Day 6 Perth Fashion Festival – 2008 Western Australian Designer Collections

Posted by on Sep 11, 2008 in 2008, Perth Fashion Festival

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I was surprised to find out that it was the first time in 10 year history of PFF to have WA designer collection shows. As you have witnessed in my recent posts the festival kicked off by major retail brands and continued with more ‘shop’ designs barring the student design show. I would have thought WA designers should drive this festival and each designer deserved to have their own show. I guess it all comes down to a) who has the money and where it goes b) who gets featured during the festival. Regardless, it’s about time we saw some talents in Western Australia and I’m glad that I witnessed the ‘historical’ event.

The venue at the convention centre was designed as though it was a theatre play – seats all at the back and the catwalk in the front. I think that was a big mistake. The lighting wasn’t evenly distributed. People at the back could hardly see the designs. Anyway, it’s only me complaining. Oh, then the models were not able to stop at the place where they were supposed to stop for the photographers. There were murmurs and swear words (including one from myself). I even saw a couple of models tripping over with their steps. Luckily no one fell. The highlight of the show was when suddenly the music stopped playing and there was a moment of silence for about 3 minutes also. There were cheers from the audience to break the silence. Thankfully the sound guys rectified the problem soon enough so that the show could go on. Although there were some mishaps, I did enjoy the shows very much. It was fun being part of the media crew and I met some truly generous and talented people – more on this later.

Here are some of my favourites. Enjoy. Of course, there’s more in my flickr album.

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As we can never have enough.

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Shine on.

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Jump Suit Extreme.

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Not that aerodynamic is
required.

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I want that necklace but
not the shrug.

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I would have never considered
this last year.

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Pants as a hat? New trend.

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make-up and white nail polish
worked IMHO.

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Been fishing? I would rather
hang this in my lounge room.

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Might have a better chance of
flying? or killing?

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I’m only looking at the guy.
Can’t believe he only appeared
once!

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Very wearable. Want evertying
in this look.

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5 Comments

  1. Lavender
    September 12, 2008

    Hi,
    great blog. I’ve just discovered you.

  2. ryder
    September 12, 2008

    it sounds to me that it was quite fun :D !!! c’mon u gotta laugh :) …
    but you know what will tell you.
    from everything you posted from p. fashion week this is the most fashinable and creative collection so far… so i think it was worth of…is the right word : pain ? :)

    p.s. pants on the head? so london like :)

  3. Aly-gator
    September 12, 2008

    perfect pictures, unfortuntely i couldn’t make it to this show cause it was sold out. but i adore the last ensemble. http://www.thedailyalygator.blogspot.com

  4. enc
    September 12, 2008

    They certainly should have had yellow-striped-shirt guy more than once. I loved all those photos, but mostly, I liked your captions!

  5. K.Line
    September 14, 2008

    I want that gold dress.