Earlier this week I attended the Media Launch of Melbourne Spring Fashion Week. You can read about the launch in the piece I wrote for Onya Mag, but here I thought I would highly recommend some events you might like to attend.
The evening designer parades run twice – at 6.30pm and 8.30pm – and it is essential that you attend at least one. Not one a night, although this would be quite awesome, but at least one for the week. Choose your favourite designers and get a ticket. No faves? I recommend the student showcase. Something for everyone!
The lunchtime series will be the perfect pick me up for the midday blues. Bad day at work? Head to City Square for inspiration – everything from the bedroom to the beach. Shows run at noon and 1pm so you will have no excuse not to escape the office hum drum and find a few choice pieces for your springtime wardrobe.
Feeling ambitious? Kate Vandermeer, Director of iSpyStyle, is running a Fashion Career workshop featuring an impressive line up of speakers including designer Arabella Ramsay and Stylist Romy Frydman. If you have the whole day free, attend the Fashion Career Workshop and Fashion Marketing Bootcamp.
Bootcamp will feature speakers in buyer roles and PR representatives, all on hand to answer your fashion career questions and help along the way. At $55 for the workshop, $88 for Bootcamp or $110 for both, you would have to be wearing leggings as pants to not spend the day with these fabulous people.
The MSFW business breakfast series is an educational experience, bringing together industry and consumers in a forum environment and featuring some fantastic speakers. The five ‘chapters’, covering Melbourne as a customer service city; Exposition for new retail; Caring is the latest fashion statement; Collaboration and the Unexpected, will enlighten and inspire all fashionistas and retailers.
Then of course there are all the arty events, the stand alone functions and the after parties! Pick up a copy of the MSFW guide or head to the new website. Tickets are on sale now, and will sell out quickly, so don’t hesitate. I’ll see you on the catwalk.
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