Romance Was Born (Q2029)
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Australian fashion house
- Anna Plunkett
- Luke Sales
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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Australian fashion house |
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For their spring ’25 collection Romance Was Born took over Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art pop-up bar and took it to the prom. Or a wedding reception, the kind their parents would have had in the 1980s, replete with a profusion of pink taffeta, baby’s breath, and balloons. Weddings are top of mind: Luke Sales and Anna Plunkett launched bridal in 2021, and since then have done a steady trade in custom pieces for brides-to-be that are made by hand, often using upcycled, heirloom fabrics like Venetian crochet. The duo found themselves returning to one 1994 film while making them. “We just kept making Muriel’s Wedding jokes and quoting lines from the film, and, like with a lot of the things we do, it started as a bit of a joke.”For the uninitiated, P.J. Hogan’sMuriel’s Weddingis a kitsch, camp, wickedly funny cult hit beloved in Australia. It follows misfit, flawed Muriel escaping from her small town, and small-town mindset, to pursue her dream of being married. Heckled by the Queen Bees when she catches the bouquet—who tell her to throw it again as no one would marry her—Muriel goes on a clumsy, sometimes misguided journey to free herself from her roots. “The whole idea of coming of age, there was just so much about it that relates to me and also the business, and then it also talks to us working in fashion and aspirations,” said Sales, who will mark 20 years of the label next year.With the assistance of the National Sound and Film Archive of Australia, and tapping into their signature humor and grace, the pair transposed film stills of Muriel, played by Toni Colette, onto opera coats and ball gowns. Salvaged wedding veils made up a fluttering skirt on a bustier dress with a profusion of pink taffeta bows. A faded cotton floral, used on a heart-shaped dress, was actually upcycled bed sheets à la Muriel’s. The peony of a tiered Swiss lace dress, meanwhile, was the color of her cassette player. The dress was embroidered with words by their long-time collaborator Meaghan Pelham (who was also writing love poems for attendees). All of it was corralled into a contemporary elegance despite the explosion of 1980s froth, something the pair have a knack for balancing. “We like to use the word posh—we don’t want it to feel like it’s not fashion.”And there was more: a column dress strewn with white paillettes like confetti, a cocktail dress made entirely of strings of hearts. There was a complete absence of daywear, and Sales is unapologetic about this.
“It’s definitely where we are as a brand and who we are.” The two are reigniting some wholesale accounts as of February, and are operating a successful pop-up boutique they hint could become permanent. That they’ve survived the ups and downs of a difficult industry and honed in on their riotously optimistic and unabashedly sentimental aesthetic is their own coming of age. As Sales notes: “It’s in the name.”
20 December 2024
Three moons, softly glowing like they do on a clear night, greeted guests as they walked into Romance Was Born’s resort 2025 show. Designers Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales have often explored fantasy lands and utopias, and did so again this season, inspired by the work of the Indigenous Australian artist Zaachariaha Fielding. “He is super positive and is very much trying to bring everyone together with his work,” Plunkett said backstage. “We’ve never worked with an indigenous artist before. This year we had areferendum[to constitutionally recognize the rights of Indigenous people that didn’t pass], and we just felt that more than ever it was the right time to do it.”The designers met Fielding a few years ago through mutual friends and were delighted to find out he was a fan of their label. Their collaboration yielded some of the most extraordinary pieces in the collection—each one different from the next. A cropped jacket with oversized sculptural shoulders had some of Fielding’s paintings strategically placed to follow its silhouette. It was paired with white polka dotted trousers for a very 1980s Lacroix look. Elsewhere, an off-the-shoulder neon green ball gown featured a similar print—blown up to match the dress’s volume—intricately embellished with sequins and beads. On chiffon caftans Fielding’s paintings were the ultimate expression of a bohemian goddess, although because this was Romance Was Born, they paired them retro-sneakers and little socks.The inspiration for the rest of the show came through classic sci-films from the 1980s likeBlade Runner,The Lost Boys, andThe Neverending Story(they named the collection “the nothing,” the destructive force in the movie that takes away the ability of living things to dream and hope for the future). It was evident in details like the aforementioned polka dotted fabrics, and their experiments with deconstructed bomber jackets—most notably dresses made from spliced bomber bodices and intricately embroidered lace, or a balloon sleeve shrug made with multi-color patchwork squares sourced from old jackets the designers found on eBay.Most remarkable were the pieces that captured Sales and Plunkett’s dream world while remaining grounded in real life. Gray wool tailored jackets and structured shirts had a slight retro-futurist feel, and beaded lace tunics worn with acid washed peg leg jeans, or similarly embellished trousers, had obvious multi-generational appeal.
16 May 2024
Romance Was Born’s Luke Sales and Anna Plunkett had their eye on artist Paul Yore’s work for some time, but it wasn’t until they met him at the label’s Christmas party last year that the idea for a full-blown collection formed. The show coincided with Yore’s new exhibition at Sydney’s Carriageworks, and was also held in the same venue. Yore is the latest in a string of Australian creative collaborators that has included Jenny Kee, Del Kathryn Barton, and Ken Done. But unlike the others, by now long-time legacy names, Yore’s provocative work probing sexuality, power, and queer identity is finding vital relevance now.World Pride is underway in Sydney, the first time it has ever been held in the Southern Hemisphere, in the Asia-Pacific region where a surfeit of countries still don’t recognize LGBTQI+ rights, or outlaw same-sex relations all together. Far from a timely attention play though, this was a genuine alignment of outlook beyond the obvious aesthetic similarities in visually dense outputs embracing kitsch, camp Australiana. “We’ve always loved a rainbow. Anna and I have always laughed and said ‘where’s the gay rainbow in this?’” joked Sales of their signature (and best-selling) palette, before becoming more serious. “But it’s also who I am and my identity and my story.”This collection was the duo’s most political one so far. A 100% queer cast of models wore attitude-laden phrases lifted from Yore’s work, and some of his tapestries were used as fabric, on contrastingly demure silhouettes. “I’m not sorry” appeared on a knit dress made from reclaimed crochet blankets, and “eat me” on a strapless gown in peony jacquard. Reworked symbols of late-stage capitalism (the McDonald’sMwas underwritten with the wordmasculinity) became prints on billowing silk dresses joining hand-painted Yore motifs informed by gay porn: These were applied liberally. Meanwhile, up-cycled army jackets were given a fierce rework in drag-worthy floating plumage, a nod to the still-fraught spaces like the military that exist for queer people. An air of exuberant extravagance crescendoed in a coat that was actually a giant padded blanket with ‘The truth is out there’ writ large in sequins, both comfort and glittering armor.“We’re confident as designers doing our thing, but I guess we’ve always been a little reluctant to be too political,” reflected Sales, with Plunkett adding that fashion hadn’t felt the right space to do that, until now.
But then, Sales and Plunkett have always harbored subversive tendencies, showing off-schedule, and increasingly exploring found materials, like knitted granny squares made glamorous, as Yore pointed out. “Drawing on domestic kinds of traditions and elevating them into these kinds of works, I think there’s a politics that’s inherent to that.”
27 February 2023
From May Gibbs to Jenny Kee, Romance Was Born has long worked with Australian artists whose work transmits the unique light, color, and quirk of their home turf. For this return to Sydney’s resort fashion week the designers Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales hooked up with Ken Done, one of The Lucky Country’s most popular painters of all. Held in the artist’s canvas-lined gallery, this presentation was the runway extension of a partnership that began with a ready-to-wear collaboration in December. Done himself contributed the paint-licked easel refashioned as a hat, plus painted the opening suit and all the footwear.This collection stayed broadly true to the Valentino-via-Vaucluse formula that RWB is so accomplished at delivering to create exuberantly decorative and highly-crafted womenswear that eschews any implication of preciousness in favor of fun. Only rarely knowingly unruffled, the most grandly-volumed dresses featured silhouette and fringing that echoed the subject matter of the Done paintings after which they were patterned: coral reefs flitting with critters and spiked by lurking urchins. The power and punch of the pattern made it easy to overlook the craft and time it must have taken the designers’ partner atelier in Kolkata, India, to reproduce it via sequin on shorts, jackets, and dresses. A highly complementary contribution was also made by weaver Adam Mandarano, who created the Chanel-on-acid tufted rainbow tweeds from deadstock wool, shredded saris, and ribbons. Sales said that working with this fabric had been especially complex and rewarding. He added: “what’s always drawn us to Ken’s work is how it captures an essence, whether it’s in the wilderness or flora and fauna, that’s kind of gestural. That vitality and sense of spirit in what he creates is related to what we try and do as designers, to hopefully create an emotional response in our customers.” You could certainly see this collection being worn with joy.
15 May 2022
Since last May’s foray at Sydney Fashion Week Romance Was Born’s co-founders Luke Sales and Anna Plunkett have spent the last few seasons focusing on building their digital retail operation. Now, with Australia’s toughest tangle with COVID hopefully behind them, they’re returning to the wholesale carousel with this collection. Popping a tray of Anzac biscuits into the oven—almost obligatory on this rightfully revered national holiday—Sales phoned in to talk about the clothes.For fall 2022 they teamed up with Melbourne artist Lara Merrett, an abstract colorist whose saturated surfaces translated powerfully from canvas to cloth. Sales said he and Plunkett had started by contemplating the art and then building the silhouette from whatever association hit them. These ranged from sci-fi to subsea. Despite the associative span of that inspirational source material the pieces remained distinctly Romance Was Born-ish in their winsome waftiness and mega-feminine silhouettes.The grit in this typically tasty oyster was provided by a couple of looks featuring pieces rarely seen here; a tailored coat, some pants, and a tee—all of them entirely unruffled. Sales noted that their direct to consumer activities have revealed a not insignificant constituency of male buyers. He and Plunkett have been working to give their collections unisex appeal. Just as he teased that their next show around a fortnight hence will feature a collaboration with one of Australia’s best-loved illustrators—ping!—it was time to take those biccies out of the oven.
25 April 2022
“Incredible! Like walking into a magical fantasy, and a perfect antidote to the last year we’ve had. Whimsy and wonder are alive!” Show FOMO gets really real when you’re 12,000 miles away and your oldest childhood friend sends you rapturous WhatsApp from the audience (thanks, Grace Heifetz). What’s worse is that this Romance Was Born show really did look like one not to miss. The opener of Sydney’s Fashion Week, it was held at the cavernous Carriageworks in glittering Redfern.Luke Sales and Anna Plunkett had decked the joint out with a vintage carousel, and garlanded the runway with huge displays of preserved reusable flowers. This provided an anticipatory whiff of the collection itself, which was entirely fashioned from fabrics that the designers had salted away during years of obsessive acquisition, as well as donated pieces. As Sales explained later down the phone while ordering a prosecco at some rambunctious-sounding fashion schmooze (sigh), “When COVID hit, and the wholesale market went, and we stopped being able to travel, we decided to take the opportunity to do what we had been wanting to for ages and return to focusing on the handmade, which is what we did back when we started out.”The results were, as Grace reported, both whimsical and wonderful. Several distinct phases followed the birth of romance, from kaleidoscopic slip dresses, through to a section of bridalwear that included a dress made from Plunkett’s mother’s own wedding gown. Other pieces included a regenerated wedding dress, donated by a friend, that was reworked with love letter beaded calligraphy by the artist Meagan Pelham. There were some vintage Ken Done pieces in there, and even sample swatches sent by fabric suppliers to Sales and Plunkett’s studio were combined into completed garments. It looked glorious.
2 June 2021
Luke Sales and Anna Plunkett collaborated with fellow Australian Samuel Hodge on this winningly Paris-accented collection. Hodge, an artist who works in photography and sculpture, both contributed archival images for the designers to use and shot this all-Aussie lookbook.In the hands of Plunkett and Sales, a Hodge collage of fragmented Parisian views, Australian skyscapes, and beach vistas was transferred onto easy-to-wear, hard-not-to-stare-at ruffled dresses. A flower-crowded landscape photograph entitled “Lacy Gardens” was reproduced on a many-pleated dress and another pussy-bowed ruffle cascade. Hodge portraits of a subject whose face is unreadable obscured by two illustrations of shifty-looking cats were printed on long, short-sleeved, wide-collar cotton caftan shifts.As photographed against an evocatively familiar Sydney backdrop—which looks so exotic when viewed from afar in a wintry Milan showroom—this Romance Was Born collection was enriched by Hodge’s input to forward Plunkett and Sales’s highly attractive articulation of all-Australian wearable grandeur. There were other cute touches that played out in the color-patched gingham pieces, flower-buttoned shirting, and a T-shirt provided with a stitched-in gaudily-beaded necklace.
27 November 2019
From DH Lawrence’sKangarooto Reg Grundy’sNeighbours, the remote and apparently claustrophobically monotonous landscape of Australian suburbia—all sprinkler systems, meat raffles, Holdens, and tea cozies—has long been a fertile starting point for antipodean creativity.For this Resort collection, Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales of Romance Was Born used that well-worn starting point to jump into a fresh Aussie-inflected fantasy of 18th-century French grandiosity. Sales said the starting point was a conversation with Plunkett in which he remembered a neighbor from his youth’s “Versailles-worthy” collection of tire swans in her front yard.Either in Kraft cheese yellow or Devon sausage pink, the taffeta used in a full tiered skirt, a long wide gown, a sundress, and a ruffled bodice top was embroidered with a floral based on an antique French tablecloth acquired by the designers on one of their Parisian flea market trawls. T-shirts and T-shirt dresses with dropped pearl decorations at the neckline featured Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun’s 1783 portrait of Marie Antoinette (let them eat Lamingtons), while in black, a loose silk-polyester pant, strapped slip dress, and white-collared blouse featured a print of the doomed queen’s hand grasping a ribboned rose cut from the same canvas.There were heaps of the loosely swoosh-y frockery presented with a sense of comedy for which RWB is rightly known—its entire archive has just been acquired by an Australian museum—but there were also plenty of more pragmatic options for the in-her-own-mind Marie Antoinette to swan around in. A narrow-shouldered, full-sleeved camp-collar shirt in floral poly-organza or a bow-decorated poly-twill nicely complemented the printed linen culotte shorts. Sales said the brand is hatching a plan to return to Paris for a show in January; bring it on.
16 July 2019
Ruffled, spotted, quilt-edged, feathered-fringed, and crystal-studded, this Romance Was Born collection was characterized by designers Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales as a party-centric nocturnal chimera. “There’s a fantasy, mythological beast kind of vibration to it,” pitched Sales via a WhatsApp voice call from Sydney as he returned home from the laundromat.Certainly the clothes featured plenty of dramatically inclined cutting and pasting. That animal print (sometimes drawn in quilt or sequin) was a mash-up of a cockatoo and tiger, further swirled by the swirling marbleized paisley that was featured in their last few collections. The botanical played gumnut against wattle yellow or constructed sequin waratah on silk. Black lurex was edged in finely rendered coraline ruffle. There were of-the-moment volumized tiered dresses in black with sheer bell sleeves that sparkled with a Jenny Kee–touched colored-cut jewel pattern. Pale check dresses and a quilt-edged houndstooth bodice, high-cut kimono, and shorts set said “yeah” to the codes of menswear.These ingredients presented plenty of shifting, smokey polarities to flit between, all in an evening-centric, fishnet-accessorized collection whose domestic customers will be dancing towards dawn in it as those drawn to Romance Was Born in the U.S. and Europe are on their commutes back and forth to work. Plunkett’s and Sales’s is a unique aesthetic crying out for wider distribution. Party-centric nocturnal chimeras are by no means exclusive to Australia, and this label provides fine attire for them.
9 March 2019
In Paris right now, fashion’s finest (or at least many of them) are negotiating snow, snarled traffic, andgilets jaunesanxiety as they consider couture. Meanwhile, 17,000 kilometers down under, Australia is sweating its way through the—even for Australia—particularly intense summer heat wave. Where would you rather be?Following itsoff-schedule Couture Week debutlast summer, Romance Was Born stayed at home in Sydney this time around, but come June, it will be back in Paris, said cofounder Luke Sales.“We’re independent, so it’s an extremely expensive way to present a collection. But it worked last year to set the tone for the rest of the collections, and showing in Paris is incomparable.” At that first Couture Week show, Sales and cofounder Anna Plunkett showed their “kinda couture”—handcrafted pieces made by an extended atelier of nanas and friends in New South Wales—much of which was informed by the work of their close associate and Aussie fashion veteran Jenny Kee.For this Pre-Fall collection, which is designed to be sold wholesale rather than purchased as one-offs by museums and collectors, Plunkett and Sales partially revisited Kee’s back catalog: the wild paisley incorporated kookaburra feather motifs, a Sydney Harbour Bridge pattern, and other key Kee-isms. Crystal-meshed skirts and evening dresses featured hand-painted pansy embroideries, while draped black chiffon dresses were decorated with watercolor butterflies primed to flutter as the wearer throws open her arms on the dance floor. Volume ebbed and flowed between a voluminous ’50s-flavored ditsy silk gown and a fitted floral-lace and paisley beaded dress. Two dresses in ribbed silky viscose featured hummingbird-cup puckers of piped ruffle and furl across the neckline and body. Bring on the balmy days ahead when this idiosyncratically sexy sun-centric label will return to Paris.
23 January 2019
Romance Was Born is designed by friends-from-fashion-school creative besties Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales. They’ve been showing since 2006. They make intensely patterned and silhouetted stream-of-consciousness clothes that are heavily inflected by whimsy and visible craft. For years now, I’ve been hearing rapturous appraisals of them by cultivated friends and reading rave reviews online.And yet one of the many things that makes the designers special is the single thing that has proven to be an obstacle to them finding wider renown than they already have: They’re from Australia and they’re based there. That’s not to be anti-Oz, oh no, it’s just a logistical issue. Until this summer’s gate-crashing of Paris couture week for the excellent off-schedule show christened Kinda Couture, they had never shown outside their distant (to anywhere except New Zealand and Papua New Guinea) homeland.Romance Was Born started by making one-off pieces—the basis of Kinda Couture—heavy in quirk, handiwork, and Australiana, which have predominantly been purchased by private clients and Australian fashion museums. For the past few seasons, though, the label has developed a RTW line that has now been picked up by several U.S. stockists. The lookbook for this one immediately illustrated one key issue for Australia-based brands looking to spread the word up from Down Under: It was titled Fall/Winter 2019—because, of course, when this collection drops Spring/Summer 2019 here, it will indeed be winter down there.With the exception of a hand-knit, heavy wool pink sweater featuring a Swarovski-detailed crocheted koala—based on the work of their this-season couture inspiration, the great Jenny Kee—this was a pretty any-weather collection. Other POA couture pieces, such as the patchwork dress of printed silks from Kee’s archives, were included to clarify the inspiration that collection contributed to this one. As well as Kee, said Plunkett, “we were thinking of Prince, and we liked the vibe of Endora fromBewitched.” Hence the heavily ruffled mulberry-to-purple wrap skirts and diagonal crini-shaped ruffle dresses in a powerful magenta and blue-on-pink print. A full-chested, frilled and sequined dress of layered tulle over a black bodice included panels of Victorian silk that Sales and Plunkett found at a Paris flea market. Their Levi’s collab jeans and truckers were embroidered with colorful Kee-flavored bead-and-lace paisley teardrops.
Witchy, Australian, eccentric, romantic (of course), and distinctly unlike any other label on the block right now, Romance Was Born is worth getting to know.
1 October 2018
It began with Judy Garland—or rather a drag queen standing on a stage at Sydney’s Restaurant Hubert in front of a star-spangled red velvet curtain, belting out “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” Between the kitschy, mid-centuryMad Menlook of the venue and the surreal joy of the drag performances—in addition to a Judy there was also a Mariah—the scene was set for an out-of-this-world Romance Was Born collection.Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales delivered. This season, they took us to a mashed-up world where the disco goddesses of Xanadu could shimmy alongside decadent Deco sirens. There was a full assortment of pieces with Fortuny-inspired pleating, including a series with reinterpreted Jenny Kee prints, as well as a luxe champagne slip dress with romantic black lace trimming and a vampy cape. With all their face crystals and elaborate headpieces, the models could have easily veered into costume territory, but perhaps because of the environment in the Restaurant Hubert or the lightness with which they strutted about, everything felt grounded in a glittering reality. You could call it escapism or a purely fanciful vision, but in actuality, it’s just the truth of Sales and Plunkett’s art. “I’m not interested to push us into being relevant or of the moment,” said Sales after the show, sitting in the restaurant’s empty auditorium beside a paper moon and Champagne tower. “It’s really about an authenticity to a garment or an authenticity about a design.”Yes, there’s a startling purity and unwillingness to compromise to Romance Was Born’s work that is admirable. But more than just an artistic choice, it’s also helped set their brand apart on the local and global scale. The sheer number of guests wining and dining at tonight’s show in Romance pieces is proof enough that the transportive world Sales and Plunkett offer has plenty of visitors.
15 May 2018
Since its debut in 2005,Romance Was Bornhas risen to become Australia’s buzziest brand. The house was packed at its Resort 2018 show in Sydney, which started nearly an hour late because of the sheer number of people attempting to squish into the venue. That’s good news for designers Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales, whose delightfully kooky clothes go against the mainstream of Australian fashion, but being the big fish in the small pond of Aussie design might be taking its toll on the duo’s brazenness and chutzpah.For Resort, they teamed with the artist Del Kathryn Barton, with whom they’ve worked before, and sent out a parade of disco divas in sequins, lace, and latex stay-ups. It was perfectly fun, and perfectly ornamental, but lacking in the pointedness you might expect from the subversive duo. Maybe that’s asking too much of Plunkett and Sales, but you couldn’t help but hope that these inspired designers, who have such a spectacular grasp on the power of embellishment and the cleverness of kink, would have hit a little harder with their messaging. A resplendent rainbow fringe dress is all good and well, but in times like these, blind loveliness feels, well, blind.The pair’s reverence for Barton’s work might be partially to blame here. After the show, Plunkett spoke at length about trying to interpret Barton’s work into clothing, perhaps forgetting to add in some of her own spirited style. The matter of the two nude models on the runway—one painted red with the words “Electro Orchid,” the title of the collection and of one of Barton’s works, the other streaked with black text lifted from Barton’s paintings—felt like a soft hit and a big miss at the women’s issues preoccupying so much of the world right now. Plunkett explained it thus: “It’s not about shocking people or anything like that. The girls, we always imagine them coming out of Del’s work, so it’s about trying to relate the artwork back to the women.”Through the small lens of Australian Fashion Week, Plunkett and Sales are bona fide stars and missteps like this don’t matter much. The hundreds of guests leaving the show all had smiles on their faces and spoke at length about the wonder of the show for days to come. In truth, the ideas are good, the execution is inspired, and the quality of the garments passes muster, but if Plunkett and Sales are going to live up to their reputation, they need to pump their work with a sense of urgency and relevance.
22 May 2017
It’s not often you see a Picasso sculpture and a fashion show in the same sitting, but Romance Was Born designers Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales are willing to go the distance to create a fully immersive scene for their fashion shows. This season that meant transporting guests to the historic Carthona estate on Sydney Harbour, a palatial stone home filled with fine art, wooden staircases, and gothic decor. It was a breathtaking setting that could have easily distracted from a fashion show, but Plunkett and Sales didn’t let their elaborate designs take a backseat to some posh interior design.The pair, who’ve always loved some OTT action, found a muse in Liberace and his Las Vegas cohorts. The best looks in the collection were the nonliteral ones—the pianist’s love of adornment translated into über-embroidered dresses and velvet or brocade suiting. A cocoon coat in bright pink with lime trim was an editorial highlight, while Schiaparelli-esque feather and cocktail print ruffle dresses will have more commercial appeal. Accessorized by the models’ Kewpie doll ’dos, fur-lined mules, and chalices of “champagne”—actually water—the spirit of the collection was that of a lavishly haute magpie. That spirit didn’t totally gel with the punny Liberace references Plunkett and Sales dreamed up, like a piano key minidress that clicked and clanked as the model strutted around the house. After the show ended, the models congregated on the lawn to pose for Instagram snaps; those ebony and ivories paled in comparison to a deliciously embroidered flora and fauna gown.
19 May 2016
Founders:Anna Plunkett and Luke SalesYear established:2005Known for:Turning down the chance to work with John Galliano. Also, collaborations with prominent Australian artists and designers including Jenny Kee, Kate Rohde, Del Kathryn Barton, and (for this season) Linda JacksonWorn by:Tavi Gevinson, M.I.A., and Nicki MinajSpring 2015 inspirations:Australiana, native flora and fauna, and the work of Aussie couturier Linda Jackson
16 April 2015
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7 April 2013