DESIGNER PROFILE WAYNE COOPER AUSTRALIAN FASHION DESIGNER Wayne Cooper Australian fashion designer, grew up in London's East End. Despite a strong sense of style and love of fashion, he went to university and completed a law degree. During his early beginnings in a legal career he made a pro-active decision that was set to change his future forever. In 1985 he made a big and bold choice to come to Australia. Entranced by fashion, he took a job at Sydney clothing store, Masons. After training in fashion design at East Sydney Technical College, Wayne was involved in a successful fashion partnership in Sydney for 7 years. Following this he decided to go it alone; the ‘Brave’ move occurred and so too, one of the most respected fashion labels was born. In 1996 the launch of his signature label, WAYNE COOPER, brought a more exclusive collection to complement the BRAVE label. In just five short years he rose to the top of Australia’s fashion industry. In 2002, the BRAVE label was replaced by WAYNE, a youthful, sexy label with a playful mix of surplus to ‘op’ shop. The rock n’ roll sense of fun – spirited, cheeky, irreverent with the romantic tones that defined Cooper’s original label BRAVE, influence all of his designs, from the most daring to the strictly tailored. Both collections, WAYNE COOPER and WAYNE by Wayne Cooper, each season feature approximately 200 styles and showcase many innovative and exclusive fabrics, which range from billowy taimu silks, duchess satins, stretch silk wool, clingy silk knits, fluid jerseys, textured Mongolian lamb, washed calf leather, soft cashmere and tweed silk to fine wool and cotton (Wayne cooper) . |
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 Elegant and stylish this white dress is flattering and well designed. The use of white with just a touch of silver gives this dress a graceful appearance. Wayne cooper is renowned for his lustrous designs and vivid use of colour. This dress looks similar in design to dresses worn by Grace Kelly & Jackie Kennedy who were in there time style icons. Wayne Cooper has put a modern day spin on elegance and style and has designed this dress to flatter the wearer not overwhelm them.  Clean lines and attractive complimentary colours make this menswear outfit attractive. The new age look at the moment for men is tight fitted but casual looking apparel. |
 Flowing material, vivid colour this lime green/yellow dress is a runway piece that oozes femininity and class .Wayne Cooper has been quoted as saying that dresses should make men want to rip women’s clothes off .I think Wayne achieves that with this dress , the material is luxurious and the design is flirty but still classy, Wayne Cooper understands when designing that figures should be flattered and not everything needs to be shown to be sexy.  High hemlines covered with long flowing fabric in beautiful colours, really gives this dress depth and beauty. You can tell Wayne cooper has fun designing; his designs are always sexy and fun with exciting colours that really intrigue. |
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