Domain Review Eastern - June 19, 2019

PEOPLE & PROPERTY OF MELBOURNE

JUNE 19-25, 2019

BETTINA LIANO THE JEAN GENIE RETURNS

SWEENEY TODD

ANTHONY WARLOW & GINA RILEY

FIRST PERSON

NOTES ON MUSIC HISTORY

SHANINA SHAIK MELBOU RN E’S CAT WA LK QU EEN TA K ES HER N E X T STEPS

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Melbourne model Shanina Shaik’s blinding beauty belies her tough interior. Bullied at school for not looking like what she thought was the definition of a typical Aussie girl, she’s had the last laugh on her tormentors. She’s stalked the runway for Victoria’s Secret (a major coup) and signed on as the face of Chadstone’s autumn/winter 2019 campaign. On the flip side, she has been quick to spot tokenism in her industry, telling journalist Jane Rocca in our cover feature that diversity on the runway and in magazines, in the past, has been lip service. Not so any more, and she’s responded by building her brand. ●

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““I am Carolyn Laffan ” … and I’m the senior curator at the Australian Music Vault When I was in year 9 I came down from the country and did a student placement at the National Gallery for two weeks, and it very much solidified for me that I wanted to work in museums.

I did art history at university, but majored in archeology – the object as the thing that tells the story was always really interesting to me. Then, I got to do a work placement as part of a museum studies course with the Performing Arts Collection at Arts Centre Melbourne. I’ve now been working with the Collection on and off since 1990, so I’m part of the furniture.

The Arts Centre has been collecting since the late ’70s in circus, music, opera, theatre and dance, but popular music has always been a real strength for us. When the government was looking for an agency to deal with the Australian Music Vault, I think we were a pretty obvious choice because we’d been working in that area for such a long time already.

Picking a favourite object in the AMV is always hard, but Chrissy Amphlett’s microphone stand has real emotion resonance for me. I remember when I first saw her with it on Countdown.

We work closely with the performers to know what the story is from the coal face, and then we work backwards.

The artists are often very surprised by what we find interesting, like, “Why would you be interested in that petrol receipt?” But when you start talking about how many hours they’ve spent in a bus or in a car travelling from gig to gig, it makes them start thinking of other things. We start in one place but end up somewhere very different.

We work really hard preparing all the objects. I don’t think people understand how much work goes into preparing an object to go on display, from condition checking to make sure that it’s stable and can be under lights, to how we’re going to display it.

The most challenging thing about my job is that you never have enough space time-wise or physically to tell all the fantastic stories that we’re privileged to hear. Having to distil things down, when you know that the richness is really in the complexity, is tricky. There’s a bit of killing your darlings along the way. ● ● australianmusicvault.com.au

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Designer Bettina Liano, who gave cult status to humble denim, is back making fashion that fits women’s diversity.

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obody makes a career comeback quite like Bettina Liano – the original denim queen from Melbourne who took on the world by turning an ordinary wardrobe staple into a cult status by the ’90s.

Now she’s back with a new brand, a reinvigorated spirit and a passion that runs as deep as her Italian roots.

While her namesake brand doesn’t belong to her any more (it is now owned by the Apparel Group after she went into liquidation in 2012), Liano says her renaissance line titled BYBL is for those seeking new denim to worship.

“I call it a sixth sense,” says Liano of her knack of predicting denim trends, in her heydey, before they became one. “I was good at picking at what people wanted back then, and I think I still do and that’s what makes me stand out as a designer.”

Celebrities like Elle Macpherson and Madonna wore her jeans – long before social media was all that was needed for an Instagram-ready launch, with a sassy hashtag to woo the buyers. Liano was also stocked at Barneys in the US, paving the way for many other brands after her – and the rest is double-denim fashion history.

“When I look at denim today it’s everything I have covered in the past 30 years,” Liano says.

“And when I started, nobody took denim and gave it a tailored edge like I did. Now it’s everywhere.”

She says her own inspiration comes from pop culture, politics and European catwalks. “I am motivated by the times, what I see people wearing, editorial fashion shoots in magazines, pop culture and a little bit of Bettina prediction thrown in the mix,” Liano says.

The new range is manufactured in Australia using premium European denim. She has introduced 20 new styles and plans to move into denim skirts, jackets and T-shirts in the near future. There’s also a bricks and mortar store which has opened on South Yarra’s Chapel Street.

Anybody who has ever owned a pair of Liano jeans knows they’re built to last – even those sprayed on tight ones dubbed the Ace, that sold by the truckload in the ’90s, are still fetching big bucks on secondhand websites.

“There’s nothing more sustainable than denim,” she says.

“You can wear it for years on end and they won’t date. Most other fashion items you replace over and again, but when you invest in a pair of good denim jeans you won’t be disappointed.”

There’s no denying Liano carries the scars of her brand’s fall, but rather than nitpick through the past she’s willing to look to the future with a renewed vision that’s on her terms.

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An icon returns for a denim revolution and Kim Kardashian to wear her denim, but now Liano is dressing different shapes and sizes – her range goes up to a size 16.

“This is the era of individualism,” Liano says.

“When I was a 20-year-old buying jeans you had to be skinny to fit in them or you simply missed out on what was in fashion.

“Now, you don’t get upset about it because you don’t need to – there’s a denim option for everyone.

The market has responded to it and the demand is there.”

Born and raised in Brighton, Liano is one of four children who grew up in Melbourne – including her sister Gina Liano, a lawyer who found fame on The

invest in a good pair of denim jeans you won’t be disappointed.”

Real Housewives of Melbourne, and designer Teresa Liano of the now-defunct fashion line TL Wood.

Their father was a car salesman who owned a car yard in Coburg while their mother ran her own fashion boutique Sempre L’Unico in Toorak Village.

Liano recalls her mother turning up at school with a new car every few days.

“One day it was a Charger, the next a Statesman.

Mum was always beautifully dressed; she certainly has great style. It felt like the scene out of a movie.

And occasionally Mum was late and everybody could hear her coming,” Liano smiles.

Liano counts David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac and Roxy Music as her heroes and, once she was old enough to see bands, would frequent the Crystal Ballroom to see Nick Cave’s Birthday Party perform.

“In those days we’d go out every night except Saturday,” she laughs. “My sister Teresa was like disco royalty. She ran a club called Razor with Gavin Brown.

“I would dress Kate Ceberano and Scott Carne from Kids in the Kitchen. We were around that scene. It was lots of fun.”

The mother of two with former husband and fellow fashion designer Roy Christou, who was at the helm of ‘90s menswear label Roy, says she is proud of her daughters.

Hali lives in New York and is the editor of Office Magazine, and Olympia is a model who just walked for Vivienne Westwood during London Fashion Week earlier this year.

“They’re savvy girls and working hard. They’re inspiring to me,” Liano says.

If history has a chance of repeating itself, Liano is making sure that when it comes to denim and trends, it’s on her terms. “Politically it’s a return to the ’70s right now,” she says. “It’s a revolutionary time again. The ’60s were the start of it, but in the ’70s people went wild. I remember it.

“The hippies were concerned about the environment and sustainability, it’s when we started hearing about diversity, equal rights between men and women and in turn it created an incredible freedom in dressing.

“I am channelling that spirit.” ●

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“It’s a new era for me now but there’s definitely still pain, of course,” she says.

Liano relaunched BYBL during Melbourne Fashion Week with a runway show in March. She’s no stranger to the calendar event having participated every year since it began.

“I love Melbourne Fashion Festival because it’s so ahead of its time and a win for the designers because consumers don’t wait three months after seeing something on the catwalk,” she says.

“They can buy it immediately – that instantaneous connection is what we need right now in retail.”

In her halcyon days she counted on Kylie Minogue

Worn by celebrities and every fashion savvy Australian girl, Bettina Liano has unveiled a new store and label, BYBL.

“Most other fashion items you replace over and again, but when you

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here are a few things that Victoria’s Secret model and Melbourne girl Shanina Shaik doesn’t want to talk about.

One is the Fyre Festival, which she helped promote but has been deemed a no-go zone for journalists, ever since it went up in a flurry of influencer flames (see: Netflix documentary).

She also seems reluctant to chat about her romantic life, and later it becomes clear why; last week, Shaik gave a public statement – via a rep – that she and her husband DJ Ruckus had decided to end their marriage after one year.

It’s ironic, really, because the woman who’s a closed book on some topics chose to expose herself in a different way when she posted a photo of herself naked on Instagram back in March.

It wasn’t your garden-variety Kardashianesque shot; there were no angel’s wings, no self-tanner and a healthy dose of outdoorsy-ness. It was, in fact, an ode to strong women for International Women’s Day, but this is the world of social media, so backlash ensued. The main gripe was that women shouldn’t have to take their clothes off to be strong.

Rather than enter into cyber warfare, Shaik

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Shanina Shaik in Chadstone’s new collections.

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Single-minded model Shanina Shaik has a plan for her brand.

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“I was bullied in high school because I didn’t look like the typical Australian.”

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replied to her detractors politely and moved on.

Shaik, who dropped in to Melbourne from Manhattan as the face of Chadstone’s autumn/ winter 19 campaign – wants to say one thing about that naked shot: “It was a really important image for me. I was with the photographer Mariano Vivanco. I was on holidays. I hadn’t been training. I wasn’t working out. He said, ‘Let’s go take some beautiful pictures’. He made me feel so comfortable and raw. Usually I’m questioning, like, ‘I haven’t worked out. I don’t feel good.’ But I was too busy.

“And I’m so proud of myself, because I just shouldn’t be so harsh on myself and judge myself too much. I should just really enjoy my body as it is and [enjoy] being a young woman. Capturing this beautiful image wasn’t [about being] sexual.”

When the body self-doubt descends, one wonders if she sees herself the way the rest of the world does.

Usually, when one interviews a celebrity, it goes something like this – you realise that the lead actor is not as tall as you thought, or the model who appears in designer campaigns looks somewhat more regular in real life. Their magic isn’t as apparent in the flesh as it is when a camera turns their angles into that magic. This is not the case with Shaik, whose beauty is so blinding it is somewhat akin to looking directly into the sun.

Perhaps some of the self-doubt was planted in her secondary school year. “My mum is Australian; my dad was born in Singapore,” she says.

“I was bullied in high school because I didn’t look like the typical Australian. There’s this stereotype of Australians being blonde and Caucasian and I’m this mixed green-eyed girl. So it was very hard for me. It was really hard for me to understand that type of bullying, because I had an idea of bullying being a physical act that you see in movies.

“It was pretty much a mental breakdown for me. I built up the courage to tell my mum, which was hard for me because it’s embarrassing. But I [eventually] learnt to make new friends.

“And it kind of prepared me for the industry and world I live in.”

That’s because the modelling industry didn’t exactly welcome her with open arms. “At the beginning of my career, [people] weren’t very open to my look. I really had to push and work hard to book those jobs that I really wanted to book. It was like we just had a token dark girl or mixed [race] girl on the runway. And now we’re seeing it become so diverse, which is really nice.”

At 17, Shaik moved to New York by herself; more than a decade on, and living in Hell’s Kitchen, it’s clear she’s adapted to her adopted city.

Although she’d garnered some degree of fame in Australian with the 2008 reality TV show Make Me A Supermodel, it wasn’t until 2011 when her real break came in the US, walking in the Victoria’s Secret fashion show. She has since walked for Chanel, Oscar de la Renta and Tom Ford.

Her next step? The big screen, and she has her third movie role with the upcoming movie Greed, with a cast that includes Steve Coogan, Isla Fisher and Stephen Fry. “It’s exciting. I’m just creating my own business, being my own boss and in charge of my own career. That’s my 10-year plan.” ● ● chadstone.com.au

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When the troupe appears in Sweeney Todd: A Musical Thriller – it arrives in Melbourne for a brief, six-show stint at the end of this month – they will do so on a stage that disproves the notion that a concert show is devoid of visual mastery.

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given the green light in January, this version intends to live up to celebrating Sweeney Todd’s 40th anniversary since appearing on Broadway.

Director Theresa Borg – who’s also the creative director at TEG Life Like Company, which is behind Sweeney Todd – says she first fell in love with the show in the early ’80s, “when a Melbourne High boy would sing me one of the love songs from the show”.

After she watched an MTC production, she says she was “absolutely gobsmacked by the profound soundscape of the music in conjunction with the clarity and wit of the lyrics. I didn’t think it would be possible to be scared so hard and laugh so hard, all in a couple of hours.”

The show certainly has a creepy premise: when a barber who has been unjustly exiled from London makes his return, he is set upon taking revenge on the judge who committed wrongs against him.

But his madness also wreaks havoc on those who

sit in his barber chair, who go from grubby to grub.

Borg wanted to take full advantage of the gruesome nature of the musical, but sets her Sweeney Todd within the framework of a seance, whereby spiritualists bring forth the ghosts of the murderous barber and company.

It’s an approach that has gotten costume designer Kim Bishop and set designer Charlotte Lane’s combined creative juices flowing.

Bishop was once gifted a collection of lace from theatre doyenne Rhonda Burchmore – it had been her mother’s – and he uses them to good effect here.

The ghosts onstage will be mainly dressed in finery, but all the costumes have a lace overlay as their wearers are covered in shrouds.

The costumes’ palette are shades of white, grey and black – making it even more shocking when bright red blood rains down on the scene.

That also provides somewhat of a headache

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logistically: the garments have to be washed after every show, six in Sydney and six in Melbourne.

Luckily, they’ve all been made in duplicates.

On this rehearsal day, cast are still learning their marks, etched out with sticky-taped lines on the floor.

Borg momentarily pops into a trunk, and Warlow discusses what handle it should have on it.

For Borg, the dream-come-true opportunity has been an emotional one.

“Hearing Anthony Warlow sing at the launch event – I cried,” she says. “He gave me goosebumps.

This is going to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear this music sung so beautifully, and with such artistry.” ● SWEENEY TODD: A MUSICAL THRILLER \ Her Majesty’s Theatre, June 20-23. Tickets on sale through Ticketek.

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Raising respectful teens How to help kids navigate the teenage abyss with respect for themselves and others. Wo r d s PA R E N T G U I D E S weakness if a boy shows emotion. It is crucial that boys (and girls) learn about empathy, expression and mental health strategies. They need to know it is OK to cry, how to articulate fears and anxieties, and to seek help if they need it.

will help your child accept who they are, regardless of their sexuality or gender identity.

RAISING GIRLS \ Some teen girls still hear messages about what they can or cannot do, or how they are to blame for bad experiences, such as sexual harassment. Teaching them that they can reject gender stereotypes and control their destiny can help boost their confidence.

RAISING BOYS \ Traditional gender roles have

RAISING CHILDREN \ Self-respect is a great

changed but society still often considers it a sign of

building block for resilience, says Associate

BEING YOURSELF \ Openly supporting diversity

Meet our Principal Monday 12 August

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BUILDING RESILIENCE \ Instilling strong values, helping to build resilience and providing support when needed is critical in helping children to develop self-confidence. This is equally important for girls and boys. Resilience is about being realistic, thinking rationally, looking on the bright side, finding the positives, expecting things to go well and moving forward, even when things seem bad.

Professor Julie Green, the executive director at raisingchildren.net.au.

“Teens can build self-respect by setting their standards for behaviour,” she says. “If your teen has self-respect, they believe they matter and should be treated respectfully by others.”

Associate Professor Green says parents and carers are role models, so their teen should see and hear outlooks that are positive and optimistic.

Good, honest communication is also crucial.

Tackling difficult conversations with your child indicates a healthy relationship.

“If you’re warm, accepting, non-judgmental and uncritical, and also open to negotiating and setting limits, your child is likely to feel more connected to you,” Associate Professor Green says.

If potential mental health issues arise, Associate Professor Green recommends talking to them and seeing a health professional together.

This will also reassure them that they are not alone.

“You could start by talking to your GP, your child’s school counsellor, teacher or other school staff. GPs and other health professionals can suggest strategies and give advice,” she says.

Everyday moments, such as watching TV news or other shows, can be good starting points from which to ask your young person what they are thinking or feeling.

SEXUALITY \ Education and communication are

PROMOTING SELF-CONFIDENCE \ A key to

key in helping young people embrace their sexuality, and to respect that of others.

Family Planning Victoria recommends parents and carers educate themselves and clarify their values and messages before talking openly and honestly with their young person.

It is also important to support their right to develop healthy, respectful and consensual sexual relationships and not assume everyone is oppositesex attracted or the gender assigned at birth.

Accept that young people may have different views to yours and take a positive approach that acknowledges that sexual activity and experimentation can be a healthy part of adolescence.

respecting yourself is having confidence in yourself.

As parents, we play a pivotal role in developing our children’s self-confidence.

Self-confidence can be encouraged at home through the acceptance of who a child is as a person and by promoting healthy eating alongside appropriate physical and mental activity.

Help is also out there if needed – Beyond Blue has a youth program and both the Alannah and Madeline Foundation and the national Office of the eSafety Commissioner work to reduce bullying. ● ● parentguides.com.au

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Respectful school of thought A positive bond between a child and their teachers is vital, but parents need a healthy and respectful relationship with those teachers, too.

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eachers in China enjoy more respect from parents than teachers anywhere else in the world. Educators in Malaysia, Taiwan, Russia and Indonesia are also highly valued, according to international research from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in the UK. Studies suggest that when it comes to feeling respected, Australian teachers aren’t faring quite as well. Some reports say about 40 per cent of teaching graduates quit the classroom within the first five years of starting work because of frustration, an increasing workload, and often due to the stress of unrealistic parental expectations and even abuse.

But research shows that when parents and teachers work together, children benefit immensely

inside and outside the classroom. The University of Missouri investigated the power of parent-teacher relationships and found they have a significant effect on a child’s academic achievements, behaviour and future success.

“If a teacher has a good relationship with a student’s parents, or perceives that those parents are positively engaged in their child’s education, that teacher may be more likely to give extra attention or go the extra mile for that student,” said Keith Herman, a professor in the University of Missouri College of Education.

“If the same teacher perceives another child’s parents to be uninvolved or to have a negative influence on the child’s education, it likely will

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The Department of Education also sees teachers and parents working together as key to children’s academic success and wellbeing.

“Research has shown that when schools and families work together, children do better, stay in school longer, are more engaged with their schoolwork, go to school more regularly, behave better and have better social skills. Parent engagement also results in longer term economic, social and emotional benefits,” says the department’s information for parents.

So, if you are a parent, how do you strike that balance between being engaged but not interfering?

And when issues do arise, how can you work with teachers to resolve them?

■ Raisingchildren.net.au recommends parents build a relationship with teachers as early as possible by introducing themselves at the start of a school year.

■ Volunteering when extra hands are needed in the classroom, or on special event days, helps build rapport and shows your commitment to the school.

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Communicate regularly – don’t only speak to your kid’s teacher when there’s a problem.

■ When a concern arises, get as much detail as you can before you speak to teachers. It’s parental instinct to go into battle to support their child but when emotions run high you might say things you regret.

■ Don’t head straight for the principal’s office to discuss complaints or concerns – speak to the teacher involved first to find out what has happened and to hear their side of the story. Going over their head shows you have little faith in, or regard for, their efforts.

■ Teachers are busy – in the classroom, doing yard duty, doing lesson plans, setting exams, marking and giving extra tuition to children who need it.

Book in a time to catch up, rather than expecting them to be able to drop everything to fit you in.

■ Don’t undermine teachers in front of your child.

■ Remember, teachers are trained to be experts in the classroom and at the end of the day you both want the same thing: a happy, healthy child who enjoys learning. ● ■

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How can you know which way the housing market is headed?

If you ever followed the stock market you’d know that stocks don’t go up continually in a straight line. When a stock has a big upward change in price, you know that at some point it must retrace or at least go sideways for a while. This happens in order to consolidate price increases. And it’s likewise with the property market.

Melbourne prices fell in 2018 and early 2019, but when you look at the graph below you can see how prices have moved over the long term. The graph illustrates the price movement of property values in Melbourne over the last 40 years, from less than $50,000 in 1980 to $700,000 at the peak of the market in 2017.

When we put the recent falls into context, the price falls from the peak of 2017 to where they are today,

are still nearly double what they were 10 years ago.

And more than 15 times higher than they were 40 years ago. Keep the big picture in mind because over the long term house prices have kept going up. Yes there will be corrections along the way, but population growth with improved infrastructure will take house prices higher over time.

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When credit starts to loosen up as it inevitably does every property cycle, prices are set to go higher than most people anticipate. As we stated previously, all property slumps are temporary, while the long term increase in property values is permanent.

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