Couture + Love + Madness Celebrates Ten Years of Fashion at the Mayfair

Set on the most electric day of the year, the launch of the Vogue Festival, Couture + Love + Madness took the opportunity to celebrate ten years as a fashion brand as part of Adelaide's biggest weekend in fashion. 

The Mayfair Hotel’s magnificent rooftop bar, HENNESSY, hosted its first-ever fashion high tea with a highly select list of Adelaide's A-listers (including the Lord Mayor and The Advertiser's Fashion Editor) during this year’s Vogue Festival, creating an afternoon of decadence and style as part of an immersive fashion experience.

The special event took place in partnership with Cristina Tridente, Head Designer, of couture+love+madness, as she celebrated 10 wonderful years with a live installation featuring her favourite designs from the last decade.

Guests enjoyed a stunning high tea, cocktails, champagne, and fashion with gowns on show on models from Finesse Models, with hair and makeup beautifully orchestrated by newly opened Glenelg salon, Her on Patridge. 

Throughout the afternoon, guests sipped on an exclusive champagne cocktail, inspired by Cristina’s favourite gown the 'Rose' Gown aptly named the Rose 75 and specially created for this event by Hennessy Bar mixologist Jacob Quigg.

Some of Tridente's past achievements with the brand include being the first SA designer to show at China's Qingdao International Fashion Festival, having her designs featured in Vogue and dressing celebrities like Dannii Minogue earlier this year. Tridente has advocated for fashion in South Australia for many years now, personally having her hand in and being the director of the Adelaide Fashion Festival when it first started out as an event run by Norwood, Payneham and St Peters Councils, being an advisor the South Australia Fashion Focus Weekend (SAFFW) back in 2019, and in more recent times, being the founder of the South Australian Fashion Industry Association (SAFIA).

You can check out my TikTok of the fashion-filled afternoon here!

Thank you to Callie Rose Communications and Couture + Love + Madness for having me at this absolutely amazing celebratory event.

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