The Perth Fashion Festival ended last week with both the West Australian Designer Collections Parade and West Australian Fashion Awards.

The WA Designer Collections was basically a special event featuring established and emerging fashion designers from Western Australia. It is the first time a collection like this has been created and showcased, and it was indeed my most anticipated event for the whole festival.

There were so many garments and creations that took my breath away! Too many to list, but here are my top three.

I am such a big fan of Aurelio Costarella, who is currently showing his stuff off in New York. I love his modern interpretations of classic designs. He definitely wins my “Established Designer of the Year Award”!

This stone coloured dress was my favourite of the lot. Utterly beautiful and flowing in a Greek goddess kind of way. The black one was much edgier and sharper, yet so simple, feminine and sexy.

I think I uncontrollably drooled when I saw this blue dress by One Fell Swoop. The way it swayed and bounced as the model walked down the runway, made it absolutely swoon worthy. I would definitely buy it in a snap, thus it wins my “Ready To Wear Award”.

I also thought this cream dress was pretty cool too. The pockets and fall of the material added a unique structure and form to an otherwise simple dress.

These lace pieces by Megan Salmon were just gorgeous. All her works were pretty impressive actually. It was as if she had personally hand-stitched every single garment. They radiated a certain kind of understated, artistic and modest beauty not often celebrated on a catwalk. So she wins my “Best Style Award”.

And lastly, Jessica Shirras wins my “Student of the YearAward”. Loved this outfit, which was paraded at the WA Fashion Awards, Ready To Wear Womenswear collection.

This last photo was taken by Stefan Gosatti, the rest were by me.

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