Australian fashion is all dressed up ... with nowhere to go
Australian Fashion Week kick-started the careers of many local designers. Now the industry is collaborating again, writes fashion editor Lauren Sams – and for some it’s a bid for survival.
Dion Lee is dealing with a wardrobe crisis that, for a fashion designer, is akin to an existential one: will anyone need to dress up ever again?
One of Australia’s most successful designers and based in New York, Lee has been busy handling the forced closure of his stores in Australia. Holed up in his Tribeca apartment, he’s also been figuring out how to show his next collection at New York Fashion Week in September, which has ditched physical runway shows and has moved to become purely digital.
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