Month: September 2016

Fashfest – Friday Night Show Three ‘Praxis’

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  ‘Engage with and explore fashion. Explore how the fashion we wear intertwines with what we do, how it helps us take on the day. This show is for those who use fashion to reflect their life.’ – Fashfest show notes   The third show of the Fashfest season presented current collections from well known brands at the Canberra Centre. As these labels follow international and broader national trends, a lot of the same motifs shone through: floaty feminine cuts, bell sleeves, ruffles, pastel colours, bare shoulders, and flat sandals. Cue and Veronika Mane did offer a point of difference… Continue Reading →

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Fashfest – Thursday Night Outfit Post

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Getting dressed is more than just putting clothes on your back or striving to look ‘on trend’. It’s about expressing your personality and feeling great. Team Leiden likes to get dressed up and we want to tell you all about what we wore to night one of Fashfest and why. Emma Batchelor Founder and Editor of Leiden     Coat – This is a special vintage coat I bought at the Old Bus Depot markets. It’s from the 1950s. Because it is so voluminous, it’s the perfect coat for wearing over equally voluminous pieces. Plus it makes a great statement.… Continue Reading →

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Fashfest – Thursday Night Show Two ‘Furore’

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‘Test the boundaries of your taste. Admire the beauty of this dark thunderstorm. Challenge your preconceptions, explore the edge and spectacle of what fashion can be. This show is for those who love the unconventional, the unexpected.’ – Fashfest Show notes   Hardy show-goers that we are, it only took a few more M&Ms and some frenzied activity on social media before we were ready for our second show of the evening. Make sure to catch up on our coverage of show one, ‘Reverie,’ here.     Melanie Child   New Zealand designer, Melanie Child, focuses on sustainable fabric choices… Continue Reading →

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Fashfest – Thursday Night Show One ‘Reverie’

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    ‘A visual delight with images to relish. Explore fashion for its beauty, its brilliance, its sensation. This show is for those who want to get lost in a dream, a fantastic reverie.’ – Fashfest show notes   After prepping and preening and taking a good hundred snaps in front of the photo wall; after a trip backstage, and a handful of M&Ms that we smuggled in our handbag, followed by a healthy half hour delay, Fashfest 2016 was off and running. This year the festival followed a new format of six distinct shows over three days. Show one,… Continue Reading →

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Ethical and Sustainable Fashion at Fashfest Part 2

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The rise of fast fashion and increasing consumer demand for the latest trends has cemented the fashion industry as one of the world’s biggest polluters. Textile waste, toxic chemicals, and pesticides used in farming are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the impact that the clothes on our back have on the environment. An increasing number of designers and fashion labels are stepping up to make a change both in terms of cleaning up their supply chains and ensuring ethical conditions for their workers. In Part 2 of our interview series we chat with Cameron &… Continue Reading →

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Ethical and Sustainable Fashion at Fashfest Part 1

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The rise of fast fashion and increasing consumer demand for the latest trends has cemented the fashion industry as one of the world’s biggest polluters. Textile waste, toxic chemicals, and pesticides used in farming are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the impact that the clothes on our back have on the environment. An increasing number of designers and fashion labels are stepping up to make a change both in terms of cleaning up their supply chains and ensuring ethical conditions for their workers. In Part 1 of our interview series we sat down with Melbourne… Continue Reading →

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Choosing an Outfit for Fashfest

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  Planning what I am going to wear is one of my favourite parts of attending an event. It’s my favourite part of doing anything really. When I was younger I enjoyed getting ready to go out more than I ever enjoyed the actual ‘going out’ part. In my first grown-up job as manager of a theatre, I developed a particular flair for theming my outfit to whatever show happened to be on. My least favourite thing about studying immunology was wearing a lab coat all day. As you have probably gathered, I particularly enjoy being creative with how I… Continue Reading →

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An Interview with Fashion Illustrator Johanna Dziadkiewicz

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  It’s no secret that we love Melbourne based illustrator, Johanna Dziadkiewicz‘s work. We have been honoured to collaborate with her for over a year now and to celebrate this milestone we thought it was high time you found out more about her. We caught up with Johanna to chat about her artistic practice and about some of her favourite illustrations so far.   Leiden: How did you get into fashion illustration? Johanna: As a kid I spent a lot of time drawing from magazines and photos to improve my skills. I always loved drawing people, and when I finished… Continue Reading →

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