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April Rose blossomsArticle
By Hannah Rand
March 13, 2009 12:00am
DRESSED in an ethereal sunset-hued Toni Maticevski gown, April Rose Pengilly drapes her long, slender legs over the arm of a throne-like chair, a pair of gold four-inch Sergio Rossi platform stilettos clasped to her slim feet.
As the photographer’s assistants busy around her like style courtiers, it feels as if we’re in the presence of a queen, who’s holding court over the sunday magazine shoot.
Gallery: April Rose Pengilly is all grown up
Gallery: April Rose Pengilly and the Next Top Model girls
Pengilly, 20, is gearing up for her appointment as official ambassador of the L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival - a distinction formerly held by the likes of Australian actors Miranda Otto, Pia Miranda and Emily Browning.
As well as her media duties, the young model-turned-actor will appear on the runways for her favourite designers
“I’m so excited, but I’m nervous,” she says, leaning awkwardly against a table because the corset in her skin-tight gown won’t allow her to sit. “I have a lot of responsibility.
My male friends say, “It’s just fashion,” but it’s very stressful. I have to walk in three shows and that’s always frightening because you don’t know what you’ll be wearing or if the shoes will fit.
You worry you’ll fall flat on your face.”
It’s sweet that Pengilly worries so much. After all, she’s been modelling since she left Wenona girls’ school in North Sydney in Year 12, after being snapped up by Chadwick Models.
While her friends went off to study and party at uni, Pengilly launched an international career, beginning with a contract in Japan.
“Go to university or work in Tokyo? What are you going to do?” she asks, before answering what she clearly saw as a no-brainer. “Go to Tokyo.”
The decision has paid off. Today, Pengilly is a mature professional in front of the camera, following the photographer’s instructions and changing her alluringly natural poses with every click of the lens.
But she wasn’t always this confident, which becomes apparent when she describes her first overseas job.
“I hated Tokyo initially. It was my first big trip away on my own and I couldn’t read any of the packaging in the supermarkets and no one spoke English.
But I really liked it the second time I went,” she says cheerfully. “And I fell in love with New York, as everyone does.
There’s so much history in the grand architecture. I took terrible photos that no one would want to look at of the ornate gargoyles at the tops of the buildings.”
On the other hand, for the girl who “loves to play dress-ups”, London was a treasure-trove of opportunity.
“You can shop in H&M and other high-street stores and everyone back in Australia thinks it’s couture.
"The vintage shopping is really great, too. There’s always some society woman cleaning out her closet, with pieces going back to the ’40s or ’50s, or even earlier; in Australia it’s all from the ’80s.”
For the Melbourne event, she’ll be seriously upgrading her fashion fetish, sashaying down the catwalk dressed in the wares of luxury luminaries such as Aurelio Costarella, Tina Kalivas and Viktor & Rolf for Myer.
“I like the pared-down gothic look that’s coming out this season and the volume and structure we’ll be seeing in the shows,” she says, adjusting an oversize gold ring.
Face-planting concerns aside, this is a world Pengilly is comfortable in. She’s been a fixture on the Melbourne and Sydney social circuits for a few years now, and local fashion houses queue up in the hope their garments will get a showing in the gossip pages.
“Designers have been loaning me clothes to wear to events.
:I’m so spoilt. It’s not going to last forever, so I’m really appreciating it.”
It’s a way of life that’s not a million miles from that of her father, INXS musician Kirk Pengilly, but she remembers a downside to growing up with a rockstar dad.
“I didn’t really know any different, but I hated him being away,” she reflects.
“It was difficult saying goodbye, but he’d call me all the time.” Indeed, the lucky schoolgirl received the call to join INXS on tour during school holidays.
Despite the jet-set lifestyle, her parents worked hard to give her as normal an upbringing as possible and, apart from being asked in the canteen if her dad was “really in that band”, her life was no different from any other young girl’s.
“I thought everyone’s dad was the same. I hung out with other band kids; Tim Farriss’ son, Jake, is a close friend.”
Pengilly was “three or four” when her parents separated and, since then, she’s lived with her mum, accessories designer Karen Hutchinson, on Sydney’s North Shore.
Her dad, meanwhile, lives between his nearby house and a farm in Kangaroo Valley, and regularly hangs out with his only daughter.
When they last met, Kirk confided he was about to pop the question to his long-term love, Australian surf champion Layne Beachley.
“I was like, ‘Oh my God, show me the ring,’ but he’d forgotten it. A week later, there was an email from him saying he’d done it.”
Will she be a bridesmaid? “Gosh, I have no idea.
I really don’t even know what they’re doing yet. They’ll probably have it on a beach, knowing Layne.”
And, while she and Beachley have always shared a close friendship, Pengilly doesn’t possess her stepmum-to-be’s love of the surf.
“I’m afraid of big waves. I just don’t find it enjoyable; if you’re spending your time stressing about your bikini falling off in the next big wave, it’s not very relaxing.”
For the time being, chill-out time - on the beach or otherwise - will be missing from Pengilly’s diary.
Once the fashion festival is over, she’ll be promoting the film she shot last year, Living Between Days, based on Cry Bloxsome’s cult book Living Between F*cks.
Pengilly co-stars with Gracie Otto, as a bitchy lesbian with attitude (and pink hair) called Tanya.
“I felt like a fraud,” she says.
“Because I’m the model-turned-actor and they’re all professionals. I had to kiss a girl in one scene, which was scary because there were six cameras and a room full of people.
But we had some champagne in the scene so, every time we shot it, it was easier.”
Once publicity for the film wraps up, Pengilly plans to concentrate on a correspondence course in proof-reading and editing, with a view to improving her writing - something she’s put to good use in the blog she produces for her London modelling agency, Storm.
Until then, it’s back to the ceremonial duties of the Melbourne fashion festival.
And as she cavorts and poses in front of our photographer in yet another magnificent gown, it seems likely she’ll perform the task majestically.
The L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival starts today and runs until March 22. Visit www.lmff.com.au.
www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25180769-5006011,00.html
April Rose blossomsArticle
By Hannah Rand
March 13, 2009 12:00am
DRESSED in an ethereal sunset-hued Toni Maticevski gown, April Rose Pengilly drapes her long, slender legs over the arm of a throne-like chair, a pair of gold four-inch Sergio Rossi platform stilettos clasped to her slim feet.
As the photographer’s assistants busy around her like style courtiers, it feels as if we’re in the presence of a queen, who’s holding court over the sunday magazine shoot.
Gallery: April Rose Pengilly is all grown up
Gallery: April Rose Pengilly and the Next Top Model girls
Pengilly, 20, is gearing up for her appointment as official ambassador of the L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival - a distinction formerly held by the likes of Australian actors Miranda Otto, Pia Miranda and Emily Browning.
As well as her media duties, the young model-turned-actor will appear on the runways for her favourite designers
“I’m so excited, but I’m nervous,” she says, leaning awkwardly against a table because the corset in her skin-tight gown won’t allow her to sit. “I have a lot of responsibility.
My male friends say, “It’s just fashion,” but it’s very stressful. I have to walk in three shows and that’s always frightening because you don’t know what you’ll be wearing or if the shoes will fit.
You worry you’ll fall flat on your face.”
It’s sweet that Pengilly worries so much. After all, she’s been modelling since she left Wenona girls’ school in North Sydney in Year 12, after being snapped up by Chadwick Models.
While her friends went off to study and party at uni, Pengilly launched an international career, beginning with a contract in Japan.
“Go to university or work in Tokyo? What are you going to do?” she asks, before answering what she clearly saw as a no-brainer. “Go to Tokyo.”
The decision has paid off. Today, Pengilly is a mature professional in front of the camera, following the photographer’s instructions and changing her alluringly natural poses with every click of the lens.
But she wasn’t always this confident, which becomes apparent when she describes her first overseas job.
“I hated Tokyo initially. It was my first big trip away on my own and I couldn’t read any of the packaging in the supermarkets and no one spoke English.
But I really liked it the second time I went,” she says cheerfully. “And I fell in love with New York, as everyone does.
There’s so much history in the grand architecture. I took terrible photos that no one would want to look at of the ornate gargoyles at the tops of the buildings.”
On the other hand, for the girl who “loves to play dress-ups”, London was a treasure-trove of opportunity.
“You can shop in H&M and other high-street stores and everyone back in Australia thinks it’s couture.
"The vintage shopping is really great, too. There’s always some society woman cleaning out her closet, with pieces going back to the ’40s or ’50s, or even earlier; in Australia it’s all from the ’80s.”
For the Melbourne event, she’ll be seriously upgrading her fashion fetish, sashaying down the catwalk dressed in the wares of luxury luminaries such as Aurelio Costarella, Tina Kalivas and Viktor & Rolf for Myer.
“I like the pared-down gothic look that’s coming out this season and the volume and structure we’ll be seeing in the shows,” she says, adjusting an oversize gold ring.
Face-planting concerns aside, this is a world Pengilly is comfortable in. She’s been a fixture on the Melbourne and Sydney social circuits for a few years now, and local fashion houses queue up in the hope their garments will get a showing in the gossip pages.
“Designers have been loaning me clothes to wear to events.
:I’m so spoilt. It’s not going to last forever, so I’m really appreciating it.”
It’s a way of life that’s not a million miles from that of her father, INXS musician Kirk Pengilly, but she remembers a downside to growing up with a rockstar dad.
“I didn’t really know any different, but I hated him being away,” she reflects.
“It was difficult saying goodbye, but he’d call me all the time.” Indeed, the lucky schoolgirl received the call to join INXS on tour during school holidays.
Despite the jet-set lifestyle, her parents worked hard to give her as normal an upbringing as possible and, apart from being asked in the canteen if her dad was “really in that band”, her life was no different from any other young girl’s.
“I thought everyone’s dad was the same. I hung out with other band kids; Tim Farriss’ son, Jake, is a close friend.”
Pengilly was “three or four” when her parents separated and, since then, she’s lived with her mum, accessories designer Karen Hutchinson, on Sydney’s North Shore.
Her dad, meanwhile, lives between his nearby house and a farm in Kangaroo Valley, and regularly hangs out with his only daughter.
When they last met, Kirk confided he was about to pop the question to his long-term love, Australian surf champion Layne Beachley.
“I was like, ‘Oh my God, show me the ring,’ but he’d forgotten it. A week later, there was an email from him saying he’d done it.”
Will she be a bridesmaid? “Gosh, I have no idea.
I really don’t even know what they’re doing yet. They’ll probably have it on a beach, knowing Layne.”
And, while she and Beachley have always shared a close friendship, Pengilly doesn’t possess her stepmum-to-be’s love of the surf.
“I’m afraid of big waves. I just don’t find it enjoyable; if you’re spending your time stressing about your bikini falling off in the next big wave, it’s not very relaxing.”
For the time being, chill-out time - on the beach or otherwise - will be missing from Pengilly’s diary.
Once the fashion festival is over, she’ll be promoting the film she shot last year, Living Between Days, based on Cry Bloxsome’s cult book Living Between F*cks.
Pengilly co-stars with Gracie Otto, as a bitchy lesbian with attitude (and pink hair) called Tanya.
“I felt like a fraud,” she says.
“Because I’m the model-turned-actor and they’re all professionals. I had to kiss a girl in one scene, which was scary because there were six cameras and a room full of people.
But we had some champagne in the scene so, every time we shot it, it was easier.”
Once publicity for the film wraps up, Pengilly plans to concentrate on a correspondence course in proof-reading and editing, with a view to improving her writing - something she’s put to good use in the blog she produces for her London modelling agency, Storm.
Until then, it’s back to the ceremonial duties of the Melbourne fashion festival.
And as she cavorts and poses in front of our photographer in yet another magnificent gown, it seems likely she’ll perform the task majestically.
The L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival starts today and runs until March 22. Visit www.lmff.com.au.