MELBOURNE FASHION’S KALEIDESCOPIC DARLING (AND FAVE OF LADY GAGA), BLASTS INTO WINTER.
WORDS: ALEXIA PETSINIS
PHOTOGRAPHS: SEBASTIAN PETROVSKI AND ALEXIA PETSINIS
Rounding out VAMFF’S Cultutal Programme with a hyper-coloured blockbuster of future-positive dreamwear (got all that?), designer Nixi Killick’s autumn-winter show ‘Eco-Echo’ illuminated the cosy crannies of a repurposed train carriage in Collingwood’s End to End building last night.
Hundreds (a near-invasion) of Killick’s devoted followers – The Colourtribe – squished into any available air pocket five stories above ground. Necks craned for a snap of Killick’s latest collection that incorporated her signature psychedelic fluoro palette with giddy prints and perplexing fabrications.
Photo: Sebastian Petrovski
Beneath the exterior ocular-bombardment of Killick’s garments, her latest offerings appeared to capture an intricate dialogue between the very processes of design itself, and the evolution of creativity as it exists amidst the chaos of the natural world.
Photo: Alexia Petsinis
Models of mixed gender and origin sauntered between floors of the lofty premises; a series of intimate ‘mini runways’ created on each level through which a ‘look-see-touch’ (but don’t you dare) experience was absorbed by Killick’s community and strangers alike. Standout garments in the collection (near impossible to discern in any Killick collection one might imagine) included a pulsating magenta and lilac maxi dress, which sent the optics into a spin when viewed in motion.
Photo: Sebastian Petrovski
Eco-Echo was certainly a testament to the designer’s ethos: “If it’s not in the future, it doesn’t exist.” Whether she is aware or not, Nixi Killick assumes an important role in the development and curation of contemporary fashion. She is a spokesperson for the creative dissemination of design as a performance and experimental medium in our society; liberating clothing not only from the confines of commercial design, but demonstrating the gravitational social pull that is achieved when a designer remains faithful to their own visions.
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