Australia home.
This year marks 25 years since the beginning of an upstart fashion week, an outpost that, for travelling buyers and editors, was held at the far-flung edge of the Earth: Australia. A lot has changed since then, not least the fact that we have been plunged into a historical global crisis. These are hard times and our designers must dig deep. Lucky, then, that they have unique reserves to draw on. There is the stand-alone pioneering spirit of our home-grown designers (including an allowance for our Kiwi friends). Some make wry observations about our way of life, others have a reverence for cultures ancient and present, and some honour their progenitors and their heritage – we are a diverse bunch. Their visual languages are different, but they are all fluent in community, curiosity and originality.
They have been captured in original 180° series, which began in the 1990s and back then spanned the globe. Among those who sat for portraits were Karl Lagerfeld, who was nearly crowded out of the photograph by his
