WWD: Rodarte RTW Fall 2012

Australia — not the sporty surf of Bondi or the soaring curves of the Sydney Opera House, but the country's more romantic and distant past — informed Kate and Laura Mulleavy's fall collection. "We had a huge story to tell about the history and the landscape and the way we viewed where everything came from there," said Laura postshow. The designers followed a savvy arc that indulged the misty-eyed sentimentality that fuels their creative intelligence while making an effort to feed the commercial end of a business, albeit a very niche one. For the full collection: http://bit.ly/zkr4IB