I love beautiful fabrics and I delight in seeing them transformed into gorgeous gowns. It was why my protagonist Charlotte Wyatt, became a fashion designer because like other writers, I like to live vicariously. You can read about Charlotte’s journey from fashion design student, to model and then body double, in Substitute Child.
While most of the characters in my soon to be released novel, Alone with a Tasman Tiger, spend their time in the bush wearing military disposables or kit from Patagonia, my two leading ladies have the opportunity to don their most dazzling gowns at a fashion catwalk held at the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania. The event is called Kaleidoscope on the Catwalk, and it becomes a pivotol location in the closing scenes of Alone with a Tasman Tiger.
I recently attended a staggeringly beautiful fashion display by Iris Van Herpen at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane. The gowns were wonderfully whimsical and definitely not in the wearable category. But they would have been at home on the catwalk at the MONA,
