alice mccall resort 09/pierre toussaint
Overnight COACD scanned the latest draft of New York’s Fashion Calendar and Alice McCall and sass & bide were the only Australian names listed thus far. To this frockwriter can add Aurelio Costarella. Costarella is not only going back to NYFW but, after two seasons showing off-schedule, he has bitten the bullet and is showing for the first time on-schedule in Bryant Park on September 11 @ 9.00am.
aurelio costarella FW0809/jason kibbler/model: amy finlayson
McCall is no surprise really.
In April, she told me that she was planning to show in New York come September.
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McCall has shown off-schedule in London on several occasions.
This will be her first US show: off-schedule at 6pm, September 5, in the Altman Building.
“We’re ready to do a show again, absolutely” McCall told me this morning.
The designer’s last show was in May 2007 at Australian Fashion Week. In the interim McCall had a baby.
alice mccall resort 09/pierre toussaint/model: megan hind
In spite of the tough US retail climate that has impacted on the business of some Australian designers, McCall told me that she picked up 12 new US retail accounts in February with her “High on Rebellion” collection.
“We want to manage those” said McCall.
“It’s also an untapped market for us. We’re doing fantastically with our TopShop range in the UK, it sold out very quickly. Considering the economic climate, we’re having positive results”.
Sass & Bide is a surprise, because I had heard on the grapevine that they were considering not showing this season.
And Willow?
Willow is, according to the designer's HQ, still a possibility - and apparently for an on-schedule, but off-site show on either the 11th or 12th September - however nothing is as yet confirmed.
As listed in the Fashion Calendar scan, New Zealand's Karen Walker is also planning to show once again.
For the SS07 season two years ago the following six Australian names either individually staged, or were involved in, shows at New York Fashion Week:
• Sass & Bide
• Willow
• Toni Maticevski
• Josh Goot
• Lincoln Mayne Hoskins (Manhattan-based - Gen Art show)
• Ksubi (colab collection as part of the Jeremy Scott show)
The following season Jayson Brunsdon and Aurelio Costarella also mounted solo NY shows.
2 comments:
The Australian dollar is helping the local designers but showing in NY is of course pretty expensive. It's Karen's annual showing in New York every year because she moved to there from London and also because her husband too. Josh shows in London now (or will...).
Yes he mentioned in May that he was interested in showing in London - it was in the short interview I ran with him on Fully Chic. It's a better fit for him I think.
I've tried to get an answer out of him on London over the past couple of days to no avail however. Ditto the LFW PR. I'd say something is definitely cooking for September.
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