Aussie ‘crown’ design queen Viktoria Novak heads to New York for fashion week

VIKTORIA Novak and her signature metallic millinery and crowns are winging their way to New York as part of Fashion Week.

Cool crowns head to New York

AUSTRALIAN celebrity milliner and creator of some of the most innovative metallic ‘crowns’ is heading to New York Fashion Week next month.

Viktoria Novak will be Australia’s first couture milliner to showcase her collection, independently and on the runway of New York Fashion Week. Viktoria is working with Fashion Palette, an Australian fashion agency designed to help fashion designers expand their businesses with annual runway platforms.

The show, on September 10, aims to connect designers with industry professionals, consumers, media and buyers.

Viktoria will join 20 other Aussie fashion names including Bec & Bridge, Duskii, Emma Mulholland x Mambo and Hun & Heart who will set up at Pier 59 in Chelsea Piers on the Hudson River.

“I am so excited and honoured to be the first in Australian millinery history to show my world,” says Viktoria.

“It’s been great working with Fashion Palette and I really want to make a statement on the international runway.”

. . now THAT’s a crown ...

Think these are crowns? Pic: Wendell Teodoro.

Exclusively designed for New York, Viktoria’s ‘The Galaxy of Flora’ collection will display some of her exquisite handmade millinery pieces.

Viktoria Novak has designed for celebrity clientele like Jennifer Hawkins, Kyle Clarke, Nicole Warne, Jodi Gordon, Turia Pitt and Kate Waterhouse and fashion publications like VOGUE, Elle and Harper’s Bazaar.

A fan of Viktoria Novak: Turia Pitt's at Interplast Gatsby Gala

Alexandria-based milliner, Viktoria Novak will show as part of Fashion Palette at New York Fashion Week.

“I want to take my pieces to a worldwide event of high fashion prestige,” says Viktoria.

“I am hoping that US international buyers and the media will enter headpiece heaven.”

Follow Melissa on Twitter and Instagram @melissahoyer