Trimapee: on target, broader appeal
Two-tone jeans and a fringed top paired with little else gave Trimapee's spring 2010 opening at Melbourne fashion week (MSFW) an impact worthy of a label of their standing. Retain their trademark aesthetic without compromise they did, but, particularly amongst the women's component of the parade, there are still pieces to be had for the fashioniser whose tastes simply aren't as 'Melbourne'.
A Single Man's residence for sale
When Tom Ford made the leap from fashion design to filmmaking, we expected there'd be lots to love. But bringing so much more than just impeccable fashion to the screen, Ford's directorial debut - A Single Man - had many pining for a retro-furnished redwood retreat with an open plan layout and glass frontage. Designed by architect John Lautner in 1949, the house at the centre of the film is the ultimate bachelor pad; nestled at the bottom of a woodland valley and yet 15 minutes from downtown LA.
Arabella Ramsay: bring on spring
In a week where Melbourne has turned out little but torrential, wet weather, Arabella Ramsay gave 2010's Melbourne fashion week (MSFW) a collection of mostly effortless pieces that left me with a strange desire to stamp a foot and demand a proper onset of spring into the city.
Limedrop spring 2010
Repeating patterns, bold prints, and simplicity: Limedrop offered 2010's Melbourne fashion week (MSFW) a little bit of each without ever opting to play it safe by pigeonholing a particular style to a gender. Hitting the runway, a bold print for men would be followed by subdued stripes and then subtler linen, though it was a shirt dress of wafting proportions that married both the collection's simplistic and standout elements.
Gorman's summer palette
Socks in heels fused with clogs on Gorman's Spring 2010 catwalk. A different look indeed, but definitely not one off-the-mark for the coming season, though the styling did leave me miffed. Yes, such foot and sock wear pairings worked with the collection's bobby sox an polka dot looks, but I certainly wouldn't advise you to pair them with the collection's pastels and 70s fashion elements in any hurry.
Fashgasm 4.9.2010
Enjoy a daily fashgasm and find inspiration in what's hot and what's new in the world of fashion.
Today's fashgasm includes all the latest editorial and pictorials, along with the day's most popular photo shoot.
Lacy in 3D
Here's yet another play on the lace dress as a trend: black lace overlaid on a nude slip, with the addition of 3-dimensional black flowers across it.
Vintage prints and playfulness
With gorgeous styling that draws in clashing prints of vintage florals and polka dots, and a colour palette of sherbet pinks and lemon yellows, this pictorial for Fiasco just gives you that breath of new Spring air. And nothing gives an injection of youthfulness better than some cowboys and indians dressups.
Pino Gomes photographed the shoot, while the beautiful styling was by Patrick Hausermann.
Wind-swept Freja
Windswept hair and red lips: a simply stunning Freja Beha Erichsen, captured by Tommy Ton.
Nevenka: standout whites
Abstract prints may have been a large part of Nevenka's Spring 2010 collection, but it was the infusion of white that set itself apart. A women's collection for high-summer if you live in Melbourne, or all of spring / summer 2010 if you live most anywhere else in the country.
Jack London: moving on
The move away from the mod / Brit-rock look that helped define Jack London continues with their spring 2010 collection, with the move taking them to a look from a less obvious era of fashion inspiration.
Manning Cartell: 80s cum 90s
Statement earrings by Alexandra Blak dominating the features of models pounding to a cover (and not a great one, either) of Robert Palmer, and lace to immodest effect added up to a spring / summer 2010 collection from Manning Cartell that seemed to come to us from a period of somewhere between the 80s and 90s. Not that it was a collection without merit, nor one that will fail to find an audience.
Fat's picks for the city's summer
Always a store that helps define Melbourne's fashion scene for a season, their summer catwalk showing may have featured a women's line-up of high waists and exposed shoulders, but Fat's spring 2010 catwalk was owned by just one piece: a white, cross-backed bodysuit.
For Melbourne's male scenesters their hat tip towards an Americanised military fashion seemed like a last hoorah, given the style has evolved to new military for next season.
above.: paper cutout memories
Remember the paper cutouts that provided so much pleasure for you long before you discovered the joys of shopping? above. have managed to translate that look into their spring 2010 collection for a potentially as as edgy take on the cutout trend. Naturally they've applied the effect broadly, and you'll find that you're able to weave it into your wardrobe by way of shirts, blazers and playsuits. An experimentation with the cut of clothes it was, but the only concept above. infused their collection with it wasn't. And with other pieces that felt like a melding between a dressing gown and streetwear, above. presented a Melbourne fashion week (MSFW) catwalk that was largely an experimentation with preconceived notions of silhouettes and cuts.
Fashgasm 3.9.2010
Enjoy a daily fashgasm and find inspiration in what's hot and what's new in the world of fashion.
Today's fashgasm includes all the latest editorial and pictorials, along with the day's most popular photo shoot.
