In March 2006, Monika Tywanek and Ingrid Verner launched their label (then known as Tvanek.Verner) at the Melbourne Fashion Festival. As the ultimate toast to their stellar debut, TV were awarded the Tiffany Designer Award, with festival head Karen Webster lauding their collection as “garments of superb quality with an air of quirky innovation.”

Meeting as teenagers at a pool party in Brisbane, Verner and Tywanek swapped the lilos and flippers for brushes and chisels, commencing a course in visual arts at the Queensland University of Technology, with interests in painting and ceramics respectively. In 1999, the friends relocated to Melbourne where Tywanek studied textile design at RMIT before working as a product developer at knitwear manufacturer Blossom Road, while Verner went on to study fashion design.

With a bolstered background in design and textile development, TV are largely inspired by everyday style, and the pleasures involved in dressing up and simply getting dressed. Opposing and unexpected elements are juxtaposed: matt and gloss, cottons and drills, dark andlight. Heavy wools are entwined with viscose and silk for shimmer, sheen, and lively iridescence. Fabrics are challenged, re-thought, and re-formed with pre-washes, over-dying, and perforation.

The  Spring/Summer 07-08 Collection Gridnasium explores vintage sportswear - inspired by the hopscothch pitch meets Jane Fonda workout. With high gloss lycra, structured panels and cascading pleats jostle in a palette of black, white, lemon and crimson."

With the recent opening of the TV flagship store in Prahran, a prestigious stockist list in Australia including Orson & Blake, Incu, Alice Euphemia, Fat, Digging for Apples, Bam & JuJu and Dilettante, this dynamic duo are ones to watch.

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STOCKISTS:

TV FLAGSHIP STORE
2a Cecil Place
Prahran VIC 3181
+61 3 9525 0355

ALICE EUPHEMIA
Shop 6
37 Swanston St
Melbourne VIC 3000
+61 3 9650 4300

FAT
250 Bourke St
Melbourne VIC 3000
+61 3 9662 3332

DIGGING FOR APPLES
18/459 Sydney Rd
Brunswick VIC 3056
+61 3 9939 0573

KIDS IN BERLIN
472 Victoria St
North Melbourne
VIC 3051
+61 3 9329 5578

INCU
256 Oxford St
Paddington
NSW 2021
+61 2 9331 5774

ORSON & BLAKE
483 Kiley St
Surry Hills NSW 2010
+61 2 8399 2525

BAM & JUJU
Shop 143E Level 1
Wintergarden Queen St
Brisbane QLD 4000
+61 7 3210 0030

DILETTANTE
Shop 2/90 King St
Perth WA 6000
+61 8 9226 1400

BILLIE & ROSE
672 Beaufort St
Mt Lawley WA 6050
+61 8 9371 7776