Yep. This is your last blast from the Melbourne Fashion Festival 2023. Tomorrow the Voxfrock Rookie Crew of future fashion journalists and photographers will return to day jobs, uni tutorials and real lives off-site. In a couple of weeks they’ll gather again for a post-fest de-brief masterclass to share lessons learnt (lots!) and remember the legions of lovely fashionistocrats who paused and posed on the forecourt, and the awesome facilitators who magicked up rare-as-hens-teeth media spots in the bleachers and pit when they sooooo desperately needed somewhere to do what they do so well. Special extra multomuchothankyousverymuch also, to the relentlessly helpful MFF programmer Sai-Wai Foo, to AMPR‘s onsite crew and to Creative Victoria‘s awesome fashion team, especially Fran and Dora. We adore you, can’t live without your support and leave you with this shootstream of the festival’s closing runway, a powerful reminder of fashion’s relevance to every human being, by the very talented, first-time Voxfrock Rookie Photographer, Alexi Cordes
Rookie Footnote:The Voxfrock Rookies are graduate journalists and photographers mentored by fashion editor Janice Breen Burns, legendary photographer Monty Coles and emerging fashion photographer, Chrissy Dore. They’re mentored through all aspects of high quality fashion journalism practice while covering Melbourne’s fashion weeks and festivals. Their reports are published to Voxfrock.com.au then followed up with a de-brief masterclass. Their experience is free and their mentors’ are volunteers passionate about imparting good professional habits to emerging fashion journalists and photographers.
