Calouda

Fashion – Melbourne

CARA DRAKE has completed her Bachelor of Design in 2013, at Whitehouse Institute of Design, Australia. She has recently interned with Australian company LIFEwithBIRD between 2012 - 2013. Her \'Paper Cranes\' collection was featured in the L\'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival (Dancing a la mode). Has featured in Melbourne Spring Fashion Week emerging designers parade 2013, with her \'Identity\' collection. As well as showing her graduate collection \'Warrior Princess\' at the international Australian Graduates Fashion Week, representing Victoria against Australian, New Zealand and Asian competitors. In 2013, Cara began her label \'CALOUDA\' aiming to empower women; reflecting effortless sophisticated style, yet remaining on trend and chic, Calouda is a high fashion, ready to wear brand with attainable pricing. Embracing modernistic influences, pieces are timeless, and relevant to the world of fashion around the globe, in offering a design aesthetic that incorporates the contrast of soft fluidity and defined structure throughout each collection. Calouda dresses intelligent, free-willed independent women, a woman who embraces change, is filled with drive, ambition and strength.