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SPLORE Music fest competition winners announced

A big thank you to everyone who entered, fantastic entries, with a cool mix of hand drawn and computer designed concepts. Unfortunatley not everyone can win, but we hope you all enjoy whats shaping up to be a fantastic weekend  for Splore 2012- featuring Erykah Badu, Tiki and heaps more.

Also your chance to get your hands on a 100%  fair trade organc tshirt with designs choosen by… YOU!

And the winners are: Kelly Spencer,  Guido Thum and  Josh twaddle

These are going to be availible on site at the festival, We want to thank Splore Festival for their continued support and being leaders in using fair trade organic apparel!

Dance hard and have a fantastic SPLORE

Splore music festival Design Competition

We’re teaming up with our friends at SPLORE MUSIC FESTIVAL to provide 100% fair trade organic tees for the festival again this year.

But WE NEED YOU!, so far all we have is a blank t-shirt canvas and a kick ass summer time music festival devoted to art, music, culture and community staged at the stunning Tapapakanga Regional Park.

SPLORE 2012 T-SHIRT DESIGN COMPETITION

Whats the competition?:

-This is your opportunity to showcase your creative flair to the Splore community by expressing your story through a design that   reflects the Splore festival culture. So get designing and your entry could be the 2012 Splore Festival t-shirt.

What you’ll win:

The top 3 designs will be printed on Freeset T-shirts live at Splore 2012 and sold as official merchandise.
The top 3 designers will receive double passes valued at $440 + $50 bar tab and a couple of Splore T-shirts (of course).

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Liminal Apparel in Melbourne

Website live… check, stock sent … check.

LIMINAL APPARELS COMING TO MELBOURNE!!!

Next Thursday we’re heading to Melbourne to take part in Fair @Square, a dedicated ethical and fair trade festival, Showcasing  fashion, ideas and businesses providing alternative options to help make our world a more fair and more transparent place. You to can become part of our story of Freedom for the Women of Freeset through your purchase of Freeset bags and t-shirts – You’ll even get a free Sunglass case 100% fair trade organic!.

Come and have a chat, we’ll see you there, from Friday 2nd- Sunday 4th at Federation Square.

Website launch

We are proud to Launch our much anticipated NEW ZEALAND and AUSTRALIA Websites!
This is very exciting for us, as now you can purchase Freeset bags and tee’s at your finger tips from wherever you are.
Sooooo flick over to our new site and check us out!

Cheers
LA team

And the winner is…

After a month of designing, sketching, drawing, doodling and general creative happenings, we received over 27 entries for T-off design competition.

You the public voted and we crafted together a judging panel locked them in a small windowless room and left them to deliberate,  a unanimous decision was made and the winner is….

SAM REED with his design cream balls!.

So congrats Sam! also to our runners up ‘mmm Skyscraper I love you’ by Soph’tee and James Mumby-Croft with ‘Rubble heart’.

Also to everyone else who entered or voted thanks!.

HERES THE WINNING ENTRY!!!

Ten years of freedom!- happy birthday Freeset.

Ever wondered what a crazy business idea would look like after ten years?

look no further on Saturday Freeset celebrated 10 years of being in the business of freedom.

We got talking about what Liminal Apparel might look like in 10 years time and its fair to say a big challenge has been laid down by these guys!.

Freeset’s busines model to many is upside down and counter cultural where freedom for Women and their families is what the business is measured on.

Its a bottom line and model which we at Liminal Apparel are proud to be associated with and are 100% commited to0, it’s not  always easy and thoughts of  easier alternatives creep in from time to time. But a photo or a story of a life changed from Freeset provides a good kick in the pants and reminds us of why we are doing what we do.

Its a crazy business model which some may totally disagree with and ask why we bother as it’s crazy?. In reply, we struggle to put it into words but one comment would be yes it is crazy and look at the result so far!- crazy and let the crazy dreams continue!.

To our customers and supporters your purchase decisions are having a huge positive impact on lives of the women and also of those through the supply chain, our cotton farmers and growers.

So know that your changes in buying ethical/fair trade etc here are big changes in peoples lives at Freeset and more importantly those of their children and generations to come. THANK YOU

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Fashion week outing…

 

New Zealand Fashion week has started with a hiss and a roar! and we’re going along for our first time!!

This years event has been brought forward 3 weeks to prevent clashing with the Rugby world cup, and features a fantastic line up of NZ designers.

The boys at liminal Apparel have be salivating over the fine mens garments produced locally in christchurch by MisteR Mens wear for some time, friendships were struck up with MisteRs, (Mickey and Ra) and a post quake gathering one night led to discussions about MisteR and Liminal Apparel teaming up to bring a fair trade organic gift bag for all the guests attending MisteR’s show…. the rest is history really!.

We are so excited to supply MisteR 100% fair trade organic tote bags, and have huge respect for their work and choice to use natural fabrics. New Zealand Fashion Week also marks the debut of the duo’s new range of womens wear, We can’t wait.

After a hectic year of earthquakes and general crazyness, MisteR’s show aptly titled ‘Not so Grimm’ celebrates the journey that has been and introduces their winter collection 11/12. It also highlights their commitment to seeing fair trade organic products become part of NZ fashion.

MisteRs choice to use fair trade organic tote bags speaks volumes and we look forward to joining with other designers to offer fair trade organic choices.

Liminal Apparel

We’re going hungry, Live below the line challenge!

Here we come

on a cold winter work day, the boys at Liminal Apparel, stumbled across the

Live Below The Line Challenge… and decided to give it a crack, so for a 5 days NEXT WEEK (22-27 AUG)  we’ll be living below the line to help raise money for our chosen organisation- OXFAM.

The week of Live Below the Line is a week like no other. For 5 days in August, thousands of people across New Zealand and Australia will spend just $2.25 each day on food, and use our daily experiences to bring extreme poverty to the centre of conversation in all we do. We’ll all be challenged; we’ll struggle without caffeine, and have a faint feeling of being not quite full for the whole week. We’ll pool money to make $2.25 stretch just a little further…

We’ll do all of this because whilst we choose to struggle to Live Below the Line for one week, there are 1.4 billion people who have no choice other than to do it every day.
While its only a small glimpse into the realities facing millions of people each day we really want to stretch ourselves and keep remembering the fact that extreme poverty still exists!,
SO please support us, money is an easy thing we can give in the west and it really does make a huge difference, for aid, development and building sustainability  so that people in a less fortunate situation to us get a fair crack at life too.

Liminal Apparel boys xoxox

South Island sales trip

 

It’s been a  while since our last post, lots of exciting stuff in the works, so keep checking back to find out the latest.

We’ve just come back from 3 days in the south of the south island, Oamaru, Timaru and Dunedin, some really cool shops, with some passionate shop owners stocking our Freeset bags. If you are heading down south some time soon, these are the shops you should pop in to visit.

Timaru

• Interlude – cute cottage gift store/cafe located close to the Hospital

Oamaru

• Tangibles – A huge collection of gift ware to suit all tastes, with a corner dedicated to men located on the main road

Dunedin

• Things design store – Very well laid out gift store with really cool gift ideas to suit everyone’s prices range located on George st
• The Loft – A really cool gift ware/gallery store located opposite Things design store up stairs
• Joseph Jones florist – Also located on George st, this florist has a bit of everything.

On the way home, we popped into Fleurs place in Moeraki for a shared platter and a Cracroft valley pinot gris… beautiful.