Day 3 Rosemount Australian Fashion Week Part 1
4 May, 2009
Well Day 3 began with a very nice start to the day – meeting the lovely French fashion blogger Garance Dore, garancedore.fr/en flown over by IMG for RAFW (alongside her partner Scott Schuman of The Sartorialist). We had been plucking up the courage for the past two days to approach her for a style shot and we finally caught her walking across the prime expanse heading towards the OPT building. With her was the also very nice Linlee Allen (the Australian fashion writer who has written for style.com, V, i-d, Purple to name a few and was covering RAFW for Grazia online – also check out her blog here linleeloves.blogspot.com) who made sure we were aware of the gravity of the situation, “you know this is Garance Dore right?”.
(above: Garance image courtesy of her blog).
Linlee was wearing a stunning purple kangaroo skin necklace by the amazing Lyn&Tony (speaking with L&T later I discovered Linlee had been at the Konstantina Mittas show for which L&T did the creative direction and spotting the necklace on the runway ran backstage after the show to ask if she could borrow it for a couple of days because it was perfect for the purple dress she was wearing that day! and she was right, it looked great). Two inspiring women for anyone in fashion media, it was great to see how down-to-earth and nice they both were.
Garance has some beautiful shots of the best of the off-the-catwalk fashion at RAFW, including Sydney PR’s Holly Garber and Emily Pero, Arnsdorf designer Jade Arnott in amazing double-denim, stylist Tamila Purvis and Linlee (above).
So after some excited jumping up and down we headed into the Gail Sorronda/Dhini show. Gail is well known for her black and white only colour palette which she continues to keep fresh from season to season. Her new collection was inspired by the fragility of birds, with feathered headpieces and delicate plumages of frills and ruffles. The collection had a very elegant flapper feel mixed with sexy sheers, beading and bondage style heels. Sorronda, who has recently relocated to Paris says the collection presents “invasive exotics inspired by a new environment”.
Sorronda images courtesy of Zimbio.
