L’Oreal Paris Runway 6 Presented By Yen

Mar 23.10 / LMFF, Runway Add your thoughts or trackback from your own site.

Affectionately thought of as the FAT runway, since most of these labels are carried by the Melbourne boutique chain. It was definitely a factor that aided my excitement to be covering this show (legitimately this time).

Alpha60
One of my current ongoing obsessions – white – abounded on the Alpha60 runway in the theme of birds and feathers. Other unusually light tones for the famous champions of black included beige, stone and pale blue in typically Alpha60 in cuts and fabrication. After the runway I had the pleasure of running into Alex, one half of the genius behind Alpha60. I congratulated him on the epic colour departure for the label, especially for AW10. He flashed a delighted smile before admitting that most pieces from the collection would also be produced in black.

Carly Hunter
Revolving around three AW10 favourite shades for me – blush/nude, navy and black – Hunter’s collection was sleek, minimalist and seriously chic. Slim trousers, billowing camisoles and loose dresses all work and weekend ready, with minor embellishment throughout.

Nom*D
The antitheses of Carly Hunter’s sleek and minimalist collection, Nom*D burst onto the runway with highly de-constructed and voluminous pieces. Predominantly in black and white, a few bright tones of blue, purple and red snuck through at the end. The use of fringing, layering and textures have completely won my heart over.

S!X
Seeing flag dresses and octopus-armed fur coats stomp down the runway was certainly visually commanding but I would be more interested to see how this  highly theatrical collection translates to real-wear. Although it appears that the extra arms on the coats are detachable for sensibility and practicality, I can’t help but feel that by taking them off you’d destroy it’s appeal.

Limedrop
It can go unsaid how I feel about Limedrop’s AW10 collection since I’ve already favoured it in a feature preview. The billowing silks in moody blueberry tones beautifully complimented the paler cloud print of my dreams. Elegant, glossy and graceful.

Jack London
While nothing in this collection is particularly innovative or exciting (Except maybe the cape?  I am mildly titillated by the cape, more men should wear them.) – the pieces have great cuts and are highly wearable. If I were a boy I’d shop at Jack London.

Zambesi
Thursday was an epicly long day for me with some seriously hideous events – so at the risk of highly offending the people at Zambesi I’m going to be honest and say that I was falling asleep watching this collection go down the runway. After the bright tones in Alpha60, the de-constructed volume at Nom*D and the commanding octopus coats at S!X, this minimalist and largely dark collection just could not hold my attention. HOWEVER I will now redeem that statement by saying that looking back on the pieces presented, I actually really like them and would wear a lot of the collection and feel very ashamed I had problems staying awake. Really adoring the little leather hat, which I think is joined to the scarf. It’s one part aviatrix, one part BDSM, one part winter practicality and I think it’s great.

TV
Fluoro brights and nana chic, a pretty bizarre pairing but somehow TV pull it off for AW10. Although I’m greatly concerned at how many vintage sofas were skinned for the fabrication of this collection, I’m enjoying the creative combination of the tweedy florals and billowing silks. I’m not sure who will be wearing high waisted floral booty-shorts come winter but the looks are darling all the same.

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Mar 23.10 / LMFF, Runway Add your thoughts or trackback from your own site.

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