Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival Brisbane 2011 Launch

God! I can’t believe it’s almost a year since Brisbane Fashion Week 2010, how time flies. It’s a new year and with a new year comes the launch of the 6th Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival Brisbane. As in 2010, it is Going to be hosted by South Bank and with the same passionately dedicated team. For this year’s campaignthe face of the festival is model Claire Ralston of Vivien’s Model Management Wearing a Paul Hunt Capri blue silk gown, Diamond accessories from McKinney’s Jewellers and photographed by Ian Golding . The festival is currently looking for designers and retailers who want to show during the event and the way to do that is to go
into their website at www.mbff.com.au and request the application form. The full program will be announced on19 May so if you want to apply for a place you must be quick, tickets will also be on sale on 20 May from www.qtix.com.au or by phoning 136 246.

Tovah's New Beginning

Thanks to a fellow Fashion Blogger I discovered a brand new Brisbane Label ‘Tovah’ and oh boy is this labe going to go places. The creative mind behind it is a designer by the name of Tovah Cottle. Coming from Cyprus, Tovah arrived in Brisbane at the tender age of 12 and soon after was discovered by Dally’s Model Management. Modelling took her all over Europe and Asia but more importantly it opened her eyes to the world of high fashion and gave her the love and drive to move into designing. In 2008 she enrolled into Advanced Diploma in Fashion Design At MSIT (My old School) and 2.5 years later she graduated with an even bigger passion for fashion and determination to succeed as a designer.

Tovah's designs are highly structured with obvious influences from architecture and form not usually seen on the human body. When combined with a fascination with Edwardian Detailing and the grace of the women of the early 20th Century, you're bound to see something out of this world. It seems like Tovah is unafraid of technical challenges and even thrives on making the impossible possible. I would even go so far as to say that give her a few more years and Tovah could even rival Thierry Mugler.

Tovah was the Australian finalist in the 'Triumph Inspiration Awards' and was voted Top 10 by judges Mathiew Williamson, Helena Christiensen, and Hillary Riva.

From the 'Shadow' S/S 2010 Collection

From the 'Barra from Elle set celui' S/S 2010



From the 'New Beginning' A/W 2011 Collection

Photo's from Tovah.com.au