It's Rosemount Australian Fashion Week right now, so cue the hoardes of tanned, tonned and totally awesome fash girls milling around circular quay. I'm not a mega blogger, and have invites to 2 shows, for which I am very very humbled and grateful, and have been having a great time just hanging out in the beautiful bar overlooking the Opera House and sidling up to PR girls close to show time to ask for general admission tickets. The thing is, if you don't take the week too seriously you can have a lot of fun - including but not limited to - sightings of Kirsty Clements, Editor in Chief of Vogue Australia (and totally, totally fabulous) who is driven around in a Black Range Rove by the hottest chauffeur i've ever seen, possibly a male model, Glynis Trail-Nash, Phil Oh from the Streetpeeper, LARA BINGLE, Susie Bubble, Vanessa Jackman, Rachel Rutt/Myf Shepherd/Samantha Harris/Ruby Rose etc etc, the insanely well-dressed girls from Grazia, Harpers and Vogue AUS, Tim Blanks, The fabulous Brooke Hart, Assistant to Clare Press of Mrs Press! John Ibrahim (ha ha, i kid you not) and many more where they came from.
What I love most about Fashion Week though is the sense of celebration that comes from it - celebrating our fashion industry, our designers, our photographers, models and make up artists. And this week is a huge celebration for RAFW - 15 years of Australian fashion week. That is only a decade behind the big 25 that London celebrated last year. Those 15 years have been celebrated by the Frockstars exhibition at the Powerhouse, the model covers of Vogue and Harpers Bazaar, and the arrival of big fashion names like Net-A-Porter and Style.com to sniff out talent and report back to the rest of civilised earth about the fash talent 'down under'. We give them a bloody good show, it's what we do best - bronzed limbs and sheer shirts and big glasses of wine. We laugh when we succeed and we laugh when our gambles don't pull off. Glynis Trail-Nash hit the nail on the head when she was writing about the Ksubi boys in this month's harper's bazaar, whose rise, fall and then rise again is the stuff of fashion legends - it's not about how far you fall, but how much fun you have doing it.
Vanessa Jackman, the Aussie street style photographer expat from London, said much the same thing as Garance Dore did last week. The Australian girls are so smiley, happy and carefree. And, you know what, why shouldn't we be? If there's one thing that I truly, truly love about Australians it is the way they don't take themselves too seriously. They'll wear the knee high boots, the spiky studded balmain jacket, the big black sunnies and the coiffed hair, but they'll flash you a huge grin while they're doing it.
Now you know me, I don't normally post photos of myself, but in the spirit of not taking yourself too seriously...
showrooms:
beautiful romantic clothes from The Last Romantic in macaroon colours of sherbert orange and mint green. flouncy frills and ruffles galore!
beau coop wedges.
thulie dress one shouldered dress with sheer sleeve
pizzuto feathered jacket - fabulous fabulous!
today's photos first, yesterday's second
my extremely talented photographer friend carmen took these photos, which is partly the reason i don't mind putting them up - she has skillz with the lenz bra! much better than my grainy photobooth oferings, no?
The best thing about the shows this year - blogging extravaganza! Oh yes, it may seem like overkill, but you know what, it's a case of the more the merrier. we are a community unlike any other because we don't compete for ad shares or audiences, we are happy to slice out our portion of the internet's mass (massive, perhaps) audience and share our thoughts on something that we love love love.
We saw Magdalena Velevska on Tuesday, which was a triumph in modern tailoring and twisted office wear - if you're game enough to have sheer panels and painterly prints at the office, that is. The showrooms are also a marvel - the wedges by Beau Coop are particularly fabulous (stocked at Tuchuzy in Bondi's Gould Street) and filled with emerging talent on the cusp of success. I've never been to showrooms before this year, and I find it so inspiring to look through with a designer at the clothes that they've obviously painstakingly created and fashioned.
Can't wait to see what the next couple of days brings!
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