Fresh takes

this year has presented challenges, it has also presented opportunities. With uncertainty facing everyone, for young people the world’s current state of flux forms a natural nexus with the usual unanswered questions in a formative life stage. As establishment commentators in the industry take a gamble guessing what the coming chapters might hold, it is the next generation that it will practically affect the most. There are question marks around fashion’s future: who will weather the economic pressures? Will this really be a time of great change? How will we protect the more vulnerable independent voices? How can we be better? So we put it to recent or soon-to-be graduating fashion students here in Australia, to tell us about the impact of a pandemic and where they think, and hope,