Event: VAMFF Offsite Runway - Nixi Killick
A stand out of the 2013 Melbourne Fashion Festival graduate’s parade, self proclaimed “future imaginer” Nixi Killick (with a little help from a successful Pozzible campaign) kicked off the 2014 Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival with an offsite runway show at warehouse-cum-art gallery, Toot Fanute, last Sunday.
Half fashion parade, half art installation, a handful of models worked their way around the crowded event space, posing on foil covered boxes as a keen, fashion-forward audience scrambled to look on.
The full house was entertained pre-show with a short set by singer Nai Palm from Grammy nominated band Hiatus Kaiyote. Show over, attendees were given the opportunity to purchase some of the more wearable parts of the Nixi Killick "bio psychedelic streetwear" collection - a selection of t-shirts, hats and drawings available to purchase from a makeshift merch stand.
Admirable was the young Footcray-based designer's business savvy in using her collection launch to sell a range of accessories: certainly most of the unisex streetwear modelled during the parade was more couture than prêt-a-porter.
- Janey Umback