Celeste Barber is no stranger to fashion but she has a “love-hate relationship to [her] wardrobe and the industry around it”. The comic actor who made her name parodying high fashion shoots has since started starring in them (she’s a muse to Tom Ford, no less) and this outsider-to-insider trajectory makes her a perfect host for The Way We Wore, a three-part documentary series about Australia’s fashion history.
Contemporary fashion is grappling with a series of crises – social, environmental, economic – but The Way We Wore inspects clothing as a sort of material biography, a way of tracking personal and national character.
