Romance Was Born Wins Top Aussie Fashion Design Award

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Keep your eye on Romance Was Born. The Australian fashion label launched in 2005 by Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales first caught our eye with glow-in-the-dark costumes for the band Architecture in Helsinki (a staple on the UnBeige jukebox), and now the designing duo has won the 2009 L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival Designer Award presented by Woolmark and supported by Vogue Australia. Romance Was Born bested finalists Ant!podium, Gary Bigeni, Ellery, Konstantina Mittas, and Therese Rawsthorne to win the award, which is akin to the stateside CFDA/Vogue

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