Miss SL Australia's Second Runway Challenge | It's About Time: Fashion and Duration - Engaging flashbacks from the Elizabethan Past

The Miss Second Life Runway Challenge theme was founded upon the Metropolitan 
Museum of Art exhibition entitled,  "About Time: Fashion and Duration."  

Curated by Andrew Bolton, this exhibition theme is inspired by the 1992 Sally Potter film Orlando, which was based on the time-traveling Virginia Woolf novel.

Its inception came from a scene in the movie when Tilda Swinton enters a 

garden topiary maze wearing an 18th-century woman’s robe à la Francaise. 

As she passes through it, her clothes change to mid-19th-century dress, 

then reemerges in 1850s England.

Employing Henri Bergson's concept of la durée (duration), this runway 

challenge is an exercise on how fashion generates temporal associations 
which combines the past, present and future.

Bolton’s motive, combining duration with “About Time,” is to challenge 

and complicate this tendency and to get us to think differently about 

fashion history - for fashion can be both linear and cyclical at once.

For the Miss SL Second Runway Challenge, the contestants were allowed 
to follow their passions to interpret it in any time period of their choosings.

Miss Australia selected the Elizabethan period to demonstrate Bolton’s
hypothesis on the transitory and recurrent nature of fashion. 

This period refers to that time during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I 

(from 1558–1603). During this era, nobility wore extravagant gowns 

with richly embroidered fabrics adorned in ornate jewelry.

Queen Elizabeth I was said to have over a thousand extravagant gowns in her wardrobe closet. 

This fascinating period experienced a cultural explosion of the arts.

This compelled her to take a deeper look into the fashion of this 
era in response to modeling this second runway challenge.

Using Jumo Fashion’s Jewel illusion gown as her foundational piece, 
Miss SL Australia engages flashbacks from the Elizabethan past, 

interweaving them with rich historic tapestries of silvers, whites and golds.

One of the most distinctive elements of Elizabethan fashion was the exaggerated 

collar. It was an indicator of wealth, prestige, and social status. 

Miss Australia adorns a futuristic Elizabethan inspired silver sequined collar 

by Azoury, along with regal Gizza cream epaulettes and a gold Codex 

Kahir Choker to reinforce fashion’s linear and historic cyclical recurrence.

She finished her look with Bauhaus Movement Taylor white gloves, Hucci white 

pumps and [HJ] Pearl Ivory Earrings. In keeping with the period, she is 

wearing a no.match silver tiara with her Sintiklia Grace Updo Styled Hair.