Diary titillators for frocky residents and businessfolk of the southern city
Stonnington Spring Fashion Runway
Thursday, August 22, 6.30 pm., Malvern Town Hall, Cnr. High Street and Glenferrie Road, Malvern. Tickets $35/$25. BOOK
Melbourne fashion’s sparkliest tend to cluster in the leafy and cosmopolitan suburbs governed by the City of Stonnington, a fact elegantly acknowledged by its annual Spring Fashion Runway. Every year, one more illustrious residents, renowned for their contribution to Australian fashion, are also inducted into the Stonington Fashion Hall of Fame. Our own Janice Breen Burns, former fashion editor of The Age newspaper and now editor of Voxfrock, was inducted in 2011, joining Alannah Hill, Arthur Galan, Jo Saba and many others in “the hall”.
This year’s Runway show is planned along three strong fashion themes: urban, spring racing and couture, with 20 top brands to be lead by Honor Among Thieves’ designer Roy Christou, Trelise Cooper with milliner Kerrie Stanley and Nicolangela’s creative force, Nicole Williams.
The awfully pretty Paris Roberts (pictured, below and main photo, top), fresh from her namesake city, is the face and headline model for the night.
The face of Stonnington’s Spring Fashion Runway, Paris Roberts.
TFIA (Council of Textile and Fashion Industries of Australia) Digital Conference (supported by AusIndustry)
Tuesday, August 13, 9.30 am. to 5 pm., Textile & Fashion Hub, Building F, Kangan Institute, 85 Cremorne Street, Richmond. Tickets $180, $90 and $45. BOOK (Best get a wiggle on.)
An intense, busy conference day of seminars, workshops and networking for fashion businesses and those intent on plunging into this tricky industry. Geared specifically to the process and challenges of doing business online, ie: digital marketing and e-commerce.
Speakers include fashion’s loveliest and clueiest including Karen Rieschieck of Alice Euphemia, Kirsteene Phelan of Etsy, Nicholas Van Messner of LIFEwithBIRD, Heidi Dyt of WGSN, and James Boston of Boston Publishing. Networking drinks from 5 to 6.30 pm. will celebrate the Portable Studios timely new tome Taking Back Retail!
Kevin Murphy and Mecca Maxima Hair and Beauty Workshop
Tuesday, September 3, 7.30 pm., Melbourne Spring Fashion Week Hub, City Square, 44-86 Swanston Street (Cnr. Collins and Swanston), Melbourne. Tickets, free. Bookings, no need.
It’s the inimitable Mr. Murphy’s tenth year as hair director of Spring Fashion Week, a platform from which he spruiks his accurate summaries and forecasts of the season’s styling trends. Under his direction, the KEVIN.MURPHY Session.Stylists team will also weild the spray over the week’s Designer Series headline shows from August 31 to September 8.
The venue, Melbourne’s magnificent town hall, is a perfect architectural complement for designers including Aurelio Costarella, Manning Cartell and Yeojin Bae. Mr. Murphy’s September 3 workshop will host demonstrations of the week’s key runway hair styles and makeup looks by Mecca. A more casual drop-in KEVIN.MURPHY style bar will also be open daily from 11 am. with free styling and product advice at the MSFW Hub, also in the City Square. FESTIVAL PROGRAMME.
Kevin Murphy
FASHION EXPOSED, The Business of Fashion Now seminars
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, August 25, 26 and 27, 10 am. to 5pm., Melbourne Exhibition Centre, 1 Convention Centre Place, South Wharf (opposite Crown Casino). Tickets, free. Bookings, necessary. INFO
This nuts and bolts tradie will offer vital advice for every kind of fashion owner in a 20-session three day business seminar running parellel to its massive exhibition of around 1500 brands under the Fashion Exposed, Bags and Accessories, and Australian Shoe Fair Umbrellas. Delegates can register then cherry-pick bookings for their preferred subject areas.
The weight and depth of sessions range from Sunday’s 12 noon to 1 pm. slot with Alex Perry, “Designing in Australia”, across others tackling fashion trickiest challenges from rental negotiations, digital media, finance, trend forecasting and brand marketing. Industry experts are key and clever, such as in the “The Hot Five Issues in Fashion Retailing today” with top Sydney fashion agent Phoebes Garland of Garland and Garland, media strategist Tim Krotiris of Social Media Servants, licensing agent and marketer Justin Watson of BAM Brands and veteren manufacturer and retailer Margaret Porritt of , Feathers Boutiques. The seminar programme offers short and snappy as well as longer sessions by local, national and international professionals.
“Gown Prince” Alex Perry (via GQ), star of FASHION EXPOSED business seminar series, will give a free talk next Sunday on the trials, tribulations and joys of working as a designer in Australia.
Melbourne Racing Club Millinery and Style evening
Members and guests only: Thursday, August 22, 6.15 for 6.30 pm., Promenade, Level 2, Caulfield Racecourse, enter via Gate 2, Station Street, Caulfield. Members $20, guests $45. BOOK.
Members, guests and public: Tuesday, August 27, 6.15 for 6.30 pm., Gunnamatta Room, RM Ansett Grandstand, Mornington Racecourse, Racecourse Road, Mornington. Members $15, guests $35. BOOK
The Melbourne Racing Club’s prelude to the BMW Caulfield Cup Carnival is a girly hat and giggle fest much loved among its millinery-fancying members. This year top practitioners Brett Morley, Serena Lindeman and Jill Humphries will join legend of the millinery arts Peter Jago, to explain their spring inspirations, bulls-eye season trends and the mechanics of a perfect hat-with-ensemble at Caulfield’s version of the night next Thursday. Mere mortals should immediately track down a club member for admission as their guest to the inner sanctum. This is the only way to join the fun.
For the Mornington racecourse version of the night with milliners Annette Sanfilippo, Lisa Xu and Natali Louise, however, there is another way. In a generous egalitarian twist, Mornington will now welcome ordinary non-member mortals through its portals. Tickets $45 are worth every cent for the bubbles, canapes, door prizes, horses’-mouth advice and discounts on millinery collections they buy.
From the Spring 2013 collection by milliner Brett Morley, one of three artists sharing their inspirations and tips for the spring racing season at Melbourne Racing Club’s Caulfield Millinery and Style night.
Compiled by Terry Carruthers, intern@voxfrock.com.au with Candice Burke, info@voxfrock.com.au
