It’s fag-end Friday, Dear Reader, and your Voxfrock crew is thoroughly frocked after seven full-day rounds of Melbourne Spring Fashion Week (MSFW). In its inimitable style, our home city has tacked two extra days onto this “week” of fashionable kneezups, so there is still plenty of kick left in the schedule for those Melbourne-bound or resident this weekend.Check your options here and if, like us, you crave a few quiet moments in the dark, we recommend one or both of the last film screenings in the Australian Centre for the Moving Image’s excellent MSFW series whose principal film Twiggy: Face of 1966 , FYI, included a “blink-and-you-miss-it” cameo of Voxfrock collaborator and one-time Twiggy photographer Monty Coles . Tonight, In Vogue: The Editor’s Eye, screens at 9 pm. and British Style Genius: Breaking the Rules – the Fashion Rebel Look, screens tomorrow Saturday, September 7, at 9 pm in ACMI’s salubrious surrounds, Federation Square, Melbourne, www.acmi.net.au
(Main picture, top: paintbox tailoring by Arthur Galan)
NOT YOUR AVERAGE
MSFW has become a wild and engaging mix of fashion shows, exhibitions, craft and industry workshops but at its core, it is a catalogue of spring ensembles meant to spurr beeline queues of punters from its catwalks to Melbourne’s stores. Voxfrock is convinced (albeit by circumstantial, heresay, sketchy and gossipy evidence) this is precisely what happened this week. On Thursday evening particularly, a chaps-only fashion show was warmly lauded on social media, and after the inaugural Industry Day in Melbourne’s Town Hall, a flurry of accolades filled up organisors’ inboxes.
But, like we said, MSFW is a live, animated catalogue (glamalogue? chapalogue? frockalogue?). Here’s a few bits from our shopping list. Photographs: WeAreHobo
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ALL ABOUT MYER
Myer’s eponymous Spring Fashion Lunch at Flemington racecourse was pinnacle among the week’s many racewear flavored events. More than 700 guests, mostly women, frocked up for two courses (including a memorable blood orange creme brulee) and an afternoon of entertainments and elegant flute-waving. Former supermodel and Mrs. to both Messrs. Mick Jagger and Brian Ferry, Jerry Hall, popped in for an onstage chat (nothing to report) wearing a JD Mannington hat and Sass & Bide‘s black and white silk striped trouser suit. Very attractive.
Jerry Hall and Melbourne Cup
The hands-down star of the arvo though, in Voxfrock’s opinion, was X-Factor contestant Jiordan Tolli,(below) a young woman of angelic appearance and vocal ability. Miss Tolli’s halo garland of fresh flowers was also a bulls-eye forecast of headwear likely to be rampant among spring racing’s youngest and prettiest punters this season.
Myer’s edit of its racewear collections included some marvellous examples of vivid pink tailored chic by Yeojin Bae (below) swish silks that slapped elegantly around the models’ knees by Jayson Brunsdon, and Leona Edmiston‘s perfectly feminine fresh patterned frocks. All three designers were among the lunchers, as were masterly milliners Phillip Rhodes and Serena Lindeman.
Myer Footnotes:
In the runup to MSFW, Myer also launched a battery of glamoureports which Voxfrock has helpfully distilled and listed here:
#The store group has struck a new agreement with the Victoria Racing Club (VRC), for exclusive naming rights to the Spring Fashion Lunch (September) and Beautiful Girls Fashion Lunch (March) and
will retain naming rights to Myer Fashions on the Field during Melbourne Cup Carnival and associated events around the country. Myer will also continue to host a lavish corporate marquee on A Row of the Flemington Racecourse’s Birdcage Enclosure during the Melbourne carnival.
#A new partnership agreement was also struck between Myer and the Australian Turf Club (ATC), ensuring exclusive fashion rights to Royal Randwick and Rosehill Gardens racecourses with its triumphant return to Royal Randwick kicking off on October 12 at Moet & Chandon Spring Champion Stakes Day.
#In a joint announcement, Myer and the VRC presented the strikingly lovely model and horse rider Rebecca Bramich (pictured, below, leading the runway charge in Maticevski ready-to-wear)as the 2013 Myer Fashions on the Field Ambassador. Miss Brambich is the great niece of former VRC chairman Rod Fitzroy and is studying for her Senior Horsemasters qualification.
(#So stick that up your jumper, DJs!)
Compiled by Janice Breen Burns, jbb@voxfrock.com.au, with Terry Carruthers, intern@voxfrock.com.au
