DAVID JONES denim campaign - 'Denim Seeks Soul Mate'

Loving David Jones' recent campaign for denim featuring two of my favourite Aussie models/ David Jones ambassador's Montana Cox and Jessica Gomes. Loved the styling of the pieces, very feminine but edgy. Ive been looking for new denim for my wardrobe and after this campaign I have my eye on a few pieces in David Jones.
SHOP DENIM 

Lee printed jeans

Source: David Jones

TREND: WHITE ONE WHITE

It's a trend seen on celebrities and runways, wearing white on white is a major trend.

L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival: Part Two

This is the part two of my LMFF volunteer experience.
So I was lucky enough a be given a last minute shift for the final night of LMFF, which I was given while working on Saturday night but didn't receive the text till the end of the night. I really wanted to either volunteer on Sunday or attend the shows as my some of my favourite designers were in the two shows of the final night. It was tiring doing to volunteer days in a row as you dont get home till about 12 and have to wake up bring and early to go back to Docklands (I dont know how staff and models did it).
The first show for the night which started at 7:00 was the L'Oreal Paris Runway 7 presented by Frankie Magazine, designers were: Gorman, Jolet, Karen Walker, Kuwaii, Leonard St, Limedrop, Secret South. AND THE MODEL THAT I DRESSED FOR THIS SHOW WAS RACHEL RUTT (I did have a fangirl moment, kept it inside of me of course). 
Here are some backstage photos:

the popular Witu backpack styled with Leonard St

We also got to go front of house because we helped clean up the hay (which was part of the runway this year, last year I attended the Frankie show and had similar decoration on the runway except it wasn't hay last time) but had to take some pictures as it was amazingly set up.

Everything in the Frankie Show was perfect (mainly because of the amazing designers) so it is so hard just to pick my favourites, see all the looks at http://www.lucasdawson.com.au/

The second show was the Independent Runway featuring:
INDEPENDENT MAN

• From Britten
• Ksubi
• Pageant
• STRATEAS.CARLUCCI

INDEPENDENT WOMAN

• Garth Cook
• Livia Arena
• One Fell Swoop
• Tettmann.Doust
• Trois
• Zhivago

For the second show I dressed a male model but the designers for the male clothing was amazing with great detailing. The music was very suitable featuring the song Clique which was perfect for Ksubi in my opinion. Was such a great show overall!
Here are some photos from backstage that I took:

L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival

This year I was lucky enough to be chosen to be a volunteer at LMFF. This year around 900 applicants applied and only 400 were selected. This year LMFF was during the 18-24th of March. We were given  a volunteer briefing and then given shifts for fittings, collections, front of house or back of house. I was given four shifts at back of house however uni interfered with two of the shifts so unfortunately I could only do two days. But having said that I learnt so much in two days, I worked Saturday and Sunday back of house which was 10AM to 11PM.
We first rehearse for the second show and then the first show because then we don't have to move racks around too much and makes it much more efficient. Rehearsal consisted of doing a run run through of the show and dressing all models in looks. Before and after rehearsals we got to be consulted one-on-one with the head dresser if we had any queries or problems with the looks. We got at least three breaks   which were more than 30 minute breaks, this allowed us to get to know other volunteers and make new friends.

On Saturday I dressed for the Sportsgirl National Graduate Showcase which presents 12 fashion graduates in celebration of emerging Australian design talent. It was amazing to see how talented these graduates are, my favourite was Natasha Fagg and Kathleen Cho. Many of the outfits were very complicated and sophisticated but once on it was amazing. I was lucky enough to dress Gabby who is the face of LMFF, who is a rising model with new campaigns for Zimmerman and has been featured in Harper's Bazaar magazine.

Here are some pictures that I took backstage:

Here are some of my favourite pieces from the show by Natasha Fagg:

The second show was the Red Carpet Runway presented by Harper's Bazaar Brides. Featured designers were Amira Isogwa, Aurelio Costarellq, Collette Dinnigan, Gwendolynne, Rachel Gilbert and Toni Maticevski. All the bridal gowns were very elegant and unique. I dressed a beautiful model called Alice who was super nice! Unfortunately we weren't allowed to take phones out or pictures for the bridal show, so I don't have personal pictures.
I will post Sunday's shows on a separate post as it will be too long if i were to include it with this post.
This was Alice's looks (the model I dressed):

Rachel Gilbert 

Collette Dinnigan

My favourite gowns:

Rachel Gilbert

Collette Dinnigan

Collette Dinnigan

Maticevski

Maticevski

Rachel Gilbert

Rachel Gilbert

Rachel Gilbert

Finally, the highlight of the show was the final gown by Maticevski which apparently has the longest train in the world. During rehearsals all volunteers had to help roll the train up because it was so long, during the finale the male models carried it out. The finale was perfect I loved the music, set up and of course the gown teamed with very expensive jewellery.

STAY TUNED FOR POST ABOUT SUNDAY'S SHOWS
xx Connie

Jelly bean sandals

So I decided to follow the trend of the Jelly bean sandal trend. I previously posted on here my uncertainty of them and wasn't sure if I could pull them off but after seeing people wearing then in person and not in pictures I decided to get myself a pair. I brought them from www.jbeans.com.au which sells adult and kids sizes with many different colours from neon to plain ones. I decided to go for plain black as I think it looks better and can be easily styled. They are quite comfy and now in obsessed with them. If your unsure some stores may stock them for example Princess Polly stores stock them and stores at Chapel Street, Melbourne stock them so you can try them on instead of ordering online. Jbeans has free shipping in Australia but they also give you a free packet of jellybeans!

New goodies for uni!

With uni starting I decided to pick up last minute must haves. I don't like the diary's that my uni gives out so I went out to buy a nice one, unfortunately many stores have sold out on diaries or they have sold out on all the nice looking diaries. Luckily Kikki K still had a few left in-store not only that but they has 20% off on them! There weren't many left as you would imagine but the colours were limited and so were the sizes.