Melbourne Fashion Week
One bubble dress, two films and 20,000 beads: How Wicked’s costume designer defied gravity
Hundreds of new fantastical costumes from the Academy Award-winning designer will grace our screens in Wicked: For Good next month.
- Nell Geraets
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‘At one point we weren’t invited’: The push for runway diversity
A new wave of stylists at Melbourne Fashion Week are prioritising inclusivity alongside creativity.
- Damien Woolnough
Melbourne Fashion Week becomes unlikely battleground for lord mayoral candidates
A candidate is hatching a plan to add another top-flight fashion festival to Melbourne – by stealing it from Sydney.
- Cara Waters
Why is AI in your wardrobe? And should the fashion world be quite so worried?
Designers survey a changing landscape in the lead-up to Melbourne Fashion Week.
- Melissa Singer
The fashion week changes that will make Australian history, twice
Musician G Flip will be the face of next month’s 30th Melbourne Fashion Week, whose highlights include an opening-night runway featuring First Nations designers.
- Melissa Singer
‘It’s fashion Christmas’: The most stylish people at fashion week
Some of the best looks at Melbourne Fashion Festival can be found off the runway – just don’t expect to find too much in the way of quiet luxury.
- Melissa Singer
‘I inspire myself’: What do fashion students actually wear?
Are the McQueens of the future wearing T-shirts and jeans? Or is design school a living, breathing fashion parade?
- Melissa Singer
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What happens to us doesn’t happen to white models. So I’m boycotting fashion week
I modelled for an A to Z campaign for a well-known beauty brand. Despite there being 26 letters in the alphabet, I was the only black model used. And my face featured alongside the N letter.
- Nyaluak Leth
Local heroes: Australian-made fashion labels that deserve your money
More homegrown designers are offering affordable ways into their brands, including one that wants to be the next Jacquemus.
- Melissa Singer
‘You really are invisible’: A designer spills the beans on showing in Paris
Some designers, like Zimmermann and Christopher Esber, get the French fairytale. For others, launching a label overseas is a tough slog.
- Melissa Singer