In the first of our in-depth New Zealand Fashion Week
features for autumnwinter 2012, Vicki Matias reflects on
her (out of this) World experience
PHOTOGRAPHED BY LISA WILSON/LISA
WILSON PHOTOGRAPHY
AFTER A JAM-PACKED WEEK and with
New Zealand Fashion Week 2011 nearing to a close, World put on a
highly anticipated extravaganza to top it all off. As expected of
World, it was not your usual run-of-the-mill catwalk show, which
opened with three fabulous gold sequin-wearing drag queens lip-synching
to Fergies Glamorous. TV3 audiences awaited the
announcement of the winner of New Zealands Next Top Model,
as the network broadcast the show live with the three finalists
making an appearance during the showcase. Worlds collaboration
with Number One Shoes was also on display with the catwalk début
of the World Made Me Do It! shoe collection, which featured a variety
of block-coloured flats, wedges and stilettos, all of which went
on sale the very next day at select Number One Shoes stores.
Titled Good v. Evil, the show was split into three stories,
the first, Thus Spake Zarathustra, inspired by the nostalgia
of science fiction, film, philosophy and religion. Dramatic Wagner
music and a blacked-out setting allowed for ultraviolet-blue glow-in-the-dark
pieces to reveal themselves. Then, with the flip of a switch, bright
lights came on to Britney Spearss girly tune, Oops! I Did
It Again, and an assembly line of black, blue-piped, multi-panelled
jacket and pant-skirt suits came out.
The second story emerged with an arrangement of futuristic punchy
red, black-edged roses on white fabric, contrasting the monochrome
idea of the unforeseeable future, coiled by a sense of a past we
never knew. Each models make-up differed slightly but with glittery
ruby red pouts and thick black cat-eye slicks acting as a constant.
The out-of-this-world (pun intended) looks were from James Luii
of Shiseido, and were arguably the most remarkable all week. All
hairoverseen by the incredible Michael Beel of Buoywas
up in a variety of modernized 1930s buns studded with colourful
gems.
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Vicki Matias is a senior writer for Lucire.


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