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My stance when it comes to critiquing this year’s L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival is all about quality, not quantity. Without the monotony of listing each and every consumer label, this year I focused my prowess and energy on the standout designers from the shows I attended. The unique ones that presented a fashion palette that […]
Read moreGwendolynne gowns & Richard Nylon headpieces. All photography by Lara Antonelli.
Read moreThere was a unified intake of breath as the first ivory silk, floor length, matrimonial gown entered the runway. A mass of adoration for a garment that can turn even the most cynical of fashionable critics into a pool of warm buttermilk. The ‘wedding dress’ has been known throughout its long and varied tenure to […]
Read moreThis debut event held during L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival in 2010 is run by former designer, Oscar Calvo. He commissioned Pen To Paper’s director, Lara Antonelli to write profiles on all of the designers showing, as well as all other press releases relating to the event. This is definitely the moment you have all been […]
Read morePhotography by Amanda Fordyce Alex Perry’s Spring 2011 collection show was without a whisper of a doubt, one of the most sensational shows on the calendar of this year’s L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival. Opulently housed at the Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton, there was something magical about the setting for Perry‘s ‘Cuban Princess‘ collection. The […]
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