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Media Release |
1st September, 2005 |
Tanami Magnus
An Ocean of Silk
Tanami Magnus wanted a life full of adventure and unlike most people trekked through life making it happen.
After training as a chef she boldly moved to Kimberley finding work on the pearling boats out of Broome. She moved through the marine world to a variety of diving charter and coastal resorts, exploring the wildness of outback coastal Australia.
Tanami then moved overseas and began to feel there was more to life than being a chef. She wanted a life that belonged to herself. She no longer wanted to work for other people for their life goals.
After trying her hand at a few occupations Tanami was eventually led to the world of fashion.
With a long held passion for natural fibres, Tanami was inspired by ochre painted coconut fibres all the way through to the purest of cottons. It was with this in mind that Tanami took the plunge into fashion design concentrating her creative processes on the most luxurious of natural fibres, silk.
The Tanami Silk label creates feminine, flowing contemporary racewear. The designs are graceful with an echo to an inspiration from the oceans. “Its (silk) fluidity and luminescence reminds me of the ever-moving sea which helped create my design philosophy,” comments Tanami.
“Silk is the ultimate fabric with which to celebrate the human form. Its flow on the body, combined with an understanding cut brings out the shine in all of us, whether full or tall, slender or small.
Broome, my home, is my inspirational headquarters for this range. The raw landscape, aqua oceans and endless blue skies find their way into every design.
Tanami is currently participating in the TCF Australia Business Skill Project run by the TCFWA Inc.
There are thousands of women living in isolated and regional areas of Australia with innovative ideas or with a business in the TCF or creative industries. The Textile Clothing and Footwear Resource Centre of WA (TCF WA) recognised the hardships involved for these women and decided to do something about it.
TCF Australia Uncovered Business Skills project was launched on the 7th of July 2004 and has scheduled a series of events that run from August 2004 to November 2005. These activities will be held from far North and South WA, Darwin, Alice Springs, Geelong and Hobart and also in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth. These activities have been scheduled to coincide with such fashion events as Fashion Exposed, Mercedes Australian Fashion Week, the Australian Fashion Awards and Perth Fashion Festival.
Designedge - TCF Australia Uncovered launched in 2003 as a trade exhibition staged in Perth to provide a showcase of fashion design talent from independent designer operators. In 2004, the TCF Australia Uncovered Business Skills project will concentrate on uncovering design talent in remote and regional Australia and provide business skills development in the form of online mentoring, specialist workshops, networking and business matching opportunities. A focus of the project will be directed to indigenous, multicultural and young women.
TCF Australia Uncovered Business Skills project is an Australian Government Funded service under the Small Business Enterprise Culture Program and is supported by the TCFWA Inc., Belmont Business Enterprise Centre Inc. (BBEC) , M.D.F.I, WA Office of Multicultural Interests, C.T.I. NT, N.T.F.A. and Business Professional Women WA
For more details on Mabea contact:
Media Contact: Tanami Magnus
Phone: 08 9192 8464 Mobile: 0419 991 587 eMail: tanami25@yahoo.com
For more information on designedge fashion incubator project contact:-
Carol Hanlon Ph: 08 9479 3777 Mobile: 0417 963 231
eMail: carol.hanlon@tcfwa.com
