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Haley Bracken, wife of quick bowler Nathan, stole the show, but not for the right reasons, in a glittering - and very revealing gown that looks like it came from the wardrobe of Kath 'n Kim.

It came close to the horrific outfit Geoffrey Edelstein's wife Brynne Gordon wore to the Brownlow Medals earlier this year.

Lara Bingle, on the other hand, was a picture of sartorial elegance in her neck-plunging all-white Michelle Jank dress, completed by Chanel body tattoos, fresh off the overseas catwalks. Her fiance Michael Clarke led the men's fashion stakes in a Prada dinner suit.

And there were no cricket whites in sight at Melbourne's Crown Casino when fast bowler Mitchell Johnson and girlfriend Jessica Bratich stepped out in black, Jessica in a Ruth Tarvydas gown.

Athlete Tamsyn Lewis swapped the track for the red carpet too, accompanying wicketkeeper boyfriend Graham Manou. Skipper Ricky Ponting was overshadowed by his wife Rianna, who wore a shimmering Nicola Finetti dress that looked more like a wedding gown. from:http://www.guestbook4you.be/gb/gb.php?id=4536

First Lady's Passion for Fashion Wields Influence

But it's her wardrobe choices that seem at times to draw the most attention and media coverage. She was named to Vanity Fair's International Best Dressed List and was honored with a special tribute award by the Council of Fashion Designers of America.

The first lady even Trouwjurk Lange Mouw earned Sexy Cocktailjurken a spot on US Weekly's Best Dressed in 2009 list, keeping company with Hollywood stars such as Angelina Jolie and Blake Lively of "Gossip Girl."

There's little question that the first lady has quickly become a fashion tour de force and her stamp of approval on a designer or brand may be just the boost they need to spur sales and gain media attention in tough economic times.

When she and Vintage Trouwjurk the president met British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife at their London residence, Michelle Obama wore a sparkling, cardigan J. Crew sweater -- a $298 item called the Crystal constellation cardigan -- and the item sold out online within an hour.

The pencil skirt Obama paired with the sweater also was an instant hit with shoppers.

J. Crew's revenues increased 7 percent from February to October and store sales increased 11 percent from the same period in 2008.

While it's difficult to measure any Michelle Obama effect, analysts note that when the first lady wears a brand, there is a spike in media attention for the label that can only help spur sales.

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Nobody needs Avondjurken 2013 to be told that the Kennedy myth is not what it used to be. But there's one part of it that no amount of historical revisionism will undo. The Kennedys, especially Jackie, changed the climate of taste in America. From the moment they assumed center stage, they chased away all memory of Mamie Eisenhower's tiered-ruffle dresses Avondjurken and the bamboo furniture in the solarium of Ike's White House. (After Mamie took her on a tour of the place, Jackie complained to a friend that "it looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.") To see Jackie, at 31, take command of the White House was like watching an X-15 blow a sonic boom through your grandmother's credenza.

Jackie Kennedy had longtime ambitions to be a style setter. At age 20, she wrote that her goal in life was to be "a sort of Overall Art Director of the Twentieth Century." If that isn't the place she achieved, it is true all the same that no midcentury woman in the English-speaking world influenced taste the way she did in the 1960s. Audrey Hepburn was cuter, the Duchess of Windsor had more spending power; but Jackie crystallized an emerging notion of modernity for both the elites she moved among: the newly prosperous middle classes and those still striving to move up. (One look at Nikita Khrushchev's wife Nina and you understood why the Russians have a word like babushka.) Thin as an icicle, as up-to-the-minute as a nose cone, wherever Jackie was, there was the New Frontier.

This is one reason the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is devoting its big show this year to "Jacqueline Kennedy: the White House Years." A less scholarly reason is that anything with Jackie's name attached is guaranteed to bring crowds through the doors. What the crowds will find when the show opens on May 1 is an exhibit lavishly guest curated by Hamish Bowles, 37, a Vogue fashion editor who may now know Jackie's wardrobe better than she did. Costume shows at the Met are ordinarily confined to cramped basement rooms. Bowles has mounted this one in the spacious upstairs galleries, some of them redesigned to resemble the White House state rooms as Jackie refurbished them.

But this is a show about more than Jackie's trademarks: the boxy jackets and pillbox hats, the three-quarter-length sleeves, the lace mantillas, the overblouse dresses and the sleeveless A-lines. It's also the story of a consummate act of imagemaking. As a Bouvier, she was born with a taste for all things French. By her 20s, that meant anything by Hubert de Givenchy, the French disciple of Balenciaga. Givenchy had dressed Audrey Hepburn in sleek, clean lines that were the last word in mid-'50s modern, a style Jackie adopted as her own. But by 1960, John F. Kennedy was running for President. It would not do for him to have a wife who gave the impression that the French flag was her notion of the red, white and blue--or one who could spend more on clothes than most families made in a year.

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"This is very much an Australian fashion aesthetic and it is often the way many Australian women - young or old - think they should dress," Hoyer said.

"While so many trend-oriented fashion designers want us to go a bit more avant garde in our dressing, the vast majority of consumers and fashion-fans still want a fairly simple and wearable shape; they like colour and they like a print. Oh, and they love showing their legs. So Alex dress fits all the criteria."

Harper's Bazaar editor Edwina McCann agreed, adding that the dress was an aspirational piece that was in line with what most women like to wear.

"You can look at all the complicated, on-trend designs but at the end of the day women just want to wear a nice frock. The races and big occasions command this type of dress and that's why Alex's shows are so successful."

This year's Rosemount Australian Fashion Week was dominated by "wearable" designs, said to be a response to the Global Financial Crisis.

But in a year that was dubbed "all frocks, no shocks" RAFW was simply following European trends.

McCann said there was nothing that "moved fashion forward" while Vogue editor Kirstie Clements said she was largely "underwhelmed" by Fashion Week this year.

"Many major designers such as Willow, Akira and Collette Dinnigan chose to sit it out," Clements said.

"There was a general level of amateurism that rendered RAFW more student than serious."

Designers are said to have taken less risks this year, opting for trends which were well price-pointed and would walk out the door.

McCann said: "Designers are becoming more and more retail-savvy and are experiencing tough times so have to make sure that what they're making sells. They're increasingly retail-focused and have to make sure that buyers can see a place for their samples in stores."

Soft drapery, nude and pastel tones, grecian-inspired dresses, sports wear, contrasting textures, and neon-infused prints were some of the key trends.

So what will the Harper's Bazaar style maven be putting in her wardrobe from the week?

"A Christopher Esber leather dress, the Dion Lee black dress with the little knots on the shoulders, some tailoring from Lisa Ho, a floor-length floral from Bassike, and a caramel shirt tucked in to a wide legged pant with from Therese Rawsthorne."

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