Shine By Three x Paper Skye: SS11/12.

Those of you who've been reading/tweeting/facebooking will know that yesterday afternoon, Paper Skye's SS11/12 collection walked like it was nobody's business at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week. It was a fairly surreal to see the 12 looks I'd styled hung up on racks backstage, then floating down a runway towards some frenzied breed of photographers' pit. I can't even begin to imagine how designer Kirsten was feeling!

If you remember me mentioning that I'd shot the Paper Skye SS11/12 collection over the Easter weekend (and if don't) - here they are. Kirsten's pieces lend themselves so well to repeat layering, movement and any degree of light (as became so evident in yesterday's show) and were, as a result, such a joy to shoot despite the intermittent rain. It can hardly be a coincidence that my favourite transeasonal sheers, pleats, textured stripes and soft neutrals have been summarised in the one collection, so I hope you all enjoy these shots!

Do feel free to shoot me an email if you'd like higher res images and be sure to have a bit of a Paper Skye stalk at the website and Facebook page!

Thank you so much to the lovely Bespoke PR girls and Kirsten for this amazing opportunity (eternally grateful), and a huge congratulations to Kirsten for such a beautiful show yesterday! I'll have photos up for you all very soon - look what was in all the goody bags!




I get so dorkily excited about these things.

RAFW is well and truly done and dusted (including sleeping off the 5-day accumulation of waiting around, carrying a thousand bags and a damn heavy camera, chasing buses and cabs in wonderfully high Therapy heels, and other associated happy exhaustion). It was so wonderful meeting so many people who I've looked up to for who-knows-how-long... and some who I only realised I'd looked up to for years after the conversation had finished and they'd trotted off to a shiny black car somewhere :)

So many millions of photos and posts to come from a fantastic week! Thanks for all your sweet comments, tweets, likes and emails of support and general love!

*love*

xx

Alistair Trung SS11/12.

The lines outside Alistair Trung yesterday were all whispers about not being sure what to expect. Sitting inside was a strange, conflicted sensation of being completely relaxed (with wonderful quantities of smoke creeping right up to our feet), yet at the same time, tense and anticipatory (the backing track frequency pushed the ear-split line at times). Once the performance (I'm not going to leave it at 'show') was underway, the audience reaction to every look was fairly audible for collective admiration of Alistair's highly artistic approach to contrasting fabrics, extensions of the natural lines of the body, and surreal billows of illuminated chiffons and silks that shifted in and out of the smoke. Even with the bolder blues, greens and yellows towards the end of the collection, the serenity was still there, which also made the leather pieces that much more special.

Someone behind me said, "This is what heaven looks like".

Fair point.















ELLERY was definitely another of yesterday's highlights (snaps to come), as was Stolen Girlfriends Club (and sitting behind the Vogue team... I'm so uncool).

I'm so excited about the Paper Skye show in New Gen #2 this afternoon! If you're around RAFW you'd better be there with a camera.

*love*

xx

Magdalena Velevska SS11/12.

It should go without saying that Magdalena Velevska's collection has been one of a few standalone favourites this week. While I (and everyone else in the immediate vicinity) floated happily from dreamy neon pleat to neon pleat (the best neon too - the kind that can never be properly captured in photos), Magdalena's finer details in knits and metallics on top of a wonderfully colour-carded game of tips between long-short-midi hemlines came across as seemingly effortless.

I have already declared my undying love for the maxi/mini below, the layering of symmetrical and asymmetrical print (silently mirrored in the stunning braids that I'm now going to spend months trying to master) and, as always, high waisted tailoring.

Did I not say neons on white for SS11/12?

Magdalena also wins in visual captivity. Bold, ethereal and Facebook Page can finally be said in the same sentence.

Other collections of note in my head for today were definitely Shakuhachi and Alice McCall (both of which will be happily blogged up soon!). In other news, it was such a pleasure to meet the talented Napoleon Perdis (whose two-toned lips for the Dhini show this afternoon were absolutely amazing - so tempted to try it myself!), a mix of fun street photographers, and a film crew (I still haven't figured out who they were). And as always, my beautiful blogging girls and guys. Editors may not like us. But it's fine. Really.

I haven't decided what exactly I'm going to be up to tomorrow (the uni-fashion-week balance is a little precarious at present), but I will, as always, be keeping you all updated on Twitter!

*love*

xx

Rachel Gilbert SS11/12.

I thought, rather than catching up on my trillions of photos from yesterday, that I'd just start with today, and gradually fall behind, then use the banked up images as an excuse to reminisce about RAFW 2011 when I'm recovering next week :)

So let's start with 10am this morning. Rachel Gilbert's collection stomped to electronic violin, a ground-shaking beat, and a lime green just as loud (definitely the colour of the season). In getting to that insane colossus of a finale dress, however, I very much appreciated the transition from the expected Gilbert sequins to a finer, and more subtly elegant, combination of ruffles and small, paneled print. Where there was ruching, it was more about the way hemlines floated around the models' ankles, and where there were structured seams, power shoulders with feminine touches reigned absolutely supreme.

Apparently, I'm a fan of white sequins. Almost edible.










I wouldn't mind permanently adopting the hair and makeup from this show either.

Note to world: first photo is probably my current pride and joy. But do go check out extra shots at the Facebook Page!

Aside from seriously crushing a good chunk of the RTW group show this afternoon, I also had the pleasure of meeting the happiest snappers out (Tommy Ton and Phil Oh), as well as getting a bit snap happy myself with the mind-boggling number of incredible shoes around.

Shakuhachi and Camilla & Marc are a little of tomorrow's vocabulary. Please brace yourselves.

P.S. I'm not sure/can't remember if I've shared this little piece of news yet, but some of the shots I snapped at last week's Ginger & Smart show are up on the website and their blog! Check it out HERE.

*love*

xx

Get moving.

Events Military Blazer - NEUW Denim Denim Button Down Shirt - Hilda Mae Pleated Maxi - Covet Vintage Co. Envelope Clutch

Is it shameful that all I'm going to show you from Day 1 of RAFW is what I wore? At this point in the morning, I find it the only logical solution to getting some sleep some time soon :) rushing between uni and OPT really takes it out of you.

Having said that, I'll have detailed shots of this little ensemble up very soon - everyone appreciated Hilda Mae's super tight burgundy pleating. And I appreciated NEUW's denim. So much warmth in cold harbour-side times.

You have no idea how many subjects of lecture notes can fit in that clutch. And to the girl who asked on the train home, yes I did spend the entire day with this insanely collared blazer draped over my shoulders like a grandma.

I really enjoyed some of the shows today (LOVER's 10th year retrospective at the Opera House was absolutely breathtaking - will have photos up soon!) and it was so lovely to see some of my favourite people, finally meet some others who I've awkwardly known in the blogosphere forever, and to have a quick and happy chat with the lovely Miss Susie Bubble this evening. I'm such a dork.

Will keep you all updated!

But first, sleep.

*love*

xx

Paper Skye x Shine By Three.

So. Here's the big news that I've been waiting to share since Wednesday.

You all remember that I shot Paper Skye's beautiful SS11/12 collection over the Easter break (you'll be seeing those final shots in due time, as well as shots from their runway show this Friday afternoon - get excited!).

More importantly: I'm so excited to be styling the Paper Skye show this RAFW! I spent this morning at fittings with (intimidatingly stunning) models and assorted racing-around-with-clipboards-laptops-and-pins people, working out looks with Yan and designer Kirsten - and the above are just a few snaps (and serious sneak-peek-ness) of amazing things to come. On the edges of your seats till Friday, friends.

At the risk of sounding like an idiot, I feel like I'll appreciate the shows and presentations this week that much more, having seen first hand the amount of time and blood/sweat/tears that go into sending one look down a runway.

Needless to say I'm excited out of my mind.

Brace yourselves for a whirlwind week, bloglovers! Stay up to date on Twitter and Facebook :)

P.S. I promise - as soon as this insanity is over, I'll have a giveaway winner to announce!

*love*

xx