Meet The Fashion Mistress,

The City Women, The Producer, 

The Contessa & The Surgeons

The Chalk Urban Art Festival Fashion Entourage

Helen Sattler “The Fashion Mistress” heads an entourage of talented Sydney-siders to showcase some raw and untried designer talent.

This year as part of Chalk Urban Art Festival we not only introduce Wearable Art to the urban art line-up but have also added 40 urban fashion stalls with raw and edgy street fashion parades, a wearable art workshop, a 20-minute interactive Wearable Art Showcase and a few more spontaneous surprises.

We have hand selected some of Sydney best market street fashion and wearable artists.

The 6th and 7th of September will be a weekend not to be missed.

    Saturday 6th of September

• Fashion Stalls,
• 1pm & 2:15pm daily fashion parades
• Wearable art workshop  

    Sunday 7th of September

• Fashion Stalls, 12:45pm daily fashion parade
• Wearable art workshop
• 3pm Wearable Art Showcase followed by an interactive dance party in Tumbalong Park.

                                       The Fashion Mistress - Turns any acorn into a tree!

Helen Sattler has over 10 years experience in event management and concept development in the creative arts industry. A high achiever and nominee of The Young Australian of the Year with her business achievements, Helen has worked in Film, Television, Props, Wardrobe, Entertainment and Fashion.

Throughout her career, Helen has embarked on several successful business ventures including her own label Boutio Studio and a Trademarked brand of children’s’ Manchester.

In 2005, Helen and a collective of designers joined forces and pooled their resources in a concerted effort to promote their products and services to establish a reputable fashion industry on Sydney’s northern beaches. Thus was born, f.rock fashion

f.rock fashion caught the imagination of the local community with its big nights of glitz, glamour and fashion statements that it has now become an annual showcase to promote new and emerging designers and a national designer web portal. www.frockfashion.com.au

                                            Sensational City Women

CityWoman is all about today’s switched on women who are up for having a great time and making the most of their city and life. Karina Murphy and Gemma Gill provide women an access to the latest & hottest bar's in Sydney with bar reviews written specifically for women. There’s information on up coming events, fashion, beauty and health.

CityWoman encourages women to share great places to go, things to do, idea’s, stories, and information with other women to make the most of our sexy city and our lives. It’s about fun, success, empowerment and connection. Ladies Enjoy! Be sure to meet the gals at CityWoman at the fashion information booth at this years Chalk festival to receive your bag of girly goodies! www.citywoman.com.au

The Producer

The Australian Fashion Exchange is a creative hub for young Australian Talent directed by Ashan Winslow. Founded in 2006, the company’s main purpose is to support young and upcoming designers in all aspects of production and sales of garments.  

Ashan understands the challenges that face upcoming designers in the current market and has created a list of affordable services to support our emerging talent. Services include pattern making, sampling, local and offshore manufacture, fashion photography and sales.

The Australian Fashion Exchange continually produces excellence in service and quality. “Our reward is your success as we are only a platform to your dreams” Ashan manages all the logistics of Fashion alley this year, at the festival. www.australianfashionexchange.com.au

The Contessa & Kamikaze Couture Director

Tealia Scott is a pioneer of Interactive Costume Performance in Australia. She has masterfully fused high drama and high fashion as concept designer for Kamikaze Couture.

An accomplished freelance fashion stylist and costume maker, a fourth generation costumier, her skills as a tailoress have been meticulously crafted from the early age of eight.

With a passion for theatrics and 15 years associated fashion experience her notable exploits include dresser for John Galliano’s Fall Winter Collection 2003, at the Theatre de l'Empire, claimed as ‘the liveliest, most upbeat show of the season’ the collection focused on real urban glamour and honest-to-goodness dressing up!

Inspired by the phenomenon of Interactive costume performance in Europe, Tealia launched Kamikaze Couture and the concept of an on-site theatrical wardrobe department to the Australian audience. www.kamikazecouture.com.au

                                  The Surgeons - Urban Dragon Live Art Installation

View of Courage Studios is a multi-disciplinary creative studio whose work spans across multiple design worlds.

This team of agile creative surgeons produces projects with originality and sophistication, always with the aim to exist on the cutting edge. View of Courage team will undertake a fascinating live art-making project as a part of the Chalk Urban Arts Festival 2008.

The 'Urban Dragon' installation will be created live onsite over the two days of the festival, as a direct creative response to the urban environment. Influenced by traditional Chinese dragon parades, the 'Urban Dragon' will be a contemporary art piece featuring richly coloured and textured fabrics and textile manipulations, beading, giants pompoms, unusual trinkets, plaited ribbons, ropes ...a stunning uprising of spontaneous inspiration and creativity.

At the closure of the festival, the dragon will be paraded through the crowds to the main stage where it will become a part of the end of festival celebrations! www.viewofcourage.com

Fashion Meets Art!!

Step into a world where art and the human form combine, where dance, music and magic tell a story of the body as a canvas; where the lines of fashion and art blur and merge as one.

Wearable art can be difficult to describe, hard to define and utterly impossible to forget. A montage of theatre, dance, colour, movement and art will put creative self-expression into a spectacular 20-minute fashion explosion produced by Helen Sattler of f.rock fashion.

Be “part of the art” and come dresses head to toe in your own version of funky wearable art and join the one-hour dance celebration never to be seen again and definitely not to be missed.

Expect the unexpected!!

Wearable Artists

1. Dread lock Corset by Tealia Scott of Kamikaze Couture

2. Interactive Empress by Vanna Nhoung

3. Speed Hump by Marianne McKeon

4. Mangrove by Helen Sattler

Tealia Scott and the Dread lock Corset

Tealia has studied at University of NSW, East Sydney College, Ultimo Trade School, and FBI Fashion College and completed a David Jones Traineeship. She has worked as a Theatre Dresser for the National Theatre in London, The Sydney Opera House and numerous amateur theatres.

As a Wearable Artist, she is renown for use and re-use of unconventional materials in costume making, infamous for The Goon Suit, The Shade Cloth Collection, The Burning Paper Ball Gown and The Dread lock Corset. Her artworks have been displayed in The National Gallery of Australia, The Art Gallery of NSW and The Powerhouse Museum.

As the Head Costumier of Kamikaze Couture, Tealia is an extremely versatile Costume Maker. The Dread lock Corset is constructed entirely of human dread having the illusion of feather or animal skins. Adapting a needle lace technique from the 17th Century Venetian Lace makers, the couture crew have manipulated, sculptured and stitched human dread locks hair to make a freely formed three dimensional wearable art piece.

Vanna Nhoung and the Interactive Empress

Vanna graduated from her studies at the White House School of Design, Melbourne School of Fashion and the Fashion Design Studio at Ultimo in 2006 to start her own business after boutique owners showed interest in her work after the graduation fashion show.

The female form and the power it could posess in a fantasy realm that transcends gender biases and prejudices inspire her piece Intergalactic Empress.

To Vanna it represents strength and femininity. Made of silk and snake skin, the texture of the dress was constructed using hundreds of individual strips. Vanna is currently working on a new commercial range and has previously showcased her work in the 08 Transeasonal Rosemount Australian Fashion week.

Marianne McKeon and Speed Hump

Marianne has a B.A. in Visual Arts and an MA in Costume Design and has worked extensively for over 10 years in the film and TV industry. Star Wars II, Garage Days and Looking for Ali Brandi are just a few of the productions that have been rewarded with Marianne’s creative talents.

Marianne has also taken her talent to theatre, short film, and costume designer on short films. The inspiration for her garment comes from the numerous roadwork delays in her travels throughout New Zealand. The roadwork’s bizarre bra features a led light system, illuminating the anatomy of the female body.

As well as exhibiting her work in various exhibitions, Marianne also teaches Design and Technology in a Sydney High School.

Helen Sattler and Mangrove

Helen is a self-taught designer, sewing since she was 8. With a vivid imagination and a passion to create dreams into reality, Helen gives her creative Midas touch to anything she touches. Helen career started off in the film and TV Industry with her own business Pluto Productions, which lead to performing, public speaking and her creating her own fashion label Boutio Studio.

The entangled form of a mangrove tree on Sydney’s harbor foreshores inspired the Mangrove. It is dyed with natural dyes, has freeform machine stitching overlays and is hand coloured with watercolours. Along with her Mangrove, Helen will be showcasing a garment created for Victoria Beckem out of Who Weekly magazines. Look out the super star

This year the Chalk Fashion Alley lines up the most unique and hottest fashion designer labels, including Sassi Sam, Ruby’s Closet, Skunk Funk, Candy hand, Property of Zephyr, Kelly Kotchin, Loose Cannon, Muchacho and Kamala Muze

Candy Hand: Candy Hand creates jewellry with mini sweets and meals that are sized to adjustable rings to fit all chubby fingers. The collection consists of delicious treats from pretzels to tacos, chocolate cake to hamburgers, apple pie to bacon and eggs. The treats are so detailed Candy Hand will leave you feeling dizzy with must-have deliriousness. Candy Hand adores the little things in life. Candy Hand is almost "finger licking good".

www.myspace.com/candyhand

Sassi Sam: Welcome to girlie heaven! If you're out to spoil yourself or a friend, you've found the right place. Sassi Sam’s range of truly flamboyant Summer Fun at the Roller Disco Collection, filled with a variety of funky tees, tanks, sassi shorts and flirty skirts is enough to have you delightfully squealing www.sassisam.com

Ruby’s Closet: It all started with a decade long passion for jewellry design and collection, and the results will surpass your expectations in every way possible.    

The Ruby’s Closet Jewellry Display Hanger is an all one jewelry organiser, necklace holder, earring display, jewellery stand and necklace hanger in one. Forget your tangled jewellery box - organise your jewellery and accessorise your life! www.rubyscloset.com.au

Skunk funk: Skunk funk is all about 'keeping it real'. At Skunk funk, they do not 'follow the herd' with their fashion lines. They produce a range of 'multi-funktional' garments - clothes that are reversible and detachable. Their funky, fresh approach to fashion is encompassed in all of their designs, including the way they sell it. You’ll have to visit the Skunk Funk stand at the Chalk Urban Art Festival to really get their unique shopping experience. www.skunkfunk.com

Mabuzi Art: There are few people in the world who’ve never worn a t-shirt but if yours is an Authentic Mabuzi Custom T-Shirt, there’s a good chance it won’t be like anyone else’s. Mabuzi offer you top quality 100% cotton with a great choice of colours and styles, and you can have almost anything you want on the front, back, side or sleeves.

Mabuzi are the official T-Shirt sponsor for the festival. www.mabuzi.com

Loose Cannon: Our recently establish label, is the synthesis of two years of ideas and experimentation. By collaboration with some of the world’s most exciting designers we aim to combine a fresh edge cross section of contemporary art with our high quality apparel.

By putting the illustrations on clothing we hope to make high quality artwork a tangible and affordable part of everyday life of our customers.

Soto Smith and Spunky Bruiser: Combine the warm and fuzzies of nostalgia with raw street edge. Together these two fashion labels provide a full and ever evolving range of men’s and women’s wear, accessories and jewellery. A large portion of the pieces in the range are one-off originals, with many handcrafted by the designers themselves. The two labels sit hand in hand, and that's just how you'll find them at this years Chalk Urban Art festival. www.myspace.com/spunkybruiser www.myspace.com/sotosmith

For more information on any aspect of the fashion Chalk Urban Art Festival,

Please call Helen Sattler on 0428 63 22 73

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