About this Event
THE FRONT ROW
Careers in Fashion Breakfast
Hosted by RÈLIER GROUP at Haven Restaurant, The Mondrian, Burleigh Heads.
7AM — 10AM
Treat your fashion career to a seat in THE FRONT ROW.
Join us at Haven Restaurant at The Mondrian Burleigh Heads for an intimate morning of breakfast and career conversations. We’re bringing together some of Queensland fashion’s most influential hiring managers to talk shop on how to build a career in fashion. We’re welcoming People and Culture leaders from DISSH, VRG GRL, YCL and of course fashion’s favourite recruiters, Team RÈLIER.
We have an exclusive 65 seats available.
THE FRONT ROW puts you in the room (and quite literally in the front row) with the people hiring talent and influencing the future of careers in fashion.
Created for fashion head office and retail talent, People & Culture leaders and brand founders, this is your invitation to hear the conversations usually happening behind closed doors. We’ll be chatting about what brands really want, what’s changing in hiring, where the opportunities are, and how to build a career in fashion that moves with the industry.
YOUR TICKET INCLUDES
- Your front row seat to unfiltered conversations about the fashion career market right now
- Access to and networking with some of fashion’s most influential hiring decision-makers, alongside an inspiring room of industry peers
- Roaming coffee and dedicated networking moments
- A decadent seated breakfast at Haven
- A first-to-market copy of RÈLIER’s 2026/2027 Fashion Salary Guide
- Finders, keepers. You'll have the chance to win one of four lucky-girl prizes in the event giveaway, with four prizes valued at up to $399 each
- All coffee, beverages and some sweet grab-and-go gifts & snacks for your onwards journey
- And if you wish to make a night of it ... Attendees will receive an exclusive 20% accommodation discount should you choose to stay at The Mondrian the evening prior.
ON THE MIC
We’re hosting three panels with some very good people who have plenty to say.
PANEL 01 — CAREER JOURNEY: ELIZABETH DREWETT, HEAD OF PEOPLE & CULTURE, DISSH
One career & all of its chapters. We’ll be taking a deep dive into Lizzie’s journey from the shop floor to building DISSH’s People & Culture function; the career moves, lessons and retail foundations that shaped everything in between.
PANEL 02 — THE CURRENT FASHION LANDSCAPE
Featuring TEAM RÈLIER
Your inside line on the fashion job market right now. What brands want, how candidate behaviour is changing, what we’re seeing behind the scenes, and how to get yourself into the hidden job market in the fashion world.
PANEL 03 — THE FUTURE OF FASHION CAREERS
Featuring Jacob Lawrence, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner at DISSH; Tanya Hilder, People & Culture Manager at VRG GRL; and Fabienne Costa, Founder of YCL and Co Founder of SRLA.
Fashion careers are changing and so is what candidates have to offer. We’re talking roles on the rise, skills brands will want next, non-linear career moves and what some of the industry’s leading minds think the future years of fashion talent will actually look like.
- Networking with some of fashion’s most influential hiring decision-makers, alongside an inspiring room of industry peers
You’ll have the chance via a Q&A session. After each panel to direct questions around the fashion hiring market to each panel.
WHAT YOU’LL KNOW BY 10AM:
- Where salaries are moving, with first access to RÈLIER’s 2026/2027 Fashion Salary Guide
- What’s really happening in the fashion market right now and how this has shifted in the last 2 years
- How fashion careers and fashion teams are changing
- How to make smarter career and hiring decisions
Coffee starts from 7AM.
65 seats in THE FRONT ROW with the people hiring, building and shaping fashion careers in Queensland.
Event venue & nearby stays
Haven Restaurant, 3 First Avenue, Burleigh Heads, Australia
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