The Silver Gown

(Photo by Scott G Trenorden, Designer: bek bek timson, Model: Allanna O, MUA: Elsie Tan, Lighting Assistant: Megan Henderson )

Last year photographer Scott G Trenorden invited a few of us to join him on a photo shoot in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia. We all drove for hours to a remote country property. It was an incredible photo shoot over a few days.

The Story Behind My Wedding Dress!!!

Trying to find a wedding gown with sleeves can be hard at the best of times. But on the sunny Gold Coast it was virtually impossible. I had searched and searched and searched for a gown. I didn't want anything too fancy. Just simple elegance.

I was getting married in Melbourne, in the winter, so it was going to be cold, and I wanted long sleeves. There is just no such thing as a long sleeved wedding dress. 

During my adventures I went into a bridal shop. The attendant looked me up and down and said "Yes". I asked if he had any gowns with sleeves. His reply to me was "farm girls buy their wedding dresses from down the road". He proceded to give me a quick address and turned abruptly and walked away.

I wasn't quite insulted until I got to the shop he had directed me to an Op shop (or a thrift shop to all my US friends). How rude.... 

And pretty much to cut a long story short, that is how I got into fashion. I ended up designing my own Wedding gown and then had it made.

After that I quickly enrolled myself into a sewing course and  thats where my fashion journey began. 6 years later and now I am making the wedding dress for an Australian Football Players fiance. Wow, I feel like I have come full circle.

I love the part in the movie Pretty Woman, where Julia Roberts as Vivian  says-

Shop assistant: “Hello, can I help you?”

Vivian: “I was in here yesterday, you wouldn’t wait on me.”

Shop assistant: “Oh.”

Vivian: “You people work on commission, right?”

Shop assistant: “Yeah.”

Vivian: “Big mistake. Big. Huge. I have to go shopping now.”

I want to go and do that to the shop assistant that wouldn't wait on me... Although, inadvertently it was the best thing to happen to me....So maybe I should go Thank him!!!!

(Photography by Eliza Schwabe)

Fashion Exposed

I have recently returned back from a fabulous Fashion event in Sydney called Fashion Exposed. It is a large industry based event. I was lucky enough to win a spot in the Avant Garde Gallery.

Home Ground Fashion Show

There were 21 of us showcasing our designs.

The models in my garments are: Jessica Maloney, Aimee Burrows, Kelly Holmes and Tom Bull (all from Scene Model Management), plus my two models in the two big gold gowns Stephi Mclean and Rachael Anne Cross. It was a fabulous night!!!!

Images are from fashion photographer- Penny Lane

Disrupted Photo Shoot

Once again Scott, Elsie and I joined forces to do a Graduation photo shoot for me.

Involved in this shoot was:

Photographer: Scott G Trenorden

MUA: Elsie Tan

Models: Rachael Anne Cross,

Stephi Mclean &

Amanda MacDonald

Photographers Assistants: Megan Henderson,

Jerermy Hall &

Magdeline Lum

Crew: Tracie Cross

And ME: Designer, and stylist.

Elsie and I doing some finishing touches

Perth Fashion Festival - Menswear

Perth Fashion Festival - I had one garment in the Men's Ready-to-wear category. 

I made a hand knitted vest, mola worked cotton jersey top and recycled blazers converted into shorts. Keeping it Green!!!!!

Way out Bush!!!!

Photographer Scott G Trenorden, makeup artist Elsie Tan and I got together to discuss a photo shoot idea that Scott had. He knew of a great location way way way out bush for a great fashion shoot, and it was great!!! I designed and made a two dresses (purple and silver) and brought along a few more of my older ones. The main vision for the shoot was light floaty gowns.

We spent two days out bush. We stayed at this big old country home in the middle of no-where. It had such character. It was so enchanting. Great company, great house, great photo shoot.

Here are some of the images that Scott took..... (you can see more here.)

Model - Rachael Cross

This image below was Flickr's homepage when first published... way to go Scott check it out!!!!

 

Model - Alanna O

 Here are some of my images taken from the day...

I love this picture with Elsie the MUA holding the gown, Alanna so casual wearing a light weight gown in the freezing southern wind, Scott and Megan getting the lighting right...

It was amazing how the sky changed so quickly between models. It was perfect to have the blue sky with the blue gown Alanna O wore and this Purple one worn by Rach. She just looked stunning, they both did.

Designer: bek bek timson

Photographer: Scott G Trenorden

Models: Rachael A Cross, Alanna O

MUA: Elsie Tan

Lighting: Megan Henderson

Prelude

Prelude was a fashion event held in Perth in the lead up to Perth Fashion Festival. 

One of my closest girlfriends Rasha from fashion school had a dress in it!!

Vampire Shoot!!!

This photo shoot was by far the most fun I have had at a photo shoot to date... It was Vampire inspired and headed up by photographer Scott G Trenorden and model Zherish Opperman.

I got to spent about 12 hours of shooting with some really great company. The other designers there were Hannah Farleigh and Kate Townsend. The image above photographed by Kate Drennan she did some images of her own whilst recording the happenings of the day.

The following images are by Scott - this first dress is Rachael Cross wearing my gold beaded dress from the Australian Fashion Design Awards. The beading on this dress makes it really heavy.

Once again Rach wearing my gold dress and the other female model is dressed by Kate Townsend.

Behind the scenes

In Image- Photographer Scott G Trenorden and Rachael Cross model

Below left-  is Alegra in hair and makeup wearing another one of my creations.

Below right is one of the male models wearing my sporty suit design.

Another of Kate's images. Rachael wearing my gold gown....