A model on the catwalk for Alice McCall at Australian Fashion Week. Photo / Getty Images
A model on the catwalk for Alice McCall at Australian Fashion Week. Photo / Getty Images
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SYDNEY - Australian Fashion Week maintained its buzz into the penultimate day, with stylist-turned-designer Alice McCall showing her latest offerings to a packed house.
There was a strong sci-fi element -- and Japanese and Roman influences -- in McCall's collection, which was shown today at Sydney's Overseas PassengerTerminal at West Circular Quay.
Models wore reflective yellow cuffs on their wrists and black and white sunglasses were a stylish version of the more common lab goggle.
Fluorescent yellow, metallic silver, bright blue and neutrals like black, white and grey made up McCall's colour palette.
The show-stopping frock was a classy three-quarter sleeved short black kimono with a v-neckline sliced to the sternum and exquisite white stitching detail -- a look seen in past McCall collections.
"I was thinking about what Alice McCall is, with a signature look but bringing into it something very modern and fresh," the designer said after the show.
"I think it was the palette that did that. A lot of those neons, the citrus and the fluorescent colours and the glomesh and the silvers and also the hair and makeup."
Earlier in the day, Australian fashion stalwart Matthew Eager celebrated his birthday with a parade of his latest spring/summer collection, also at the Overseas Passenger Terminal.
For something a little different, the show came with a program cataloguing the featured looks and a little vignette alluding to the collection's concept spoilt rich girl.
High-waisted trousers teamed with a white cotton jersey tank and silver bolero was a chic look for daytime, while playsuits in silver brocade were a sophisticated take on a look made popular by 70s icons Charlie's Angels.
Grecian-inspired cocktail gowns in burnt orange, citron and sapphire took a girl from country club to Cotillion.
"It's about a little wasp princess," said designer Matthew Eager after the show.
"(She) loves a good time, has a trust fund, loves to party, going through the motions of having a career and a life but really she's just waiting for a gorgeous parentally-approved husband to come along," he said.
