A community dedicated to cherishing the incredible talent of Lyn-Al Young.
Lyn-Al from a young age has been creating handbags, clothes and other accessories using aboriginal fabrics and beads. Today, she has emerged as one of the best fashion designers in Melbourne, Victoria for her wearable art creations.
Melbourne is home to many aboriginal artists, however, in recent times, Lyn-Al has especially emerged as a force to reckon with. Her creations first captured attention during the Global Indigenous Runway at VAMFF in 2016 and since she hasn’t looked back!
Lyn-Al’s work stands out as she is a proud Gunnai, Wiradjuri, Gunditjmara and Yorta Yorta designer. She is inspired by Cathy Freeman who was a big influence and role model for the creator. Since both her parents are artists, she had a very creative environment at home which helped her in her journey tremendously.
In her own works, Lyn-Al says all her designs are based on cultural values. She creates wearable art with silk always keeping the spirit of protection and peace in mind. Her designs respect the sacredness of a woman’s body and many young women associate with her designs for it.
Indigenous Australian fashion designer Lyn-Al Young created a limited-edition deodorant for NIVEA inspired by her silk designs. She has created a new fragrance which is a combination of her work on silk garments and harsh paint elements.
Long before her rise to fame in 2016, Lyn-Al was recognised in her local community for her Aboriginal fashion creations. Since she was a little girl, she has used aboriginal fabrics, beads, painting techniques and more to create clothes and accessories. After high-school she launched her small business and soon caught the attention of reputed designers.
Today, she along with her brother Robert Young, Lyn-Al resides at Florence Peel Centre from where she develops paintings, textile creations and boomerangs. She also uses her residence to host workshops to empower young aboriginal artists. Most of Lyn-Al’s work is to depict the aboriginal identity through themes, textures and colours of her ancestral lands.
What’s more, her creations are majorly made to celebrate womanhood and provide protection and peace via them. At the heart of her creations, you can see fashion-art fusion and its effect on the person wearing them.
Her creations are stocked inChristine Accessories on Flinders Lane and a few other shops. But, for a national presence, Lyn-Al is dedicated to creating an ecommerce website so that anyone in Australia can purchase her creations. She is most likely to put up wearable art, paintings, handbags and many other creations on the website.
The NAIDOC week is hosted every year for the indigenous people of Australia and it is an important event. Thus, like many other aboriginal artists, Lyn-Al is deeply invested in this event and works hard to showcase various of her creations during the week. If you want, you can schedule attending the next NAIDOC week which usually takes place in the month of July.
With the help of David Jones, Lyn-Al wants to develop a program for Fasheaming to promote her cultural values and inspire other young designers. She has been doing this program for inspiration and development of her art for years with her mother. Now she wants other artists can also use the technique to make unique and vibrant art.
Another latest development in her career is Lyn-Al’s collaboration with NIVEA to form a new and refreshing deodorant. It is called Black and White and brings the essence of fusion fashion in a bottle.
A concept or program Lyn-Al continuously talks about is Fasheaming which she says is a form of Fashion Dreaming. Since she is an Aboriginal artist, it isn’t surprising that her art creation process is inspired by dreamtime stories which is a popular tradition way of creating paintings, sculptures and other forms of art.
Like Dreamtime stories, during Fasheaming you imagine traditional indigenous stories for creating patterns, designs, themes, textures and more. The aim is to achieve your own Fasheams and to express your creativity via different creative outlets.
Lyn-Al's fashion designs featuring Aboriginal art are nothing short of a cultural masterpiece. Her creations beautifully fuse contemporary fashion with traditional Indigenous elements, resulting in breathtaking paintings, clothes, and more.
Lyn-Al's fashion designs showcase a visionary blend of artistic expression and Aboriginal heritage. Her paintings exude a sense of authenticity and emotional depth, capturing the essence of Aboriginal culture in a modern context.
Lyn-Al's designs transport you on a cultural journey with each creation. As an avid art enthusiast and someone who values cultural preservation, I am utterly impressed by their work. The attention to detail in their paintings is awe-inspiring.
