MelinaHollway on Sense of Fashion

MelinaHollway on Sense of Fashion

Ebony Affairs Gown

I decided to enter into the L'oreal Melbourne fashion festival's 2010 competition "Spirit of the Black Dress" In order to fit the criteria entrants had to design and make a dress using outlined specifics of a sustainability elements, so I decided to use recycled items including my fabric and beads and Green electricity to power my machines as well incorporating as much hand sewing to reduce my electricity usage...and as you can see there was a lot of hand sewing involved with this particular garment, the Decolletage or often referred to as my stone collars was entirely hand sew'en by me.

High Fashion Shoot

Recently I was approached by a very talented photographer by the name of Nadia Masot to attend a photo shoot she was doing in hopes of adding more high fashion images to her portfolio, naturally I went along as I am always keen to meet new people interested in fashion and add to my own folio. The end result from this shoot was unimaginable, the actual location was a run down abandoned old house in the bush that with a stiff breeze could of fell down at any second and the feeling that at any moment the likes of some homeless junkie could of jumped out at us, at the rear of the property was as i would describe a dirty swamp and a giant tree. The 2 gorgeous models Gabby and Cynthia we used did really well to battle inch ants mossies by the dozen and psyco spiders that lived in the old stone fire place we used...and all i could think about was "why did i have to watch so many scary movies" the sounds that i could hear were something out of "Wrong Turn" or the "Blair Witch Project". So when Nadia sent me a sneak peek of these images from our shoot you couldnt blame me for wanting to leap through my computer screen and explore this fantasy land, I had people emailing me asking if the location was a real place and if they could go there. Let the pictures speak for themselves