Wrap up of the Rosemount Australian Fashion Week Spring Summer 2009
A Grade
A Grade
Alot of cosmic/cellestial 70's looking prints from TV & Friedrich Gray, Balmain inspired strong shouldered jackets at Ellery, Camilla & Marc and Harem pants everywhere! While this has all been done before in the overseas collections last year, it is nice to see some creativity thrown into the mix and not just bland copies. Friedrich Gray is a fave because of his Josh Gootish easy to wear Jersey-ish material you can just throw on in, depsite that fact his stuff is mostly black, except for a couple of neon pieces for summer. Dion Lee was the most exciting new talent with his structure, tailoring, cut outs and zips.
D Grade
Wayne Cooper, Lisa Ho and Antipodium were all disappointing. Wayne looks like his mind was stuck in a late 90's nightclub (how does this guy have a place at fashion week?), Antipodium tried to bring back grunge but it just looked sad and Lisa Ho's collection was all over the place and such a disappointment from her recent A/W 09 collection- the animal print/safari clashed with her 70's prints and grecian frocks. eek!
A Grade
Ellery
Dion Lee
Friedrich Gray
D grade
Lisa Ho
Wayne Cooper
2 comments:
I totally agree with what you have said. The Balmain argument is interesting as we all want their style, but who can afford it, so is copying such a bad thing? Although, let's face it Sportsgirl will have it in 2 seconds, so C&M should know better. I also liked Sorronda and Mittas, although was disappointd with Gail's styling as it was too derivative of Lanvin. Shame as the clothes were great. I was very disappointed with RAFW Sydney, extremely light on in terms of inspiration. These designers wonder why people have turned to vintage.
P.S. Antipodium was atrocious and again, completely derivative of a recent 80's inspired collection by Topshop Unique. Their attempt to be soooo London and put a Beth Ditto lookalike on the catwalk was cheap for those who know their fashion. Shame, as they were really creating their own niche.
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