High Tea With Mrs Woo comprises of three Chinese-Malaysian born sisters (Rowena, Juliana, and Angela) now based in Newcastle, Australia since 1988. Both Rowena and Juliana have Graphic Arts & Visual Communication backgrounds, while Angela has an equally impressive double degree in Economics and Commerce. The womenswear label HIGH TEA WITH MRS WOO was launched in the summer of 2004 and has had a huge following since winning the 2005 NSW Mercedes Start-Up Awards and have had the honour of exhibiting our designs at the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Object Gallery (Sydney), Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery (Regional Australia) as well as Shanghai Fashion Week (China) and Australian Fashion Week (Sydney + Melbourne).

HIGH TEA WITH MRS WOO is a style that fuses Western influences with Eastern charm to create an unusual and striking flavour. We love to bake a good story and throw together unexpected ingredients in our designs, combining unusual patterns and textures with a strong, rich colour palette. We are inspired by family, everyday life experiences, cinema and travel. It influences the way we visualise our work - conjuring up scenes, mood, meaning and expression for our designs. The journey continues…

‘To return to the beginning and continue to the end’ describes the musical term ‘da capo al fine’. Inspired by this simple process of repetition, this work reminisces lost melodies. This finely-tuned composition of trench dresses, wrap tops, detailed skirts and trousers aims to recapture memory, emotion and colour, experienced through a musical score. The ensemble of floral motifs and woollen fan flowers are played in harmony with soft Australian Merino wool, combed cotton and corduroy. Rich crimson and smoky grey melodies strike a fine ivory chord with the melancholy of midnight black.

MODEL Izabela Pluta

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