StageLabel Model Casting at Lucky's:

This afternoon Jiawa from Closet Voyage and I took a late-lunch and headed over to Lucky's Speakeasy, not for a liquid lunch, but to check out the Model Casting for Melbourne-based crowd-funded fashion house StageLabel.
 

I first learned of StageLabel when they showed on opening night of Fashfest 2014 earlier this year. StageLabel describe themselves as the platform where our community gets to pick which designers to support and which designs and concepts to develop. It is a fantastic opportunity and nurturing avenue for new and emerging designers to test individual designs from their collection, develop a customer base and fund the start or growth of their label.

And it seems that the creative force behind StageLabel have a taste for Canberra after the success of Fashfest 2014. Several of the designers that showed at this years Fashfest events have signed up with StageLabel. Furthermore, StageLabel have had a presence at the most recent Hustle & Scout markets, and are indeed planning an event here in Canberra, hence the model casting.

While I was there for to observe the casting, I have to say that for me the real star of the show was Lucky's, the venue. Tucked away across the foyer of QT, the newly opened Hotel on London Circuit; Lucky's Speakeasy is a bar that could easily have been doomed to a gimmicky short-lived life. 

Fortunately, everything about Lucky's, and indeed about QT, is impeccably executed and delightful to behold. 

From the rich and seductive ambiance of the decor to the well appointed bar that has even the most adroit teetotaler whetting their lips and signalling the barman. And moving through Lucky's towards the foyer, there is an honest-to-god Barber's offering men's cuts and shaves. I'm not looking to replace my beloved hairdresser, but I am VERY curious about a straight-razor shave!

QT and Lucky's are a great additions to the Canberra hotel and bar scene, just as StageLabel is to the fashion market here in our Nation's capital. I'm really looking forward to what StageLabel will have to show us next, and I cannot wait to return and to avail myself of several cocktails from Lucky's, and maybe even a shave!