How did you get into modelling?
I went to Catwalk Studios’ workshop when I was 13 [Editor's Note: Catwalk Studios modelling workshops are run by Monarch model agency owner, Amanda Bransgrove]- I was forced to go by my mother. Amanda said as soon as she saw me coming down the road she loved me!
How did you get into modelling and how long have you been doing it for?
I started when I was 15, so five years I’ve been doing this. I intially entered a competition in St Lukes Mall with a friend. The woman who ran it suggested I send some photos to Amanda at Red 11 – it snowballed from there.
Three words: Ladies In Lycra.
Swimwear maestros We Are Handsome, presented their collection on Thursday afternoon. They went animalistic with their prints – a zebra lined catwalk matched a zebra-print one piece, and lion and tiger faces adorned the torsos of the girls.
With a banging soundtrack and a pretty vocal audience (the place was packed), you could see they were a bit of a crowd favourite. A fun show to end my week on.
Continue reading ‘MBFWA: Things I’ve seen: at We Are Handsome.’
Who: Katrina Hoernig
Agency: Viviens
Pick two – Good looking, emotionally stable, intelligent: Good looking and intelligent because I’m not emotionally stable, ever.
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given? Live your life!
What’s a trend you hate? Harem pants. They’re not attractive.
Tall or Short? Tall
Blonde or Brunette? Brunette
Chucks or Vans? Chucks
Gold or Silver? Gold
Tumblr or Pinterest? Tumblr. I hate Pinterest. I love Tumblr!
What’s the last thing you bought? Coffee.
What’s something someone can do to impress you? Treat me like a regular person, not like a model. Don’t ask me about modelling, ask me about me!
Who: Amanda Ware
Agency: Priscillas
Pick two – Attractive, emotionally stable, intelligent: Attractive and intelligent. I can handle emotion!
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given? Don’t sweat the small stuff.
What’s a trend you hate? Harem pants.
What’s life like after Top Model? [Editor's Note: Amanda was the winner of Australia's Next Top Model Cycle 6] Exciting and adventurous. For some girls, being associated with the show hasn’t helped their career’s, but for me it definitely has.
Tall or Short? Tall
Blonde or Brunette? Brunette
Chucks or Vans? Chucks
Gold or Silver? Silver
Tumblr or Pinterest? Tumblr
What’s the last thing you bought? This bag (see below).
What’s something someone can do to impress you? Someone wants to achieve a dream, someone with ambition. That impresses me.
Here’s the thing. Yesterday at Bec & Bridge I opted to forgo my seat and stand. I sometimes do this in order to get a better photo. Anyway, there I was, standing next to another photographer (whose name alludes me right now) – not in anyone’s way, in front of a giant square iron pillar. Minutes before the show started, a woman approached me. First, she told the guy next to me he wasn’t allowed to take photos from where we were standing, unless he was the house photographer. Secondly, she asked me for my photographer’s accreditation. I told her I had none, which is true – I have a media accreditation which is different. (The photographer’s accreditation lets you into the media pit at the end of the runway, the media accreditation lets you everywhere else – including into your seat if you have one.)
She told me I wasn’t allowed to take photos during the show if I didn’t have a photographer’s accreditation. I replied, ‘even just for my blog?’ She looked at me and shook her head. I asked her how I could get a photographer’s accreditation attached to my media one. She said it wasn’t possible – you weren’t allowed both. You either have your seat, or you have your photos, “you choose”. Then she told me to take my seat as the show was about to start. I then had to clarify again, because it seemed ridiculous: “So, I’m not allowed to take photos from my seat, even?!” She responded in the negative and asked me to move again. I moved.
Because my seat had already been filled by someone else, I ended up standing in a separate G.A. section behind about 5 people. I was screwed. I couldn’t shoot a thing and I was irked. I could see glimpses of wet look hair, and wet look skin, a model I’ve been hunting down all week to no avail (Melissa Johannsen) and a beautiful white panelled dress. It wasn’t until a guy shifted his legs that I found my opportunity. I sat down on the ground and shot what I could see from between his legs. I took what I could and ran with it. These are the results – it made for some pretty dramatic looking shots if you ask me:
Continue reading ‘MBFWA: Things I’ve seen: at Bec & Bridge.’
Rose Smith.
The first thing I noticed upon walking into the tent for Alice McCall’s show, were the rows of large pastel laptop case ‘goodie bags’ lining the front two rows. Being in Row C, I have to say I was a little disappointed that one of those babies wasn’t going to be mine, but not as disappointed as some around me. As the lights went down and they called the audience to ‘move forward and fill any available seats except for the front row’ people literally scrambled to take those Row B seats. I haven’t seen girls in full head-t0-toe ‘fashion week’ outfits (read: high heels, accessories, the works) move so fast.
For all of us who didn’t bother moving forward or for those who got beaten to the punch – it was okay, we weren’t leaving empty handed. The Alice McCall collection was sweet and lovely and above all: incredibly wearable. My favourite things? The baby blue pieces, a white sheer dress with full skirt and floral print on the front – anything sheer and white, actually.
Check it out for yourself, below:
Continue reading ‘MBFWA: Things I’ve seen: at Alice McCall.’
Who: Rachel Rutt
Agency: Chic
Pick two – Attractive, emotionally stable, intelligent: Intelligent and attractive.
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given? I’m going to India soon and a friend recently said to me, “Always wash your hands before you eat” which I think is pretty good advice.
Do you have a party trick? I can back roll a cigarette.
Tall or Short? Tall
Blonde or Brunette? Blonde
Chucks or Vans? Chucks
Gold or Silver? Gold
What’s your favourite food? Thai.
What’s the best thing about New Zealanders? Your accents!
Who: Emily Jean Bester
Agency: Chic
Where are you from? Northern beaches.
What did you have for breakfast this morning? A cream cheese bagel.
What’s the last thing you bought? A new bag.
Where were you at 9:15pm last night? Having dinner at Chinese restaurant, actually.
Tall or Short? Tall.
Blonde or Brunette? Brunette.
Gold or Silver? Silver.
Vans or Chucks? Vans.
Pick two – Attractive, emotionally stable, intelligent: Attractive and intelligent. I can have some fruit loop – I don’t really mind [laughs]!
What’s the best thing about being an Australian? I can travel easily.
Best advice you’ve ever been given? I have no idea! I don’t remember these things!
Continue reading ‘MBFWA: Models Off-Duty: Emily Jean Bester.’
If I had to describe the Magdalena Velevska collection I saw tonight in three words, they would be these:
Clean, beautiful and expensive.
Lucky I got three words out because three is just about as much as I can do in this state tonight. The venue was quite lovely – outdoors at the National Maritime Museum, with a view of the boats in the harbour. I know it was part of my three words but the clothes were incredibly beautiful and so expensive and luxurious looking. Check out some of the details in the photos below:
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Ella Drake.
This afternoon I rocked up to my second row seat at Toi et Moi. The show was completely cast from girls from Chic models – including our two kiwis, Ella Drake and Olivia Lefebre. Sitting in the second row can be tricky if you like to take a photo. Obviously, it’s much easier from the front row because nothing’s going to get in your way – even a standing G.A. ticket can afford you a better place to shoot from. I often am known to give up my seat to go stand in a better position, but today, as soon as I plonked my backside on that cushioned bench, I knew I was there to stay.
Hence the profile top half shots of the girls:
Continue reading ‘MBFWA: Things I’ve seen: girls in profile at Toi et Moi.’
Nicole Warne (of Gary Pepper Vintage fame) leads the finale at Talulah.
Disclaimer: I crashed and burned this evening. Fell asleep with laptop open, images open in Photoshop. Woke up about 40 minutes ago with all the lights on and no work done. Not good. That should explain the irregularity of tonight’s posts.
Because I’ve obviously run out of energy, I can’t even describe what I saw today in coherent sentences. Things to note from the Talulah show, though? A few:
Who: Ella Drake
Agency: Chic
What did you have for breakfast this morning? Actually, a beetroot, ricotta caramelised pecan salad.
What’s the last thing you bought? I treated myself to boots on Sunday.
What starsign are you? Aquarius
Pick two – Attractive, emotionally stable, intelligent: Intelligent and attractive – but intelligent comes first. Who wants to be emotionally stable?!
Best advice you’ve ever been given? Don’t stress the small stuff – don’t worry about the insignificant details. Also that people’s unhappiness lies within themselves.
What were you doing at 9:15pm last night? I was in hair and makeup from my last show.
How many shows are you doing this week? About 20.
Australian born, New Zealand claimed, Caitlin Lomax.
After 3.5 hours sleep, a missed meeting, a second missed meeting and a $30 taxi ride, you can imagine how I was feeling when I got to the off-site Zimmermann show this morning. (Hint: it starts with ‘s’ and rhymes with ‘hit’.)
Held in Rosebury (which, for those of you who don’t know, is a good 15 minute drive out of the CBD) in a café/furniture store, my mood was visibly lightened upon seeing what they had in store for us: breakfast. Glass bottles of fresh orange juice, crunchy hot ciabatta rolls with bacon and an assortment of pastries – now that’s what I call catering.
Full and happy, we sat in the light and spacious space and waited for the show to start.
I’m not even going to attempt to write about the collection based on my lack of sleep and the fact I have to be at another show in 15 minutes, but this is what I saw:
Continue reading ‘MBFWA: Things I’ve seen: details at Zimmermann.’
Justin Wu and Susie Bubble, outside the Ksubi show last night.
A combination of the fact that it’s 1:52am Sydney time and 3:52am New Zealand time, that I have been blogging for hours now and getting a bit delusional and just because everyone likes a good LOL, above is what I saw at Ksubi tonight – ie. nothing.
After rushing downstairs from the Whitney Eve show because we’d heard Ksubi was starting, a couple of us found ourselves in the General Admission (re: fashion plebs) line for Ksubi. Being pretty close to the front – a good 20 people in, in a line of about 100 – we weren’t too fussed about the wait. But then the wait was long. Really long. And the line wasn’t moving. People with seats were entering, the special delegates (Bryan Boy, Susie Bubble et al.) were entering, the music inside was playing, but the line wasn’t moving. After at least an hour of waiting the threatening security guard made an announcement to the front of the queue: “We are at capacity. Sorry folks, no one’s going in.”
And that was that. We picked up our sorry asses and went to our respective hotels.
So, if you want to see some Ksubi coverage, I suggest you check Oyster – their review is already up and their backstage images are ‘coming shortly’. Until then, here’s a random assortment of photos from Day 1:
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