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Dressing a princess…

Name: Naomi Braun
Label: Dress Princess
Based: St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia

www.dressprincess.com
info@dressprincess.com
61 423 223 067

Naomi Braun a Melbourne based fashion designer who revamps vintage dresses and designs her own to suit contemporary free spirited young women. It has been two years now since Naomi started with alterations of vintage wear for herself and friends to now distributing her label Dress Princess nationwide. Naomi’s dresses are influenced by women and trends of the last century, from 50’s cuts, 20’s attitude and 80’s colour palates.

Pic: Naomi wears a Dress Princess red candy striped dress

Interview 12 Questions:

Q: What is the inspiration behind Dress Princess -

A: Walks in the park, the colour pink, strawberries, moments alone, the internet, vintage dress patters & sketches, and music

Q: How would you describe your current collection -

A: Unique altered vintage one offs, retro rare finds, raw, random and crazy

Q: Price range -

A: $100 - $200

Q: Current followers of Dress Princess -

A: Artists, musicians, girls and women with a sense of fun

Q: Celebrities that you can see wearing Dress Princess -

A: Gwen Stefani & Bjork

Q: Future -

A: One step at a time, enjoy the now and keep creating beautiful things

Q: Fave beauty tips -

A: Eat healthy, drink plenty of water and don’t be mean it shows of in your face ?

Q: Fave fashion tips -

A: Be you

Q: Biggest fashion mistake -

A: When I was 17 I wore an old vintage dress with fairy wings to a rave!

Q: Words of wisdom to up and coming designers -

A: Create and wear clothes not to be better than others but to enrich your creative self and inspire others

Q: Spring summer forecast -

A: Bold primary colours combined with natural hues i.e. a beige vintage dress with red belt and shoes

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This article was collated by Tanja:

Tanja Mrnjaus is a Melbourne based Image & Style Consultant and the Principal of ID Couture. She is forever infatuated by human complexities, creative endeavors and the network of possibilities. This is particularly reflected in her work and personal projects spanning from Image management through to commercial styling. To find out more about ID Couture please visit www.idcouture.com or email tanja@idcouture.com.