Melbourne Street Fashion Exhibition Opening Night

This post is going to be a Photo Explosion.


Henry spent 10 hours setting up the photos!


Jack Mac made the AMAZING sculpture for the slide show to project onto.


People loved the exhibition


John was trying to emulate the pose he had in the photo of him that was part of the show. Next to him is Estelle, a seriously amazing jewellery designer and blogger and Jessie French a photographer.


The one and only Jack Mac


My sister, Ebony, who also helped us set up the exhibition. She was a very good ladder holderer and screw twisterer.


You may recognise these peeps from the last episode of Project Runway Aus. They are my fellow Whitehouse students, Andrew, Tully and Simon. You know what sucks, I was away the day they did that episode (I was on a shoot) However it looks like that shoot is going to print so I guess that makes up for not being on TV? I've already been on TV anyways, back in 2006 I was interviewed on A Current Affair, so I've had my 15 minutes of fame.


Jesse always looks amazing!






Carlos, one of our photographers with the super sweet Petrova. She's wearing her new SS09/10 collection which you really should check out.


Who is that in the blur?


Why its Bryan Boy


And of course we had to get shots with him


Girl needs to work on her pose!
What I'm wearing (which is mentioned in the article about the opening over at Style Melbourne)
Dress: Gorman $100
Cardigan: Sportsgirl $60
Gladiator sandals: Target on sale $20
Silver Pom Pom: A birthday present from Charlotte Webb, designer of Serena Van Der Woodsen label.
Necklace: Lola & Bailey from Alegorie $55
Belt: Japan $50ish


Vlad and Greta


Bryan Boy and Jack


Maison gets an tongue lashing


Male super model Andre J, who is in the current Russh magazine in my faveourite shoot ever "Creep, Apocalyptic Androgyny" which can be seen over at Frockwriter. Andre is such a sweet heart.


Pat and a pal




Alicia from Sea of Ghosts and Candice from Super Kawaii Mama both came in chic black.


And of course we had to get a super blogger's united photo of us all dressed chicly in head to toe black!








Nathan and Clea from Limedrop came just as we ran out of booze. We had so many people come, it was amazing!


Look who it is. Anthony Capon from Project Runway Aus season 2. My faveourite to win.




Simon and Anthony struck a pose.




Olivia


Chris from Corky Saint Clair








Tony dj'd all night for us.


A job well done. This is team Melbourne Street Fashion.com. Carlos our Event Coordinator, Emilia our Editor, Alastair our founder and Me the Creative Director.



The exhibition is on at Comeback Kid until Sunday the 6th of September. You should go down and check it out.

You spin me right round baby right round

I just got reminded of this shot by Nick Knight thanks to Susie Bubbles post just now. Its something I have been meaning to post for a while. About two months ago I did a test shoot with Chris Polack, an amazing fashion photographer here in Melbourne and he sent it to me as a reference image for a shoot we were doing. The shoot was a series of "Mirage" like images, this one being the Tornado





Owl



Bat









Telegraph pole



Volcano



As I said it was a test shoot. Some things work, some things don't but that's not the point as your just testing your ideas/concepts. I love the Owl, Telegraph Pole and Volcano shots the best, what do you like?

Leggos Challenge

When Nuff Nang contacted me to see if I wanted to take part in the “Leggos Italian Beef Casserole” challenge, at first I was dubious. Mainly because I am a vegetarian, but I was assured the sauce contained no traces of meat or animal products so I agreed. When the sachets arrived I read over the ingredients just to be sure and it is all 100% vego. Phew. Anyway we decided to make vegetable, kidney bean and chic pea casserole pies. The challenge is can you make it all in under 15 minutes?





First step is to chop all the ingredients. We had mushrooms, zucchinis, onions and garlic.
Next you rinse the beans and chic peas. This all took under 3 minutes.





Using a wok we cooked all the ingredients (first the onion and garlic, then the zucchinis and mushrooms and lastly the bean mix) and added the simmer sauce once everything was cooked. This whole process took about 6 minutes. 9 minutes in total, 6 minutes to go, will we be able to make our pies in under 15 minutes?







While everything was cooking we set about cutting out our pie shapes. So this was all happening at the same time. We decided to use the cute “I love you” toast shape thingy to put on the tops of the pies. We own a pie maker (it was a Christmas pressie from my mum, one of those gifts that you wouldn’t buy for yourself but when you do have one you wonder how you ever lived without it before) We used homebrand puff pastry for the base and tops, but you can use fillo on the top for a more crunchy flaky pie.







You can see here all the cute I love you pie tops. We scooped in the mixture and put the pie top on and waited to see if it would work. The pie maker makes pies in about 2 minutes (Amazing I know) and we were making 4 pies. So this all took about 5 minutes.



Sadly the I love you tops did not turn out, luckily we made up for it with my kitsch love heart serving tray and plates. Oh and throughout the whole process I wore my very cute gingham appron, a gift from my friends the Spank girls in Japan. Next was the taste test. All we can say is num num num, so yum.





So there you go. We made vegetable, kidney bean and chic pea casserole pies in under 15 minutes. Now if you feel up to the challenge you just need to go to http://www.nuffnang.com.au/blog/2009/08/24/john-west-and-leggos-promotion/ to score yourself some free samples. Then the rest is up to you.



On a side note, this just proves I'm no Luxirare when it comes to food styling. Maybe when we study it next year I'll get better. You would hope so, ha!