Claudia chan shaw is an australian fashion designer and television presenter. Claudia chan shaw has been a collector since childhood. Claudia chan shaw curator lunar new year at world square. If you werent able to make it to the event, you can read the text of her fascinating chat below she called it the extended version. Her mother, vivian chan shaw, designed and produced knitwear, and claudia used her training to establish an export market for her mothers eponymous clothing label. Claudia chan shaw joined us for a morning tea at shearers today to speak about collecting and her new book collectomania. Claudia chan shaw has worked as an artist, author, curator, designer and public speaker but shes probably most familiar to many as the presenter of the abc. Claudia designed nine huge golden windup robot rats, for the sydney lunar festival for the year of the metal rat 2020. Wedding outfit designed by claudia and vivian chan shaw designed by chan shaw, vivian in sydney, new south wales, australia, 1993. Come along and spend an hour, as we delve into the history and stories of those fashion items we obsess over. She was the curator of the sydney chinese new year festival 2016, 2017, 2018, the largest celebration of the lunar new year outside china. A photo artist, claudias latest series obscuriosity, draws on a personal cabinet of curiosities childhood memories and the intrigue of the obscure. Abc tv presenter and face of the collectors, claudia chan shaw is a self confessed collectomaniac who has amassed an enviable set of tin robots and snow.
They currently work as design and retail partners operating a knitwear boutique in sydneys queen victoria building. Claudia chan shaw is an australianborn fashion designer and television presenter of chinese. They have worked together in the family business for 35 years. There was a need to categorise and organise the collections. Claudia has curated a number of fashion exhibitions including vivian chan shaw 40 years, a retrospective and alfredo bouret retrospective, a tribute to the great fashion artist.
She was born in annandale in the inner western suburbs of sydney, and stud. Claudia chan shaw, 50, author of collectomania and a former presenter on abctvs collectors, has an impressive stockpile of tin robots and ray guns. Claudia chan shaw admits to a fondness for all of the above and more. Snow domes, first edition books, vintage fashion, contemporary art, bakelite radios and wine. For the last 150 years the white wedding dress has lain at the heart of the oftencomplex preparations for the marriage ceremony in traditional anglosaxon unions, and increasingly in the marriage ceremonies of. Her mother, vivian, 78, is an australian fashion icon. Marion has ma ny museums\, natural areas\, local restaurants\, and entertainment venues that entice people from all over ohio and beyond to visit.
Claudia chan shaw has many parts fashion designer, television and radio presenter, curator, author, public speaker, collector, visual artist, cultural tour leader. Fashion lecture series at chatswood chase claudia chan shaw. Wedding outfit designed by claudia and vivian chan shaw. She admits to buying, collecting, displaying and falling in love, often, with objects from markets, shops, garage sales and auctions. Every tuesday in september ill be giving a series of fashion lectures at chatswood chase sydney. Claudia chan shaw is a vibrant, energetic woman of many talents fashion designer, television and radio presenter, author, public speaker, collector, curator. She gathers, displays and arranges objects that remind her of another time.