Replica Project currently makes a positive impact commercially, socially, and environmentally within the Victorian community and has the potential to grow this moving forward. We manufacture locally from our South Yarra studio with a small team of contractors and our knitwear is made locally in Victoria.
We work with Melbourne-based suppliers to source our raw materials. We work with Melbourne-based pattern cutters and grading services. We collaborate with Melbourne-based creatives to deliver all imagery associated with each project. This includes photographers & studio spaces, stylists, models, hair, and make-up artists. We collaborate with Melbourne-based creatives for brand & marketing collateral from design & copywriting through to physical publications and products including look books, packaging & stationery supplies.
We have engaged a Melbourne based artist to develop a motif for a textile print for project #4 and plan to continue working with local artists in this way. Working with these Victorian based freelance practitioners means highlighting the skills of each Victorian based practitioner as well as re-investing finances within the Victorian community. We are currently planning to move our studio to retail premises in 2023 to grow our audience and re-energise a creative precinct within the City of Port Phillip.
This space will engage new and existing audiences in aspects of our design practice from making, altering, and repairing clothing as well as offering a custom order design and making process. These offerings alongside our pre-order system mean our environmental footprint is minimal, as we do not make anything that does not have a home. Within this space we will communicate the methodology of the design practice through pre-order trunk shows & salon presentations, engaging local performers Amanda has previously collaborated with through her film & theatre career to help tell the story of each capsule project.