Tina Kalivas

Q.

What is your favorite boutique in your hometown?

A.

Arida in Potts Point, Sydney.


Q.

What is your favorite city in the world?

A.

Tokyo - it's ancient and futuristic at the same time. Crazy things happen to me when I am there...


Q.

Whose personal style do you admire and why?

A.

I think Karin Roitfeld is pretty amazing. She is cool and stylish 100 percent of the time... and she is just so beautiful.


Q.

Who is your favorite Australian model?

A.

Catherine McNeil


Q.

What's your favorite piece from your current collection and why??

A.

Look 1, the folded trapeze dress in traditional African Wax Fabric. I was about to throw it away and call it a mistake. I had been working on it for ages and I was fed up... then I suddenly recognised it's beauty and fell in love with it!


Q.

Tell us something we might not know about you

A.

I had my hair died bright red whilst Jean Paul Gaultier was having his hair dyed peroxide in the seat next me. It was a tiny but thrilling bonding moment I had with a true Fashion Saint..?.


Q.

Describe your personal style in a sentence

A.

Depending on my mood, something that is imaginative but relaxed.?