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iD International Emerging Designer Awards 2016

Current students, Law Li Er and Xie Qian Qian, were amongst the 30 finalists selected
globally to compete at the 2016 iD International Emerging Designer Awards held in
Dunedin, New Zealand. Judged by industry professionals, academics and special guest
designers, finalists were given opportunities to present their collections on the runway.
The Emerging Designer Awards is the largest fashion design competition in New Zealand
and the highlight of the long-running iD Dunedin Fashion Week, which recognises design
innovation at its best. Li Er and Qian Qian are students of the Diploma in Fashion Design
and Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Fashion courses respectively.

Changing Eyes at National Gallery Singapore

In partnership with the Education Outreach Unit of the National Gallery, 22 students from
the interdisciplinary collaboration and project modules were invited to present their artistic
responses to selected paintings from the Gallery’s exhibition Reframing Modernism
on 16 April 2016 at the Singapore Courtyard.
The presentation, Changing Eyes, is a collection of tableau, sound and movement.
Co-taught by Lim Fei Shen, Laura Hayes, Angelynn Tan and Dr Joyce Beetuan Koh,
students from the disciplines of dance, music, theatre, fine art, fashion studies and design
and media work together through multiple perspectives to create artistic responses to
a few selected modernist artworks, spanning from Vassily Kandinsky to Cheong Soo Pieng.
The audience and viewers were free to navigate these responses as they were distributed
and choreographed across five spaces in the Gallery.
Student performers were: William Halim, Mandy Zhuang, Kullakarn Rodsawad,
Kamaleswery D/O Yelemalai, Qween Fyon, Sandra Leong, Shazwani Binte Mirkhan Ariffin,
Audrey Amanda Desmond, Nurulhuda Binte Hassan, Panyaporn Piyapan, Nabilah Binte
Mohamed Ali, Supawalee Rochanavibhata, Sakulrattanasak Pornanong, Lin Jie Chun,
Supatchai Lappakornkul, Lim Han Quan, Rebecca Siar, Keavan Wong, Hubert Loi,
Winnie Yip, and Gao Jingyi.

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