Country Always

Caring for Country

A Corner of the Empire

The Garden Palace

The Holding Pen

The Agricultural Hall

Regional Networks

Across New South Wales

A Museum of Doing

Technological Museum

Expanding Stories

Evolution of the Castle Hill site from botanical research station to Museum Discovery Centre

Transforming the Tramsheds

Powerhouse Stage 1 and the Harwood Building

A Symbol in Time

Sydney Observatory

Ongoing Transformations

Powerhouse Ultimo

Applied Arts and Sciences

Defining the terms in the 21st century

Fashion Forward

Powerhouse X 30 years of student fashion

Powerhouse Renewal

A transformative renewal program across four sites

We Rise

Blak Powerhouse

Powerhouse-1 Mission Launch to the ISS

An initiative of the Powerhouse: Future Space program

2024

Exoskeleton

Powerhouse Parramatta

Powerhouse Parramatta Topping Out

Major construction milestone achieved for the new museum

2023

Stories

Fashion Forward

Powerhouse X 30 years of student fashion

Glynis Jones

Stories

Fashion Forward

At campuses around Australia the annual fashion graduate shows present some of the most exciting and innovative emerging talent before a select group of media, industry talent spotters, buyers and proud family and friends. Invited to attend many of these shows, in 1993 Powerhouse curators were so impressed by the creative expression of the next generation of Australian designers they proposed an annual exhibition. It was initially titled Student Fashion (1993–2020) and renamed Future Fashion in 2021.

Group of students smiling at the camera.

Launch

Launched on 15 December 1993 by Australian design icon Jenny Kee, the exhibition initially featured garments by fashion graduates from tertiary courses all around Australia as well as winning garments from industry-sponsored student fashion awards, including the Smirnoff International Awards, the Grand Marnier/Swarovski eveningwear award, The Young Italo-Australians fashion scholarship, the Liz Davenport Dux Award and the King Gee Design Award. By 2002, as more state and regional opportunities were available for students to show their work, and the number of industry sponsored awards diminished, Powerhouse refocussed the Future Fashion exhibition to showcase graduates from four public and independent Sydney-based institutions.