What is fashion? Is it glamour, beauty and style? Or, is it all about managing your own finances, living it up on a shoestring and trying to looking current and cutting edge while wearing someone’s cast off’s! Are there really rules about this sort of thing? Where does style fit…
There is something special about award winning British fashion designer Roksanda Ilincic. Every time I see one of her pieces in print, before I have read the credits, I know it’s her! I love a designer with such a strong instantly recognisable aesthetic. Rather like Sydney design duo “Romance Was…
Here we are in December yet again. It only seems like yesterday that I was wracking my brain for last year’s Christmas gift ideas. Some years I am full of fabulous ideas and others I am left floundering. Where to start? I think the best thing to do is sit…
It is usually about now that I start to get a feeling of up and coming trends. There is no rhyme or reason to it, just a vibe. This year my radar is pointing firmly in two major directions, Baroque and Gothic. Baroque being rich and resonate, Gothic dark and…
When the cultured house of Hermes announced it is creating it’s first pop up store, the fashion world listened. To then discover it would be located within Melbourne’s famed “Le Louvre” boutique, it caused hearts of Australian fashionistas to flutter. From the 2nd to the 14th of November, these two…
Why is it that the humble shoe can evoke so much excitement and so many emotions? Why has such a small item of clothing, originally meant for protection, become such a large part of our fashion psyche? Remember Dorothy and her ruby red slippers taking her on a magical journey,…
Fillies in fabulous frocks showing off their festival form and fine fetlocks usually happens at Melbourne in November at the horse racing event of the Australian calendar, the Melbourne Cup. But even the fastest of them would not finish ahead of the ferocious fashionista’s all clad in fantastic finery competing, clamouring and cramming into celebratory events all over the city during L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival Week March 14 – 20, 2011.
