In bed with Philip Treacy. Flinders Lane, Melbourne Australia June 2014
"Love the shock of the new, that's what I say. It's about the hunt and the catch.... And then, always when I come back the thing that shocked me the most is the thing I can't stop talking about. Because it's so exciting when people take things beyond our imagination. And I always feel like when I am traveling I am on the outside of the planet looking down at all of these mad people
running around this planet making more and more beautiful things that
we don't need, but they're so beautiful we must have them, and... it [has] got to be pretty beautiful otherwise why are we doing it?"
"And then Philip of course blows me away, because, you see him there and he [has] got these flowers in his atelier, he's being inspired by botanic things, and he watches that thing growing. It could be quite sadly growing and unhealthy, but he's observing that shape and he always invents another thing. He has orchids growing, they're looking a bit sad but it's in the reality of that botanic 'thing' happening, that he gets ideas as a form."
"We didn't realize until our grandmother's funeral that she was the local 'town couturier'. We thought all these ladies we would visit were her friends, but they used to be her staff... we grew up in Sydney and our parents would put us on a train at central station with the shoebox packed with the sandwiches, tied with string..." Christine Barro
"It was the perfect picture of a hard earned race day, just getting that tiny little cat nap....I love it, don't you love it." Virginia Dowzer
Christine Barro and sister, Jane-ann Davoren, have been ambassadors of 'the new' for over 40 years. Their dedication to supporting supreme design in fashion is unwavering, inspiring and a gift to Melbournians. As is Christine of Flinders Lane.
The evening of Thursday 26th June 2014 Christine and Jane-anne closed the doors of Christine and opened the doors of Christine's city dwelling for TIME WITH JOAN.
Virginia Dowzer had previously been at a party at Christine's and witnessed fortuitously the scene above, minus Philip Treacy.
Our excitement over the first TIME WITH JOAN started with a phone call to Christine and Jane Ann introducing the idea. Nothing had been said about what Virginia had witnessed or our ideal portrait concept for Christine and Jane Ann but as conversation progressed with Christine serrendipidy came to play.
"Philip's Spring Summer 2014 collection is on the bed [in the apartment]," said Christine, "we could do it there, ' In bed with Philip Treacy!'".
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