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Jenny Hoo
 
 
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 Despite
an inconvenient clash with the Moët et Chandon Fashion Week Ball
in the Festival timetable, Jenny
Hoo staged one of the only individual designer salon shows on
the Thursday, to a sold-out audience. The show highlighted Hoo’s ability
to produce individual garments with bold colour ways and feminine, classical
cuts. Hoo, perhaps most renowned in Melbourne for her race day wear, demonstrated
her in-depth knowledge of fabric drape, with bias hung dresses left uncompromised
with only one seam. Most distinctive, however, was the level of tailoring
and finishing in the collection, noticeable even from the audience. This
high-quality finish enabled the æsthetic design aspects to become
unquestionably complete.
The Special Events’ Designer Salon Show on Friday, March
22 presented some of the top couturiers in Melbourne. Linda Britten
commenced her section of the show, shared with two others, with a collection
of red silk evening wear encompassing a range which not only utilized
the dynamic aesthetics of the colour, but also made reference to the intense
amount of work involved beneath the garments. Some full skirts had portions
of the outer layer of the fabric raised in order to display the numerous
layers of black tulle in which red rosettes were scattered throughout.
Complementary to the bold colour way, Britten also included beading detail
across corsets in electric blues, golden yellows and lawn greens. A combination
which would generally be considered garish evoked uniqueness. Another
portion of the show was also dedicated to black leather, lace and tulle,
a frequently seen combination throughout the week; however, Britten personalized
the trend by enlarging and minimalizing aspects within the style, full
tulle skirts dropped to the mid-calf level with waist-high splits and
midriff baring leather corsets.
Melbourne Fashion Festival, showed itself to be more
than a retail event. All the shows were conducted in a professional manner
attracting copious amounts of media attention as well as giving local
and trans-Tasman designers a platform from which to promote themselves
and their talents to the world. 
Alice Goulter
Alice Goulter is Melbourne correspondent for Lucire.
Jenny Hoo’s collection was classical and bold
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