Stolen Girlfriends Club know how to throw a fashion show that’s an event; a packed full house in a warehouse, a cool crowd, hot models, and a finale with a MINI Paceman driving onto the catwalk…
Stolen Girlfriends Club know how to throw a fashion show that’s an event; a packed full house in a warehouse, a cool crowd, hot models, and a finale with a MINI Paceman driving onto the catwalk…
After pre-show drinks at MINI showroom on Broadway Newmarket, we joined the queue to enter the massive warehouse, where MINI had held their URBIS Designday exhibits. Inside, a bar served drinks in wine glasses and Red Bull papercups – not the infamous jam jars they’d used at their first show when they were cheaper than glassware!
Stolen always release a new print at their shows, and last season it was the poppies print. Tonight, it was orchids with hand grenades – flower bomb indeed – in a print called ‘Death Moth’.
The MINI Paceman is notable to me for two things; it is easy to mis-type as Pacman, and it is a Man’s Mini. It is racier, and sits on its haunches with a new profile; squared-off jaw and a new roofline giving it a racier look. The Paceman is on sale now in New Zealand for $53,500 for the six-speed manual. For this much, you can buy about 117 Stolen Girlfriend Club dresses, such as the styles below.
Aside from the orchids, there were ‘lions and tigers and bears’ in a red leopard print on men’s shirts and women’s dresses and scarves (always a great-selling accessory), and growling bear heads with ‘STOLEN’ emblazoned across sweaters. The show started with summer wear; leather shorts, leopard onesies, and ‘mini’ dresses (if you’ll excuse the pun) and progressed to more grown-up and office-appropriate styles, modelled by the beautiful Penny Pickard and Ngahuia Williams (girlfriend of the designer, and head of N Model Management).
The hair was fairly 80s school prom queen with side parts and backcombed rolled hairups and big curls cascading down. Makeup was summery and pretty with fresh dewy faces, sheer gloss lips, peachy cheeks.
The white painted-on Doc Martens were reminiscent of the sneakers Stolen Girlfriends Club drew on themselves for their earliest fashion shows (and later sold of course – always the artists-cum-businessmen!)
The designers rolled onstage at the finale in a Death Moth print wrapped MINI Paceman as models encircled the car and they stood, arms upraised to applause. Rock n roll, Stolen Girlfriends Club.
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Words and photos, Megan Robinson
30 May 2013
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