Australian fashion’s show week wound up on Friday amid a bitter row over size zero models, lacklustre reviews and claims leading local designers largely ignored the country’s yearly international showpiece. According to China Daily, Festival organizers were accused of allowing super slim models onto catwalks despite a promise to avoid the half-starved look, which fell out of favour globally after the death from anorexia of Brazilian model Ana Carolina Reston.
“We don’t think the situation at this point requires rules in terms of regulating the appearance of models,” Australian Fashion Week organizer Simon Lock told local media, promising to ban designers judged to have broken a promise to “self-regulate.” Newspaper photographs of ultra-skinny swimsuit models appeared through the week, despite agencies being asked not to choose models who “would be considered to be unnaturally or extraordinarily thin, or suspected of having an eating disorder.”
Top Texan model import Erin Wasson said most models relied on genetics rather than starvation. “People have to face the fact that it’s in the genes,” the face of local jeans label Ksubi said. Australian fashion businessman Danny Avidan said the show week suffered from the absence of Australia’s established brands, like his own Charlie Brown and Lili. “For an established brand to participate in the week is like Madonna going on American Idol,” he told Australian Associated Press.
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Other critics said designers relied too much on ultra-short and baby-doll dresses, which McCann said were “best to be ignored if you are over 20 and not a trendy stylist or starlet with very skinny brown legs.” Organiser Lock said international buyers, especially from Asia, had made the show — and trends in color, metallics and micro minis — a success.
Australia Fashion Week is set against the spectacular harbour side backdrop of Circular Quay in Sydney, the best emerging and established designers from Australia and the Asia Pacific previewed collections to some of the world’s most significant buyers, media and key industry influencers.