Urban Trampers

Kate Sylvester’s great-outdoors inspired Take a Hike collection took to the runway at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week with models parading shorts, gaiters and anorak-style dresses. Sylvester told Grazia about the inspiration behind the collection: “Take a Hike is inspired by the glamorous, intrepid female explorers who refuse to believe that a love of nature needs to compromise one’s love of fashion by exploring Africa dressed in couture and the landscape sculpture of Christo.” Models wore nylon backpacks and spray-painted Doc Martens with spats as they tramped down the runway to Evan Dando’s ‘I’m Not The Outdoors Type’. The stand out look of Sylvester’s show was the flirty ecru tutu with legwarmers worn by Czech model Janka Zachnikova. The Australian called the collection “bright and breezy.”