Fashion news
Is Sydney becoming the first port of call for Japanese fashion? Lets hope so. The Japanese designer T-Shirt institution Graniph have just opened their first store outside of Asia right here in Sydney at the Galleries Victoria. In Japan alone there are 30+ stores, galleries and a network of artists and designers from all over the world, which at just $40 for a limited edition cotton tee from the likes of Jan von Hollenben, Terri Weifenbach, Mikko Rantanen and local faves Beci Orphin and Lyn & Tony sounds pretty good to me. Now if they would just give us even a little slice of Harajuku then we’d pretty much have it all.
A friend of mine recently put me onto this blog. It's called The Cherry Blossom Girl and I think it's a fashion blog that's authored by a girl named Alix. I say "I Think" because TCBG is all in French - but do you know what? It doesn't really matter that I can't read it because it means I can just enjoy the lovlieness of Alix's drawings, photos and videos instead. And maybe do a quick translation on the language dictionary every now and again.
Darling Town is alive and kicking up her sexy French heels in the streets of Melbourne. A beautiful boutique stocking a range fine and fancy Australian made and vintage/retro women's clothing, shoes and accessories, Darling Town opened in Spring 2007, and is fast captivating Melbourne’s Chapel Street style vixens with its heady mix of vintage, contemporary, sultry and punk-chic styles.
I especially love this dress from owner Audra’s own label Red Orchid…rock n roll baby.
Check out Darling Town on myspace or in the flesh at 190 High St, Prahran 3181.
Fashion week is over in Melbourne and we’re all a little bit sad. Actually, make that super sad because now all we hear about is the Grand Prix and their grid girls in their tiny, tiny clothes. But now we can live our fashion dreams again, and make it a little bit more long term, as in, get a job! Prospect 360 is a company run by Greta Donaldson which regularly holds seminars for young people wanting to break into the media industry (notoriously hard at its best). The Fashion Media Seminar on Sunday April 13 is perfect for YEN readers hoping to one day have a career in fashion journalism. There will be a tour of a photography studio, as well as watching a shoot going on. Then THE experts in fashion journalism will be there to discuss work experience as well as take questions. The gurus are Mia Freedman (my personal idol), Rachel Wells (fashion reporter, The Age), Melly Dee (editor, Fashion Journal) and Julie McCartin (fashion reporter, Leader Newspaper Group). So, get those stilettos and race to their website like a cheapskate to the goodie bags at a fashion show, and buy your tickets NOW!
Erin Fetherston makes clothes for sylvan lovelies and pixie girls; the 25 year old's collections are frequently described as whimsy, kooky and oh so girly and her clique of friends and devoted fans includes Kirsten Dunst and living fairy, Zooey Deschanel. Fetherston is also friends with famed photographer Ellen Von Unwerth and the two are known for producing fittingly whimsical and feminine short films that often accompany Fetherston's runway shows. The latest was launched just prio to L.A fashion week and features Deschanel wearing Erin's dresses and frolicking around the woods as "a tramp who eats a magic mushroom and finds herself with a group of fairies." The video isn't up on the web for us mere mortals to view yet - but in the meantime here's Wendybird; a film Fetherston made with Kirsten Dunst for a collection back in 2006.
On Thursday night, over 500 of Auckland's apostles of fashion teetered into an inner city church to catch a preview of the winter collection from local cool kid, Mala Brajkovic and menswear label, Little Brother. Brajkovic - whose almost cult-like following in Auckland is beginning to be mirrored in Sydney - brought the caliente to proceedings with "Pepe's Revenge"; a collection that showed off the volume-tinkering and quirk that have built Brajkovic's aforementioned following, albeit with a brassy, south-of-the-border semblance to it. (How amazing is the skirt on your left?! I want to wear it and do little dances around my room). Little Brother, meanwhile, sent a yearbook of high school stereotypes down the runway with "Riff Raff'. Starting with nerds in sweater-sets and coke-bottle glasses, the range moved through to bike-shed dwellers cocooned in sloppy hoods and shirts that were left un-tucked over Little Brother's popular tee's, and finished up with private school brats in sharp-suiting and scarves. Phew. The little brother models were also rocking the socks and roman sandals combo that I remember being a sharp post-PE look during my school days. Team this with Brajkovic’s corn-rowed ladies and it would seem that wrong is very, very much right.Image: Petrice Rhodes
Here is the first image from the Keith Richards for Louis Vuitton camapaign. Really, is any celebrity endorsement that surprising anymore? Especially for Louis Vuitton, who have featured soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, iconic actress Catherine Deneuve and tennis players Andre Agassi and Stefanie Graf in previous camapigns. A spokesperson for Vuitton claims the use of the world's most high profile drunk in spruiking leather bags (aside from the aesthetically, and deliciously ironic, obvious) was borne from the fact that "Keith Richards is timeless and ageless. He's lived his life on the edge, but he's not a sleazebag. He's lean and mean, and he's still current." Hmmm, could the "sleazebag" quip be in reference to another fossilized stone? The ad was of course shot by Annie Leibovitz, who sought to capture the tagline "Some journeys cannot be put into words." Here here.
