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Who We are
FashLab is a community/network established in Melbourne to share knowledge, advice, news and mentorship across Victoria’s small to medium scale fashion and related creative industries.

FashLab is free.

Fashlab members are a mix of veteran and new creative business people. They share their priceless anecdotal knowledge and contacts face to face under an agreed code of trust, discretion and non-disclosure.

What we do

FashLab’s range of themed conversations is infinite, from starting out, to closing down, and every trick of running and growing a creative industry business inbetween.
FashLab topics continue evolving as fashion and creative industries evolve.

How you can get in touch

FashLab gatherings are currently scheduled on a month-to-two montly basis and location can vary. Invitations are sent out a week ahead of meetings to members registered on our portal.

FashLab is a two-way touchpoint for potentially helpful entities such as the Australian Fashion Council, Melbourne Fashion Week, Melbourne Fashion Festival and relevant creative and trade arms of state and local government.

FashLab warmly welcomes new members who feel they can contribute to the high quality and use-value of knowledge and information we exchange.

To sign up and be a part of our creative community please visit the link in bio above. There is no cost.

#creativenetworkmelbourne #creativevictoria #melbourneindependentdesigners #fashionnetwork #fashlab #fashionindustry

Who We are
FashLab is a community/network established in Melbourne to share knowledge, advice, news and mentorship across Victoria’s small to medium scale fashion and related creative industries.

FashLab is free.

Fashlab members are a mix of veteran and new creative business people. They share their priceless anecdotal knowledge and contacts face to face under an agreed code of trust, discretion and non-disclosure.

What we do

FashLab’s range of themed conversations is infinite, from starting out, to closing down, and every trick of running and growing a creative industry business inbetween.
FashLab topics continue evolving as fashion and creative industries evolve.

How you can get in touch

FashLab gatherings are currently scheduled on a month-to-two montly basis and location can vary. Invitations are sent out a week ahead of meetings to members registered on our portal.

FashLab is a two-way touchpoint for potentially helpful entities such as the Australian Fashion Council, Melbourne Fashion Week, Melbourne Fashion Festival and relevant creative and trade arms of state and local government.

FashLab warmly welcomes new members who feel they can contribute to the high quality and use-value of knowledge and information we exchange.

To sign up and be a part of our creative community please visit the link in bio above. There is no cost.

#creativenetworkmelbourne #creativevictoria #melbourneindependentdesigners #fashionnetwork #fashlab #fashionindustry

Bittercold, blowing a gale and still, a coupla dozen legends and new members mustered for May's monthly FashLab and our line-up of top PR and marketing gurus happy to spill their trickiest tricks and handiest professional hacks. What. A. Cracker. Who knew this mindblowing level of expertise and empirical nouse could be compressed into a warmlovely hour or two over a drink or three with likeminded mates from Melbourne's fashion and related creative communities. Every one a one-off among one offs - that's FashLab😊#melbourne #creativebusiness #fashionbusiness #findyourtribe #creativecommunity

Laughs shared, connections made and wisdom shared at FashLab’s April
First-Wednesday meet up.
A lively and collaborative chat on all things retail. So much covered in so little time!
And we all left feeling a little brighter and a lot less alone.
Find your tribe. Xx

FashLab Network Catch-Up 🤝✨
We kicked off with all the buzz still swirling from MFF, with a debrief and hot takes from those showcased on the runway@gwendolynneburkin , @juliegoodwincouture
, @karabakercouture and those who attended the Festival. We heard from the team behind @neoculturemelb , the crew who pulled off a magnificent closing-night guerrilla runway as part of the MFF Independent Programme 🙌

As always: a fun night of sharing ideas, swapping thoughts, and connecting with like-minded creatives in a relaxed setting. ✨

Laptops off, cameras capped, phones away; the VoxFrockers have officially downed tools and bumped out of Melbourne's 30th Fashion Festival.
What a chockers two-week joblist; runways, backstage, streetstyle, off-site kneezups. Now it's time to praise the Ones Who Did Good, and thank the Ones Who Supported Us. Link🖤in🖤bio🖤. #melbournefashion #melbfashionfestival #fashionjournalist #fashionphotographer #voxfrockrookie

Snaplets from MFF's most unmissable runway. "Fuck The Invisible" swings fashion back to proper, stylish women - the designers, consumers, demi-legends and celebrities - who seeded and have rocketfuelled the whole Melbournesque fashion thang since the 70s, 80s and 90s to now. From poils, pleats and softelegant tailoring to snakey-sleek lame evening gowns to flashing palette and shimmershimmer cut-glass fringed dresses, separates and full-foofed silksatin gowns so fetchingly clamped,waist to decollete, with excellent corsetry, this runway returns fashion to its original remits of beauty, flattery and a side of spiceysubtle sex. Joyous doesn't cover the arrival of surfing legend Lane Beachley in Lisa Barron barely-there evening set and Nicky Buckley, another fashion legend, who colluded with Lisa way back in the mists on a certain black dress with heart-shaped belly cutout. Hard to imagine now, but that dress normalised pregnant bellies on telly and now we have - Rhiannon et.cet.era. Look them up If you're not familiar And click back to voxfrock.com.au for a fulsome report on the FTIRunway by our VoxFrock Rookie crew #melbournestyle #voxfrockrookies #melbourne #melbfashionfestival #FTIrunway

Up now on voxfrock.com.au, VoxFrocker Ru Elliott wraps Melbourne's warring fashion concepts, epitomised in the MFF's back-to-back runways, Joywear, “A bold celebration of colour, self-expression, maximalism and the mood-lifting power of fashion” and Noir, “Rooted in the city’s fashion psyche, where black is more than a colour, it’s a cultural signature”. What's YOUR fashion poison? Color crash or ubercool black? VoxFrocker Theadora Violet's shots make it tricky to choose. Click back for the VoxFrock Rookie Crew's daily reports from the 30th Melbourne Fashion Festival. And thankyou for supporting fashion's future uber-professional journalists and photographers. We love that you love our work🫶🖋️🎤💻🎬📸🖤#melbournefashion #voxfrockrookie #futurefashion #fashionjournalist #fashionphotographer

News out of Melbourne Fashion Festival's sparkly last half kicks off here with Tanisha "Nish" Wookey's fresh photographic essay of The Grand Annual Object Merchant Ball, a jostling, six-cylinder celebration of niche fashion, art, design and music on the Independent Runways Programme. Click to voxfrock.com.au for the full bang and back here daily for the VoxFrock crew's take on MFF 2026. #melbournefashion #voxfrockrookie #futurefashionjournalist #futurefashionphotographer #melbfashionfestival

From Dream to Delivery 🤍
No gatekeeping, just generous knowledge and real talk.
So much experience, curiosity, and openness in the room. Thank you to everyone who shared what they know and how they know it.
And the Q and A brought the goods, great questions, honest answers, and a few spicy moments in the best way.

What’s one takeaway you’re keeping? 👇

@corde_couture_ @juliegoodwincouture @rbpatterns @ms.dandy.n @matthewbull_ @christopherhrysanidis @circularsourcing @michelle_drury @creation.collective.co
@fashlab.network @kerrypietrobonconsulting

Meet our panel facilitator: Glen Rollason, a true titan of the Australian fashion industry. 🇦🇺✨
As the Director of Rollason Bowring Design and RBPatterns, Glen leads the country’s premier pattern-making and sample development studio, partnering with over 50 brands, from global icons to our local independent heroes.
Glen’s journey is decorated with accolades, including the MFF Designer of the Year award, but his heart lies in supporting the next generation. Most recently, he launched Small Batch Supply to bridge the gap for designers needing small-run production—the ultimate solution for independent labels.
As an FashLab board member and AFW advisory committee member, Glen brings three decades of holistic expertise to our “no gatekeeping” discussion.
📢 SOLD OUT: We are officially at capacity! If you missed out, please email contact.fashlab@gmail.com to join our waitlist in case of cancellations.
#GlenRollason #RBPatterns #FashLab #SmallBatchSupply #MelbourneFashion PatternMaking PMFF2026

Meet the man helping Melbourne designers bring their visions to life: Peter Barlow, CEO of Omada Collective. 🧵✨
Operating out of their production plant in Heidelberg West, Peter and his team at Creation Collective Co and Image Digital Print Cut Sew are the backbone of local fashion. From in-house fabric printing and laser cutting to sample making and large-scale production, Peter’s unique setup is designed to help brands of all sizes grow.
Coming from a background as a commercial photographer and senior graphic designer, Peter speaks the language of “creative” and “commercial” fluently. He is passionate about supporting emerging designers, offering them the infrastructure they need to explore their creativity and see it come to fruition. 🚀
At the FashLab Business Forum, Peter will be pulling back the curtain on how to navigate local manufacturing and scale your brand right here in Melbourne.
🎟️ TICKETS🔥 Sold out. Please email Fashlab for all reservation enquiries.
#FashLabPanel #LocalManufacturing #MelbourneFashion #HeidelbergWest #EmergingDesigner PMFF2026 OmadaCollective

A hardfast 90-odd secs of roughcut vidi-scraps from MFF 2026's launch party at Gov House. Stonkingly lovely ballroom, sprouty fountain, emerald terrace lawn, the handsdown fanciest of backdrops for any serious fashionkneezup. Such much as this. The Melbourne Fashion Festival's trad kickoff party was spesh on steroids - 30 frocking years yay - the anniversary marked by a heavier than average peppering of local legends on the lawn and one of those magical fashionable bluesky nights cut by pleasant breezes and bouts of warm sunshine. #Justbloodylovely #melbourne #fashion #melbournestyle #mff2026