Hero Frock Hire

Hero Stars & Memorabilia Collection - timed online auction through Shapiro's Thursday 8th August.

Ever wanted to dress like Hugh Jackman? Now you can Some of Australian TV and film’s most iconic costumes are going to auction this week, including clothes worn by Hugh Jackman, Toni Collette and Nicole Kidman

Check out our actors archive auction! Viewing until 6th August- auction on line 4pm 8th August.

SH259B Hero Frock Hire, Stars and Memorabilia Collection Archives - Shapiro Auctioneers We are Australia’s largest Costume Hire company and have over 90,000 items catalogued, including clothing, footwear, hats and accessories. 10% of all proceeds will be donated to The Actors Benevolent Fund ‘The Actors Benevolent Fund is celebrating 80 years of providing essential care to arts wor...

Looks good. Not many good patternmaking books around I imagine.

20% off with code FCB20 Based on original French, German and English fashion plates

A wonderful opportunity for someone! Entries close 5 July. You don’t need to be an APDG member to apply.

Thelma Afford Award - $10,000 Prize - Australian Production Design Guild The Thelma Afford Award for Costume Design in Stage and Screen was established to promote the further study of theatre, film or TV costume design, in various visual dramatic media, for young matriculating high school art students or students from drama and art schools.

The bibliophile dress. Made from the spines of old books, by French designer Sylvie Falcon

Ultimate in elite fashion? Gorgeous, but poor Kingfishers!

In the 1930s in the United States, sacks containing flour and grain were made of cloth, primarily cotton. The Kansas Wheat company, in the midst of the Great Depression, realized that the poorest families were reusing them to sew dresses for women and girls, so to make them more captivating they decided to print them with floral and colorful motifs.
The initiative was a huge success: they made sure that the ink used for the logos would fade after a simple wash, and some bags even had the patterns already drawn on the fabric, ready to be cut and sewn.
A marketing tactic that helped American families get through a particularly difficult period, also useful as a source of income for women who would later sell their recycled models

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A great Sally Steele project

Pasted on the walls of Luganville Airport - Noelene, a Santo pandanus hat wiva promoting locally made products under the Vanuatu Made banner.

Leadership Matters Report free Webinar on March 14. Find out more at: https://apdg.org.au/2024/03/leadership-matters-report

“So many people who are leaders in our industry have little or no training or support in these challenging roles. Leadership training is rarely a key feature of film school curriculum, nor are there opportunities to upskill in a largely freelance workforce. This report highlights the importance of leadership development given we found only 7% of leaders are trained in a screen-specific context”. Jo Briscoe

Queensland Queensland!

Film and TV production back on track as US actors strike ends As US studios resume film and TV productions after a tentative SAG-AFTRA deal was struck, here's why Queensland is again the go-to location

Supporting Costume Supervisors. A tough job, and so critical within the production process.

Liz Keogh Palmer gives APDG members an update on all the great initiatives and work being done by APDG costume design members.

Read about it here: https://apdg.org.au/2023/09/costume-2023-9

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You're the Voice Referendum Ad John Farnham - Full version New ad campaign from The Uluru Dialogues featuring Australia's unofficial anthem, You're the Voice by John Farnham. Australians have come together on so many...

Hollywood Strike Hits Home: How Manhattan's Film and TV Design Professionals Grapple with the Shutdown – A Deep Dive into Local Impact As the Hollywood strike disrupts the entertainment industry, its effects reverberate far beyond actors and writers. Manhattan's film and TV design professionals, ranging from wardrobe suppliers to prop houses, are grappling with the shutdown. This in-depth look explores how local businesses, many of...

This is Bungaree. He was the first recorded indigenous person to circumnavigate Australia, travelling with Matthew Flinders & acting as an interpreter & facilitator with tribes they encountered. He is incidentally the first person to be described in print as “an Australian”. He was a clever man who made the best of what life handed him, & he deserves to be more widely known. But let’s have lots of monuments to Cook instead.
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bungaree-1848

The fan jacket: the Japanese innovation keeping workers cool in extreme heat As rising temperatures make traditionally hot and sticky Japanese summer months more severe, those toiling outside are turning to the fan-jakketo

The secrets behind the crazy costumes on And Just Like That... From newspaper dresses to pigeon it-bags, the style in ‘Sex and the City’ and ‘And Just Like That...’ is iconic for good reason.

Yes!

Netflix heads up First Nations production bootcamp Netflix's First Nations boot camp in Darwin will help participants who are interested in working behind the scenes get industry-ready.

Excellent news... welcome to the club Guardian- no to gambling dollars!

The Guardian turns away gambling ad dollars, accepts losing out on big money deals Guardian Australia said its move to turn away all gambling ad dollars will result in ad revenue losses “in the multi-millions”. However, if not now, the decision to cut ties with its fastest-growing ad category will only get harder from here.The publisher will now stop accepting gambling adverti...

Brought back memories..

Surry Hills was once the centre of New South Wales’ ‘rag trade’: a short history of fashion manufacturing in Sydney

Vale Arnies Recon... over the past 31/2 years they've saved over 5500 tonnes of electronics and appliances from landfill; that's the sort of start-up initiative this nation needs. We'll have to find another home for this lot but hopefully good sense will prevail & someone will step up for them.

🚨OPPORTUNITY ALERT!🚨

Applications are now open for the Crew Connects Placement Program, a new initiative aimed at addressing skill shortages in the NSW screen industry.

Financed with the assistance of Screen Australia, the $400,000 program funds the placement of emerging crew members who are keen to upskill and advance their careers into roles for up to six months with screen businesses offering the relevant development opportunities.

Apply today: https://screen.nsw.gov.au/funding/industry-support/crew-connects-placement-program

Would love to see the interior.

Vintage motorhome