
There’s a new, not to be missed, exhibition that’s about to be launched at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum. It’s titled, you guessed it: Creating the look: Benini and fashion photography. And it kicks off on 31 July, 2010. This yummy new exhibition – that is part of Sydney Design 10 – explores the art of fashion photography. Creating the look: Benini and fashion photography explores the creative processes involved in styling, crafting and designing powerful eye-catching fashion photographs. More specifically it draws on the highly successful partnership between Italian-born photographer Bruno Benini and his wife Hazel Benini, a New Zealand-born window display artist, fashion stylist and visual merchandising designer. From the 1950s through to 2000, the couple produced some of Australia’s most memorable and elegant fashion images by combining careful styling with elegant design.
The good news is that I’ve found WANDA that elusive female mannequin! For readers NEW to this blog, Wanda is the mannequin that I’ve been searching for high and low, who through the auspices of friend #1 (Jane), led me to friend #2 (Annie), who is the owner of one of these freaky lifeless dames. Friend #2 (Annie) is a vintage clothes fetichist who has (more…)