From official runways to after parties, in-store events to cultural programmes; Melbourne spring fashion week (MSFW) lets the consumer get more deeply involved in the world of fashion. MSFW promotes fashion design talent from Melbourne and the state of Victoria, but also celebrates Australian fashion more widely. One of two Melbourne fashion weeks, the event brings the best of spring / summer fashion to the city. Below you’ll find coverage of Melbourne fashion week 2012 and past years such as MSFW 2011 and MSFW 2010.
Written by Daniel P Dykes on 20 Mar 2012
Melbourne’s winter fashion festival has wrapped and Australian fashion week is just around the corner, but if you’re in Melbourne’s fashion industry it’s likely that you want to focus your attention a little bit further down the road. Melbourne spring fashion week 2012 (MSFW) is scheduled for 3 September to 9 September and expressions of interest for the industry, along with positions for volunteers, are …
Written by Tania Braukämper on 16 Sep 2011
In a large tent in Melbourne’s City Square, three dapper gentlemen were sitting down to a casual chat as if the flurry of MSFW (Melbourne fashion week) wasn’t going on around them. They were Theo Poulakis, co-founder of Harrold’s menswear; Richard Nylon, well-known Melbourne milliner; and our own Daniel P Dykes of Fashionising.com. The panel discussion, revolving around men’s fashion, was hosted by the National …
Written by Daniel P Dykes on 13 Sep 2011
Few of Melbourne fashion week‘s (MSFW) student collections pick up on the here-and-now; their creators generally opt to put forward a collection that interprets the future or their vision of art instead. And that’s not to say that Jacinta Oliver-Cook’s catwalk offering wasn’t forward looking or artistic, but what the emerging designer offered up had unmistakable overtones of two motifs influencing much of 2012′s fashion: pleats …
Written by Daniel P Dykes on 13 Sep 2011
For a country for whom swimwear is often cited as being its best (and potentially sole) influential fashion export to the world, it seems somewhat ironic that ‘emerging designer’ showings seldom feature an exploration of it. Presenting her collection on the last night of Melbourne fashion week (MSFW) designer Renee Le Hunt did just that, however. And she did so in great style, presenting a collection …
Written by Tania Braukämper on 12 Sep 2011
There were breastplate-style sculptured busts made from hardened leather, like Roman era armour stripped back with a cleanly minimalist approach. And then there were flourishes, also leather, frilled and fanned out or curling in onto themselves, all organic-seeming like great leathery leaves. It may sound a strange mix but Laura Hui Shan Li worked this unique combination to perfection. This warrior-of-nature aesthetic was actually inspired …
Written by Tania Braukämper on 12 Sep 2011
Peruse our past coverage of all things Trimapee and you’ll see a running theme: black, black and more black. At this year’s MSFW (Melbourne fashion week) designers of this traditionally dark and edgy label, Peter Strateas and Mario-Luca Carlucci, decided on a sharp change in mood. Starting the show with a surprise opener of floating white and moving in to a colour palette that took …
Written by Tania Braukämper on 12 Sep 2011
To the MSFW (Melbourne fashion week) runway, graduate designer Bradin Younan-Sangar brought skin tight pieces that wrapped the body in a tough sensuality. Her stated brief was to evoke a soft strength in a woman; to ‘tribute’ the body. And do that she did, from a leather skirt with double slits to body suit pieces with black fabric slashed by design. Everything accentuated form; everything …
Written by Tania Braukämper on 12 Sep 2011
Getting your work to stand out – be it on a rack or a runway – is a lesson worth learning early on. For RMIT student Rose Brinkley that lesson translated into an MSFW (Melbourne fashion week) show that was fashion as spectacle, with models stomping the runway in towering platforms that, luckily, didn’t result in any falls (though some had a helping hand from …
Written by Daniel P Dykes on 12 Sep 2011
View all the catwalk photos of the Sophie Jacobs spring / summer 2011 showing at Melbourne fashion week.
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Written by Daniel P Dykes on 12 Sep 2011
View all the catwalk photos of the Stefanie Wai Man Siu spring / summer 2011 showing at Melbourne fashion week.
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Written by Daniel P Dykes on 12 Sep 2011
View all the catwalk photos of the Molly Herben spring / summer 2011 showing at Melbourne fashion week.
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Written by Daniel P Dykes on 12 Sep 2011
View all the catwalk photos of the Mira Hartanto spring / summer 2011 showing at Melbourne fashion week.
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Written by Daniel P Dykes on 12 Sep 2011
View all the catwalk photos of the Rika Indrawan spring / summer 2011 showing at Melbourne fashion week.
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Written by Daniel P Dykes on 12 Sep 2011
View all the catwalk photos of the Katie Dickinson spring / summer 2011 showing at Melbourne fashion week.
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Written by Daniel P Dykes on 12 Sep 2011
View all the catwalk photos of the John Gosper spring / summer 2011 showing at Melbourne fashion week.
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Written by Daniel P Dykes on 12 Sep 2011
View all the catwalk photos of the Jessica Hendrick spring / summer 2011 showing at Melbourne fashion week.
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Written by Daniel P Dykes on 12 Sep 2011
View all the catwalk photos of the Ju Young Seo spring / summer 2011 showing at Melbourne fashion week.
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Written by Daniel P Dykes on 12 Sep 2011
View all the catwalk photos of the Jane Fuge spring / summer 2011 showing at Melbourne fashion week.
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Written by Daniel P Dykes on 12 Sep 2011
View all the catwalk photos of the Christina Exie spring / summer 2011 showing at Melbourne fashion week.
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Written by Daniel P Dykes on 12 Sep 2011
View all the catwalk photos of the Anthony Tandiyono spring / summer 2011 showing at Melbourne fashion week.
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