at their highest value for longer.

We REPLACE unsustainable textiles, including a new development CircStretch textile where we have designed out toxic plastic microfibres from stretch clothing. CircStretch blends natural fibres with the world’s first Cradle To Cradle® Products Innovation Institute Gold Level Material Health Certified elastane yarn that is also Certified by the Hohenstein Institute as 100% non-toxic as it breaks down making it safe to home compost.

We offer a smart thread solution to create advanced e-textiles for supply chain management from fibre to "waste" plus QR Code customer engagement linking to existing IT systems for wholesale, transport, data collection then transfer to blockchain when it reaches the Circular Textile Waste Service.

Through our Circular Textile Precincts we train staff to set up our unique circular systems to provide jobs suited to the individuals skillset. We valorise and redistribute via our existing circular streams to keep 100% of the jobs and resources onshore.

Our Circular Textile Waste Service can collect unwearable and unusable garment and textile waste to reuse, repair, redesign and repurpose through four main circular textile systems. Work with us to create circular design systems to inspire your customers and become circular industry leaders.

Established in 2009, The Social Studio is a recognised leader in arts-based social enterprise. We offer free training in garment-making to people from refugee and new migrant backgrounds through our education partner RMIT, delivering Cert III and pre-accredited programs within a flexible and supportive learning environment.

Our school shares space with our ECA-accredited manufacturing studio, giving students first-hand exposure to the industry as well as the opportunity for paid internships with our talented team of makers. We offer CMT across a range of apparel and homewares products and can also provide additional pattern making, product development and textile design services.

Our online and bricks and mortar retail stores exclusively stock BIPOC makers and brands and is a training and community space for culturally diverse young people. We collaborate with brands and artists across a range of art forms and also create our own in-house label from upcycled and donated fabrics.

All profits from our retail and manufacturing social enterprises support our education programs for refugee and new migrant young people.

Located in the heart of Melbourne's fashion precinct, Kangan Institute’s Creative + Skills Campus based in Cremorne, is an exciting innovation hub focused on professional fashion training in Australia.

Our world-class faculty with extensive industry experience and connections cater to the needs of the ever-changing and highly competitive fashion industry, delivering training programs in fashion design and business, millinery, and hair, barbering and beauty.

The boutique campus attracts more than 800 local and international students as well as the industry elite for a range of apprenticeships, certificates, diplomas, advanced diplomas through to customised industry programs. We have partnered with leading Australian universities to provide our students with pathways in to higher education.

Students have access to the latest digital technologies in the purpose-built campus including runway facilities, the retail training centre, state-of-the-art textile and manufacturing hub and our hair and beauty training salon.

The rigorously updated curriculum coupled with practical industry-based internships and personalised approach to training provides our graduates with valuable insights into the dynamics of the fashion retail value chain and relevant industry skills to succeed in the industry.

Our 6-week pre-accelerator program ensures that our designers can confidently showcase their work at our retail pop-up. It acts as a launchpad to connect them with consumers, buyers, the media, and the broader fashion community.

Melbourne Fashion Hub provides a safe and supportive environment for Melbourne fashion design students to help them determine which future direction they’d like to take themselves and their practice within the fashion industry.

In 2020 Value the Citizen conducted a research project addressing the lack of Australian-based contextualized research in circular design and product development in the fashion sector. As 80% of a products environmental impact is determined at the design phase, and with 88% of Australian apparel manufacture made up of SMEs, this project focused on the design processes and associated business models of fashion SMEs as an influential group for systems change to the linear take/make/waste fashion model widely operating in Australia.

With a core framework of product stewardship and employing design-thinking strategies; the SME’s in this research are building new design processes, new business models and new relationships around circular purpose. The project goal was a visual, communicative and accessible tool that could be distributed widely to stakeholders for education, a pathway for change and leverage for transformative action.
Importantly, the research identified the need for wider stakeholder support for SMEs and larger enterprise in moving to circular and product stewardship approaches. This takes the form of education of the community and industry; legislation and mandating around the collection and disposal of textile waste; and investment in infrastructure and technologies.

This research and the Design Map and Digital Article developed from this project are tools to support the pathway to circularity in the Australian fashion industry; visually storytelling the complex interrelated relationships and strategies of circularity in an Australian fashion context to the diverse stakeholders involved.

Fashion Equipped provides consulting, mentorship and online learning for all stages of planning, launching and growing a fashion business, giving our clients access to an unrivalled knowledge bank and decades of expertise.

We work with fashion start-ups, designers, brands, retailers, entrepreneurs and established six and seven figure businesses, tailoring our services to any stage of development - whether you are starting or already own a label, brand, online boutique, wholesale business, retail store, or a combined model.

With your version of success as the guiding principle, our team is here to support, advise and ensure you benefit from best practise knowledge, successful strategies, vital resources and extensive networks.

With the support of the Fashion Equipped team your business will accelerate faster than ever. The development and growth phase of any business is exciting - but it can also be challenging and overwhelming. But with the right consultant and a strong strategy you'll be well supported and poised for success.

Dr Alison Gwilt is an author, researcher and Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her work examines the innovative design methods and approaches that enable the fashion and textiles community, from educators, to producers, and consumers, to adopt more sustainable and ethical practices. Alison is a consultant/advisor to industry, an active researcher and workshop facilitator.

We offer courses like no other, collaborating with a panel of over 40 leading industry experts who have created a curriculum that can’t be studied anywhere else in the world. Our bespoke content is designed and delivered by respected fashion industry leaders, our theory is centred around industry-relevant information, resources, case studies, activities, and discussions.

Where knit design, innovation and manufacturing intersect.

Access state-of-the-industry knit innovation, design and manufacturing to enhance and streamline your own knit development.

Through consulting, ideation & planning services and through our advanced production and prototyping technology, we can help you get to market quickly and effectively.

Our experience spans a range of industries from fashion to furniture, sports, medical and consumer products.

Let us help you develop knit solutions that are practical, economical, and uniquely able to meet your business needs.

Knovus, for all things knit.

Our global team consists of over 50 years of combined experience in GOTS and Textile Exchange standards and several other sustainability standards. We are currently operating in Australia, New Zealand, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Turkey and to commence operations in Pakistan, Morocco, Germany, and the USA from 2021.

With a sister company in the UK, we ensure that all our course materials use the latest global best practice thinking. Our courses wholly relate to the skills and competencies required to work in a buying department, without the constraints of academia. We have three courses to choose from:

• The Essential Buyer's Toolkit - 6 weeks
• The Essential Planner's Toolkit - 6 weeks
• The Ultimate Buying & Planning Launchpad - 6 months

Each program is undertaken online, with weekly live tutorials with industry experts. Students on the Ultimate program work as an intern in a buying office for 1-2 days per week for the duration of the course allowing them to build valuable work-ready skills.

On completion, our students have access to a careers mentor for a six-month period.

Mind your Fashion is a Not for Profit organisation. Our purpose is to raise awareness, create change and support those who work in the fashion and creative industries and experience mental illness and mental health issues relating to anxiety, depression, stress, eating disorders, gender identity, drug and alcoholism.
At Mind your Fashion, we see the value in everyone. We are the catalyst for positive change. Mind your Fashion supports and empowers progress. Our services include professional counselling though our partner the Australian Association of Psychologist inc (AAPi), speaking engagements sharing experiences and strategies to manage mental illness and effect change, workshops and events all designed to raise awareness and change the behaviours of the fashion and creative industries.

Sample Room services established designers, designers returning to Australian manufacturing and start-up designers develop their styles. With a very experienced team of pattern makers, cutters and sample machinists all under the one roof in our new workroom in Collingwood, Sample Room can help with patterns, samples, grading, markers, detailed specs, etc.
Sample Room has invested in the latest technology to allow us to provide stand alone grading and marker making services for those with paper or card patterns.

Together with their business partners they have a fully transparent circular system offering logistics, repairing, re-making and recycling service. Working closely with A Fitting Connection team, they can support your brand to redesign and remake products for the business to sell or help organise a social good collaboration.

The team at A Fitting Connection can support your brand turn waste into a win for your brand and Mother Earth.

Textile Clothing and Footwear Resource Centre of WA Inc. (TCFWA | TCF Australia | TCF Global)
Providing opportunities, support and resources for the Fashion & TCF Industries across WA, Australia and globally
The Textile, Clothing and Footwear Resource Centre of WA Inc. (TCF Australia | TCF Global) established in 1998, is a not-for-profit community based association that provides a valuable resource of support and assistance to fashion, textile, clothing, footwear, creative and manufacturing industries for new and existing small business through business skills training, mentoring, support and global trade opportunities.

TCFWA | TCF Australia | TCF Global also provide a member helpline service and development of specialised industry webinars and workshops to better equip those operating in the industry and is recognised as a leader and role model organisation across Australia and overseas. TCF has assisted many Indigenous and culturally, linguistically diverse (CaLD) fashion and textile designers for over 24 years and has delivered many workshops in regional, remote Australia and global communities.

TCFWA www.tcfwa.com TCF Australia www.tcfaustralia.com and TCF Global www.tcfglobal.com has delivered a number of projects and programs supporting the fashion and TCFL industry.

30 years of expertise, condensed into an innovative creative education collective. The Masters Institute of Creative Education brings together five of Australia's leading institutes to offer a creative learning experience like no other.

Melbourne School of Fashion, Holmes Institute Fashion, HeadMasters, BeautyMasters and MakeupMasters.

We have founded a voluntary Mentoring program for individuals and a Business Mentoring program for businesses.

We're making it possible for small businesses and home sewers to source more sustainable raw materials. From deadstock/surplus fabrics to organic trims, biodegradable stretch and other biologically circular building blocks.

We deliver Industry specific programs as well as provide Consultations and Product development services for early stage, emerging and growing fashion business.
We strive to be the ultimate Fashion Business Program provider for creatives wishing to run their own fashion businesses alongside recognition for our ability to deliver the highest quality in our product development services
Our USP include detailed information provided by relevant industry experts who span over three decades of experience, and are genuinely invested in the best outcomes for participants, hence always going the extra mile.

All our products are made by hand in our design and production studio on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. They are products of meaning that are an extension of the customer's personality and self expression. We offer a unique experience to individuals and other brands, involving them in the design and production process to sustainably create something unique that combines style, comfort and durability.

We produce quality fashion garment and products for brands with our Ethically certified factories. We manage the whole process from sourcing, sampling to production and logistics - saving our clients time and money in trying to navigate the process themselves. We work with many well known and successful brands, assisting them in their launch and business growth with our highly experienced and knowledgeable team.

We provide a niche, personalised service, and specialised industry and technical knowledge to our government, corporate and industry clients. We liaise closely with industry while operating independently of suppliers and manufacturers.

Products we work with include uniforms, performance and protective clothing (PPC), corporate wardrobes, promotional clothing, accessories and footwear, and health, hospitality and institutional textiles.
We facilitate better procurement outcomes by analysing, simplifying and systemising how our clients identify, purchase and manage their TCF requirements.

IMAGEWORKS uses proprietary and proven tools and templates to address each organisation's specific requirements, and ensure efficiency, transparency and accountability.

We are very hands-on and guide our clients through every step, enabling them to understand and manage priorities and risks, and take control of their procurement processes, outcomes and contracts.