But Gary Bigeni wasn’t waiting around for that. Demonstrating arguably the event’s most diverse casting to date, Bigeni dispatched down his runway a bevy of curve models, alongside one 40+ model and a model in a hijab — Hanan Ibrahim — in a seasonless collection he called Redivivus. The samples were created in partnership with The Social Outfit, a community-operated retail store in Newtown which employs and trains people from refugee and new migrant communities. Wildly colourful, as per Bigeni’s signature, the collection also debuted tailoring.
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