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Location: Sydney - http://www.ahigherlearning.com.au
From: Thursday, 17th of June 2010
Until: Friday, 18th of June 2010
Introducing Higher Learning. An event to take you into the reality of the fashion industry and deliver you the tools needed to make it in one of the hardest industries in the world.
Revered voices from every facet of the Australian Fashion Industry will come together to arm you with the cardinal knowledge to make your vision a reality. They will share their success stories and teach their hard learned lessons allowing you an unprecedented insight into a multitude of topics including design, buying, marketing, public relations, fashion week, online, creative strategy, investment and more!
Higher Learning will be an informative seminar that will inspire through its speakers and innovate through its audience. One-hour speeches will become a timeless wealth of practical knowledge and two days of networking will become a limitless source of opportunity.
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Ben Pollitt - Friedrich Gray
Last Updated : Thursday, 24th June 2010 @ 1.35 PM
Dark flights of fantasy weave their way through designer, Ben Pollitt’s collections, which tell the tales of the exploits of Friedrich Gray, the fictional character and alter ego of Ben himself. Friedrich Gray was born in 2006 and quickly became known on the fashion scene for its minimalist aesthetics, intellectual approach to construction and inimitably atypical sense of style. Ben... Read More
Alec Lynch - Design Crowd
Last Updated : Thursday, 24th June 2010 @ 1.32 PM
Alec Lynch is the founder of DesignCrowd - a marketplace for creative services that uses a new business model called ‘crowdsourcing’. Businesses from around the world can post logo design, web design and custom t-shirt design projects on DesignCrowd and receive scores of ideas and designs from designers around the world. DesignCrowd’s mission is to give creative people opportunities and... Read More
Emma Read - Russh Magazine
Last Updated : Thursday, 24th June 2010 @ 1.11 PM
Emma Read is the Market Editor at RUSSH Magazine. Working across a wide spectrum of areas within the RUSSH team, she is primarily involved in the fashion department styling the Shopping and Still Life sections each issue, along with writing Fashion News and contributing to various other editorial features. After graduating from Macleay College with a diploma in Journalism, she... Read More
Barry Mowszowski - Ogilvy
Last Updated : Monday, 21st June 2010 @ 11.09 PM
Barry recently returned to Australia, after six years of work for boutique creative agencies in New York, to join the advertising and marketing force at Ogilvy & Mather, Sydney as Strategy Director. Since his return Barry has been working on the Coca Cola portfolio of brands. Barry has had extensive experience in creative management work. In New York he worked... Read More
Justin Hemmes - Merivale
Last Updated : Monday, 21st June 2010 @ 12.19 PM
Since taking over the position of CEO in the family owned company Merivale, in 1997, Justin Hemmes has been the brainchild behind some of Sydney’s leading venues including ivy and Establishment, which offer multiple dining and entertainment experiences under one roof. Justin entered into the helm of the hospitality industry after completing a Bachelor of Business Degree at the University... Read More
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