SHE was the darling of Australian Fashion Week in 2000 and 2001. Now, after a seven-year hiatus, Michelle Jank is back to present her spring/summer collection, Suspending Disbelief, at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week.
Jank, 31, lives in Paris these days. She will send 20 "looks" plus pieces of her bespoke jewellery down the runway today in what promises to be more that just a frock show.
"All I will say is that it will be a mishmash of very interesting things … it's a reflection of what I love in life."
Since her last off-schedule show in Sydney in 2003, the Perth native has been travelling the globe.
Last year she worked with fashion designers in India, and the draping technique used in creating her garments reflects saris, she said.
"Indian women are so beautiful and they really embrace their femininity in the way they dress. At times it was like watching all of these colourful ghosts float by in their fluorescent saris. The collection is very different from my first - but that is normal as a creative person to move in a different direction."
Jank says the timing of her catwalk comeback is connected with the European success of her jewellery designs, which are available at Colette in Paris and Harrods, Liberty, Browns and Dover Street Market in London.
She has been commissioned to make pieces for a luxury fragrance advertising campaign but won't say more because of confidentiality agreements. But she's happy to reveal that interest in Australian fashion is growing with the success of our models overseas. One of them, Chic Management's Stephanie Carta, 23, will be on the catwalk for Jank next week.
Source: brisbanetimes.com.au
Jank, 31, lives in Paris these days. She will send 20 "looks" plus pieces of her bespoke jewellery down the runway today in what promises to be more that just a frock show.
"All I will say is that it will be a mishmash of very interesting things … it's a reflection of what I love in life."
Since her last off-schedule show in Sydney in 2003, the Perth native has been travelling the globe.
Last year she worked with fashion designers in India, and the draping technique used in creating her garments reflects saris, she said.
"Indian women are so beautiful and they really embrace their femininity in the way they dress. At times it was like watching all of these colourful ghosts float by in their fluorescent saris. The collection is very different from my first - but that is normal as a creative person to move in a different direction."
Jank says the timing of her catwalk comeback is connected with the European success of her jewellery designs, which are available at Colette in Paris and Harrods, Liberty, Browns and Dover Street Market in London.
She has been commissioned to make pieces for a luxury fragrance advertising campaign but won't say more because of confidentiality agreements. But she's happy to reveal that interest in Australian fashion is growing with the success of our models overseas. One of them, Chic Management's Stephanie Carta, 23, will be on the catwalk for Jank next week.
Source: brisbanetimes.com.au
3 comments:
That makes sense! Keep creative juices coming in!
Pretty faces are there, perfect mixture of brain and fashion.
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