Our Mission & Vision
Our Vision
FashLab is the peak industry body for the independent fashion community of Melbourne.
Our Purpose
FashLab brings the Melbourne fashion community together to Advocate, Educate, Inform, Collaborate, Celebrate and Showcase.
Our Values
FashLab commits to responsible and creative innovation. We care for and champion this community and its network.
What we stand for
- We are a community of independent creatives and industry professionals.
- We are working towards strengthening, connecting and reinvigorating Melbourne fashion.
- We come together to challenge the dominant mainstream understanding and perceptions and share ideas within the fashion landscape.
- We celebrate and showcase independent, diverse creative practitioners to re-energise and re-engage the industry.
- We have a strong sense of community that is underpinned by its prime connection to independent creative fashion.
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FashLab is based in and around Melbourne, on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We acknowledge their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to the Traditional Custodians of all the lands across Victoria where our community gathers.
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