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LouieAustralian Victims of Fashion Week Opening Night
May 1st 2006 13:08
Fashionanarchy, a performative showcase of Sydney's fashions from the fringe, launched Australian Victims of Fashion Week last Thursday night in a celebration of local designers and fashion collections beyond the constraints of the catwalk. Rich in colour and texture, fashions from the underground thrived in the city's covert network of artists, musicians, actors, dancers and fringe dwellers. Fashionanarchy’s performers gave life and story to pattern and stitch at The Fromagerie in Newtown.
Message from the Artistic Director:
Australian Victims of Fashion Week runs concurrently and perpendicular to Mercedes Australian Fashion Week. A fringe fashion festival of sorts, the purpose of Victims of Fashion Week is threefold. As artistic director, I seek to pay satirical homage to the fads and trends that grip our social cells in an eternal cycle, as we struggle to be the same and yet different. The Australian Victims of Fashion Week Closing Games pursues this element of the festival in a collection of reality competitions and overt acts of patriotism. Secondly, the festival seeks to celebrate local designers. The festival’s opening night, Fashionanarchy, reflects this part of the week’s agenda in a performative showcase of Sydney’s fringe designers. Finally, the festival reflects my belief in the responsibility of the artist as social being, with proceeds after costs directed to Oxfam Australia and the International Women’s Development Agency in support of campaigns to empower sweatshop workers here in Australia and overseas.
Craig Donarski aka Master Tom presided over the evening in this naughty number by Gallery Serpentine:
Inga Liljestrom performed with Fashionanarchy’s artistic director and cellist Clare Brassil in new creations from Sasha Matteucci:
Sasha Mateucci - The costumes worn by Inga and Clare are paper mache punk. The idea I had was to deconstruct the formal classic dinner shirt into something fun and at the same time fragile, only wearable for one night. Ruffles are made from newspaper and the skirts moulded paper. These I spraypainted with stencils. I've been doing a lot of stencil art lately around Newtown. Nothing political. Hearts and birds and devils...I'm into people who have their own style. Mass production in the fashion industry turns people into clones. And what you wear says a lot about who you are. When I see the same garment on 15 different people in one day, well, that makes me depressed. I am still waiting for clothes to go back into the future, like in the 60's. arkangelproductions@hotmail.com.au">darkangelproductions@hotmail.com.au
La Huva vocalists Tim Kevin and Kim Louise, gave their Johnny and June show in Vintage Surry Hills collections, and Fondue Set, an innovative dance group, filled the shoes of home designer Mandy Arena, whose creations consist entirely of stationary:
Colony re-enactments devised and performed by Kate Smith gave life to period costumes from Gallery Serpentine in dark satire:
Gallery Serpentine - A unique manufacturing boutique creating beautiful garments at 123 Enmore Road, Newtown and in the Old Cheese Factory of Robertson, Southern Highlands. Features gorgeous corsetry, Gothic clubwear, romantic coats & skirts inspired by centuries past..customers report an increased sense of wellbeing and a lessening of fashion victim mentality when wearing a G.S. design. www.galleryserpentine.com.au
Australia’s only Lingerie String Quartet, LSQ, explored love and the erotic, playing love song dedications in cutting edge fetish from Dark Decadence:
Dark Decadence - An exclusive Sydney Fetish/Gothic/Costume clothing company. Wares are made to order and have appeared in Moulin Rouge, Babe Pig in the City, Garage Days, the Edge City Australian Fashion Week shows, Shows at Club Nocturne, Club Ritual, Club Scourge, The Hellfire Club, and more. A new web site is underway, and enquiries can be emailed to arkdecadence@optusnet.com.au">darkdecadence@optusnet.com.au
The event was a raging success - patrons came, patrons saw, patrons drank a lot of free beers supplied by Matilda Bay Brewing Company...and Shani from www.food.org.au took photos (thanks lovely!). So Australian Victims of Fashion Week is over for 2006. Congratulations to Clare Brassil and her co-organisers on an entertaining night!
Message from the Artistic Director:
Australian Victims of Fashion Week runs concurrently and perpendicular to Mercedes Australian Fashion Week. A fringe fashion festival of sorts, the purpose of Victims of Fashion Week is threefold. As artistic director, I seek to pay satirical homage to the fads and trends that grip our social cells in an eternal cycle, as we struggle to be the same and yet different. The Australian Victims of Fashion Week Closing Games pursues this element of the festival in a collection of reality competitions and overt acts of patriotism. Secondly, the festival seeks to celebrate local designers. The festival’s opening night, Fashionanarchy, reflects this part of the week’s agenda in a performative showcase of Sydney’s fringe designers. Finally, the festival reflects my belief in the responsibility of the artist as social being, with proceeds after costs directed to Oxfam Australia and the International Women’s Development Agency in support of campaigns to empower sweatshop workers here in Australia and overseas.
Craig Donarski aka Master Tom presided over the evening in this naughty number by Gallery Serpentine:
MC Master Tom in Gallery Serpentine
Inga Liljestrom performed with Fashionanarchy’s artistic director and cellist Clare Brassil in new creations from Sasha Matteucci:
Inga Liljestrom and Clare Brassil in Sasha Matteucci
Sasha Mateucci - The costumes worn by Inga and Clare are paper mache punk. The idea I had was to deconstruct the formal classic dinner shirt into something fun and at the same time fragile, only wearable for one night. Ruffles are made from newspaper and the skirts moulded paper. These I spraypainted with stencils. I've been doing a lot of stencil art lately around Newtown. Nothing political. Hearts and birds and devils...I'm into people who have their own style. Mass production in the fashion industry turns people into clones. And what you wear says a lot about who you are. When I see the same garment on 15 different people in one day, well, that makes me depressed. I am still waiting for clothes to go back into the future, like in the 60's. arkangelproductions@hotmail.com.au">darkangelproductions@hotmail.com.au
La Huva vocalists Tim Kevin and Kim Louise, gave their Johnny and June show in Vintage Surry Hills collections, and Fondue Set, an innovative dance group, filled the shoes of home designer Mandy Arena, whose creations consist entirely of stationary:
La Huva vocalists Tim Kevin & Kim Louise in Vintage Surry Hills
Colony re-enactments devised and performed by Kate Smith gave life to period costumes from Gallery Serpentine in dark satire:
Kate Smith & Colonists in Gallery Serpentine
Gallery Serpentine - A unique manufacturing boutique creating beautiful garments at 123 Enmore Road, Newtown and in the Old Cheese Factory of Robertson, Southern Highlands. Features gorgeous corsetry, Gothic clubwear, romantic coats & skirts inspired by centuries past..customers report an increased sense of wellbeing and a lessening of fashion victim mentality when wearing a G.S. design. www.galleryserpentine.com.au
Australia’s only Lingerie String Quartet, LSQ, explored love and the erotic, playing love song dedications in cutting edge fetish from Dark Decadence:
Violinist in fetish from Dark Decadence
LSQ - Australia's Only Lingerie String Quartet share the love
Dark Decadence - An exclusive Sydney Fetish/Gothic/Costume clothing company. Wares are made to order and have appeared in Moulin Rouge, Babe Pig in the City, Garage Days, the Edge City Australian Fashion Week shows, Shows at Club Nocturne, Club Ritual, Club Scourge, The Hellfire Club, and more. A new web site is underway, and enquiries can be emailed to arkdecadence@optusnet.com.au">darkdecadence@optusnet.com.au
The event was a raging success - patrons came, patrons saw, patrons drank a lot of free beers supplied by Matilda Bay Brewing Company...and Shani from www.food.org.au took photos (thanks lovely!). So Australian Victims of Fashion Week is over for 2006. Congratulations to Clare Brassil and her co-organisers on an entertaining night!
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Comment by Cibbuano
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Comment by amy
Love to see the fringe stuff creeping into central, communal space on the internet =)
And you can never have too many posts on a fashion website (otherwise neanderthals like me would never be able to decipher the terminology =P).
Hot stuff, and definitely looks like a fun night.
Comment by Sisi
I'm glad you guys like the fringe stuff...I thought Fashion Week was a bit overhyped (although it still featured some beautiful work) and that everyone might have had enough of hearing about it so I went with this instead.
Comment by amy
what I MEANT to say was "you can never have too many PHOTOS on a fashion site."
Cibby and I were talking about organising an Orblogger meet-scary-people-who-blog-on-the-internet night. Whaddya reckon?
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A Sunday morning? eck...
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