Height Of Fashion

Kate Sylvester is approaching this year’s Australian Fashion Week with bold and colourful designs based on the lives of adventurers called, Take a Hike. Last year’s collection Royally Screwed caused a stir angering ANZACS with military style sashes in a way that is supposed to be reserved for war heroes. “It was a completely unexpected response but I think that when the dust settled people realised that actually it was a beautiful show. The great thing about fashion though is it’s always on to the new and so I’m just really looking forward to being on the runway again,” Sylvester says. Proving that talent will always outlast controversy, Sylvester came back with Winter ’09’s Black Swans that is graceful, understated and wry in all the ways we’ve come to expect from her. “Black Swan is dark, beautiful and quite romantic. Inspired by black swans and black roses, it also has a very strong ballet theme. I’m a sucker for a tutu,” she says.