Task for tonight: Figure out how to set camera to timer so I don’t have to try to get a decent shot while my resident photographer is away. And so Pawley stops looking at me like I am out of my tiny mind at 2.30am in the morning. Awkwardly photographing yourself in the mirror somehow [...]
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Dresscode: MLY at MSFW
The dresscode for Miss Lyndel Yeo’s 5th Birthday celebrations at Melbourne Spring Fashion Week said “red carpet” but I didn’t want to go too outlandish as the star of the show was the gorgeous Lyndel herself in one of her deliciously berry-hued gowns. So I settled for a streamlined take on my beloved silver…and am [...]
Dresscode: The MSFW launch party
The occasion: Melbourne Spring Fashion Week’s 2010 launch party
The venue: an underground carpark transformed with mirrored blooms, avant garde fashion creations and a pretty lady draped in floral fabric reclining inside the glass bar.
The dresscode: Quote “Dress for unexpected opulence and experience fabulous glamour…”
Thankfully I received a heaven-sent message from the lovely local designer offering his services [...]
Sugar high
Sometimes I win at life. I wandered into the cosy Provenance Food & Wine – definitely want to re-visit for something more savoury - Monday night to “help” Jess choose from eight new flavours for her Sugadeaux range of cupcakes. A range of friends, food lovers, bloggers, journalists and restaurateurs gathered to taste and deliberate. You have [...]
Beauty Trends for Right Now by MAC
It’s not often a girl has the unexpected pleasure of having her face done for a night out by one of Australia’s best make-up artists. M.A.C’s Senior Artist Nicole Thompson breezed into Melbourne to introduce us to what beauty trends they are loving this instant…and I ended up in the chair.
The first of four current [...]
Viva la (Mimco) Revolución
A gold box arrived on my doorstep recently heralding the launch of “An Unpredictable Revolution” by Mimco. Their latest dark campaign (as per the Helen Clemens film below) was shot by Australian photographer Christian Blanchard and stars model Emma Balfour who is experiencing a comeback since the 90’s heyday of supermodels.
The gold box concealed a [...]
Friday Night Lights
An intimate rooftop party, a secret location, energising music; not a bad way to kick off my weekend. On Friday evening I was led by Whereis to take in the views from the penthouse at The Cullen boutique art hotel. The rain was wise to keep to itself for the night as we shimmied to the [...]
Eye Spy
As I continue to malign fashion boutiques who insist on not even installing mirrors in their change rooms (instead forcing you out into an embarrassing public display of your bodily foibles), it has been refreshing to find a new place that is bounding into the future while paying attention to their customers. The new Eye [...]
It’s SPA-rty time!
Oh to be a lady of leisure! If only we all had the time/funds to do everything we are meant to do to keep ourselves looking presentable each day. Cleanse, tone, exfoliate, moisturise, nails, hair (both ‘do and removal), treatments, makeup, perfume etc…where’s my (oh-so-politically-incorrect) billionaire husband hiding?
Seriously it is impossible to keep up, so [...]
We meet again Mr. Bond…
The first and last time I visited Bond seems like aeons ago for a fashion show. In Melbourne there are more bars per capita then anywhere else in the world so there is always a new haunt to visit. Thus I never got around to a double take.
But Bond is one bar with longevity in our tumultuous [...]
