JUDE featured on ABC Art Nation

Thanks to the lovely Lady Melbourne, JUDE was featured on ABC's Art Nation, as part of a special fashion week episode. While talking about the process of blogging, she generously mentions how we met and how I came to create the special couture necklace for her. Thanks Pheobe! Xx

http://www.abc.net.au/arts/stories/s2887362.htm

Lady Melbourne Cammelia Necklace

JUDE created a one of a kind couture necklace for fashion blogger extraordinaire, Lady Melbourne, for her to wear to the 2010 Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival. 

The statement necklace was hand crafted using vintage black Japanese silk, and embellished with crystal, jet, onyx beads and vintage chain.

It was a pleasure working with Ms Pheobe, and she certainly worked the necklace all fashion week!

http://www.ladymelbourne.com.au/2010/03/keeping-up-appearances/

BAM Brands Sydney Showcase

JUDE Accessories Nocturnal collection was featured at the BAM Brands showcase in Sydney.

It was so great working with the team at BAM. They were approachable, generous and gave great advice to a fledgling label like myself. Although I was not ready to have my brand picked up by them, they still offered to showcase my label at their bi-annual Sydney showcase.

This was such a great opportunity to push my work forward to a larger audience, and gain valuable insights from industry experts and people from influential fashion publications.

BAM Brands

The showcase was featured on Boy Moments blog:

Boy Moments

Oak Off Chapel fashion gallery launch

JUDE Accessories was featured at the opening of the Oak Off Chapel gallery in Prahran. Oak was a fantastic concept space - A warehouse on the brink of being torn down converted into a space which showcased the work of emerging Australian designers.

What a great night it was! The warehouse was packed with colourful people drinking, mingling and partying.
I met lots of interesting industry folk, including undeground fashion bloggers, stylists and journalists.
It was here that my label gained a great deal of publicity, following the meeting of Pheobe Montague from Lady Melbourne blog, and the team from BAM brands.

The collection featured at the opening was the Nocturnal range, inspired by flowers at night. I got a hugely positive response for the debut of this capsule collection.

The opening night was featured on these blogs:

Lady Melbourne

Style Melbourne

Fashionising

 With Pheobe Montague from Lady Melbourne Blog.
www.ladymelbourne.com.au

These shoulder epaulettes were a signature piece in the collection.

JUDE for Rosemin

The first boutique I had ever created a custom collection of accessories for was the now defunct Rosemin.

Rosemin was an Australian designed and made fashion label for the playful party girl.
I never usually do froufrou and pastel in my work, so it was fun to go crazy with this project and satisfy the clients brief, while also staying true to my design aesthetic.

It was an absolute pleasure to collaborate with the team at Rosemin to come up with this exclusive range.
Meeting them to talk about colours, materials, shapes, feathers and frills got me inspired to produce the range, which was stocked in their stores at Melbourne Central and Chadstone.

Here are some images from the range.