31. MBFWA SS2012: Ginger and Smart

Is it a young Samantha Jones were seeing here? The unabashedly confident character on Sex in the City would be right at hoe in these pink slimline jackets and smokin hot cigarette jeans fitting only to a body of sin. Indeed, if neon pop and over the top are your fashion equvalent of fun, Ginger and Smart delivered yesterday with a celebratory show to mark 10 years of being in the Australian Fashion Industry which was staged at On Seven in David Jones.

It's a bold move by designer duo Alexander and Genevieve Smart to use neon which to date has only been used sparingly and spread it across an entire range. Does it work? Or more importantly does it matter? Whilst neon green brocade may be for the daring Samantha Jones' of the world only, the usual flamboyancy of Ginger and Smart extends to more sellable digital print shirts and skirts, anchored by some pretty hues of champagne silk.

Showing no sign of slowing down Ginger and Smart are even releasing a pod-cast each month, hitting up their favourite tunes which if you'll listen to, is as anomalous as the collection and who could expect anything less? In a competitive market one pulls out all the stops however it's refreshing to see Ginger and Smart continue with an aesthetic that bought them 10 years in the first place, with a calorific, mahicked up and crazy print or two.

Written by A L F I E A N D E L L E for Daily Gloss

http://gingerandsmart.com/

30. MBFWA SS2012: Ksubi

The trucker style hats are back as the boys from Bondi bring with them quadruple amounts of double denim. From the shoes to the neckerchiefs which in some ways might be fitting of a painter, it's the small things that provide a point of difference from the layered denim bomber to the colour of each concoction which are all the same blue.

Hawaiian print on print usually fitting of retirees wearing Panama hats are in any case now becoming. Paired with cool kicks and modelled by the likes of Jerome Alarie and Rachel Rutt this is Bondi Beach wear fitting of designers George Garrow and Dan Single's band of friends from the stylish Christine Centenera to the motley skater crew.

With fashion so futile it can't be easy keeping up with cool, but Ksubi do it effortlessly and consistently, bucking trends and carving out new ones. Were not talking about a revolution here. Ksubi's collection get's no more detailed, intricate or complex in it's storytelling. It's just easy clothing with that little bit of Bondi edge.

Written by A L F I E A N D E L L E for Daily Gloss

http://www.ksubi.com/


  
  
  
  
  

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29. MBFWA SS 2012: Miss Unkon

Miss Unkon is making wishes today. Onwards and upwards with her eye on the sky. You wouldn't know it by watching the show, unless of course you were able to look very very closely but behind each pretty filly's ear a small dandelion is painted and as anyone who's ever been seven can remember these are flowers of the wishing kind.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams said David Henry Thoreau. Life the life you've imagined. Certainly the designer Courtney Meyer is emblematic of that. The designer who's graciously playing host to journalists prior to her show is as much a dreamer as she is a doer but the jeunne fille of yesteryear has now grown up

Those musty dusty tones are all but done. The Navajo girl is still there, seen in delicate embroidery over frothy tulle skirting. In candy cane colours of peach, pink and blue there's an element of sex, it's only subtle. But as dresses give way to unabashedly short sheer shorties it would seem Miss Unkon is no longer frolicking in the fields

Written by A L F I E A N D E L L E for Daily Gloss

http://www.missunkon.com/

  

  

  

  

  

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