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The major fashion weeks, the racing carnival and the awards, from Melbourne to Paris.

NGV International on St Kilda Road, which hosted the opening ganbu marra runway (file photo).Photo: Pru.mitchell / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Fashion

Plastic bags, a halved cello and a stunned winner: inside Melbourne Fashion Week 2026

Ten First Nations designers opened the week beneath the NGV's stained-glass ceiling, and an RMIT graduate took the Student Design Award before the final runway in Docklands on Sunday.