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Sydney fashion label Romance Was Born will proffer the proverbial red apple when it launches Garden of Eden at the National Design Centre next month.
Presented by Romance Was Born in collaboration with contemporary Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton, Garden of Eden opens in the ShowBox Gallery on Monday 3 March, 2008.
As an official event of the 2008 L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival (LMFF) cultural program, Garden of Eden showcases new one-off designs from Romance Was Born's Autumn Winter collection.
The new collection has been created alongside the label's long-time collaborative partner Del Kathryn Barton and incorporates fabric designs from Barton's latest body of work.
Founded by fashion design duo Luke Sales and Anna Plunkett, Romance Was Born is a fusion of the bizarre, fanciful and truly fantastic.
Since their debut at the Melbourne Fashion Week in 2006, the pair has become renowned for their eccentricity and theatrical approach.
They invent tall tales through elaborately-designed garments while spinning adventurous ranges and seasonal collections from a web of whimsical yarns.
Filling the ShowBox with giant Garden of Eden-inspired objects, Romance Was Born will transform the gallery into a quirky and modern interpretation of the biblical paradise; a place where art inspires fashion.
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This book builds on the first edition's theme of technologically- innovative textiles, with a focus on explaining the textiles and showing their applications in architecture, design, fashion and art.
Many of the materials covered have origins in military, space or heavy industry (a shirt, for instance, made partially with metal alloys that "remember" their original shape has roots in the European space program), but have been transformed by engineers, designers, architects and artists into improved (or just different) versions of objects traditionally made with plastic or natural fabric, i.e. three-dimensional embroidery, used for a vascular prosthesis; ceramic-based fabrics that conduct very little heat and make ideal fuel filters and swimwear; and woven polypropylene, as used in architectural applications.
Examples are presented in a thoughtful layout that includes hundreds of bright photographs.
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Ever since our middle-school science teacher wore Birkenstocks with sport socks, we've considered the sandals-and-socks combination to be one of fashion's biggest sins.
But after watching Anna Sui, John Galliano and Rei Kawakubo send models down their catwalks wearing anklets with open heels, our position began to wobble.
Then Hermès and Givenchy picked up on Balenciaga's fall tights-and-sandals concept.
And a bevy of stylish celebrities -- including Julianne Moore and Jessica Alba -- started turning up on red carpets in open heels with opaque tights ...
and, then, well, we had to admit: It looked pretty good.
And that's where things got sticky.
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The Paris prêt-à-porter week that ended yesterday was the season of the shape-shifters and the scissor wizards; designers such as Stefano Pilati at Yves Saint Laurent, John Galliano, Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton and Nicolas Ghesquière at Balenciaga who cut, sliced and carved with surgical precision as they created new silhouettes for autumn/winter 2008/09.
Themes or exotic inspirations were incidental and, if mentioned at all, were certainly secondary to evolving the shape of things to come.
The secret lay in the ability to start from scratch and conceive the pattern that would be the template for the new silhouette.
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After the relatively sedate shows and commercial clothes that came down the runways during the fall 2008 collections here, it was left up to a couple of Brits to put the fantasy back into Paris fashion week.
Designers Alexander McQueen and John Galliano each presented over-the-top shows that were not only spectacular theatre but starred some extraordinarily beautiful clothes that provided a jolt the jaded fashion crowd needed from the lull of the week's lack of runway theatrics.
On Friday night, Alexander McQueen presented a fantastical collection based on a fairy tale - The Girl Who Lived In The Tree.
If that tale doesn't seem familiar from your Mother Goose days, never mind, it seems to be a concoction of this genius designer.
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