Like the Logies’ naughty younger cousin: Best dressed at the ARIAs

Fashion at music awards shows generally oscillates somewhere between identity crisis and complete chaos – and that’s what makes them so much fun.

At Wednesday’s ARIAs, held at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion, Troye Sivan flew one of the sole flags for international brands in head-to-toe Prada, while Kate Ceberano wore a skirt she had been patching together herself, with apologies to Toni Maticevski, the Australian designer who made the base layer before the Bedroom Eyes singer went to town on it (with a detour via Spotlight).

“It’s wearable art, I love being able to recycle things,” Ceberano told this masthead ahead of the red carpet. The main concern for the multiple ARIA-winner, who lives in Melbourne, was Sydney’s humidity. “It’s like a Bedouin saddle blanket.”

Ceremony host Brooke Boney tapped into fashion’s 20-year cycles to inspire her white gown by Cappellazzo Couture, finding a pretty decent muse: ARIA (and now Grammy) nominee Kylie Minogue.

Boney, entertainment reporter for the Today show (Nine is the owner of this masthead), says she researched Minogue’s 2002 Julien Macdonald gown, and sent photos to designer Sonia Cappellazzo as a starting point.

She says ARIAs fashions are a lot riskier than the Logies, which she has also attended multiple times. “People are a lot more adventurous,” she says. “They’re [musicians] all cool people anyway, so that’s really represented.”

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