The Melbourne Fashion Festival’s annual film awards is more lager than gala but still a honeypot for entries from across the globe. Its 2023 harvest of more than 100 submissions was shrunk by judges to a worthy 10 finalists shown at Melbourne’s Capitol Theatre before French film maker Christophe Chundy’s “A new beginning”, made with Vogue Portugal, was announced the winner. Voxfrock Rookie photographer Alexi Cordes was there, slipping around the aficionados, film buffs and award hopefuls. Scroll down,down,down to meet her then click back later for more daily coverage of the festival by fashion’s future journalists and photographers on the Voxfrock Rookie Crew 2023.
Leigh Yang, cinematographer. Photo: Alexi CordesLeft, Kacy Heywood, designer and National Graduate Showcase judge with model, Jack. Photo: Alexi CordesJonty Knight, artist. Photo: Alexi CordesPhoto: Alexi CordesCreatives from INJURY group (left to right) Curtis Li, Dan Tse, Eugene Leung, Henry Lai-Pyne, FFA finalists for film ‘Rare Reality’. Photo: Alexi CordesPhoto: Alexi CordesEvie Rosa, FFA finalist for film ‘Rapid Shredder’. Photo: Alexi CordesFrom left, James Nolen, film programmer with Andrew Clancy, designer and Laura Citron, designer. Photo: Alexi CordesPhoto: Alexi CordesEvie Rosa, FFA finalist for film ‘Rapid Shredder’. Photo: Alexi CordesAndrew Clancy, designer
Photo: Alexi CordesStill from FFA winner, ‘A New Beginning’, by Christophe Chudy with Vogue Portugal.Presenter, designer Amanda Nichols. Photo: Alexi Cordes.
Alexi works as an artist and photographer and strives, she says, “to visually disclose the esoteric moment in fashion” in her work. Alexi is studying toward a Bachelor of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts and also works under the guidance fashion designer Hoshika Kawabata of E.S.S.Laboratory.
