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MBFWA 2013. Elle Magazine Wrap

 

 

 

So, due to circumstances, my kids ended up coming in to town for the last show, the re-launch of Elle in Australia.

Girls in the media room...

 

 

Girls dressed in their nicest dresses and cardis (which happen to be Leona Edmiston, because she makes beautiful clothes for little girls) meeting Leona, and she wanted to pose for a photo with them...

I had been dressed in black all day but funnily, I had almost worn my old Morrisey and Edmiston rainbow silk dress that I had bought when I was still at school. I guess you would call that a vintage piece now.

 

Champagne, waiting in the wings....

 

 

 

 

The pose...

 

 

All that glitters...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Little Evan is tall enough now that he did get mistaken for a 'real' photographer backstage, and was about to be asked to leave... then they realised who he really was...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That helium is fun stuff, isn't it!

Just be sure to use with caution. It replaces the oxygen in your lungs so it could lead to asphyxiation and death.

Back at the hotel, a little snippet of the Mercy Seat (we are silly, and insatiable) redux....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MBFWA 2013. The Wrap Up

 

 

 

Nope. I haven't got many pictures fron the last couple of shows. On the Thursday, I found out my mother (who was looking after my kids) had been taken to hospital, so the last few shows were shot around some commitments, angst, and juggling. The good news is she is fine and dandy, and went home today (Tuesday).

So here's the juice from a very un-fashionable angle...

The most common remark around the photographers was in relation to how skinny the girls were this season -

it was a particularly bony season!

Not sure why. There was certainly not an abundance of food - it was very scarce - but of what did come, it was more the 'fruit' diet the girls would go for, rather than anything sustainable such as a bread-like substance. This is very much a generalisation, but I did hear a lot of 'Gluten-free', 'Dairy-free', Vegetarian and 'Vegan' calls, and if we are talking about extremely skinny chicks, I don't think restrictive diets of any type help to dispel starvation myths.

The new venue was great - except for the dreadful lighting in so many spots backstage. Honestly, I don't know how the make-up artists managed with it.

I found pieces in every collection that I would love to wear, so I'm a pretty hopeless fashion writer because I will give you no details - though I'm sure there is comprehensive write up of every show, in minutiae, for you, my readers, dissection.

Our accommodation was nice enough at the Pullman, though not the Shangri-La of last year (beggars can't be choosers, and I am grateful even if I sound jaded. I'm thinking more of the other delegates who are keen to witness the splendour of Sydney and are allotted with a 'nice' hotel on the ass end of Oxford St, instead of a superb five star establishment with sweeping views of our best trump card... the harbour).

MAC has beautiful make-up products. No. I don't have to say that. I really do think that.

Pommery as a sponsor was a good call.

 

As usual, it was a fun week, but I'm (unfashionably) exhausted.

I'm glad I have a year between these gigs!

 

 

MBFWA. Day 5. Zambesi.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MBFWA 2013. Day 4. Shakuhachi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pretty eyelids, and terrible lighting (backstage again at The Runway)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dan - always the happy man.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MBFWA 2013. Day 4. Phoenix Keating

 

 

Backstage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gorgeous Eliza

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tristan. Hiding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gorgeous Krystal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The suit on the right - love it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MBFWA. Day 4. Bless'ed Are the Meek.

 

 

I was lucky to be in the Northern Territory for the campaign shoot, see the video from behind the scenes, so I was excited to see the show.

Backstage...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The brows,

and Valentina - the model from the campaign shoot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love this shot... Craig on hair and Carol on make-up, and both were there on the Bless'ed shoot in the N.T.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The show. And I loved the Murray Fredricks backdrop (another salt lake freak).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I followed up my interview with designer Maria Maung (in the car, driving through the outback - and no, not published yet) with a chat at the bar after the show.

She was pretty pleased with the show, and very relieved it was over. Between the shoot in the Northern Territory and Fashion Week, she had also gone to Melbourne for the fashion festival there. With those gorgeous hemline cuts I think it might be time for her to sit back and let the clothes do some selling, while she takes a well-earned break!

 

 

 

 

MBFWA 2013. Day 3. Vanishing Elephant

 

 

By the time afternoon came around and I still hadn't eaten anything aside from a teeny tub of yoghurt at 7.30 that morning, I was fast on my way to becoming a vanishing elephant myself. We got to the (slightly) off-site show to find there were boys walking too, so there was no hint of any food at all. Not a jot. The boys got there first, and had wolfed it all down.

 

 

 

Now folks, I'm going to have to come clean here. By taking the next shot, I ruined the whole show.

No, they were not in the show when I took the shot.

Just a walk through.

Huge room. No-one around.

But holey-moley, the way I got barked at! Fer goodness sake! "Who was I????, Who/What was I shooting for????"

You would actually have thought there may be some global significance to the walk-through. But nope. 

It's just a fashion show,

Mark.

And you do know who I'm shooting for.

And I didn't ruin it.

But it's why fashion is not my career.

Oh, I digress.

Here's the shot.

 

Great location.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How hot is this guy!

 

 

Not 'hot' like I want him to be my boyfriend, but so hot as a portrait subject!

Really, male models are fairly scarce

And he's a nice guy too...

 

 

Come back to the five and dime...

 

 

Alright. Last one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MBFWA 2013. Day 3. Camilla

 

 

Kaftans in a Peruvian tent imported from Sweden (or at least that's what I'm told), with a token star in the very diminutive (c'mon, her mum is the uber-leggy, Jerry Hall) and (I wondered who the not so classy chick people were fawning over was, but now I have used way too many brackets in the one sentence, and it was one of those oh here's someone in make-up I'd better take a photo, but then I shoot and I go "Whoops" she's not a model surely - too short, kinda trashy - then a few minutes later "Oh hang on, isn't that the Rock God's child???, yes) Georgia Jagger. 

It was quite the 'event'.

 

And I'm not complaining, because the light was a delight, and the clothes were bright and colourful.

And now I have given too much weight to a show that is over-hyped and over-covered anyway, when all I really care about is pretty pictures...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alyce, "with a 'y'", she's a sweetie...

 

 

 

 

Look a the serious face on Simon (from Def Wish) in the background as he helps Sonny out...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Louise Van Der Vorst before her extensions were used (not sucessfully) as clothing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MBFWA 2013. Day 3. Alice McCall

 

 

I was running late coming from the off-site Lisa Ho show, and only manage to get there in time for the most dreadfully lit backstage dressing area of the Runway.

I love the lashes!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bless'ed Are the Meek Small Diversion

 

 

Bless'ed Are The Meek showed this morning, but my pics won't be up until at least tomorrow.

But, a few weeks ago I was lucky enough to be on location in the Northern Territory, shooting behind the scenes and assisting the campaign shoot.

I'm excited to share the behind the scenes video from then, and if you look carefully, you can spot me there.

 

 

More pics in a while....