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Strike a Pose … with Lee Lin Chin
 Lovers
of fashion will delight in the trends of the 1960s and 1970s which take
centre stage in the latest National Archives of Australia touring exhibition.
Strike a Pose … with Lee Lin Chin explores the world of
Australian style up to 40 years ago, when trendsetters created a fashion
revolution with a mix of mini skirts, space-aged garments and granny dresses.
Public Record Office Victoria is hosting this celebration of Australian
fashion photography at the Victorian Archives Centre, North Melbourne
until 20 November, 2009.
Lee Lin Chin guest curator and SBS World News presenter was present at
the official launch of the exhibition on Wednesday 23 September along
with guest speaker Robert Buckingham, Founding Creative Director of Woolmark
Melbourne Fashion Festival (now L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival).
The exhibition takes a look at the emerging local fashion industry of
the time, along with its personalities, trends and influences. Posed fashion
shots sit alongside the exuberance of street culture, capturing the essence
of a period when cultural change ruled.
“These pictures are not about art,” says Lee Lin Chin in
an introduction to the exhibition. “They are not even just about
fashion because, from today's perspective, they've recorded a transcendent
historical moment when nothing was going to be quite the same again.”
The exhibition features 89 photographs taken by Australian Government
photographers during the 1960s and 1970s to promote the burgeoning Australian
fashion industry and the Australian lifestyle overseas.
Strike a Pose…with Lee Lin Chin
Until 20 November, 2009.
Where: Victorian Archives Centre, 99 Shiel Street, North Melbourne
Open: Tuesday to Friday, 8.00 am to 6.00 pm
Entry Cost: Free
Phone: (03) 9348 5600, Email: ask.prov@prov.vic.gov.au
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