Catherine McNeil and Abbey Lee Kershaw in hot demand

MELBOURNE’S Alice Burdeu is not the only Australian fashion plate starring in new season advertising campaigns for international labels.
Fellow Melburnian Abbey Lee Kershaw is featured alongside stunning Queenslander Catherine McNeil in the latest advertisement for Express Jeans (right) in US Vogue.
Kershaw is also featured in the new Gucci campaign.
Kershaw is rapidly rising through the international modelling ranks.
McNeil, meanwhile, is one of the queens of the international catwalk and has a host of luxury label advertising campaigns to her credit.
She is appearing in campaigns for Hugo Boss, DKNY and Seafolly as well as the advertisement for Express Jeans.
Burdeu is one of the faces of the new D&G advertising campaign.

DESIGNER FRIDA GIANNINI REINVENTED THE HOUSE OF GUCCI BY KEEPING THE SEX SUBTLE AND MAKING THE CLOTHES JUST IRRESISTIBLE. FOR FALL, THE MAGIC CARPET R

Italian-born Gucci creative director Frida Giannini had a very large pair of logo loafers to fill when she took the reins at the Italian fashion house. Her predecessor, Tom Ford, held her office for a decade and completely revamped and reinvented the storied luxury label. This season, however, more than any other, Giannini is proving that she has a firm grasp of the future of the double G logo. And she’s doing it her way. While Ford was concerned with branding and the label’s celebration in the world press (feats he accomplished with flying red, green, and white colors), Giannini has repositioned the Gucci aesthetic as a brash, beautiful, customer-focused international powerhouse with clothes that are as nonchalant as they are subtly seductive. Tom put the brand on everyone’s lips, but it’s Frida who is keeping the pants on their hips. Ford sold sex and lace and purple nipples; Giannini sells modern cool that is instantly classic yet perfectly of this moment. Appointed to the top gig after climbing the Gucci ladder to the head of the accessories department, she is a modern working woman who knows her customer. But more importantly, Giannini knows her Gucci.

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Eniko from Marilyn in the new Gucci Ad.

First look at Gucci F/W08

Gucci, shot by Inez and Vinoodh, debuts the men’s campaign in September UK GQ. We love the energy and colors of the outdoor shoot in Mallorca.