[Ahhhh dark photo sorry]
Last night after a crazy fashion day here at Rosemount Australian Fashion week I spotted these lovely gurls on their way home from doing groceries - check out the I heart NZ tee *:-) Continue...
April 30, 2009
I heart NZ spotted on George St, Sydney
Last night after a crazy fashion day here at Rosemount Australian Fashion week I spotted these lovely gurls on their way home from doing groceries - check out the I heart NZ tee *:-) Continue...
TAFE Innovators at RAFW
The TAFE Innovaters show has been one of my favourites so far (Kate Sylvester + Beat Poet in first place!)
First up was Seoli Pedrozo:
This collection was Black, sculpted and elegant. DESIGNED. Style lines were balanced and proportional – circular shapes reflected in frills and gathered pleats.
Rachael Sherwood
The mesmerizing projection on the back wall of this collection gave us a hint glimpse of prints to come...
Pun by Seema Pun
Fabric was folded and crafted to leave a circular hole that appeared throughout the collection mainly on the backs of garments. A series of skirts were crafted out of square pieces to create a hexagonal shape around the models hips. Circular bobbles! Well styled with the circular shapes appearing in necklaces and rings.
Christian Lines
Fab intersecting line prints. Dropped crotch men’s pants. Girls in elegant jersey print dresses – interesting to see the boys wrapped and more restrained. I’m in love with his jersey dresses – were they bias cut with a square panel insert at the side? NEED TO SEE THEM AGAIN!!!
This fabulous shape translated into a neat take on the popular harem shape in [the women’s] shorts and then into mens trousers. Loved the shape of these men’s pants [picture] how the drapery created from the droppe crotch was carried through to the ankle resulting in a smooth and elegant shape.
Maybe its true.. Has the internet given up?
Ok, lots of internet glitches at the moment - lots of pics, videos and reviews to come... to top it of book face is down!
THE INTERNET IS RUNNING OUT OF ROOM?
Ok, so the gorgeous Maddy Murphy from Fashion Weekly had me in STITCHES this morning when describing this article on Sunrise. These are our shocked reactions:
Watch the clip... hilarious... I was in stitches... bloggers reactions?
Day Four at RAFW
Day Four of Rosemount Australian Fashion Week is underway and the fab kidos at Redken have got me all flossyed up for the day :-) yusssss loooong straight hair !!!
April 29, 2009
Kirrily Johnston at RAFW
Opening shots from Kirrily Johnston's SS 09/10 show - Old school clock sounded the seconds and left TICK TOCK TICK TOCK on everyone's tweets.
[Final walk below] - could someone get me THOSE jeans (w gold diagonal zippers) ASAP!
Helen wore a dress....
This just came in from my wee bro back in New Zealand:
Continue...heyo. awesme reading your blog this week... BUT.... the big fashion news of the week is not Aurelio Costarella or Kate Sylvesta, it's Helen Clark wore a dress! to her welcoming into the UN...
Jayson Brundsdon at RAFW
Jayson Brunsdon's packed collection show this evening brought to the catwalk a divine selection of lucious evening wear. Check out the final walk [and pics below]:
TV at RAFW
TV has had mixed reactions with Maddy from Fashion Weekly bursting out with this beauty:
"Tv say 'this is TV at its imaginative and playfull best' - I'd love to see previous collections!"
Final walk: [and pics below]
Continue...
Pre Fashion week chat with Patty Huntington [Frockwriter]
I'm an addict of Patty Huntington's Frockwriter blog and its been an awe inspiring week watching the fashion pro's do their thing *:-)
Here is my pre fashion week chat with the gurl herself!
1/ Blogging and Tweeting are going to provide minute-by-minute and [mostly] independent commentary. What part will Frockwriter be playing in the mix?
Frockwriter will be - one of many - reporting and bringing information to readers in. In whenever possible, real time. Yes Twitter is definitely going to make a difference to the event's overall coverage. It already has - last night's Friedrich Gray show was a great first taste, with a number of parties Tweeting from backstage, front-of-house etc and providing different perspectives on the show. Twitter has been around for three years but only really took off in the last 12 months. And it has literally exploded in the last three months. I'll be using Twitter and some other applications, to provide information and images from the venues. Having now blogged from three consecutive Australian Fashion Weeks and three back-to-back, four-city, international Ready-to-Wear seasons, I know where I don't want to be at the event. And that is, stuck in the media centre for any lengthy period composing reflective pieces on what went down hours beforehand, while I miss some of the action.
Of course there is a time and place for analysis and I will provide that whenever possible. But I am planning to do more mobile blogging, to provide a sense of being at the event. As reporters, it's the least we can do frankly. This year represents new territory for me because it will be the first time, since I began blogging, that I will be filing from any Fashion Week to my own independent blog (which launched in July 2008), as opposed to blogging for a mainstream media outlet - first smh.com.au and later NEWS.com.au. That is of course over and above gathering news for Womens Wear Daily in New York. I have covered the event for WWD since 1996 in one form or another, from event wraps in the daily to a plethora of post-event supplements (eg WWD Swim, WWD Intimates, WWD FAST, WWD Scoop, International Trade Shows etc..)
Funnily enough, when I did that first smh.com.au fashion blog, back in April 2006 - and specifically, it was launched to cover that year's Australian Fashion Week - I was, in a way, moblogging. Via BlackBerry. To give you an idea how quickly blogging has developed, this was at a time when very few other mainstream media outlets/newspapers had fashion blogs. I think The Washington Post's fashion blog may have just gone up, but not much else. It was really very early days. I was The Sydney Morning Herald's fashion reporter at the time so I guess I was an obvious choice when it came to ramping up the online coverage of Fashion Week to complement the print coverage. They asked me to do a blog, along with videos/multimedia. I was not however posting directly into the blog template, rather emailing posts back to the office on the go, from shows to cabs, standing outside venues, the media centre, the Fashion Week bar etc.... with the editor adding pics and making the posts live very quickly.
Of course a plethora of independent bloggers were already doing their own publishing, but that's the way I happened to enter blogging. Those early posts are among my favourite posts because they were so ad hoc/improvised. Four months later, when I touched down at New York Fashion Week for the beginning of the Spring/Summer 2007 season - to cover for both the print edition, and the blog, which was rebooted after a four month hiatus - things changed slightly because of the time difference. Although I would definitely draft posts throughout the day, I would file them from the hotel at the end of the day. By that stage I had been given the "keys to the engine" of smh.com.au's blog template and was posting directly into it (with photos later added by the office). Some of the immediacy was lost. Although I do recall blogging "live" via BB from the dancefloor during Giorgio Armani's huge One Night Only charity bash in London one week later - with an editor on standby to put the post up. Beyoncé and Bryan Ferry were singing, with Leonardo di Caprio and a bunch of other celebs just milling around as I typed, which was pretty funny.
2/ The show you are most looking forward to?
Looking forward to seeing Aurelio Costarella and Willow return to the schedule after several years away - having seen both show in New York in the interim. And particularly, the new blood at the event. Making their solo debuts: Magdalena Velevska, Michael Lo Sordo, Dion Lee, Sara Phillips, Juli Grbac and Fernando Frisoni's womenswear. Plus the newbies in all the group shows. You're always hoping to make a discovery.
3/Visitors to Sydney should....
Have dinner at Icebergs, breakfast at Speedo's and a late-night/early AM hotdog or pie at Harry's Café de Wheels. Also do the Bondi to Bronte walk - breathtaking Ocean views - and get out onto the Harbour in a boat if at all possible. It's really an amazing way to see Sydney.
4/Patty Huntington can't survive fashion week without.....
Her BlackBerry - seriously. And just to clarify, I have no commercial connection to BlackBerry or any telecommunications company. It is my own phone that I have paid for and is no loaner. I had one of the very first BlackBerries at AFW back in April 2005. And it has served me well in the interim. During AFW 2005, I filed a few bits and pieces to smh.com.au from the shows for their online reports, but certainly no standalone blog/multimedia, which kicked off the following year. And in February 2006, so before the smh.com.au fashion blog had even launched, I wound up filing every last news story out of the Milan Fall/Winter 0607 shows via BB to The Sydney Morning Herald newsdesk. Upon arrival in Milan, I discovered that the hotel's internet access was not as advertised and I was unable to use my laptop. I later discovered that wifi access can be a major pain in Italy and my predecessor had in fact phoned her Milan reports in.
More Kate Sylvester Pics from RAFW
O the DELICIOUS Kate Sylvester's Spring Summer 09/10 collection "Take a Hike" was a pure joy to watch and I'm so excited for its arrival in store a the end of the year *:-) Guru Karen Inderbitzen-Waller styled the collection and my fave Kate Sylvester gurl Monique collaborated on Jewelery.
ANNNNNNND make sure your checking out twitter and searching RAFW for all the goss from us social media kidos - If you havn't been following the MyfGate saga and THAT tutu... read the ongoing story at Frockwriter [tutu below]:
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