My fave look of the day was the cute striped navy outfit, meeting Samantha Jade who looked stunning in Demillinery headpiece, and hanging out with my all time favourite girl, Alexia Petsinis who handmade her beautiful green dress. Enjoy the highlights!
All the Lavazza Marquee Oaks Day 2014 images are copyright and were taken for What Would Karl Do, please contact Jess Dempsey (jess@whatwouldkarldo.com) for permission to use these images. Thank you x
Oak’s Day was all about the ladies. Here’s my snapshot of the fashion and vibe inside the Lexus Pavilion. For more highlights, click on over to What Would Karl Do blog.
*All the images were taken by Karen Woo for What would Karl do, please contact Jess Dempsey for permission to use these images at jess@whatwouldkarldo.com. Thank you x
I just want to start this post by thanking you guys for the overwhelming positive response to all my images on What Would Karl Do blogsite, Instagram, Facebook and even walking up to me to tell me in person! Wow thank you so much! What amazed me the most is when I woke up this morning, I found my image of Lindy and Michael Klim’s Louboutin heels on Louboutinworld’s Instagram feed (over 3.4M followers) with 73K likes, I mean that’s incredible, and the fact that they acknowledged our work shows me how ethically and the respect they have for other creative’s work.
You see, I love Louboutin’s trademark red shoes because it was only 3 years ago I went to Paris to visit their infamous store on 19 Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 75001 Paris to buy my very first pair of Louboutin heels (patent violet heels) as Parisian souvenir. The store manager who served me at the time even let me in on a secret back then that an Australian lady was opening up a store in Sydney! It has surely come to pass!
Here’s the image that’s going viral (thanks for the regrams too):
Anyway, grab a Lavazza coffee and enjoy some highlights I have for you from Melbourne Cup Day. Feel free to leave me any comments as I would love to hear from you x
The Lavazza marquee 2014 this year was centred around chic Italian-inspired art work, platters of antipasto and Lavazza coffee. Main celebrity guests were Erykah Badu, DJ Nick Cohen, Margherita Maccapani Missoni and Solange Knowles (who unfortunately rocked up 2 hours late for her scheduled DJ gig). It was also nice catching up with Nicole Warne from Garypepper girl, and Nadia Bartel from Chronicles of Nadia who looked stunning from head to toe in their monochrome themed outfits. However it was only Margherita Missoni who stood out because she broke the black and white tradition with a colourful ensemble and mix of posies headpiece. You go girl!
Thank you Lavazza Australia for inviting me into your marquee to snap the fashionable crowd and enjoy a cup of coffee x.
All images are copyrighted to Karen Woo and Jess Dempsey so please credit/tag Karen Woo (@heykarenwoo) AND Jess Dempsey (@whatwouldkarldo) when sharing our images on social media. Thank you muchly x
The Lexus Pavilion was a triple-storey marquee themed around “Modern Luxe” which was designed by MIM Design. Their design was expressed by a display of spring pastel colours, green and pink carpeted areas with hundreds of light bulb vases hanging from the ceiling (on second level), also a sky deck rooftop space designed by Jamie Durie. The wait staff had their own custom-designed Country Road ensembles; and you couldn’t miss the new shiny chrome-wrapped Lexus NX sedan which has been turning heads all day inside (and outside peering into) the Lexus Design Pavilion! This wasn’t the first time I’ve seen Lexus custom wrap their cars in chrome, because a month ago I spotted the new chrome-wrapped Lexus RC 350 F Sport 2015 (and it has velvet-wrapped side mirrors too) at New York Fashion Week, and I must add it was fully dope. Yes, you can tell that I love my cars so you can imagine all the excitement when I got invited to attend and snap up the fashionable crowd and action in and around the Lexus design Pavillion!
Amongst the guests were Margaret Zhang from ShinebyThree, Pip Edwards, Kate Waterhouse and Henry Holland. Celebrities also included the real housewives of Melbourne, The Block winners, Jamie Durie, Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson.
I had such a great experience at Lexus so I can’t wait to snap more inside life of Lexus at Melbourne Cup and Oak’s Day. See you all there!
Please note that all the Lexus Marquee Derby Day 2014 images are copyright and were taken for What would Karl do, please contact Jess Dempsey (jess@whatwouldkarldo.com) for permission to use images. Thank you x
