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She came, she saw, she conquered jet lag. Two weeks after unveiling her Spring/Summer 2011 collection at New York Fashion Week, Nicole Miller bundled up approximately two thirds of the range to show again at New Zealand Fashion Week, styling it back with wintery accoutrements in the form of black ponte and leather leggings and cashmere hoodies. In fact she did such a terrific job with the transeasonal touchups, the collection appeared to bear little resemblance to the range just shown in New York. But Miller also gave the New Zealand audience a world exclusive preview of ten pieces from her pre Fall 2011 collection, including a charming black wool knit poncho dress with hood and some very pretty ruched metallic taffeta cocktail dresses. The bodycon silk jersey dresses with bondage backs were killer, ditto the crystal skull-embellished T-s and skinny jeans. Bumping in and out of the venue with grace and minimum fuss, with no backstage hysterics or makeup trailer – unlike the scenario with last year’s VIP guest Pamela Anderson – it was a slick show that added some professional polish to an event that really just keeps getting better every year. Frockwriter shot backstage before and during the show. Check our Posterous for a full gallery of images of the collection (pretty much every look) and below for the finale video.
Another day, another Fashion Week. Yes, New York Fashion Week wraps today, giving the most gung-ho fashionistas/os the chance to hop the red eye to London for tomorrow’s kickoff of London Fashion Week, which runs September 17-22. Here is the British Fashion Council schedule, with some collections at Somerset House and others off-site. Here is the digital schedule of shows to be live streamed. And here is the On/Off schedule (an off-schedule event staged in Bloomsbury). Vis-à-vis Australians, jewellery designer Jordan Askill will present a film on Friday 17th at 15.00, with sass & bide showing at 17.45 that day and UK-based Richard Nicoll and Antipodium showing on Sunday 19th at 19.30 and Tuesday 21st at 09.30 respectively. While LFW is in full swing, New Zealand Fashion Week will kick off in Auckland (September 21-25). Frockwriter will be attending for the second time as the guest of the organisers. Click here for the NZFW schedule, which includes Zambesi, Nom*D, Karen Walker, Trelise Cooper and World, with New York’s Nicole Miller this year’s international ringin. What’s Miller doing downunder?
Showing 30 looks including, she promises, some new styles, as part of an Asia Pacific business reccie. Miller is apparently a mate of New York designer Richie Rich who, she says, gave rave reviews of his time in Auckland last year with Pamela Anderson. The Anderson hilarity will be a tough act to match, but we’ll keep you posted.
The event is going big on bloggers.
San Diego-based Rumi Neely will be there for the second year in a row, joined this year by London-based Spaniard Gala Gonzales and Toronto-based Kiwi expat Casie Stewart.
Bloggers are of course now very visible at international fashion shows – except for perhaps this week’s Marc Jacobs show, which sat teen blogging sensation Tavi Gevinson in the third row (with some other female bloggers, we hear, so peed off with their less-than-frow placements at other shows, they were planning to skip them).
But it’s worth remembering that New Zealand Fashion Week welcomed A Shaded View on Fashion’s Diane Pernet as early as 2005.
Kate Sylvester is not showing this year, which is a shame. But great to see World back on schedule after a year hiatus. World’s OTT shows are always a highlight of the event. This one is called Wasted Days, Wasted Nights and will take place at 16.30 on Wednesday 22nd September in the opulent Great Room of the Langham Hotel.
World gave frockwriter a sneak peek, below: a black and white leopard print jacket with voluminous fringing on the cuffs. Two other hints: '70s glamour queens Bianca Jagger and Marie Helvin.
all photos: supplied exclusively to frockwriter by world
