While Australian fashion’s finest were being dazzled on the runways installed in the Royal Exhibition Building for Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival, a couple of blocks north in a Fitzroy backstreet, interested consumers and industry observers were being shown into a graffiti covered building.

From dainty earrings to bold statuettes, artist Holly Ryan's sculpture and jewellery forms cross between disciplines. She draws from sources as diverse as the coarse, natural beauty of the Sunshine Coast, the mystical feminine, and rituals of wabi sabi, a Japanese philosophy of transience and imperfection across both creative pursuits.

For an Australian brand that has survived the after effects of the global financial crisis, the shift to online retail and the decimation of the local manufacturing base, there is surprisingly little written about Melbourne-based label Kloke.

It is five days before her Spring/Summer 2019 collection goes on sale, and Greek designer Katerina Korrou has just pulled over in her car to speak via Whatsapp. Speaking on her current situation, Korrou is totally unfazed, “it's getting mad,” she said. “Every day a little bit of everything.”

It's funny because I wouldn't say that I'm obsessed with beauty at all or that I'm inherently drawn to the beauty industry,” noted Geraerts. We are in the offices of creative agency Love + Money, on Melbourne’s Gertrude Street, which share premises with It’s All Fluff and have helped create much of the brand’s visual identity.

As our business grows we have a greater responsibility to give back to our community. We have a large Asian clientele coming from overseas, and they only came when they are young, like me.”