Melbourne Fashion Week kicked off in the clouds with a trio of runways on the 85th floor of the city’s iconic Eureka Tower. Today, meet the Voxfrock Rookies who were there to capture the week’s most exotic runways.  Click back all week for more reports from our MFW2019 Voxfrock Rookie crew before the last runway lights wink out on September 8.

Sky High!

Photographs: Audrey Michael  Words: Atusa Moghaddam

Runway one’s sport lux chronicles featured some of Australia’s most precious designers: Gorman, KARLA ŠPETIC, Kloke, THE UPSIDE, VERNER X Lisa Waup, Vow Studio, WHYTE STUDIO and YEVU.

Among the innovations; pearl-studded culottes, asymmetrical cropped tops in neons and zingy shades, a lime body suit paired with tulle belted skirt by Whyte Studio.

Melbourne’s Strateas Carlucci went solo for Runway 2 showing an avant-garde squad of cutting-edge tailored co-ordinates and other 1980s echos including tie-dye-inspired dresses with  massive shoulder pads and fuchsia splashes.

Models were cast to fashion’s compelling narrative around inclusion and diversity.

One modelled Whyte studio’s white sport-luxe suit from her wheelchair, South-Sudanese Australian model Adut Akech walked with her younger brother Bior, and Stratreas Carlucci designer Mario-Luca Carlucci recruited his 85-year-old grandfather (pictured below) and 10-year-old son to his runway crew.

Melissa Singer, national fashion editor of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald showed her approval from the front row: “Stratreas Carlucci is one the Australia’s special designers, and some very special guests walked in this show. It was a great parade.”

Voxfrock Rookie Photographer Audrey Michael

Audrey, above, is a second year Bachelor of Art in Photography student at RMIT. “I realised very early that fashion photography was something I wanted to explore in my tertiary education.” Audrey is proud to have photographed back stage at VAMFF and on the media riser at the Brunswick Open Day Fashion Parade. “I cannot wait to see what the future holds for me in fashion photography.”

Voxfrock Rookie Journalist Atusa Moghaddam

Atusa, above, is a freelance fashion writer with a Bachelor in Fashion Design and a degree in Digital Marketing. She has owned her own fashion label and worked for independent Australian designers. Atusa is now studying a degree in Entertainment journalism at Collarts and managing a curation of her fashion writing on the social media platform she founded, ModeMuse. She also finds time to produce and co-host the Creative Essence podcast featuring interviews with top creatives in fashion and related industries under the mentorship of Voxfrock’s Janice Breen Burns.