On September 8, Fat launched their new concept store in Russell Place with PASTELS: MARIOS 4 FAT, a collaboration with Italian fashion house MARIOS for their fourth Annual Limited T-Shirt Exhibition. The night featured a live installation/ performance – a collaboration between FAT + Vivien’s Models , featuring Jelly Sculptures by HSL and floral art by Tracey Quertier.

Photos by Libby Kinnaird

Special thanks to Vivien’s Models, Peroni, Jameson, The Spanish Acquisition, La Latteria, and The Vine.

The first conference curated and presented by FAT in conjunction with Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival 2011.

An insightful event that creates that created dialogue between industry leaders and Melbourne’s creative community. The conference, designed as a transparent look into a range of design based business, covered topical conversations around design, creative, media and space in a changing global climate.

‘Pale Blue Eyes’ was an opportunity for guests to learn about both the business and creative sides of various, ever merging design industries.

Attendees heard from a range of speakers, each leaders in their field. Discussions visualized aspects of design from graphic to publishing, print to online, and how buying and designing space merge.

Guest speaks discussed current challenges facing the creative industry, with a focus on strategy and outcomes.

•     Negotiating space and design in a changing global climate

•    The fine line between art &  Design

•    The challenges of balancing creative and business

•    The growth of new media mediums in a creative environment

Guest speakers included; Jo Walker (Editor of Frankie Magazine); Penny Modra (Editor of 3Thousand); Barrie Barton (Right Angle Studio); Tin Nguyen and Ed Cutting (Studio Tin & Ed); Carly Hunter (Carly Hunter); Huw Bennett (Vanishing Elephant); Nella Themelios (Craft Victoria); Rachael Cotra  and Kym Purtell (FAT)

These innovative and pragmatic minds discussed design through the lenses of art, business, innovation and trend. A wonderful opportunity for guests to actively participate in a project which took a closer look at our national creative industries.

Photos by: Tim Hillier

EVENT:
TUESDAY 15TH MARCH 2011
(1PM-4PM)
TOFF OF THE TOWN – LEVEL TWO 
252 SWANSTON STREET, MELBOURNE

Food was provided by Choo Choo’s

Furniture supplied by 

On 2rd September, Fat presented ‘Apple of my Eye’.

Its third limited edition T-shirt exhibition/party featuring designs by:

Lover, ffixxed, PAM, Asuza, Bassike, Beat Poet, Vanishing Elephant, Reiss Radvanyi, Therese Rawsthorne, Life with Bird, Carly Hunter, Tin&Ed, Thomas Jeppe, Sarah Parkes, Tim Hillier, Jenny Berean, Reuben Ruiter, The Collectif, RC Cola and Mountain fold Music Journal.

Photos by: Tracey Lee Hayes

Special Thanks to: The Vine – Peroni – Ad Hock – Jameson – Bulmers – Brother Cider – Mannequin Revolution – Fallen Magazine

As part of State of Design festival’s Look.Stop.Shop project, ffiXXed developed a multifunctional installation in the GPO store.

Working within the sustainability guidelines, the installation inspired by the 2010 trans-seasonal ‘We are building Spaces here’ collection is a blend of hand crafted wooden blocks. Working back with ffixxed’s silk prints and multi functional throws, the display is the ultimate fusion of fashion and art.

On display from July 14- 26 2010 at FAT GPO

click here to view behind the scene images

Photos by: Eastalot

On Wednesday 17th March 2010, in conjunction with Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, FAT partnered with Montreal based label complexgeometries to create and showcase the‘PERPETUAL LEISURE collection.

Aptly housed within an iconic Mongolian Yurt, this transportable nomad dwelling housed complexgeometries’s latest range as a ‘Pop Up’ store located within the RMIT Old Melbourne Gaol compounds.

Photos by: Steve Lightfoot

Many Thanks to: Peroni Leggera, Howling Wolves Premium Wines, Monteith’s Crushed Apple Cider, Daylesford and Hepburn Mineral Springs Co.

In late October 2009, FAT embarked on one of its greatest print programs to date.

With the help of Studio Pip and Co. – FATMAP was developed.
It was a free limited edition A6 pocket size map which folded into an A2 poster with FAT store locations, other culturally like mined retailers, galleries and cafes which FAT felt represent the ‘hop spots’ of Melbourne.

Four different artists were commissioned to produce a poster design for the back side.
Eugene Nemesi / Sunday Rennie / Tim Hillier / Andrew Ashton

Each print projected a different type of art – photography, illustration and graphic design.

Over 10,000 copies were distributed throughout Melbourne

View the FULL FATMAP here

Fitzroy: FUR Hairdressing / Workers Club – Art Space and Bands / Newtown Social Club – Cafe / 84 Smith Street – Vintage and contemporary furniture / Cavallero Bar / Mr Lincoln Florist

CBD: Gulford Lane Gallery / Metropolis Bookshop / FUR Hairdressing / Thousand Pound Bend Gallery / Roxanne Parlour – Nightclub / Rooftop Cinema

Prahran – Globe Cafe / FUR Hairdressing

After a hugely successful 2009 for the inaugural year of the “hello darkness horror film festival”, Rachael Cotra director of FAT and Hello Darkness will once again showcase the best local & international Horror films in its 2010 program later this year.

But no need to wait until then for an immediate fix in quality cinema.

On the 10^th of February there will be a screening of the visually sumptuous stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 Russian masterpiece.   An epic sci-fi parable; a perplexing inquiry into freedom and faith, which unfolds in an unspecified totalitarian society where the normal laws of physics no longer apply.

The film was chosen by Rachael to be a part of the rooftop cinema’s film appreciation series because, “Andrei tarkovsky films are the finest example of poetic cinema, visual fugue and for his depiction of emptiness, grief and the end…. No one can make me feel as bereaved as Andrei..”

To make the evening even more special, a soundscape has been composed by wilham as an appropriate pre curser to set the scene for the evening.

June 2008 marked the Tenth year since the Opening of the first store, and the start of a slew of birthday related Fat festivities… The first instalment of a three-part celebration in a century of great times was TEN, the great Fat art auction, promoting the relationship built over the years between Fat, fashion and art. Following will be TEN the party, with bands and dj’s representing our involvement of music in and out of the stores, and finishing with the Melb Spring fashion week showcasing the fashion element to the business. Some of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, all of whom have been a part of the Fat story so far, donated an amazing selection of works to be put up for auction. The one night exhibition was a great success, all of the artwork going under the hammer, helping us generate over $12,000, the proceeds going to the “Immigrant women’s domestic violence service.” We chose this charity over others as IWDVS gives voice and provides culturally sensitive services to meet the needs of women and children from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds affected by domestic violence. For more information go to www.iwdvs.org.au. A huge thankyou to the artists, all of our sponsors, Sotheby’s, Belvedere Vodka, Nutrient Water, Peroni, and Murray White Room for exhibiting the works in their beautiful space. With further thanks to all of our friends, loyal customers, and associates who came along to show their support.

On Thursday the 3^rd September 2009, FAT in conjunction with MSFW hosted its annual limited edition t-shirt exhibition at No Vacancy Gallery – ‘Survival of the fittest’. Featuring designs by PAM, Friedrich Gray, Dress Up, Claude Mause, Carly Hunter, Alpha60, Beat Poet, Birthday Suit and Therese Rawsthorne. Along with these designs, FAT also commissioned artists such as Dylan Martorelle, FFIXXED, Tim Hillier, Andrew Liversidge, Jen Berean and Rob Mcleish to create one off pieces.

Many thanks to: Peroni Leggera, Moet Hennessy, Vinaceous Wines, Nutrient Water, Oyster Magazine

Fat in conjunction with Melbourne Spring Fashion Week, will launch a series of events throughout the course of the week entitled ‘Fat Loves.’

Fat Loves Art. is a free in store exhibition showcasing four emerging artists. Running September 1^st – 6^th each Fat store will play host to a different artist and their works.
Artist; Nicholas Jones, Emily Valentine, Tess McNamara, Polly Dedman.

On Friday the 4^th September, Fat joins the MSFW ‘Designer Series’ parade showcasing the latest looks from some of the most exciting labels to the Fat collective.
Designers Include: Carly Hunter, Dress Up, Amy Khene, Beat Poet, Birthday Suit, Otto Jeans and many more.

From Saturday the 5^th September, FAT will feature special guest bloggers, revealing their thoughts and attitude on all things current. – for the love of the written word.
Featured Bloggers: Hayley Hughes (melbournestreetfashion.com), Matt Jordan (imelda.com.au), Sunday Rennie (art curator)

From Wednesday the 2^nd September, head into any Fat store to collect a free mixed c.d produced in Melbourne by Will Pyett.

Guided by the sounds of Ponyclub Massacre (a string quartet recreating modern classics from the likes of Joy Division and David Bowie), the preview of Chronicles of Never – ‘Water Will Burn’, Gareth Moody’s spring/summer ‘07/’08 collection was launched Thursday, 6 September at the Fat GPO store in the center of Melbourne.

Born of a leather bound book full of scribbles and spells and a whimsical desire to design with different mediums and new shapes, Chronicles of Never is, according to Moody, “Loosely based upon mathematics and heavily influenced by architecture and geometrics, the 14th letter, audible vision, and the theory of light”. It is in essence his dreams brought to life.

Melbourne and Sydney’s edgy fashion elite milled amongst the “few hundred effortlessly cool guests” in the historic GPO building sipping the finest Absolut pear vodka and nibbling on plates of some damn fancy hors dourves. Fat and Chronicles of Never would like to thank Absolut, Peroni, Perrier, Kid You Not and all who attended for their generous support.

On the 4^th September 2008, In celebration of our tenth year, FAT presents ‘Limited’ an exhibition of limited edition works on blanks the t-shirt, the most versatile garment the world has ever know.

It’s outerwear, underwear, a promotional vehicle, a platform on which to display one’s interests, tastes and affiliations, political slogans, humor and art. The t-shirt can sell a story.

The tee is a blank canvas, and the artists are: Alpha60, Maryon, Ksubi, Romance was Born, Chronicles of Never, TV, Dress Up, PAM, Reiss, Beat Poet, Bassike, Friedrich Gray, Claude Maus, Princess Tina + Self Help.

Winter Sale: 3rd June 2011

Pass: Thursday 26th May 2011

Bassike – WInter : Thursday 19th May 2011

Chilly: Friday 13th May 2011

Libra: Thursday 5 May 2011

New Winter 2011: Thursday 19th April 2011

April [Web Shop] : Friday 1st April 2011

Modern: Thursday 24th March 2011

Pisces Please: Wednesday 9th March 2011

Members Only Invite: Tuesday 22nd February 2011

New/Best Days: Friday 18th February 2011

Valentines Day Gift Ideas: Monday 7th February 2011

Rabbit Year: Thursday 3rd February 2011

Australia Day Special: Tuesday 25th January 2011

Welcome Back: Tuesday 11th January 2011

Hi_Summer: Thursday 16th December 2010

Holiday Giving: Thursday 9th December 2010

The Gift Of Giving (Promotion): Thursday 30th November 2010

Send/Receive: Thursday 25th November 2010

Seriously: Thursday 11th November 2010

Halloween: Tuesday 26th October 2010

Introducing: Wednesday 20th October 2010

TimesTwo: Thursday 30th September 2010

Members Only: Tuesday 21st September 2010

Just Beginning: Tuesday 14th September 2010

Limited Edition: Tuesday 31St August 2010

Apple Bobbing: Thursday 26th August 2010

Fruit: 18th August 2010

Leo Zodiac: 5 August 2010

Second Skin: 23rd July 2010

The Goods: 8th July 2010

Half way: 25 June 2010

Something New, Something Blue: 10th June 2010

Fashion & Art: 3rd June 2010

Still Winter: 25th May 2010