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A model walks the runway at the launch of Melbourne Fashion Week on Monday.

Melbourne Fashion Week becomes unlikely battleground for lord mayoral candidates

A candidate is hatching a plan to add another top-flight fashion festival to Melbourne – by stealing it from Sydney.

  • Cara Waters

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Gwendolynne Burkin has begun using AI to find new methods of doing her very traditional craft.

Why is AI in your wardrobe? And should the fashion world be quite so worried?

Designers survey a changing landscape in the lead-up to Melbourne Fashion Week.

  • Melissa Singer
MFW press call

The fashion week changes that will make Australian history, twice

Musician G Flip will be the face of next month’s 30th Melbourne Fashion Week, whose highlights include an opening-night runway featuring First Nations designers.

  • Melissa Singer
Melbourne Fashion Festival 2024 street style.

‘It’s fashion Christmas’: The most stylish people at fashion week

Some of the best looks at Melbourne Fashion Festival can be found off the runway – just don’t expect to find too much in the way of quiet luxury.

  • Melissa Singer
Australian fashion students are a mixed back when it comes to style.

‘I inspire myself’: What do fashion students actually wear?

Are the McQueens of the future wearing T-shirts and jeans? Or is design school a living, breathing fashion parade?

  • Melissa Singer
Model Nyaluak Leth is one of a number of Australian models boycotting Melbourne Fashion Week this year.

What happens to us doesn’t happen to white models. So I’m boycotting fashion week

I modelled for an A to Z campaign for a well-known beauty brand. Despite there being 26 letters in the alphabet, I was the only black model used. And my face featured alongside the N letter.

  • Nyaluak Leth
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Local heroes: Australian-made fashion labels that deserve your money

More homegrown designers are offering affordable ways into their brands, including one that wants to be the next Jacquemus.

  • Melissa Singer
From Paris to the Paris end … designer Estelle Michaelides’ (centre, with models Jennifer Li, left, and Lochie Barnett) label, Saint Stella M, will feature at Melbourne Fashion Week, fresh from its international debut.

‘You really are invisible’: A designer spills the beans on showing in Paris

Some designers, like Zimmermann and Christopher Esber, get the French fairytale. For others, launching a label overseas is a tough slog.

  • Melissa Singer
Designer Emilie Helmstedt takes a bow at the Helmstedt show during Copenhagen Fashion Week on February 2. The event has dramatically improved its already impressive green credentials.

The hardline Danish trend changing the future of fashion

You have to look beyond the runway to see how Copenhagen Fashion Week became even cooler, with hard and fast rules designed to stop waste.

  • Damien Woolnough
A model walks the Secret Garden Runway during Melbourne Fashion Week.

All women deserve luxury, not only the slim

Look at the luxury clothing on display at Melbourne Fashion Week and you’ll discover the absence of almost anything that would fit an average size Australian woman.

  • Leina Broughton

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