Sydney Fashion Week- Stylert.com

May 14, 2012 - PRLog -- The Fashion Week Australia (MBFWA) has been held from April 30 to May 4 in Sydney. The event brings together the elite of Australia's growing fashion scene, with a selection of local designers who are getting the chance to present their collections before an international audience and potential buyers.

Many of these designers are all well-known throughout Australia as like Camilla Franks who is known for her colorful graphic prints or Camilla Freeman-Topper for modern silhouettes with her brother Marc, Dion Lee for his structured tailoring, Rachel Gilbert for her luxury embellishments, We Are Handsome for its luxury swimwear collection,Ksubi is known for its jeans and Terry Biviano for her highly coveted shoe designs.

International guests at the fashion week were: Rumi Neely from Los Angeles, Natalie Joos from New York, Bryan Boy from Manila and Candice Lake and Kirsty Hathaway from London.

Fashion is becoming an important industry for Sydney and the state of NSW, employing some 66,000 people across design, manufacturing, wholesaling and retailing, and generating an income of around 7.5 billion U.S. dollars each year. Almost 40 percent of Australia's creative industries are based in Sydney or NSW with around 150,000 people in NSW directly employed in the sector, across film, music, design and fashion.

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