NEWS
Behind the scenes at this year’s MIMC
MIMC 2022
Melbourne International Millinery Competition
by Todd Anthony
Melbourne’s people are out of lockdowns, weddings are back on, and Melbourne’s Mothers of the Bride are the new army. The 2022 International Millinery Competition was ready for them.
3rd place winner was ‘Love in Bloom’ by Holly Sansalone
Joint first winner Faye
Partridge wearing her entry ‘Wedding Heaven’
Louise Macdonald finalising her scores for Wendy’s entry
‘Pink Delight’,
joint first winning hat by Wendy White
For its sixth year, the annual Melbourne International Millinery Competition went full steam ahead! The 2022 steam was used to form the brims of headwear to a very special brief. After so many long months of postponed weddings, the bridal industry had come back. Catherine Ellen of The Essential Hat collaborated with local designer Vivienna Lorikeet. The two together considered a brief to appease the sometimes forgotten yet ever-important mothers of the bride. Vivienna supplied garments that responded to multiple wedding settings and Catherine developed and communicated the brief to all entrants. The brief was simple: to conceptualise, design, develop and construct a millinery piece to be worn with one of the looks that had been supplied. The premise of this year’s competition
was to do more than just create a headpiece responding to a brief. This year was dedicated to bringing awareness to millinery, its practitioners and the work that they produce. To align the competition to the wedding industry was important. The task for this year’s entrants was one not just of creativity and skill; it was also one of integral marketing and public relations in order to assist artists in bouncing back from the years that have passed. Headwear designers from all around the
world participated in this year’s event, with close to 70 entrants. Judging criteria for the competition included style, line, balance, weight, technique, finish and originality. The panel included the founder of The Essential Hat Susan Drerup, internationally recognised milliner and tutor Louise Macdonald,
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Photos by Stavros Sakellaris
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