<p>Media Alert</p><p>Wednesday, 17 March 2004.</p><p>YOU’VE SEEN IMITATIONS, TOMORROW SEE ORIGINALS</p><p>This week's Melbourne Fashion Festival has shown that fashionable styles of the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s are very much in vogue.</p><p>However, while Festival fashion parade guests have to be content with admiring recreated looks of these eras, some of the best originals will be paraded as part of a unique fashion show for the Victorian Seniors Festival on THURSDAY, 18 March.</p><p>Fashion trendsetters of the day and still trendsetters today, Lady Renouf , Sheila Scotter (former Vogue editor) , Diane Masters (’50s high fashion model) and Annette Allison (former TV presenter) dug deep into wardrobes for stylish numbers, for models to parade.</p><p>Tomorrow’s show at Zinc at Federation Square will feature clothes such as a classic black Norma Tullo evening dress from the late ’60s, a Diane Von Furstenberg black and white wrap around silk jersey dress from the ’60s, a pink floral cocktail outfit designed by Barbara Battaglini in the ’70s and stylish race wear, courtesy of Lady Renouf.</p><p>Guests will be served a champagne afternoon tea before models take to the catwalk in designer originals loaned by the above four women for the occasion. Hosting the event will be June Dally-Watkins, Australia's most photographed model of the ’40s, who has gone on to write a book, The Secrets Behind My Smile.</p><p>The Victorian Seniors Festival, organised by the Bracks Government in association with local government, business and the community, runs until Sunday, 21 March.</p><p>WHAT: That was then and this is now fashion show, hosted by June Dally-Watkins.</p><p>WHERE: Zinc at Federation Square, Swanston Street, Melbourne.</p><p>WHEN: 2-4pm THURSDAY 18 March 2004.</p><p>Champagne and sandwiches from 2-2.30pm, June Dally-Watkins speaks from 2.30 -2.45, then Miss Dally-Watkins ‘in conversation’ with Sheila Scotter, Diane Masters, Annette Allison and Lady Renouf. Each woman to speak about clothes they selected. These will be paraded down the catwalk by models.</p><p>Media contact: Sue Preston, Victorian Seniors Festival, mob. 0413 274 565</p>