Jenny Kee
Designer: Jenny Kee
THURSDAY, MAY 3 TIME: 11.00AM
Photo: Soraya Zaman for StyleMeRomy.com
Styling: Romy Frydman. Hair & Make Up: Nancy Sea Siler
Model: Jessica Gold (Maverick) wearing Jenny Kee
What’s special about 2012 that made you decide to show at Fashion Week? I’m feeling inspired the way I was 40 years ago at the beginning of Flamingo Park with Linda Jackson. Our motto was “step into paradise”. Now instead of having your own parades you show at fashion week.
Is fashion as exciting now as it was when you opened Flamingo Park? When Romance Was Born and I came together, fashion was born for me again. Flamingo Park stood on its own because we were the innovators of a creative world in fashion, nothing can be quite like that, but this is like chapter two, with wisdom.
Your parades were theatrical events – should we be expecting something fabulous at this year’s show? Absolutely, nothing less, except there’s 32 years of it to look at plus fabulous new work.
Where did your love for the waratah come from? From the ancient landscape where I live and my fiery emotions watching the waratahs explode from the ashes of bushfires. It is forever my totem.
Most outrageous adventure: Driving with Penelope Tree through the outback in WA to Shark Bay in the 80s, protesting against the logging of the forests and getting arrested, staying at the villa of great art forger Elmyr de Hory in Ibiza in 1966 and wondering while having an acid trip why there were so many famous paintings on the walls.
First love affair: Walking into the Chelsea Antique in 1967, the Summer of Love. It was an Aladdin’s Cave crammed full of label dresses like original Chanel, Poiret, Vionnet, Schiapparelli, glorious ethnic Spanish shawls and Hungarian peasant blouses.
Do you go on wild bush expeditions dressed in your garments? All my ethnic comes out: Thai, African, Guatamalan, because it’s actually practical, and of course my trackies and flannels.
Are you looking forward to the Fashion Week after parties? I’m looking forward to “going off” with Anna and Luke from Romance Was Born.
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