HONG KONG COLLECTIONS DAZZLE

Hong Kong Collection show touted as one of the best yet by the packed audience at MERCEDES AUSTRALIAN FASHION WEEK.

In their sixth consecutive year participating at Mercedes Australian Fashion Week, the Hong Kong design contingent have once gain produced a collection show that dazzled a packed Cargo Hall at the Overseas Passenger Terminal.

The Hong Kong show, held on the third day of showings at MAFW, featured the Spring/Summer collections from Dorian Ho, Doris Lee, Spy Henry Lau, Emily Cheong, Ruby Liand Ranee Kok. The show was well-received, with much interest from both local and international buyers, including Saks Fifth Avenue, Selfridges and CK Tangs.

Immediately following the collection show, buyers went directly to the Hong Kong designers stand to view the collections up close and made appointments to discuss buying orders. Dorian Ho and Henry Lau, leading the group, both received high-level orders in the days following the collection show.

The Hong Kong designers featured exclusively on Channel 9's Today Show program the morning of the collection show and backstage camera crews from ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), Australian Cosmopolitan magazine and AAP (Australian Associated Press) all jostled to interview designers and models alike ahead of the catwalk production.

The Herald Sun's Holly Lloyd-McDonald reported: "Honkers really know how to rock the fashion world. Punk - rock NYC ghetto met swan-like divas from the silver screen in a mix of designs from the small island's best thread artisans."

Jacqueline Lunn, fashion reporter from The Sydney Morning Herald highlighted Emily Cheong's fur scarves wrapped around models in evening wear, tipping that faux fur is sure to be a fashion winner in the coming seasons.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, OR TO SECURE AN INTERVIEW WITH REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE HONG KONG DESIGNER CONTINGENT AT MAFW, CONTACT: Anthony Kelaher at Spin Communications
Tel: (61 2) 9360 3377
Email: a.kelaher@spin.com.au