• Creative Direction
  Stephanie Downey
• Nationality
  Australian
• Main
  Melbourne, Australia
• Website
  www.dressup.net.au

SUMMARY
Australian designer Stephanie Downey has a constant focus on the creative and often untamed process of wearability and the action which causes us to produce a variegated ensemble. Her clothes inherently express a heightened sense of a second animated skin whereby glamour, vanity, and indeed personal expression is left unbridled within an insightful and witty sense. Using finer fabrics that are tactile and ever present, interpretations of what women can wear converges between the sophisticated woman, classic and in her own words, “An ode to being ladylike”.

HIGHLIGHTS
Studied at Royal Institute of Technology, Melbourne (RMIT)

Collaborates with Australian photographer Gen Kay for ‘Half Way’ collection; 2008

Collaborates with Melbourne photographer Suleyman Karaaslan for ‘Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die’ collection; 2009

Featured in Australian periodical Doingbird; 2009

Collaborates with Australian photographer Saskia Wilson for ‘Near Dark’ collection; 2009

Dress Up stocked at prestigious London’s Liberty store; 2010