Caramel Rock x Commonwealth Fashion Council 2023

Alonzo holds level 3 diplomas in music engineering, including Iive recording, health and nutrition, and electrical installations. He has a keen interest in fashion, films and music.

Before being involved in the fashion industry, Qingqing had already got 2 bachelor’s degrees. One is oenology and viticulture in China, and the other is Sommelier in France. She has multiple working experiences in wine & fashion: Wine Marketing Assistant, wine journalist, model, actor, and live streamer.

Her work is filled with her personality and compassion towards the world. She picked Chinese children who work for a multinational entertainment company for this child labour project. She focuses on expressing the unfair consequences of fabric materials and personalised manipulations.

She pieced her work based on the mood board. After researching all related artists in this area, she thought camouflage was the best way to express this topic. She expected her work can remind audiences to start to think of something happening in the fashion industry and this society.

Sukwinda is a very positive person, a quick learner who always wants to bring everyone together. She researched one of the world's well-known athletic apparel and footwear brand that uses children as labour.

Sukwinda researched her designs, took ideas to develop her banner, and mixed the use of colours to create her message and design.

Ameema's values include being nice to yourself and the environment. She loves dressing and doing her hair and makeup for special occasions.

Ameema researched one of the global fast fashion retailer for its involvement with child labour. She had no idea before that this brand would use child labour. She created a design by customising a T-shirt by cutting out letters in gold and painting in the style of the famous painter Liu Bolin, and draping silk fabric over the t-shirt to keep the style aesthetic close to the brand's design.

Gonche's personal values include being honest, kind and hard-working. She loves fashion, especially makeup with different hairstyles and flowers. Flowers are important to her as her name means a flower.

Ghonche researched an athletic apparel and footwear brand that uses child labour. She was shocked to learn that such a successful brand uses little children as labourers.

Ghonche created a banner using an image of a window shop display that stays in people's minds and can be used to educate the world regarding child labour in the fashion industry.

She also used the brand's jersey and customised it by adding text and flowers to highlight child labour. The flowers represented a core part of her design, as children are sweet and innocent just like flowers.

Ange is also interested in visual and performing arts, using various artists’ works for her inspiration. She researched children working in the cotton harvest in countries reputed as the best cotton producers in the world. She looked at different artworks from artists who mostly talk about child labour in their works. 

She wanted to convey an effective message about the realities in the fashion industry; thus, she created a dress, a design we usually see in one of the brands that use child labour.

The design contains a drawing of two chained hands. One bigger and one smaller (Which means children are being used regardless of age). Using two colours means different races, which leads us to understand that child labour happens in different places worldwide.