MSFW Designer Series 4

As I had told you before, I went for one of the designer's show for Melbourne Spring Fashion Week (MSFW) two weeks back. It's been a while since the show but I did not find the time to post it up. So here it is.

MSFW has 4 major designer shows that was shown in the evening from day 2 to day 5. I went for the last show, MSFW Designer Series 4 with my friend Edna and she brought another friend, Jason. I have to say that the show wasn't that impressive. I would say that it is a bit underwhelming compared to other shows that I had seen before in Malaysia. Maybe because it was just my luck to get the show with the least attractive designers. I should have gone for the Nicola Finetti or Bettina Liano show - at least they looked more interesting when I saw the photos of it.

As underwhelming as it was there were a few good designers that came out with "not bad" outfits. You see, in the show they had a list of different designers showing their collection. They had Alpha60, Ant!podium, Gary Bigeni, FAT, Obis and a few more. I have to say designers like Ant!podium, Obis and Gary Bigeni was the ones I found more interesting but still not what I had expected. I thought it lacks innovation and it's more commercial. Like something you can easily get from a thrift shop. Not really fit to be named as "Designer Series". Compared to collections from other countries that have Fashion Week. Melbourne was pretty bad. Then again maybe I went to the wrong show. Maybe the Designer Series 1, 2 and 3 was good. Who knows?

And they're management of the event was not good at all. STYLO KL was a lot better. One thing is the things they gave for goodie bags was catered to women only. Not for men. Didn't they know that men is a big part of fashion? Who in the world would give tampons and pads as goodies. Though I did not get the bag because the smartass management did not have enough for people that didn't have seats although they got tickets. So some of us were standing behind the seats. Me included.

Lastly I still think the show was not all bad. Some designers are fabulous but some really are bananas. Hopefully next time would be better. I know some people I met there said Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival for Fall 2010 would be much better. Fingers crossed.

Okay now to show you some photos of the show. I did not take much because I was on the balcony area - one floor up.

Alpha 60


Obis


Obis


Gary Bigeni

Ant!podium

Again, tell me what you all think about this. My post, the photos, my writing.... anything.
If my writing suck, forgive me. Am still working on it.

An Intimate Week with Ryan Whelan

Ryan Whelan is one of the contestants of Project Runway Australia, Season 2. He is known for his obsession towards clothing from the 1920s and his specialization on men's tailoring. Always said that he's an old man trapped in a young body. I personally liked most of his designs during Project Runway but somehow he was out by the 4th episode.

So as you know, I mentioned about Melbourne Spring Fashion Week in the previous post and Ryan Whelan graced his presence as an Melbourne based designer by having a mini exhibition at Melbourne Central showing his works. Although I thought I would get a chance to meet him in person as what the website stated but guess I was out of luck. So much for hoping to meet someone famous.

So me and my buddy, Deanna went to the exhibition during our break because we were too bored and had nothing else to do. Though I would go there anyway. What surprised me was Ryan has better works on display in the exhibition compared to his works in Project Runway. Then again, he probably had no limits in time to complete each design. Sometimes time limit and pressure do not do justice to people who can't take stress.

His work on the "Fire Dress" is amazing. How in the world can a dress be made without threads or needles?

Enough of babbling and take a look and tell me what you think.

Smart casual Outfits. Love them >< He is known for his skills in coats.
The FIRE Dress. (Click and read)


Fire Dress.


Observe details. It is burned to replace stitching.
So no needles or threads were used.


Denim Skirt.

Mid-sem Break!

Okay, it's been a week plus since my last post. I promised updates to my friends and my lovely sis but I had not done quite much. Much due to the reason that my connection was cut back to dial-up speed because of excess usage. It's only 2 weeks and the 5 of us on the floor finished 80Gb of download.

Connection is better now for some reason. Maybe it's the next month usage already but then again, it was supposed to be on 12th Sept for our month to end. But thank GOD.

So as the title clearly wrote, it is mid-semester break for yours truly (29th Aug to 6th Sept). So a sum-up to what I had done for the first seven days, I have done nothing except for exploring Melbourne and working with my personal column draft.

I've done a bit of exploring this week. I went to the famous Camberwell Flea Market; noted for its large amount of vendors selling hand made or vintage stuff, from clothing, shoes to furniture. Truly awesome for students like me with limited budget.

Then I went to Direct Factory Outlet (DFO) with my housemates for a bit of window shopping. DFO is also another place to be for budgeted shopping. It's like Bichester Village at UK where everything is discounted all year round though it's normally a season later than.

There's also Docklands. Went there with my housemates for good ice-cream that one of them recommended. They have a place called Harbour Town which is a open air shopping mall.

Next I worked on my personal column draft. It's an assignment for my Prof. Writing class. I had to write an article fit and related to a magazine publication of my choice based on my own experience/encounter. Am still working on it and will post up for opinion when I'm satisfied with it. Now it's still just a large dump of words and is not fitted for reading.

Docklands

Harbour town


Ice cream from Dairy Bells.

PS: Got a haircut on tuesday. Will post pics soon. Haha. I know no one is interested.
More post to come about fashion week. Watch OUT!