Romance Was Born, with shoes

I don't usually report on fashion events but I just could not go past the amazingly sculptural and ridiculously high shoes that were on display at the Lisa Ho Fashion Show, Romance was Born at Australian Fashion Week 2009. The show included an amazing of Marie Antoinette level extravagance. Surely the influx of "recessionistas " (which buy the way is a silly and absurd term and offensive to both the recession and people who enjoy fashion), would have been applaud. But isn't fashion more about having a little fun and adventure than being serious, although maybe not in those shoes. You can see the rest of the show online.

The Romance Was Born show at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week. Photo: Getty Images

Terra Nullius Now Showing in Germany

The German Federal Cultural Foundation has funded an exhibition of Australian Art which begun on Australia Day. Terra Nullius: Contemporary Art from Australia is curated by Deborah Kelly (Australian) and Frank Motz (Germana) and has an amazing array and quality of artists and mediums and is an example of the increasing relationship between Australian and German contemporary art galleries. The exhibition will be showing at ACC Galerie Weimar until 22 March 2009 and then move on to Halle 14 in the Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig from 1 May - 26 July 2009.

The artists participating are:

Vernon Ah Kee
Tony Albert
Richard Bell
boat-people.org
Jon Campbell
Destiny Deacon & Virginia Fraser
Julie Dowling
Tina Fiveash
George Gittoes
Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro
Gordon Hookey
Dianne Jones
Mike Parr
pvi collective
Tony Schwensen
Merran Sierakowski
Soda_Jerk
Squatspace
Natascha Stellmach
Judy Watson