A group of graduating fashion students from the University of Technology, Sydney will represent Australia in an international exhibition of fashion schools opening in Germany in June.

Düsseldorf City Museum (Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf) is mounting the exhibition "Floating Fashion" as a parallel event to the world's largest fashion and shoe trade fairs that are held in the city.

Four UTS final-year students from 2004 have been invited to exhibit selected garments in "Floating Fashion" following a visit to the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building late last year by one of the museum's curators.

The curator has chosen eveningwear by Melissa Kritsotakis, bright, transparent dresses by Celine Tiu, a creative garment constructed from glass by Cynthia Lau and swimwear by Georgie Renkert.

"It's incredibly exciting to represent Australian fashion design education in an exhibition that is being billed as 'avant-garde fashion from around the globe'," said the UTS Director of Program, Fashion and Textile Design, Alison Gwilt.

"The exhibition will explore global trends and local characteristics along with the status and future of academic fashion design as a profession.

"UTS will be in the company of internationally renowned schools such as Central St Martin in London, IFM in Paris, Parsons School in New York and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp," Gwilt said.

Meanwhile, current UTS fashion student Kellie Mobbs has achieved her own slice of international success, earning a month-long internship with the Italian fashion house Enrico Coveri in Florence.

The internship has come with her title of Young Designer in Cotton, awarded recently at the Australian Cottonweek Festival in Queensland.

Twenty-one year-old Mobbs, in the second year of her course, competed with fashion students from around Australia in a challenge to transform simple cotton calico into "catwalk couture". UTS's Melissa Kritsotakis was also a finalist for the award.