In the field of the arts, Liberty is most often personified as a woman: one with flag held flying and weapon in hand. Following on the allegorical path laid down by Ancients and Romantic artists alike (Eugène Delacroix’s “Liberty Leading the People” springs particularly to mind), James Broadhurst presents La Liberté, a modern representation of the theme. Model Eva is Liberty, cleverly styled by Lydia-Jane…

It goes without saying that there’s more to any fashion week show than just clothes on a runway. There’s casting, there’s music, there’s styling and hair and makeup. Of the latter, what’s on the runway helps to shape and define the trends. April 8 marks the beginning of Australian fashion week (MBFWA) for 2013. This year, Maybelline New York will create beauty looks to accompany…

The highly anticipated Mercedes Benz Australia Fashion Week (MBFWA) is coming up in a few weeks and IMG has released the schedule of the different shows that feature established brands, returning designers and those up and coming. The autumn / winter 2013-2014 collections will be shown from April 8-12, 2013 at Carriageworks in Sydney and you can read on after the break for the complete…

Sometimes a dress is meant to remind you of flowers and sometimes it just does: the way it sits on lilly white skin, the way the neckline hugs the décolletage like vines creeping across a Grecian urn, the way the hemline flows out like the trumpeted petals of a blooming foxglove. Between porcelain beauty Rachael Grasso and a wardrobe of delicate gowns, photographer James Broadhurst…

You know when an international phenomenon like Lady Gaga singles your designs out and asks if she can wear them on stage, you must be doing something right. Phoenix Keating is a young Australian designer already picking up that international attention – from Gaga and others – for his edgy yet utterly refined designs. This exclusive shoot brings together Keating’s trans-seasonal pieces (a mix of…

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…

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…

View all the photos from backstage at the We Are Handsome spring / summer 2012 showing at Australian fashion week. Read the article to see the full gallery.

Wet look hair and acid yellow lips were already a power combination at Magdalena Velevska’s Australian fashion week (MBFWA) show this week. But it was the addition of intricate masks to some models that made them the stars of James Broadhurst‘s photos as he headed backstage to capture the action for Fashionising.com.

When a collection is as dramatic, eye-popping, and quirky as Romance was Born’s spring / summer 2012, you know it’s going to be the perfect opportunity for capturing the backstage action in vibrant colour. James Broadhurst headed behind the scenes at the label’s comic book inspired Australian fashion week (MBFWA) show yesterday to document, with visual brilliance, the orange-haired lifesized comic characters.