Snug deep in the Alhambra Lounge in the Valley I managed to successfully and camel-toe free walk into the show wearing lycra leggings to see some of Brisbane's best up and coming designers show off collections made out of recycled materials. I'm such a sucker for 'wearable art' and avante guarde fashion by students with no design boundaries. It was AMAZING!
The Atmosphere was rocking, I have to admit that would be my BIGGEST praise for the whole event (and i LOVED the event). It's been a long time since I've been to a fashion show that had such a warm welcoming feel to it. Everybody was mingling, everybody was fashionable, everybody was awesome! Tin Nguyen (The host and organiser) did such an amazing job of the whole event and to have such a great atmosphere was such an accomplishment to him. CHEERS TIN!!
The show started with some random guy (who i met later and ended up being not so random anymore) scrunching up newspaper in the middle of the runway. I spoke to him after the show and he said he was told to do it for 3 minutes!! Haha! I now dub-you NEWSPAPER MAN! Newspapaer man is actualy a designer and I CAN'T wait to see his new collection- it's got an amazing inspiration! But shhh, it's a secret until we see it when he shows it.
('scuse my shitty photos- jack was at another event and I was camera-less so it's all iPhone photography folks!)
There was a line-up of designers including Stephanie Gray, Chelsea Whitebread, Tin had his own collection in the show, deshna karan, Anthea Cosentino, Claire Fitzhenry and the Make Up Artist/Designer we interviewed the other week- Kate Bailey.
A few of my favorites were Stephanie Gray's 'dark' input to the show with an awesome dracula style organza coat,
Chelsea Whitbread's abosultely-fantastic-a-rastic pants! I want me a pair! She also had this stick/bamboo shield/vest top thing that was structurally incredible.
I really admired Tin's own collection in the show which featured a gown made completely out of plastic bags (except for the bodice) and his whole collection featured some pretty incredible fabric manipulation. Radness-o-meter 12/10
Everybody's draw dropped when these came out. Well, when we realised that the main of the collection were hand crotcheted out of plactic bags!!!Claire Fitzhenry had a collection ENTIRELY made out of PLASTIC! yep- it's all plactic! talk about hard work. Chheeeezus!
I ran into Kate Bailey just before the show- Had a quick chat and big smiles and hello's all round when she subtly told me that she designed a little bit for the show. I was like- oh cool- expecting something small. And then THESE came out. I was ABSOLUTELY BLOWN AWAY!!! It was all made out of Old Vogue magazines mainly fanned out into circles and put together and fluted to make that incredible head piece. my eyes and fashion senses were shocked away with excitement and radness. Woahhhhh......
The rest of the night was totally cool. Mingled my way around and met a few of the designers and so forth who were all really cool people.
Tin summed up a Mirror Mirror fashion show in perfect words;
"...every show's been an amazing plethora of creative collaboration. Amid the stress and sweat, everyone has a blast knowing that we're all there to do exactly what we love. There's always that fear factor, but from the moment that the first model walks out into the blinding lights, there's a calm sense of proud over the designers knowing that they gave all they had into their garments..."
Mirror Mirror Fashion Show is always looking for new talent. If you're a student and are interested in contributing to future events feel free to shoot Tin an email at mirrormirrorfashionshow@hotmail.com. The Mirror Mirror Crew and Tin are incredibly supportive and insightful and definately a great crew to work with.
See you there for the next show!
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