Meet
Felix Reiss who just last November was working at the
Shuttle's supermarket of choice,
Coles in Macleay Street Kings Cross. This month he has been treading the boards on the European catwalks and last week he opened and closed the
Dior Homme show in
Paris.The excellent rag trade website
frockwriter brings us this and other hot-tips about the fashion world. It's a good read.
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One Australian fashion personality has been sounding off this week .
Nicholas Huxley (left) is head of the
Fashion & Design Studio at TAFE and he's had a hand in crafting the careers of the majority of our fashion designers and some of the the biggest names in the industry.
Huxley has ticked off both
David Jones &
Myer department stores for leaving him off their guest lists for years at the yearly fashion parades and soirees. As Nicholas puts it :
" Today
I appeared in the Sunday Telegraph as one of the 10 Secret Style Makers
of Australia! (Thanks Elle again)! I have been nominated 5 years out of
the 6 years of the Fashion Laureate Award for service to the Fashion
industry.I have been nominated for the Fashion Group International
Lifetime Achievement award. I have won two FIA(Fashion Industries of
Australia ) awards. I have been
nominated for an AFI (Australian Film Industries) Award for costuming a
motion picture. In 2008(Sydney Magazine) I was chosen along with 4
other Fashion Industry people to be one of the 100 most influential
people in Sydney."
Huxley has a good point. The number of vacuous b-list slebs rolled out at these parades is as legendary as the snooty clip-board (Ipads now) wielding "PR" consultants who think they are terribly important.
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| the judges : Didier Cohen * Charlotte Dawson * Alex Perry * Jennifer Hawkins |
Now he's also laid into the new season of the reality TV show Australia's Next Top Model :
" OMG!!!!
Australia's Next Top Model!!! Sorry..but what can I say?? WOW!! I'm
sorry but I'm finding it very difficult to look at the judges..There is
so much of everything going on...BOTOX GALORE..SO MUCH TALK BUT NO
MOVEMENT IN THE FACE / WHITENED TEETH TO THE POINT OF WHO NEEDS THE
LIGHTS ON..JUST FLASH THE TEETH! AND A MALE MODEL///WHO'S A BIT LIKE A
LOG OF WOOD!
Ouch ! You tell 'em Nick !!
It's been responsible for launching the careers of some of Australia's
top models. 
