VAMFFING FOR VOXFROCK

And we’re off! Meet the Voxfrockers covering your 2016 Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival from every fashionable angle: runway, front-of-house, on-the- street, up-the-precinct, backstage and behind the scenes at the museum. Our team of gifted creatives – plus a rookie crew of photographers from RMIT – will inform, entertain, intrigue and surprise you with their frocky pix, reportage and op-ed wisdom smoking-fresh from every event. Check into Voxfrock and our octopus-esque streams of social media (listed here do you can follow the whole crew) for your unprecedented, unparelleled coverage of this momentous 20th festival. Here we go; meet the V. Team…!

Monty Coles

@montycoles   www.theloupe.org
Professional photographer for media and commercial clients and adjunct professor of photography at RMIT, Monty is Voxfrock’s legendary regular, recognised since the 1960s for his incisive observation of rockstars, supermodels and fashion for publications including especially, Vogue Australia. During VAMFF, Monty will mostly be backstage, shooting and co-ordinating Voxfrock’s coverage by the “Rookie Crew” comprising several of the fledgeling photographers he tutors from RMIT.

 

Robin Cowcher

@rosemadder1  www.robincowcher.com.au
Robin was an illustrator for The Age for many years, and now freelances for Fairfax Media and other commercial and private clients. She enjoys drawing people, animals and the fashionable world and recently illustrated three children’s books. One book, Little Dog and the Christmas Wish by Corrinne Fenton and Robin Cowcher, starred in the iconic Myer Christmas windows in 2015. The book is set in the 1950s giving Robin a precious opportunity to draw “glorious 50s fashion”. During VAMFF Robin will sketch whoever and whatever takes her fancy in her trademark whimsical style.

Estelle Michaelides

@mickyinthevan @theestellereport www.theestellestore.com.au
Estelle’s creative forte is wearable art. Designer behind the label, Micky In The Van, owner of The Estelle Store, stylist, fashion illustrator; it’s fair to say Estelle’s love for fashion and style is nestled deep in her spirit and expressed myriad elegant ways. During VAMFF, Estelle will partner with photographer Kayla Piccolo, vox-popping through the flow of show-goers around Melbourne’s Museum precinct, plucking out The Exceptional for chats about fashion and poses for pix.

Kayla Piccolo

@kaylapiccolophotography www.KaylaPiccoloPhotography.com
Kayla is a freelance photographer based in Melbourne, with a strong interest in street photography. A passion that’s grown from a childhood, Kayla explores story telling through images and short videos. For Voxfrock’s VAMFF coverage, she will partner with fashion creative Estelle Michaelides.

Yuzuha Oka

@yuzuhaoka www.yuzuhaoka.wordpress.com, www.yuzuhaoka.strikingly.com
Yuzuha is a professional freelance journalist and a winner in the 2016 VAMFF Fashion Writing series, officially and proudly mentored by Janice Breen Burns. Yuzuha has published work across a range of traditional and new media the ABC, SBS and Fairfax media. During VAMFF, she will report runways for Voxfrock and contribute to the VAMFF social media streams.

The Human Chameleon

@thehumanchameleon, www.thehumanchameleonblog.wordpress.com
Rarely referred to by her real name, Kristine Walker, The Human Chameleon is a Melbourne designer who specialises in quirky hats, headpieces, kitsch accessories and her tendancy to prance around Melbourne in a range of startlingly beautiful (and, sometimes just startling) costumes. “I seem to have gained a reputation for my ‘style’,” she says. “Sometimes that means running around castles dressed like a princess and other times it means dressing like a drag queen and being confused for a boy.” During VAMFF, The Human Chameleon will report for Voxfrock in her unique, inimitable style.

Janice Breen Burns

@voxfrock   @babbleonbyjbb
Janice’s career as an editor spans more than three decades including 12 years as fashion editor of The Age. After leaving The Age with 70 other journalists in 2012, Janice established Voxfrock as a non-profit, non-commercial fashion news site enabling mentorship of fledgeling fashion writers, regular writing masterclasses and seminars, and re-posting of her work as a freelance journalist for media organisations including Fairfax. Janice also regularly comments on fashion for a range of media,  judges various fashion and design competitions, and is a member of the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival board. She is strongly supported on Voxfrock by IT specialist and journalist Terry Carruthers, and a broad and changing roster of gifted volunteers and journalism student interns.