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Thank you to everyone that came to the various events for The Cutting Circle! Without you all it wouldn't have been so dynamic or exciting. Thank you Timo Rissanen and Julian Roberts for coming all this way and inspiring us all, and thank you Lilian Mutsaers, Deb Cumming and Jen Whitty for delivering their fantastic workshops. Thank you to Global Fabric for supplying us with our beautiful fabrics, all the student helpers, technical staff and generally useful people who made the event possible. 

The 2.5 days included the presentation of Holly McQuillan, Timo Rissanen and Julian Roberts The Cutting Circle research outcomes to participants, industry, media and the general public on Thursday, followed by an exciting 3 hour demonstration of Subtraction Cutting (SubCut) and 2 ways of achieing Zero Waste Design (ZWD) for fashion. The first masterclasses covered in-depth exploration by the participants of either SubCut or ZWD. On Saturday as The Cutting Circle Exhibiton was set up, the 2nd round of masterclasses exploring Fleeflow design processes and Drape all together resulted in an total of over 50 garments. Participants and Jen Whitty, Julian Roberts, Deb Cumming, Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan held a forum of lively discussion covering diverse topics as sustainable design education, alternative design processes, 3D printed textiles, the benefits of risk-taking and the possible future of NZ's fashion industry.

Saturday evening saw the opening of The Cutting Circle Exhbition, covering the work of participants as well as the pieces, patterns and developmental work generated in the 1.5 week research project leading up the event. The exhibiton is in The Dressign Room on C floor of the Museum Building on Buckle Street and it will be open during University hours for the next week - get along to it if you can!

Thanks!

See here for the slideshow from The Cutting Circle lecture

There will be the garments, sketches and patterns of Julian Roberts, Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan - as well as the work of the participants of The Cutting Circle Masterclasses.

Please RSVP to h.l.mcquillan@massey.ac.nz

I can tell The Cutting Circle has almost started because the materials list has been put up! Make sure you come to your first masterclass with everything you need!

Julian and Timo arrived on Monday and on Tuesday we started The Cutting Circle Research Project which runs for 1.5 weeks prior to the start of the symposium. Thanks to Global Fabrics for sponsoring our fabrics we were able to start experimenting right away. We have been borrowing each others techniques, teaching each other tricks and enbracing uncertainty now for 3 days and we have worked on a variety of garments and parts of garments - leggings, shirts, pants and tshirts. Tomorrow we are working on dresses and coats. The ultimate goal is to pass on what we find to the participants of The Cutting Circle symposium!

To open the symposium Timo Rissanen (US), Julian Roberts (UK) and Holly McQuillan (NZ) are giving a free public lecture discussing their 2 week collaborative research project. Come along at 7pm to 10A02 in the Museum Building at Massey University in Wellington on Thursday the 14th of July to hear all about the directions their exciting, innovative risk-taking fashion design practice has taken as they have searched for new ways to design and produce clothing. 

Lucky you! The Early Bird prices have been extended until 8th of July - so take advantage of this great deal while you still can. Register Here to take part is this exciting series of master classes by leading international experimental fashion design specialists.

Get in quick for the earlybird price of $300. From 1st of July it will cost you $380! Don't miss out.

Many apolpgies for the technical error that meant the links from this website to the registration portal did not work. It should now be fully functional - you will need to click on the registration link and using keywords "Cutting Circle" search for our courses. You can then select your chosen option.

Please let me know if this isn't the case!

Holly

The Cutting Circle is an international research initiative by leading fashion practitioners Timo Rissanen (Parsons), Julian Roberts (RCA) and Holly McQuillan (Massey) exploring new and innovative methods of cutting patterns in the context of risky, cutting edge sustainable fashion design practice, research and teaching.

As part of this project is a 3 day symposium on offer for 14-16 July 2011 at Massey University, College of Creative Arts, Wellington, New Zealand. 

Registration: Book online HERE and register in person at 8 - 8:45am 15th July outside LT200 prior to Demonstration