Cairns Fashion Week 2024 gallery and highlights with local designer Dijo Clothing
An emerging Far North designer already featured in Vogue has revealed plans for expansion after a successful night at Cairns Fashion Week’s runway show. See the mega gallery from the runway.
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An emerging Far North designer already featured in global fashion publication Vogue has revealed plans for expansion after a successful night at Cairns Fashion Week’s runway show.
The city’s premier fashion celebration concluded on Sunday, with the week’s flagship runway event held on Saturday at Screen Queensland’s Cairns movie studio.
Among the array of designers showing off their creations was Cairns’ Sarah Turner – founder of Dijo – who put on 14 looks with four patterns portraying her well-established mission of displaying the “bright and bold” of Cairns, the Tropics and the Great Barrier Reef.
With her designs at last year’s event helping elevate the navy veteran’s work to Vogue and London Fashion Week, Ms Turner said her next target was to grow her national and international footprint, and not by way of increasing manufacturing, rather boosting the recognition of her designs “not found anywhere else in the world”.
“I’ve been picked up by a platform called Wolf and Badger and they specialise in independent designers in slow and ethical fashion where you have to prove how and where your garments are made,” she said.
“From that I’ve sold to some interesting places around the world.”
Ms Turner, who describes her fashion as “resort wear specific to Far North Queensland”, recently expanded her Cairns retail space from Oceana Walk to Lake St and said she’d like to see more local players in the industry.
“I love events like Cairns Fashion Week because you meet lots of new designers and share your stories.”
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