Set against the sparkling backdrop of the Sydney Harbour, Australian fashion week (MBFWA) brings together the best of Australia’s fashion into an annual industry-only event. For Mercedes-Benz fashion week Australia in 2012 Fashionising.com will be providing you with all the in depth reviews and runway photos that you’ll need.
Below you’ll find our coverage of Australian fashion week 2012, and on the right you’ll find links to the photo galleries. You’ll also find coverage of past years including RAFW 2011.
Known as RAFW prior to 2012, Australian fashion week brings to the catwalk established and upcoming designers from Australia and neighbouring countries. The fashion week largely features trans-seasonal clothing suited to Australia’s climate. That means on the 2012 catwalks you’re likely to see pieces suited to both autumn / winter and spring / summer. An a fashion industry-only event, tickets for Australian fashion week cannot be bought though are sometimes available as part of competitions / giveaways.
Use social media for long enough and you start to think in hashtags. You also end up being “social” via iPhone while your friend next to you is “social” on theirs. What happened to real-life interaction with eachother? Amidst the deafening style noise of Australian fashion week the off-duty style of model Ollie Henderson stood out the most. Not just for her fearless and quirky …
Despite taking inspiration from New York City’s architecture, Parisian lifestyle and the British silhouette, new fashion label, macgraw, is a lovechild of local Australian passion. The worldly muses set aback, as this high-fashion label sharpens its knives to carve its place in the Australian fashion industry.
View all the photos from backstage at the Nana Judy spring / summer 2012 showing at Australian fashion week.
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Rarely does so much glamour get packed into so little fabric, as it does when Mondovi designer DoDo Leung puts thread to needle and designs a new collection. Though for a lingerie offering you’re still likely to encounter much more fabric than usual: Leung’s background in designing eveningwear shows through in volumes. Its in the sparkling embellishments, in the sweeping pleats, in the long-line shapes …
Not many designers at this year’s Australian fashion week (MBFWA) could be said to be riffing on political themes. In fact it was probably just one: Harrison Wong. That fact alone set his collection apart from the masses, though it was also unique in style to the other menswear that the week bore witness to. Wong’s collection was a contemporary play on the Chinese Red …
The braid is the chameleon of the hairstyle family, and with each fashion week that passes we see it reinvented creatively time and again. At Bless’d Are The Meek’s Australian fashion week (MBFWA) show our attention was drawn to this particularly covetable interpretation of a messy braid. Backstage, Pureology’s Todd Arndt explained the look as “a wet look fused with cascading hair; the Bless’d Are …
View all the photos from backstage at the Bowie spring / summer 2012 showing at Australian fashion week.
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View all the catwalk photos of the Susan Rep spring / summer 2012 showing at Australian fashion week.
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View all the catwalk photos of the Little Gracie spring / summer 2012 showing at Australian fashion week.
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View all the catwalk photos of the LF Markey spring / summer 2012 showing at Australian fashion week.
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View all the catwalk photos of the Aanchal Chanda spring / summer 2012 showing at Australian fashion week.
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View all the catwalk photos of the Luela spring / summer 2012 showing at Australian fashion week.
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Complementing the sharp tailoring and contrasting the feminine colours, the hair styling at Carl Kapp’s spring / summer 2012 Australian fashion week (MBFWA) show took the collection to another new level of edgy, sharp and androgynous. Under the hair direction of hair maestro, Alan White from ghd, each model exhibited a fringed black blunt wig, inspired by Madonna’s avatar in her music video for Rain. …
Backstage at An Ode to No One’s Australian fashion week (MBFWA) show, Redken Hair Director Jon Pulitano was busily coating the hair of blonde beauty Ollie Henderson with hairspray. While he worked away at the evening’s hair look, we quizzed him on what insprired it and how it was created. Meanwhile, photographer James Broadhurst was flitting about backstage capturing the flurry of activity with his …
Braids and dewy skin are having a moment in the world of beauty. Or perhaps, it might be more legitimate to say that they have had a moment at 2012 showing at Australian fashion week (MBFWA) this year. You might benefit if you add another page to your inspiration diary for coping with summer’s heat with the hair and make-up look from Christopher Esber’s show. …
View all the catwalk photos of the Roopa Pemmaraju spring / summer 2012 showing at Australian fashion week.
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View all the catwalk photos of the Nana Judy spring / summer 2012 showing at Australian fashion week.
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The full effect of We Are Handsome’s print-infused Australian fashion week (MBFWA) show could be seen when the full bevy of models hit the runway – itself covered in a Zebra print that mimicked some of the swim pieces – all at once. This closing moment was snapped by Allan Barger for Fashionising.com.
It’s a yearly tradition during Australian fashion week (MBFWA) in Sydney, where the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge turn into a predictable backdrop for the fashion packs. You can’t blame them; the architectural canvas offered by the two iconic structures in matrimony with the blue water is incomparable to the Eiffel Towers and Central Parks of the world. However, to really get the international …
View all the photos from backstage at the We Are Handsome spring / summer 2012 showing at Australian fashion week.
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