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March 01, 2006
Black is the new black
As antipodean fashionistas flock to the 2006 L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival I confess an underwhelmed-at-a-distance* feeling; it seems a bit frump to the fab of London Fashion Week. A good bonfire is not to be dismissed but surely someone could have spared a moment to let this poor soul know her raincoat was undone before she paraded down the catwalk in the almost altogether. One high-note: black is back, apparently.
"We're an intellectual lot down here," said Melbourne Fashion Festival director Karen Webster about our tendency to wear black. She got a few laughs at the festival's first-day lunch yesterday, but more nods of agreement. Apparently we do fancy ourselves a cut above those northern cities far more fond of colour. Now that black is back, she observed: "For a lot of us, it never went out."
Testify!
*Surely there is a German term for this feeling.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at March 1, 2006 08:41 AM
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