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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Lucianne Tonti additional reporting by Isabella Lee and Alyx Gorman

‘Holiday dressing in black’: why Australian gothic is back in fashion

A model wearing a red Haluminous outfit for the Frontier fashion show in Sydney, 12 May 2026
Hannah Kim’s label Haluminous on display at the Frontier group show at Australian fashion week in Sydney. Photograph: Mike Tarr/Australian Fashion Council

In the eyes of emerging female designers, the future looks dark. On Tuesday, the Frontier – a group show of six up-and-coming designers at Australian fashion week – featured corsets, body armour, strange proportions and stranger textures.

When the designers stepped forward to take their bow at the end of the show, staged at the Sydney Theatre Company, they wore head-to-toe black.

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