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Rock and roll comes to fashion week

BETTINA Liano has bucked the trend by launching her new edgy season on film, rather than the catwalk, at Australian Fashion Week.

Liano’s rock inspired range was shown on film in front of guests at a party at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art tonight.

While the show was still part of the official fashion week, the move saw the event pushed out of the Australian Fashion Week schedule.

Silverchair’s Joannou, former INXS member Kirk Pengilly’s daughter April Rose and Australia’s Next Top Model stylist Jonathan Pease watched on, with the crowd giving Liano impressive applause.

Frilly and florally summery dresses were mixed with country and western flavour tassles.

Feathers, splashes of denim, and ankle-length boots combined with low back dresses, edgy thick belts and sterling silver accessories and footwear.

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THE RSL has called for warnings regarding the wearing of military medals, after outrage yesterday at the use of war medals during Australian Fashion Week.

Under the current Defence Act, the models in Tuesday’s show could be imprisoned for up to six months for “improper use of service decorations”, although police said they were not investigating and the RSL said prosecution was unnecessary.

Buying medals is permissible under the legislation but it is illegal to wear them and the RSL believes a warning should be issued with replica medals advising buyers not to wear them unless they or their family have earned them.

“It would be a very reasonable way to start getting some measure into the whole process,” the league’s national president, Bill Crews, said. “Wearing [the medals at Fashion Week] just debased that whole value system we have in Australia.”

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From Russia with love for Australian fashions

From the land of vodka and caviar, a supermodel, a glamorous magazine editor and an influential retailer are among an army of more than 450 models, international media and buyers who will descend on Australian Fashion Week in Sydney today.

The seemingly insatiable Russian appetite for designer brands and luxury goods makes the arrival of the country’s top model Alana, Moscow boutique owner Rosa Kamenev, and Evelina Khromtchenko, editor of the Russian edition of L’Officiel, a golden opportunity for Australian fashion designers.

“Russia’s booming fashion industry is symptomatic of the country’s remarkable transformation in recent years,” said Dan Tebbutt, Austrade’s senior trade commissioner in Moscow.

With a $US1.25trillion economy, Russia has become a high priority for most major fashion houses - including Australian designers.

tags: fashions, russians, supermodel, sydney

Couture re-fashions, made in NoHo

Queen of recycled eco-couture Deborah Lindquist has a cute little boutique in North Hollywood, I found out. So a couple weeks ago I tried to drop by this stainglass-decorated, sign-less store located next to a tattoo parlor — only to find that the front door was locked, despite the fact that the store was officially open. “The owner just went out and took the key,” said the woman who let me in the back door.
One benefit to coming in the back: I got to see how Deborah Lindquist’s fashions get made! Three women were working at their sewing machines in a big cool back room. I wound around them to get into the store.

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