The newest collection from sleep couture icon Peter Alexander is fun and inventive; set to make it just that little bit harder to get out of your pjs.
The line featured charming designs that ranged from cute and flirtatious ultra feminine floral prints to the little more risqué French inspired range. Then there were captivating Australiana [...]
MSFW: Peter Alexander – Slumber in the City
MSFW: Designer Series 1
Arnsdorf opened the Designer Series 1 runway at Melbourne Spring Fashion Week 2010. The designs possessed constrained volume and geometric construction with pastel colours and fractal patterns. Vibrant and fun short chiffon skirts, cropped jackets and puffy sleeved dresses were spotted. Also we witnessed stiff neoprene formed into cocoon-like silhouettes and heavy materials somehow turned [...]
Avant Garde gallery at Fashion Exposed
Australian and New Zealand fashion designers can let their uber-artistic selves run wild when creating for the Avant Garde Gallery at Fashion Exposed. This year’s winner Anna Blease, is just the tip of a kooky, unexpected, eccentric, stunning and drop dead gorgeous iceberg of design. Entrants were Ellie Meyer, Priscilla McClintock, Amber Hills, Anna Peng, Anna Thi Pham, Laurence St-Pierre, Jing Wang, Tovah [...]
Dresscode: MSFW Designer Series 1
Task for tonight: Figure out how to set camera to timer so I don’t have to try to get a decent shot while my resident photographer is away. And so Pawley stops looking at me like I am out of my tiny mind at 2.30am in the morning. Awkwardly photographing yourself in the mirror somehow [...]
Chambord Shine Awards 2010 Grand Final
In a surprising (they were entered as a the people’s choice) yet thrilling win Melbourne’s Limedrop designer duo Clea Garrick and Nathan Price took out the Chambord Shine Award last night. Traditionally not ones to design for the Spring Racing Carnival set, Limedrop caught the judges’ eye with an edgy frock featuring a regally dressed [...]
Parlez vous francais?…
…It probably would have helped this past weekend as, little did you know, but the French invaded Melbourne! A Gallic contingent showed of their urban designs at a dedicated Fashion Exposed catwalk show.
Labels invited down under included Little Marcel, Akelakey, Cannisse, Charlie Joe, One Step, Eroik, Feiyue and jewellery by Nature and Taratata Bijoux, Redline [...]
Debut at Fashion Exposed
Debut honoured fledgling Australian fashion labels at Fashion Exposed this past weekend. Contenders in the apparel category included Electric Sugar, Felix & Mabel, Janin, Leanne Lim, Mac n’ Fleur and Undral. Designer Geoffrey Haining won out with his distopian Francz label. Judges described the collection as being suited to “a rockstar clientele”.
Afterglow Jewellery by Charms [...]
Win a double pass to Made In Melbourne at MSFW
Made in Melbourne returns for its sophomore year at Melbourne Spring Fashion Week. MSFW 2010 sees seven boutique labels hit the runway to showcase their Spring Summer 2010/11 collections; Mina & Katusha, Caro, Lisa Taranto, Marion Liese lingerie, Borsha, Silk & Ink and NeoDia. Naturally all are “made in Melbourne”
Made in Melbourne will be held at the very grand The Trust at [...]
Dresscode: MLY at MSFW
The dresscode for Miss Lyndel Yeo’s 5th Birthday celebrations at Melbourne Spring Fashion Week said “red carpet” but I didn’t want to go too outlandish as the star of the show was the gorgeous Lyndel herself in one of her deliciously berry-hued gowns. So I settled for a streamlined take on my beloved silver…and am [...]
Miss Lyndel Yeo’s 5th Birthday Party
Miss Lyndel Yeo let loose an animalistic Melbourne Spring Fashion Week parade last night as she celebrated her label’s 5th birthday with a review of her mainline and MLY Black Label collections for Spring 2010.
Her signature unusual shapes (high waists, extended shoulder-lines, cropped tops and dramatic trains) return along with a hint of animal print, even [...]
