Brit and April

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

Awesome effort by Kylie Smith who wore one of my latest designs "Couture Garden" mini dress. She was a finalist in Fashions on the Field held at the Gold Coast turf club on the 3rd of November for the race that stops the nation's Melbourne Cup. Kylie also made her own facinator to mach her dress, as well as making her Mums.

Made from Italian fabric and assorted chiffon's, satins and feathers.

RRP:- $299.95

I am the week 7 winner of Project Runway

Well what an exciting email i received from the team at Project Runway, informing me i have won there budding designer competition. I am the week 7 winner and the finalist at the end will win the grand prize, I'm just happy to have won the things i did so far. All my hard work has paid off and my name is now getting out there and fast at that. All the feedback i have received and keep receiving makes me want to fast forward the new range for my spring collection which is highly anticipated by my followers.

Melina Hollway and Aloha Lucy's runway

A night of temptation and fun is in order for the 7th of august at Aloha Lucy on the Gold Coast for our very first fashion parade to launch my new range of Forbidden Temptress and also new and exciting dresses in store. My new range is highly anticipated for its unique design and one off nature and will be sure to please fashion conscious women of the world. This will be an exclusive event and numbers are limited and have almost filled.