Although Australia is at the end of the world, the taste of local designers is far from provincial. Moreover, in matters of fashion, Australians have always been serious. Today, Australian designers are in no way inferior to their counterparts from Europe and America. Their things are an original look at the cut and color, non-trivial ideas, high-quality performance, and a pinch in a good way of a strange Australian character. In this article, we will talk about one of the most extraordinary brands that make up the local Australian fashion industry.
Collette Dinnigan
Collette Dinnigan can be called the mistress of the southern hemisphere: she was born in South Africa, grew up in New Zealand, then moved to Australia, where she opened her first boutique in 1992. She is also the first Australian designer to be invited to the Paris Fashion Week and awarded the Louis Vuitton Business Award.
Collette began her career as a lingerie designer, and today she creates fabulous and feminine dresses from lace, tulle, and chiffon. Her collections are always obtained airy, fluffy, and theatrical. Besides, Collette Dinnigan has a wedding line worthy of competing with Vera Wang.
As the popularity of a designer increases the number of people interested in his or her product rises alongside it as well. Famous designers have a lot of customers from sports, cinema industry, business, even famous casinos. In the case of Collette Dinnigan, she was supposedly offered by a famous Spinia casino to create relevant clothes for employees such as dealers and croupiers. You know it is very important to have a specific dress code when it comes to dealers, and thus they decided it was better to consult someone with experience. However, Dinnigan rejected the offer.
Michael Lo Sordo
Romantic minimalism is the most suitable characteristic of a brand. Michael Lo Sordo loves asymmetry, vivid colors and quality fabrics in large quantities. He does not depart one iota from the principles of modern design, but he respects the classics enough not to be distracted from the main thing – the creation of clothes that can be worn. The silhouettes of Lo Sordo are angular, and the fabric envelops the body in several layers, but the dress remains a dress and does not turn into a museum exhibit. This is called finding a balance.
Zimmermann
The Zimmermann sisters from Sydney have found a way to take as a basis the old, as a world, idea – romantic femininity – and develop it interestingly. The main components of their collections are weightless, translucent fabrics, original prints that no one else can see, and frills in moderation. And there is enough native Australia for designers here: girls carefully use interesting tropical patterns, ornaments in the style of traditional Australian painting and catchy ornaments in their collections.
By the way, you can get acquainted with the Zimmermann collections, for example, from the Beyoncé clips.
Romance Was Born
When it comes to style, designers Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales are focused on the work of artists and fashion designers Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson from the iconic 70th Sydney boutique Flamingo Park. Although they don’t often turn to Australian Aboriginal culture for inspiration, as Kee and Jackson did, the heat, flashy colors and healthy kitsch in the Romance Was Born collections are also enough. Here – voluminous jackets with fantastic embroideries, and pink mules worthy of Marie Antoinette, and a phantasmagoric shirt dress that defies description. Suppose that without looking back at Iris Apfel it could not have done.
Tome
Although the brand is now based in New York, its creators Ryan Lobo and Ramon Martin are Australians. Lobo, by the way, is brilliantly savvy: before creating his brand, he worked in such fashion houses as Alberta Ferretti and Jean Paul Gaultier. In 2011, university friends Lobo and Martin launch Tome. Success was not long in coming, and this is not surprising. Tome relies on functionality, unpredictability, and chic. Things may seem simple at first glance, but then expressive cut, pure colors and beautiful fabrics are revealed in them.
Ellery
A girl from the city of Perth, Kim Ellery, was not without reason called the authoritative publication of Business of Fashion, the most stunning Australian designer who has entered the fashion scene over the years. Ellery is an innovative, minimalistic, and vibrant design. The clothes Kim makes are filled with femininity and artistry, which never argue with each other. Tops and dresses made of dense fabrics are folded into heavy ruffles, the coat takes the form of a motionless giant cocoon, and instead of boots, bags with flounces are put on legs.
Dion lee
The main constructivist of Australian fashion, Dion Lee, although sculpting eloquent sculptures from fabric, does not forget that there is a female body under any dress. And judging by how the final result of his work is obtained, this is a female body from another galaxy. With futuristic dresses made of mesh designs, glossy fringe and other extravagant details, the designer paved her way into big fashion: expressive things from Dion Lee are already familiar to regulars of fashion weeks in London and New York.
