Pip Edwards brings relaxed Sydney style to racing fashion
Pip Edwards is judging the fashion at Sydney's Everest Carnival. She urges race-goers to be bolder and more creative than Melbourne.
Pip Edwards is a fashion expert and longtime Melbourne Cup attendee. She is changing how people dress at Sydney races.
She's judging Surf to Turf at Royal Randwick on Saturday. It's the opening event of the 10th Sydney Everest Carnival.
Edwards believes Sydney's racing fashion should take more risks than Melbourne's strict following of tradition. Milliner Jill Humphries agrees.
She calls Sydney race-goers risk-takers versus Melbourne's traditionalists. Industry experts predict heavy decoration in this year's designs.
The Surf to Turf fashion stakes theme is on-trend tailoring.
- 2005
- Edwards at Melbourne Cup since
- 10th
- Everest Carnival edition
- November 7
- Carnival runs until
- 2014
- Humphries launched label in
Why it mattersThis shows how Australian cities are developing their own fashion cultures around racing. It challenges Melbourne's long hold over the spring racing calendar.
AustraliaGives Sydney race-goers permission to express individual style over rigid dress codes, potentially making racing more accessible and fun.
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