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This L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival we witnessed something spectacular - A daring phenomenon that was brought into the public eye in pedestrian heavy locations around the city, thanks to the Herald Sun and City of Melbourne. 'Pop Up' by name and certainly that by nature, these pop up runways appeared on four different occasions between...
Words: Sam Coltart
Just like a sought after mirage forming at the edge of an ocean, the LÓreal Melbourne Fashion Festival is also something people crave for. It’s a place where your fashionable thirst can be quenched, as frivolity and fashion exist in a marriage of perfect splendour. Yet, unlike a mirage, this annual event is no illusion and it causes as much of a stir as...
Words: Lara Antonelli
Fashion Aid was everything is strived to be last October 11th at the Palladium Ballroom in Crown Casino. It brought a huge gathering of high profile Melbournites together to celebrate a fusion of fashion, music, dining and dancing. With a host of supporters, the majors being Crown Casino and GRL Mobile, Fashion Aid successfully raised a mountain of...
Words: Sam Coltart
The Air New Zealand Fashion week was bigger and better once again this year. A total of 50 design labels were represented over the four days of this 8th annual event in Auckland. There was a hint of 90s revival throughout an array of impressive and creative shows. Lucy Boshier wowed the audience with a cabaret/broadway...
Words: Sophie Bayly
You can smell it in the air, see in the trees and feel it in the sunshine. Spring has finally shown it’s head from behind the winter clouds and no other fashion festival reiterates this more clearly than Melbourne Spring Fashion Week. A cavalcade of fashion exhibitions, functions, parties and of course...
Words: Lara Antonelli
Spring may be in the air, but summer definitely shone bright and early for Myer, as its new & exclusive collections scorched the runway up in Sydney. Ambassador Jennifer Hawkins always manages to glimmer no matter what she is wearing, but this beaming beauty shone even brighter in her signature collection of swimwear, aptly named Cozi...
Words: Lara Antonelli
In a frolicsome display of cheeky and sassy designs, Jets swimwear by Jessika Allen sauntered onto the catwalk breathing the anticipation of Summer into the entire audience. With stylish and ultra sexy bikinis and back- less one pieces, Jets displayed just why it is an undisputed favourite amongst all women, and men for that matter. With reinvented classic designs like...
Words: Lara Antonelli
The third runway show for Sydney Fashion Week displayed severe buns sitting atop model’s heads, complemented by heavily pencilled eyebrows and cherry red lips. There was a myriad of muted tones and straightforward designs from Jacqui Alexander, Karla Spetic and One Teaspoon. S&B vie by Sass & Bide displayed some technicolour...
Words: Lara Antonelli
Melbourne Town hall was transformed into a glittering South American party last night, as Miranda Kerr and a host of models presented the A-List crowd with the hottest looks for spring summer 2009. Footage of buzzing Rio de Janeiro flashed upon the screens while the latest designs by Akira, Willow, Alex Perry, Ginger&Smart and sass&bide came flowing down...
Words: Sarah Edgar
With a kaleidoscope of colour designers Camilla, Zimmerman together with Camilla & Marc reined in summer for the nation. Easton Pearson splashed onto the runway with long flowing and intensely colourful designs. There were layers of beads with up- do's and metallic green eye shadow. The accessories were complimented by dyed silk dresses depicting oceanic sunsets...
Words: Lara Antonelli
The decade long relationship between fashion and its awareness of a disease that affects many women around the world, was celebrated in style as it marked the start of the Rosemount Sydney Fashion Festival. The collaboration between designer Alex Perry and the Fashion Targets Breast Cancer Foundation was hosted by organizer Simon Lock and supermodel...
Words: Lara Antonelli
Jets by Jessika Allen is a collection of stunning swimwear that is inspiring widespread acclaim for all the right reasons. A true complement to the female form, the pieces pull off a rare combination of comfortable and confident wearing with glamorous impact. The soft and sensual fabrics portray unique and exclusive designs...
Words: Sam Coltart
Without question the final night of the L'Oreal Paris Runway shows was the most eagerly anticipated, as it well known to house the most innovative and left of the middle designers, well known in the trendy fashion circles, yet still independent in their own right. The Independent Runway show presented by equally notable fashion...
Words: Lara Antonelli
Evening numero quattro of the L'oreal Festival presented by In Style Magazine bore witness to Aurelio Costarella's most stunning ensemble of exquisite gowns touched with the finest of details and most vivid of imaginations. There were beige flowing layers with bronze embroidered bodices; uniquely cut gold minis...
Words: Lara Antonelli
Innovative and exceptional magazine YEN presented this night's show which encompassed models with wild flowing hair and delicate plaits. Karen Walker kicked off her collection with floral prints and bronze open-toed heels with black tights. Models also wore spectacles with dusty pink and maroon dresses cinched with a brown leather belt...
Words: Lara Antonelli
Night one of Melbourne's L'Oreal Fashion Festival was auspiciously opened by the now world renowned and dominating designing duo SASS & BIDE, whose star studded outfits emblazoned the catwalk. With ponytails tightly fastened and a near obstacle as a decorative sculptor positioned in the heart of the runway, SASS & BIDE displayed black & white...
Words: Lara Antonelli
Australian Fashion Week moved location this year to the harbour side of Sydney for the first time since it's inception. And there are doubts to the future of the event with only three big name designers having shown individual collections. The problem it seems, rests in the movement of the event which this year began only two days after...
Words: Lara Antonelli
Australian Fashion Week may not have pulled many big name designers, yet newcomer Daniel Avakian pulled the socialite crowd of the week, with UFO sighting trio Sneaky Sound System, Pip Single and an array of footballers sitting front row to witness his quirky designs of colourful tulle dresses and skirts...
Words: Lara Antonelli
The final night of MMSFW was aptly titled Object of Desire and opened with Gorman's sassy brief and blouse numbers. Alice McCall kept the paintbox of colours afloat with neon green dresses, whilst Shakuhachi sizzled with skin tight micro mini dresses complete with full length zip. The stand- outs kept coming with Jessie...
Words: Lara Antonelli
Motorola Melbourne Spring Fashion Week 2007 pounced onto the scene this September with a striking array of talented Aussie designers sinuously displaying their threads along the runways of Melbourne. Fashion seeped through the very pores of the city, creeping out of laneways, hopping off at stations and slapping the...
Words: Lara Antonelli
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