THAT'S ALL FOLKS! VAMFF DAY SEVEN: REVIEWS, NEWS AND SMASHING PICTURES.

Au revoir VAMFF 2016. It’s been more fun than you could shake a stick at. We’re happy-sad, thrilled-gutted that our preposterously talented guest Voxfrockers, whose all-angles VAMFFing – up the runways, down backstage, on the frow, swinging from the chandeliers – is finally done, dusted, and they must urgently return to their real lives. Theirs was the most comprehensive – and, let’s be honest; bloody marvellous – fest coverage of any media outlet; digital, social or otherwise. Here’s the crew’s swansong highlights from VAMFF’s seventh day but there’s plenty more pings of art, fashion, photography and everyday intrigue on these honorary Voxfrockers’ websites and social streams: Robin Cowcher (illustrator), Estelle Michaelides and Kayla Piccolo (fashionistocrat and photographer of our Street Chic feed), Kristine Walker (The Human Chameleon), Yuzuha Oka (reporter), Monty Coles and his amazing crew of RMIT rookie photographers, and Voxfrock editor, Janice Breen Burns. 

Premium Runway 6, presented by frankie. Photos (runway and, main photo, backstage, top of post): Lucas Dawson Photo (backstage): Zhonda Wang, RMIT/Voxfrock Rookie Crew 

Review: Yuzuha Oka

Dusty pastels, chunky knits and relaxed silhouettes defined the mix. Búl kicked off with an autumn palette of salmon pink, mustard and baby blue. Obus also offered a warm combination of baby pink, moss green, ocean blue and carrot, weaving these colours into intricate rhomboid and thin stripe patterns. On Limedrop’s Watercolour Tie Dress, burgundy, plum and iris were washed into each other. Ryder’s highlight was a white, relaxed cotton dress featuring an Australian native flora print. I love Mr Mittens showed chunky knit ensembles, mini shorts and doughnut scarves.

 Notes from the frow: Kristine Walker a.k.a. The Human Chameleon

The final runways, staged in a carpark beneath Melbourne Museum, gave a whole new meaning to underground fashion. Atmosphere: Concrete Playground. Remember when you were a teenager, there was that bunch of ‘cool’ kids who used to hang out in carparks on weekends, chilling on the hood of their parents’ hand-me-down car? Tonight, I felt like one of those rule-breaking rebels. No cars in sight but, there I was; chilling on the hood of an old car parked next to a supermarket, watching the cool kids skate past. They strutted past me wearing easy to understand, even easier to wear outfits. Between cool tones of black, navy and slate grey, pops of pinks and purples…

There was a heap of denim too; uniform of cool kids. I never wore jeans at school so you can’t believe anything I say about cool, so I decided to ask two ‘cool kids’ on the front row (my photo of them, above) about their favourite things in the show. Yasmine was loving everything and thought it was the ‘perfect’ show. She particularly liked the very unexpected and very oversized knitwear. (By I love Mr. Mittens.) The girls were also loving the denim. Yasmine (left) couldn’t get enough of the bags, while her sister Ella was keen to add a denim skirt to her wardrobe. See I told you these were cool kids.

Premium Runway 7, presented by Oyster. Photos (runway): Lucas Dawson Photos (backstage): RMIT/Voxfrock Rookie Crew

 Notes from the frow: Kristine Walker a.k.a. The Human Chameleon

Atmosphere: Clothing Combat. For the final show of the night (and the festival) we were transported into an underground bunker. Sure, it was the exact same carpark, but lighting had changed and so had the mood, dark and brooding, with a thumping soundtrack. We awaited the marching of the models and, oh, the suspense! Like the opening credits of an action film..

 

Backstage was boxed off in the distance so models were visible as they approached the runway, but only in silhouette. And, only when they were marching down the runway did their outfits emerge from the shadows, lit by a tunnel of light: a mix of cold colours, warm textures, sharp shoulders, shiny sequins and LED lights worn as accessories. The show escalated to an intense finale; models almost sprinting around the runway, triple time like a fictional fashion army. Game on!

Backstage was boxed off in the distance so models were visible as they approached the runway, but only in silhouette. And, only when they were marching down the runway did their outfits emerge from the shadows, lit by a tunnel of light: a mix of cold colours, warm textures, sharp shoulders, shiny sequins and LED lights worn as accessories. The show escalated to an intense finale; models almost sprinting around the runway, triple time like a fictional fashion army. Game on!

 

Stay tuned. Later this week…guest Voxfrocker Elli Ionnanou delivers her promise from Paris Fashion Week…