I saw this book, Australian Fashion Unstitched, The last 60 years, at Borders yesterday while chillaxing in the in store cafe with Henry enjoying some apple juice. I picked it up to read, along with a huge pile of magazines, not really thinking anything of it.
Jokingly I turn to the index and look for my name...
AND HOLY HECK my name is there!!! My name is in an INDEX of a book which documents the history of Australian fashion over the last 60 years!!! My name is there with people like Jenny Kee, Lisa Gorman and Anna and Luke from Romance was Born!!! Admittedly I had an inkling about this book as about six to nine months ago a friend emailed me to say she was editing (not writing, editing) a chapter of a book about Australian fashion and I was mentioned. The book didn't have a title back then so I have been looking out for books about Australian fashion for a while now, haha.
The chapter I am mentioned in is all about Australian fashion photography and is written by Daniel Palmer, a senior lecturer at Monash University and Kate Rhodes who is the editor of Artichoke magazine and former curator of Photography and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Victoria. It's about the changing face of fashion photography in Australia and mentions photographers I really admire such as Max Dupain and Helmet Newton....and me.
As you can see they talk about my street fashion photography, which started as a hobby as a sixteen year old, led me to going to art school where I studied fine art photography with my focus more on fashion and then to now where its my job with my photos being published online and in magazines around the world....and now I'm part of Australia's fashion history. Seriously I am blown away. Never ever ever in my wildest dreams could I have imagined this. I come from a background of battlers, of people telling me my dreams were impossible ones (except my mum, she always believed in me) and look at me now, the struggle has been worth it.
Congratulations and very, VERY nice work!
ReplyDeleteThat is so fucking cool Hayley, such a rising star! Remember when people said you'd never work in the fashion industry? FUCK THOSE HATERS YOU'RE IN A BOOK!!
ReplyDeleteSo proud of you!
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That's excellent stuff - you deserve to be there! Thanks for sharing about the book, I'm definitely going to try and find it.
ReplyDeleteWell we already talked about this, but just wanted to say again, VERY PROUD AND EXCITED for you! Congrats darl, well deserved and here's to much, much more where that came from! oxoxxoxooxo
ReplyDeletePS. Liliana Pomazan (co-author) was one of our lecturers and she is one of the most amazing women you'll ever meet!
my god thats amazing! congratulations on making a massive impact on the austalian fashion industry :)
ReplyDeleteHoorah! Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteTHIS IS AMAZING! CONGRATS!
ReplyDeleteThats amazing - Congratulations!!!!
ReplyDeletecongratulations hayley!
ReplyDeletewhat an amazing achievement!
cemented in fashion history forever!
What an amazing achievement, you and your mum should be proud!
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So amazingly fantastic and well deserved! Congrats!
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Holy Heck, Congratulations. An amazing acheivement!
ReplyDeleteGood job Hayley, how exciting!
ReplyDeleteSweet - good on ya!x
ReplyDeleteoh wow, congratulations - what a wonderful surprise!
ReplyDeletekeep up the good work darling, i look forward to you next book appearance! xxx
first of - conratulations on ure feature in this iconic book. u deserve it so much. ure an amazing stylist and blogger.
ReplyDeletei am so glad that ure bloggin for city chic. u really inspired me and made me realize how awesome their pieces are!
mentioned you in my lil blog today ... pls. check it out when u get the chance:
http://bigbeautyfulmess.blogspot.com/2010/05/city-chic-week-day-two.html
ure AMAZING! xoxo!
Well done legend!
ReplyDeleteToo amazing, Daniel was one of my lecturers at uni (obviously I was a Monash girl) and an all-round inspiring guy. He spoke at the opening of an exhibition I was in and is just one of those people who you can't help but be drawn in by. I'm sure everything he wrote about the changing faces of fashion was nothing short of eloquent and informative. Congrats on your mention girl! xo
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congrats ;)
ReplyDeleteamazing!! after reading your about me section, you seem to be a very accomplished person! congratulations on this achievement!!
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congratulations Hayley!! I understand what you mean about coming from a family of battlers, me too.
ReplyDeleteHey Hayley, congrats on being included! I work for CUP, who published Australian Fashion Unstitched, and I remember working on this book - it was so fascinating. Keep up the good work and I'm sure you'll have many more mentions coming your way!
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