Review: Marnie Skillings Spring/Summer 2010

RAFW: Marnie Skillings

May 1, 2010, 5:21 pm Jade Warne marie claire

The designer offers delectable cool-girl style for the season ahead.

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Calling all festival-going hipsters: this coming summer Marnie Skillings has the look for you.
See Marnie Skillings Spring/Summer 2010 Collection

In the radiant surrounds of Sydney's Botanic Gardens, Skillings presented a delightfully disheveled vision for spring/summer 2010 that was as colourful and cool as the designer herself.
From the first ruffled babydoll look, to the panelled shift dresses and mismatching nautical stripe tees, the collection was an eclectic fusion of vintage quirk and modern indie style.Worn by models Ruby-Jean, Zippora and Bambi, standout looks included a cheesecloth button-up smock with floral applique sleeves and cheeky patchwork playsuit teamed with a nanna cardigan and black lace body suit.
Even more covetable were the accessories which included ragged straw hats, oversized basball caps decorated with tattered fabric flowers and brown leather brogues tied with raffia string.

See Marnie Skillings Spring/Summer 2010 Collection


It was the kind of look you could see snapped up by Alexa, Zoe, Sienna and Kirsten. And for a designer known for her cool-girl take on summer dressing, the range was delightfully true to form.

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