Our Spotlight Picks for
Australian Vogue Week 2024
Overwhelmed by this 12 months’s Australian Vogue Week program? We’re liberating up your style calendar by deciding on the runways that we will’t wait to see and that you simply gained’t need to miss. All of it begins subsequent week and these are our picks for every day.
As lovers of all issues shiny and new, we will’t go previous Australian Vogue Week’s Subsequent Gen Designer Showcase. This runway will current the four young brands which can be starting to scale into critical companies, which have been hand-picked because the brightest and most up-and-coming style manufacturers on the close to horizon. Get enthusiastic about Amy Lawrance, Emily Watson, House of Campbell and Potirakis and in the event you’re not capable of attend in Sydney, or haven’t acquired an invite, look out for #NextGen to begin trending on Instagram round 11am AEST on Monday, Could 13.
Tuesday’s schedule sees two thrilling designers whose designs we cant see sufficient of! Liandra Gaykamangu’s swimwear label hits the invitation-only runway at 11am. Since we first found her, not lengthy after she launched her label, we’ve been bought! Impressed by the range of nation and her wealthy tradition, her reversible swimsuits and resort collections have additionally been shortly taken up by the general public. Little question her use of recycled plastics and elastene in her items have helped entrench her recognition. Get to know extra about Liandra herself when she additionally options a couple of days in a while Friday 17 Could at 12pm for the Lady With Drive seminar.
Slightly in a while Tuesday, ready-to-wear and sustainable couture label Mastani hits the runway. Mastani items are created utilizing handmade strategies handed down over a few years from designer Kudrat Makkar’s Indian heritage – all of the whereas recycling and repurposing all cutoffs and scraps from the manufacturing course of. Watch how repurposing mixes with high-end femininity! Begin scrolling Instagram round 2pm AEST.
There’s yet another showcase we will’t go previous on Tuesday. Considered one of South Australia’s largest manufacturers, ACLER hits the runway at prime-time in Sydney, 8.30pm. Having solely been round for 10 years, ACLER goes from energy to energy. Having already moved into the bridal house, together with their new resort put on assortment, they’ll even be presenting their new footwear and expanded equipment vary.
Romance Was Born lovers can get enthusiastic about Wednesday’s AFW providing. They’ll be having two exhibits, one for trade and one for the general public. We bear in mind seeing their first runway and being taken by their extremely distinctive, vibrant chaos of color at a time when the dominant style pattern was a really fundamental monotone. Sit up for see their newest bold-but-sustainable choices of appliqué, beading and sequins.
Passionate sluggish style lovers must wait till Friday 17 Could to see males’s, ladies’s and non-binary soft-tailored items by madre natura. A model that lives by it’s pillars of sustainable, moral, round and sluggish style, it’s the one runway that displays true circularity. It provides free mending for the lifetime of their clothes and a direct path to the Australian Recycling Manufacturing facility after that.
The closing evening spectacle we will’t go previous is the Indigenous Vogue Initiatives runway. David Jones has come to the occasion as soon as once more, by sponsoring, merchandising and showcasing its Indigenous Designer Collections. This 12 months’s distinctive choices for what’s at all times an thrilling runway will function males’s swimwear by GALI, Lazy Lady Lingerie, ready-to-wear males’s style by JOSEPH & JAMES and day put on by Miimi & Jiinda.
After all, there’s a lot extra taking place within the weeklong program, together with a symposium on sustainability. That’s taking place on Tuesday, Could 14 at 5pm. Anticipate to see your Instagram feed flooded with photographs of the panel. Sustainability warrior and style journalist Clare Press will function right here, together with the worldwide heads of a few of style’s largest manufacturers.
See you there fashionistas!
See the total program of Australian Fashion Week.
Featured Picture: by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Photos of Nat Buchanan wearing ACLER at Australian Vogue Week 2023.
Particular word: We want to thank every model to be used of photographs from their respective instagram accounts. Please bear in mind that these photographs are for illustration functions solely. In no method do they reveal what can be seen on the runway at Australian Vogue Week 2024.