‘The Workshop Project’ saw Country Road give ten RMIT fashion students free reign to style looks from their latest collection. Country Road Creative Director Sophie Holt told the 3rd year students “”we look at what’s happening from the catwalk trend but we translate them into our look and feel”. Four of the most suitable creations [...]
Short & Sweet Style Wrap #31
Now that Alexi Freeman has moved back into his Collingwood studio – the Autumn Winter sale continues by appointment only! The space is bursting with goodies that need to find new homes as Spring Summer range will soon be moving in. Discover 30% -50% off selected styles from past seasons. Call Alexi on 0413 355 [...]
Short & Sweet News Wrap #29
I’m making sure that I will pop along to this sale, so I don’t really want to spread the word…however Tali Roth, jewellery distributors Polly & J and Skinny Nelson and Friends are holding an awesome warehouse sale on Thursday 13th May from 6pm to 10.30pm. Find it at 34 William Street Balaclava and it’s [...]
Garance Dore returns to Melbourne
Fashion illustrator, photographer, blogger, style icon (and paramour of The Sartorialist Scott Schumann) Garance Dore will have an exhibition of her new work on display in Melbourne from Wednesday 28th April to Sunday 23rd May.
Garance has been commissioned to create a series of seven illustrations inspired by the Winter 2010 collections of some of Australian fashion’s [...]
Country Road Autumn/Winter 2010
Braving the elements, Country Road, shot their latest campaign at the summit of New Zealand’s iconic snowy peaks. New Yorked based photographer Tesh was up to the task. Having previously shot covers and editorials for various versions of Vogue, iD and Flair magazines and having luminaries Kate Moss, Cate Blanchett, Yasmin Le Bon and Natalia [...]
Fashion, Frolics & a Film
Camberwell locals and interlopers alike braved the heat in frocks and heels to attend the Fashion, Frolics and a Film event at the elaborate Rivoli Cinema. The Camberwell Traders’ Association has been running this charity event for 10 years and chose to support UNICEF for 2009. The parade showcased SS09 collections from both chain [...]
Short & Sweet Style Wrap #21
Melbourne milliner Kerrie Stanley has created some very sweet headpieces (for evening or the races) in conjuction with the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Center Appeal. Olivia has signed each of the 100 limited edition Art Deco inspired headbands and $100 from the sale of each will go directly to the cause. You can discover the [...]
Summer traveling the Country Road
Certain collections evoke certain nostalgic, often entirely imaginary, memories for me. At present the more casual portions of Country Road’s current collection conjure up images of ice-cream slurped while strolling on board walks, of epic roadtrips with backs of bare thighs sticking to hot leather seats and of squinting in the glaring sun. [...]
Film & Fashion at Lygon Court
With a show that combines the best of spring fashion from home grown designers and a biopic about one of the greatest designers in fashion history (that’s Valentino), this show was sure to go down a treat. The show was an opportunity for designers to showcase their spring lines with the catwalk being [...]
Myer Spring/Summer 2009 Parade
The Womens Designer Fashion Department at Myer Melbourne was transformed into a white runway on Tuesday afternoon, with brightly coloured images of the one and only Jennifer Hawkins beaming down upon it for the launch of their Spring /Summer 2009 Collections.Guests were treated to espresso and chocolates as we settled in to enjoy [...]
