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Parisian label Faith Connexion will make its runway debut at MADE Sydney
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For the uninitiated, MADE is the always electric antidote to an all too conservative and often prohibitive Fashion Week system.
It’s a platform for championing those working outside the established structures of the global fashion and cultural industries. It has been a New York institution since 2009, and in the years since it has expanded to Los Angeles and Berlin where each year it stages over 70 fashion shows free of charge to the next generation of designers committed to doing things a little differently.
For the first time this year, MADE is making its way to Sydney for an inaugural event in November that’ll draw on the city’s dynamic fashion, skating, art, music and cultural worlds to create something entirely new.
And the best part is you’re invited.
For one weekend from November 11-13, MADE will takeover Sydney’s Carriageworks to stage a fashion first event culminating in the debut runway for Paris-based label, Faith Connexion. Fashion editors the world over have been imploring the label to stage a show ever since it first came to prominence last year through the collective efforts of a largely anonymous team that’s believed to be helmed by former Balmain creative director, Christophe Decarnin.
All those wishes will come true at once through their first runway presentation on a replica of the iconic San Franciscan skate spot, Hubba Hideout, which was demolished in 2011. The course will also be open to the public and will serve as a proving ground for Sydney’s first Skate + Style amateur competition.
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Another world first will also take place in the premiere screening of The High Life: Slim Aarons, an M2M documentary about the life and work of the photographer whose influence on fashion has regained front-of-mind prominence (see Thom Browne’s phenomenal Spring Summer 2017 show).
The documentary will screen throughout the weekend, alongside event wide shopping in the form of The Stores where the wares of 69, MadeMe, Misbhv, Places + Faces, Lessons Concept Store, Life’s a Beach, Faith Connexion and more will be instantly shoppable.
MADE Sydney will take place at Carriageworks from November 11-13, 2016.
For more information and to purchase tickets head to sydney.ma.de and follow @MADE on Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr.
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