The first of the L'Oreal Paris runways featured winter delights from Alice McCall, camilla and marc, Collette Dinnigan, Fleur Wood, LIFEwithBIRD, Nicola Finetti, sass & bide and Toni Maticevski.
You didn't have to hunt too hard to find the key trends for the coming winter: heavy embellishments, lace, grey marle, black and lips so dark and bloody you'd be forgiven for thinking
Twilight's influence had finally reached the catwalk.
Sharp shoulders are slowly giving way to waist cutaways and asymmetry, from sleeves to hems. The butt hugging mini is here to stay despite the cold, but thankfully so are tights of all flavours including patterned and opaque.
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Photos: Lucas Dawsons,
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