Wednesday's West Australian

Sarah Pauley wearing "Atmosphere Dress" at Russell James launch, Perth Fashion Festival, 2010 photo: Songy Knox

Perth Fashion Festival, designer collections1, Sat 11th Sept, 2010

Caris wearing roses skirt and stripe tee with tassle scarf
Sarah Langley wearing shapes sculpted dress/skirt with summer parka
Emily C wearing silk strapless dress
Steffanie Roberts wearing crochet dress
Suzy reid wearing crochet skirt, silk tied jacket and tassle scarf
Kira wearing silk ruched dress/skirt with shapes and stripes swing cardi


Sat 11th Sept, 2010 Designer Collections 1
held at Fashion Paramount, Perth Fashion Festival

these are highlights from my show. I was really happy to find that Pip Christmass, fashion editor of The West Australian wrote a glowing review of my work
see below
"For me however, the real highlight of this group was Megan Salmon. It was inspiring and refreshing to be re-aquainted with this talented designer's work.
She showed the most beautiful flame red and intense amber draped and gathered skirts, amazing black, orange and white prints, and one astounding crochet dress(and crochet dresses are not normally my thing, I admit). It was an absolutely unified, extremely polished capsule collection, one of the most distinctive of the night and it managed to have an artistic edge but be completely wearable at the same time."
Thewest.com.au sept 12th,2010

Atmosphere

Melissa Dobson walking througth the crowd wearing tassled wool cape and fitted jacket, styling: Hannah McGrath
mozart shirt and silk pleat skirt worn by Bec Jones at Atmosphere launch, styled by Hannah McGrath
Atmosphere dress Atmosphere dress in front of wall piece in Victoria hall, Fremantle

Atmosphere, Victoria Hall, High St, Fremantle Sept 11th -16th 2010
I was invited to be a part of an exhibition of Fremantle collective designers by Hannah McGrath called 'atmosphere' and chose to take advantage of the 7m high ceilings in Victoria hall by producing a backdrop wall piece and a sculpted dress suspended from a hoop.
The wall piece is actually all the pattern pieces of various sculpted garments including the dress featured, sandwiched between 2 layers of silk organza. My idea was to somehow deconstruct or demystify the process of making such a sculpted piece of clothing by using the patterns as the exhibit. I felt the dress itself needed to be made using a calico- like cloth that would demostrate the purity of the idea and then proceeded to hang it using many threads of line so that it felt held in space.
Other designers in the show were
Ashe:Batchelor:Chinky wooster:Cocoon textiles:Kartique:Leah Tarlo:Loop:Love in tokyo:She seldom blushes: Totomoto