It's fabulous rockinfrock Friday fashionistas...this time two, because they are just my favourite designers- Victor and Rolf from the 2018 Haute Couture Collection. Enjoy the garden blooms ⇝☆❤

https://www.vogue.com.au/fashion/fashion-shows/haute-couture/viktor-rolf-haute-couture-spring-2018/image-gallery/b9f27c4582723724d9b2009594c21b1c?pos=23

These forms are so wonderfully fluid and imply a structure which is hidden deeply beneath. In the words of the amazing  Cristobel Balenciaga, "Elegance is elimination".

Happenstance and Di$count Universe Love!

Last week I was in South Australia and went to see the Colours of Impressionism Exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia. It was an impressive collection of paintings and greatly appealed to my interest in how we see things. I love how the impressionists invite us to see things differently.

It was, however, a chance sighting on my way to find the cafe to meet up with the enchanting Dr Ruth Bridgestock, that stole my heart. Dr Ruth would call this "happenstance". Good things happening on the way to something else...

Cami James, Australia, born Adelaide 1986, Nadia Napreychikov, Australia, born Moscow 1987, Di$count Univer$e, Jacket, Bodysuit and boots from Sin is
In 2016 Runway Collection, 2016, Melbourne, satin, synthetic, leather, metal, plastic; Gift of an anonymous donor through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation 2016, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 

It was a narrative jacket, sequinned and beaded by the label Di$count Universe from Sin is in, 2016 Runway collection. Bold and slightly "punk', it borrowed the "designer as activist" approach to using direct words to portray a message. Subversive (language warning and all) and seriously well executed. A fine example of how fashion and politics clash!

Cami James, Australia, born Adelaide 1986, Nadia Napreychikov, Australia, born Moscow 1987, Di$count Univer$e, Jacket, Bodysuit and boots from Sin is
In 2016 Runway Collection, 2016, Melbourne, satin, synthetic, leather, metal, plastic; Gift of an anonymous donor through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation 2016, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 

It is this richness that designers bring to material culture that serves to locate fashion in a particular time and place, and how super that it is placed in a gallery where fashion and art can meet, and viewed in equal terms. Brilliant!

Many thanks for valuing this and donating "Anonymous Donor".

Here's Friday's frockrockingit!

Friday fabulous rockingfrock is bought to you by Zuhair Murad Haute Couture Spring 2018

https://www.vogue.com.au/fashion/fashion-shows/haute-couture/zuhair-murad-haute-couture-spring-2018/image-gallery/b3e1759865044c90f21a092329a1eb46?pos=47

Todays quote alludes to the cost of these amazing frocks...imagine the closet to house it in?
"I like my money right where I can see it…hanging in my closet." —Carrie Bradshaw

Here's Friday's frockrockingit!

Friday's rockingfrock is bought to you by Jean-Paul Gaultier Haute Couture Spring 2018.

https://www.vogue.com.au/fashion/fashion-shows/haute-couture/jeanpaul-gaultier-haute-couture-spring-2018/image-gallery/a98fbb41e74929500992945443527423?pos=51

You can alway count on Gaultier to bring humour to the catwalk-
"In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous." —Elsa Schiaparelli

Here's Friday's frockrockingit!

Friday's rockingfrock is bought to you by Dolce and Gabbana from Autumn/Winter 18/19.

https://www.vogue.com.au/fashion/fashion-shows/ready-to-wear/dolce-amp-gabbana-readytowear-autumnwinter-1819/image-gallery/e7c56a4ce923675d9391301388d48db1?pos=68

I just love this quote, it makes me think of wearing this beautiful red dress out and about with all my fashionable gals! Wouldn't it be so swooooooshy?

"Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, and of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they’d just walk around naked at all times.” —Betsey Johnson

Getting the band back together! Well, not actually the band, but revamping the blog so I can rock some frocks!

National Museum of Australia Feb 2018

I was at the National Museum of Australia recently and ogled at this divine frock in the foyer. Those tiny covered buttons and the very slender sleeves reminded me of photos of my mother in beautiful dresses from the fifties that she wore to balls and dances at Cloudland. It inspired me to want to revamp the blog and get talking about wonderful frocks again!

Dresses made by the women who wore them is really a thing of the past isn't it? I mean, after all, today our frocks are made by invisible people in far away places that we never will meet...and that is very sad. I can't think of one piece of my wardrobe that would deserve to be in a museum 50 years from now...

As we approach the 5 year anniversary on April 24, of the tragedy at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh where so many lives were lost in a clothing factory collapse, I am reminded of the value of hand made and home made clothing...make it yourself or at least know the person who did! Then your frock will rock too!