Gary Bigeni is one of my most favourite Australian designers. His fluid, elegant silhouettes are some of the most flattering in the entire world, his colour scheme the most playful, his prints the brightest, boldest, most keenly realised. I still remember the first Gary Bigeni piece I bought. A plain, simple tee shirt in my favourite shade of oatmeal beige from bloodorange, it was a silk cotton mix that dropped straight from my shoulders with a mercurial sheen. I wore it on and off (mostly on) for the next three years. I wore it today in celebration of Gary's perfect simplicity. His new collection - Alignment - draws inspiration from the confidence and self-certainty of the older women, assured of her style and her position and herself. The styles were the kinds that you seem to be constantly searching for - the voluminous draped shift dress, the slightly baggy tapered trousers, the silk tee shirt, the perfect loose sweater - some in Gary's trademark block colours and neutrals, others in the most incredible of prints. A collaboration with the Melbourne-based artist Matthew Johnson, the muted, washed out geometric dot patterns, or the impressionistic lattice work formed by squares or hexagons adorned the separates. The interplay between colour and neutrals, print and block, drape and fit was perfect, as always.
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