Category Archives: Diary of a fashion show

Thank you to everyone who was involved with Fabrication – whether you were backstage, designed an outfit, bought a ticket or just listened to me stressing about it, you helped us raise $6000 for CANTEEN.

Cris and I were absolutely blown away by the turnout, and we couldn’t have done it without you!

Special mentions to the lovely staff behind ATTITUDE magazine (latest issue launched last week) who pretty much saved the show, the incredibly talented (and patient) Ryan Polei who did shooting for us before and during the show, plus Kasim who took away the headache that is back of house management and made sure we had a show!

There are loads of others to thank, and we’ll be getting to you individually (if we haven’t already!)

As you can tell from the lack of posts, I’ve been gradually recovering from the show (if you’re eating and sleeping properly, then you’re not running a fashion show). Here’s some long-overdue photos from the challenge – before shots by me, afters by Ryan featuring the lovely Grace and Lucy from Tania Powell.

[designs by Mistress (winner) and With Love (finalists)]

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I’ve been getting questions about the designers taking part in our fashion parade and I’ve got to say I’m pretty excited about our line-up!

For the first half, we have a great mix of boutiques and labels from hot new designers to vintage goodness – names to be released soon

The second half is of course our design challenge – and congratulations to Hayley Kate and Greta Rumsby for getting into the finals of the Emerging Designer competition at Adelaide Fashion Festival! Can’t wait to see their collections at the show (and what they come up with for ours!)

I’ve also recently gotten photos from the TAFE final year parade…

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This amazing shot is from Soraya De Vizio’s collection – love it!

She’s also going to be completing the uglee challenge and I can’t WAIT to see her outfit!

[Photography: Courtney Prettejohn

Model: Paige Mewett, Finesse

Location: Louis Bon, Magill Rd

Hair & Make Up: TAFE SA students]

We’ve been looking for inspiration for the fashion show – from art, fashion, pretty much anywhere you can think of.

It made me think of all of the shows I’ve been to in the past…

My favourite show EVER was at Singapore Fashion Festival a couple of years ago. It was actually a side event called ‘Rapunsale’ where boutiques had a massive sale the whole day in a rooftop bar (shopping + cocktails = a good idea), ending with a parade in the light box across the alley.

It must’ve been a tricky show for the models (being 20m in the air) but they brought the attitude and it was just FUN. It fit the street fashion style perfectly.

Check out the FTV vids…

The girls:

The guys:

ATTITUDE/RIP IT UP IS SPONSORING OUR SHOW!!! THIS IS THE BEST NEWS I’VE HAD IN WEEKS. More developments when Cris and I stop screaming with happiness. <3

If you were passing Hurtle Square of a Saturday afternoon and saw two girls draping the worst of 80s fashion over statues, then yes, that was caughtcouture at work!

Here’s a preview of some of the clothes that will be finding their way to designers…

We’ve just confirmed our emerging designers – there’s 13 of them in total ranging from TAFE students to better known names like Mai Loui and Penny Anne.

We thought it was fitting to use this statue as  a stage for our clothes…

I have a couple of exciting partnerships to share with you soon! In the meantime we’re very busy making sure that the goodie bags at the show will be chock-full…or should I say choc-full?