As fashion academic Robyn Healy writes in Design collective: an approach to practice , the FDC cultivated local creative industries and established an alternative fashion scene in Australia. From 1983 to 93, the council secured hundreds of thousands of dollars in arts and commercial funding to hold events in nightclubs, industrial construction sites and condemned warehouses across Sydney and Melbourne huge fashion parades that drew thousands to witness the development of the art of fashion design the new and provocative, both in its wearable and unwearable form The FDC revitalised dilapidated sites and instigated the development of new ones, while a nightclub boom supported the growing underground scene, where fashion, music, dance, performance and film were integrated together for extended hours. The nightclub was an important space for fashion, writes Robyn, designed for mass spectacles with people dressing up and parading. For experimental designers, the club was at once a source of inspiration and a stage
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