Melbourne fashion festival kicks off
- Filed under: Alternative Lifestyle, Fashion, Fashion Week, Fendi, Kiss Bloggs, kissfendi
- Date: Mar 3,2008
It has been billed as the “people’s festival” but only a chosen few were offered an invite to the glamorous opening party of the L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival yesterday.
Australian-born Hollywood actress Miranda Otto turned heads in a stunning pillar-box red Nicola Finetti dress, while socialites and fashionistas sipped champagne in the sun on the lawn of Government House.
The opulent surrounds provided a fitting backdrop for the 400 guests, including top Australian models Megan Gale and Kirsty Hinze, to chat about the autumn-winter season’s must-have pieces.
Launching the event’s 11th year, festival director Karen Webster said it was unique in the fashion calendar because, the “public are the A-list”.
But a quick glance at the benches lining the catwalk revealed it was politicians, not Joe Public, who had front-row seats.
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