Brisbane Fashion Festival officially opened its 21st year on Monday night, with the city\u2019s fashion scene taking centre stage across a packed program of events.<\/p>\n
Festival celebrations began with an exclusive invitation-only event for Kidman, marking the opening of its brand new Brisbane flagship store ahead of the label\u2019s appearance in the sold-out W Brisbane Fashion Show on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The W show will launch the Festival\u2019s runway program, bringing together leading Queensland and Australian designers and retailers and showcasing fashion audiences can discover and shop in Brisbane.<\/p>\n
It will be followed by a stand-alone Carla Zampatti runway, with one of Australia\u2019s most celebrated fashion houses bringing its latest collection to the Brisbane catwalk.<\/p>\n
Now entering its third decade, Brisbane Fashion Festival has grown from a platform championing local designers into Queensland\u2019s premier fashion event.<\/p>\n
Festival Director Lindsay Bennett said Brisbane no longer needed to look elsewhere for inspiration.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrisbane can be whatever it wants to be in the fashion world,\u201d Bennett said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t need to imitate, we are an international destination and fashion capital in our own right.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Festival continues throughout the week with local and national designers taking to the runway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane Fashion Festival officially opened its 21st year on Monday night, with the city\u2019s fashion scene taking centre…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40609,122585,122592,122593,122577,122589,40926,122591,122574,122586,23,78443,99,122581,87595,23501,6909,122575,122583,122579,88106,122596,122594,122572,122576,96475,122573,122588,122578,37045,36518,122590,122587,212,122595,36676,122584,63031,61329,47921,81782,122582,44918,122580],"class_list":["post-79523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brisbane","tag-s-appearance","tag-s-fashion-scene","tag-s-premier-fashion-event-festival-director-lindsay-bennett","tag-s-runway-program","tag-a-fashion-capital","tag-a-packed-program","tag-a-platform","tag-a-stand-alone-carla-zampatti-runway","tag-an-exclusive-invitation-only-event","tag-an-international-destination-and-fashion-capital","tag-australia","tag-bennett","tag-brisbane","tag-brisbane-fashion-festival","tag-brisbane-it","tag-centre-stage","tag-events","tag-fashion-audiences","tag-fashion-houses","tag-festival-celebrations","tag-inspiration","tag-its-21st-year","tag-its-brand-new-brisbane-flagship-store","tag-its-latest-collection","tag-its-third-decade","tag-kidman","tag-leading-queensland-and-australian-designers-and-retailers","tag-local-and-national-designers","tag-local-designers","tag-monday","tag-night","tag-our-own-right","tag-our-proof","tag-queensland","tag-the-brisbane-catwalk-now","tag-the-city","tag-the-fashion-world","tag-the-festival","tag-the-label","tag-the-opening","tag-the-runway","tag-the-sold-out-w-brisbane-fashion-show","tag-the-week","tag-tuesday-the-w-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}