Uncovering the Brisbane Look – paying tribute to local fashion
It is said that Brisbane is like a small town when it comes to unexpectedly running into familiar faces while going about your day-to-day errands. The city’s tight-knit, friendly community feel is on show in local fashion documentary Uncovering the Brisbane Look – paying tribute to the city’s supportive and encouraging local fashion scene.
Brisbane can be proud of its success on the international stage with the likes of fashion icons Lydia Pearson and Pamela Easton of Easton Pearson. Success has not lessened their strong connection to and love for Brisbane, which they still call home. As Lydia so humbly reveals in the documentary, Uncovering the Brisbane Look, our carefree spirit and sense of individuality is what sets Brisbane fashion designers apart from our southern counterparts.
The fashion documentary, commissioned by QueensPlaza and directed by local filmmaker and photographer Hailey Bartholomew, celebrates the spirit of the Brisbane dweller’s style and takes a look at highlights of the local fashion industry. Presented by former Vogue Australia editor Kirstie Clements, Uncovering the Brisbane Look features interviews with Lydia Pearson, Heidi Middleton, Patience Hogdson, Juli Grbac, Suzi Vaughan and Deborah Quinn, amongst others. Interviews with local fashion notables are interspersed with footage from Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival and the Valentino, Retrospective: Past/Present/Future, Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones and Easton Pearson exhibitions at QAGOMA.
The documentary is still screening on loop in a pop-up cinema space on Level 1 of QueensPlaza until March 30. Check out our Captured gallery from the Uncovering the Brisbane Look launch at GOMA.
