00:00In her bedroom, 13-year-old Olivia is adding the final touches to her handmade gown.
00:09I'll just work on them. I'll work on them.
00:12Sometimes it will be like 9.30 at night, Mum will come and be like,
00:15Olivia, time to go to sleep.
00:17Olivia's been sewing since she was four and dreams of having her own label and store.
00:22Her designs featured in the Tasmanian Fashion Festival's Up and Coming runway.
00:31She was one of 18 junior entrants.
00:34Where's their inspiration to keep going if they don't get that buzz at the end
00:37where people are seeing their creations?
00:39So that's what the Up and Coming Designer runway is all about.
00:42It gives me such a sense of pride and belonging when I see my girls walk down the runway.
00:49Olivia's hopeful for more runway opportunities in Tasmania.
00:53At the moment we've only got the one show,
00:55whereas maybe branching out and creating some other,
00:58that probably would be a good idea, I think, to help other people as well.
01:03Opportunities for careers in fashion are limited in Tasmania.
01:07The only tertiary education offering, the TasTAFE course, is no longer subsidised,
01:11meaning from next year fees will soar.
01:14This could lead to a big drop in enrolments and ultimately the end of the course.
01:18There's boutiques, bridal boutiques and designers,
01:21who are screaming out for seamstresses and qualified designers at the moment,
01:26but if they're not here getting trained, then obviously they're going to move interstate
01:31and the likeliness of them coming back is quite slim.
01:34Having a store here would definitely be a possibility,
01:37but being able to launch a label I don't think would work very well here,
01:42especially not having even like a university here for fashion.
01:46A Tasmanian government spokesperson says the fashion and design course
01:50has very low enrolments and is not sustainable.
01:53They say TasTAFE will instead subsidise more popular courses,
01:56which is the best use of taxpayer money.
02:00if being able to launch a field of富装.
02:02And then they say TasTAFE will not be able to answer those with any sort of
02:04work.
02:05And I think that they may have to be able to use them.
02:06I would like to see people in general as a way that the patient
02:07is going to have a text on the phone.
02:08I think that the patient is not in scratch.
02:09But we might have to be able to use the full-time ability.
02:10There's a inability to be able to tune in and make a hard time to be able
02:11to tune in, so the most important things that you can access
02:13in terms of their way to do really to do.
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