About Fasion Fantasia

Fashion Fantasia is an annual awards event for wearable art. Initially the dream of Rossy Roberts-Thomson, it is now in its seventh year.

It provides an opportunity for international textile artists, national and state craftspeople and students to air their creativity to a wide audience. Fashion is taken to its limit into the area where the body is the canvas on which an installation, an idea, an aesthetic creation or a fine example of saleable wearables in the numerous areas of textile craft (machine embroidery, silk, felt, knitting, weaving, crochet, dyeing, collage from recycled products, and any other new mediums) is exhibited to an audience for their admiration, appreciation, inspiration and possible sale, whilst at the same time giving the maker/designer/creator an opportunity to make an impact as an artist in a legitimate sense.

Rossy Roberts-Thomson - Director

Rossy grew up on a farm at Table Cape, Tasmania. After gaining her BA & Dip.Ed, she began her career teaching in Tasmania. She married and went to India for two years with Australian Volunteers Abroad before transferring to the Guidance Branch of the Education Department where she spent 3 years as an educational psychologist.