The Beauty Curse - Frock Paper Scissors

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Welcome to the 2009 edition of
Frock PaPer SciSSorS...
When we were working towards this issue, what struck us most was the dedication,
talent and daring attitude our team encompassed. Our love for all things new, innovative
and edgy was the starting point for what is aptly entitled our Fearless issue. Here,
we showcase the up-and-comers on the Brisbane fashion scene, with our QUT Fashion Graduate
shoots, The Hunter Becomes the Hunted and The Final Cut. It is refreshing to see such a young
group of designers with an exciting and inventive vision. Also, keeping true to our Brisbane roots,
we take you on a journey of fashion through the city, in our women’s wear shoot, Into the Night.
We have also addressed the emerging role of fashion, beauty and the contemporary woman in our
features The Woman Destroyed and The Beauty Curse. And while we discuss the Fearlessness
of the fashionable new-woman (our cover is the perfect example); The Baccia Girl shoot
uncovers the beauty of our landscape and the vintage finds that not only make for a high
fashion moment, but also create an individuality and unique-ness that exemplifies the fearless.
And so this is it - the result and celebration of months of hard work, dedication and now,
excitement, to bring you the 2009 edition of Frock Paper Scissors. We trust that
our vision translates, and will bring you as much joy as it has us. But most of all, may
it inspire and encourage you to live fearlessly. As Cecil Beaton once said, “be daring, be
different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative
vision against the ‘play-it-safers’, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary”.
Madelaine Brown Rebecca Dickson
FROCK EDITORS
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