Vamff cranked to the max on DAY THREE and, so did the Voxfrockers, covering a packed schedule of runway shows, parties, talk-fests and appearances by celebrities and international guests. Fledgling designers Beth and Jess Macgraw were announced this year’s Tiffany & Co. National Designer Award winners with a – quite lovely – breakfast at You Know Where. Global guru of the Diesel empire, Renzo Rosso and his creative director Nicola Formichetti were greeted at VAMFF like affable god-lets. (And, so they are.) Up in the Melbourne Museum’s greenhouse-esque Treetops venue, Creative Victoria hosted a panel of top milliners talking shop with presenter Philip Boon. By early evening, Jean Paul Gaultier was saying “Hi” via video before Target’s show opened with its hotly anticipated collaborative pod collection (a little bit gothy-black-leather-satiny-sexy-rocknroll) developed with the iconic designer. Later, Premium Runway 4, presented by Harpers Bazaar and The Grand Showcase runway showing Dion Lee’s elegant techno gobsmackeries, lit up the lofty arches of the Royal Exhibition Building for the last time before VAMFF’s remaining shows shift to a thrillingly moody underground carpark beneath the museum. Here’s a handful of the highlights but there’s plenty more on the Voxfrockers’ many 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 crew of RMIT rookie photographers, and Voxfrock editor, Janice Breen Burns.
Milliners Jill Humphries, Kim Fletcher and Richard Nylon talked hats with Philip Boon in one of a series of State of Fashion Conversations hosted by Creative Victoria, above. Illustrations by Robin Cowcher…
Target Runway, including (below, centre) Jean Paul Gaultier for Target. Photos: Lucas Dawson
Premium Runway 4, presented by Harpers BAZAAR. Photos: Lucas Dawson
Monty Coles’ RMIT rookie crew, including fledgling photographers Gina Pulfer (main photo, top of post) and Carla Lurato, below, also shot around rehearsals for Premium Runway 4….
Rehearsals for Premium Runway 4. Photo by Gina Pulfer
Harpers BAZAAR Premium Runway 4 rehearsals.
Photo: Carla Iurato
