SALASAI

There is always a steady stream of talent pouring out from Aus/Nz designers. Seeing such talent mostly makes me sob tears into my wallet which later turns to wet cloth once RAFW rolls around. By then, I am usually clenching my fists with my eyes closed and wishing really hard for an Alice Euphemia sale to pop up. But those darn sales always come around at the wrong time. Oh Cotton On, how I resent your $10 sales! And thus I am yet to own any magnifico pieces from local labels. But 2011 will be a serious year. I will save my pennies to finally buy something I will love forever. Something that will fill my heart with joy each time I look at it.*

I am seriously going to save up for Salasai. I am getting underlying satan worshipper vibes from their clothes, not only from the creepy staring going on in the lookbook but the two faced skirts as well. Oh lordy, this New Zealand label is really going for the heart strings. Their A/W 11 collection Sacrificial Grace mixes two faced pieces (so you can be all 'fairy dust innocent one moment then cauldren stirring wench the next) with a smattering of unisex (not that that affects me as I have no considerable other half to care for) and walks the trademark NZ tightrope-simple & clean and a touch avant garde. Basically in plain old internet terms, GET THIS ON ME NOW. OMNOMNOMNOMNOM.

This talk of saving up for amazing local labels just reminded me of ffiXXed. Actually they're now working and doing production in Shenzhen but they're originally from Aus so... OH WHATEVER they're amazing and a post about them is long overdue.

But now, lap up some Salasai.

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*saving for clothes will commence after I save for Pocketto

** Apologies for my lame commentary. Spur of the moment thing when I was putting these pictures together. I'd go back and remove it but I deleted the originals. DOH!