About ME

I never really thought about getting into the fashion industry until I found myself getting into the fashion industry. 

If you asked me at the end of high school on what I wanted to do with my life, I would’ve said a few different things, but fashion wouldn’t have been one of them. Advertising? Maybe. Film & post-production? Possibly. Mortuary? I’d be lying if I said I didn’t consider it. But weeks before I was destined to start a degree in Creative Innovation and Advertising, I found my gut telling me to move to something a little different. And that something was Fashion Marketing. And when I really think about it, I was probably destined to go into fashion from the very start. 

I’ve always felt different, and there’s no way I’m saying that that’s a bad thing. When you grow up a little different, you learn to really value those differences, and let me tell you, I’ve valued the hell out of them. Where else could you find a deeply creative, hardworking, androgynous individual who always takes the alternative approach to the fashion industry? I call myself a freak of fashion, because I approach fashion differently, and I take pride in that.

My name is Hannah Schmidt-Rees. I’m a Fashion Marketing student and the creator of an online fashion magazine. I use makeup to explore ideas of gender and identity. I received the Winmalee Blue Senior Medal for Visual Arts, Design and Photography in 2017, and was selected for the Sir William Dobell Drawing course at the National Art School. I had a goth stage when I was 14 and I’ve honestly never really grown out of it. I interned at an Australian online fashion and beauty publication. I spent six years of my childhood following a life in ballet. I finished high school in the top 15% of the country and was featured on the HSC Honour Roll.

Everything that I do and everything that I’ve done has made me into the person I am today, and I have so much to bring and so much more to create. They always say that actions speak louder than words, and whilst it’s a little cliché, in my case it’s completely true. Some may call me quiet, others soft-spoken. But I let my work speak for itself.