I hear the new David Jones in Bourke Street Mall looks like a million bucks; in fact 100 million of them have gone into the long awaited redevelopment. After throwing open the doors, David Jones have welcomed shoppers and celebrated with a series of events including a showcase of the new Isola swimwear collection by [...]
Fashioning Melbourne
Where is your favourite place to shop? Janice Breen-Burns’ chosen shopping destination relates to her mood – if she wants a “hyped up, glossy experience” she will hit the new luxury precinct at Chadstone Shopping Centre. For quirky boutiques and an “espresso crawl” the fashion editor will stick to the inner city lane-ways, whereas Debra [...]
Hunt for the Ultimate Coffee: Sensory Lab
We Melburnians like to lay claim to being Australia’s capital of many things: fashion, food, sport, festivals, culture and coffee. We do love our lattes (in a glass) and like to think we have adapted a European-style, cafe culture to our casual way of life. There are many in this town who are very serious [...]
A Long White Winter: David Jones A/W 2010
It began with a dramatic crack of thunder and a real sheet of rain tumbling down.
Bianca Spender and her mother Carla Zampatti opened David Jones‘ Autumn Winter parade for 2010; their first collections with the department store. Spender presented puffed shoulders in bronze silk, while Zampatti paired bold red and lush amethyst to striking [...]
High Fashion Stakes at the Caulfield Cup
The Age’s fashion editor Janice Breen Burns noted that trackside there were “as many goosebumps as hats” at this year’s Caulfield Cup Day. Yet Lauren Andrews must have been feeling as warm and fuzzy as the day’s big equine winner, Viewed, as she took out the Chadstone Fashion Stakes for 2009. Dressed in a [...]
David Jones Spring Racewear Preview
Emma Freedman’s first task as David Jones’ racing ambassador was made easy with stunning young models and absolutely perfect racing outfits. Also, probably by her classic Christian Loubouton heels. Melbourne socialites Lauren Phillips and Angus Kennett led the group of models which included Caulfield Face of Fashion finalists and Caulfield Classic Style Ambassador, [...]
A Great Southern Summer
Miranda Kerr and Megan Gale returned to Melbourne for the second time this year to walk and watch from the front row respectively as David Jones presented their Spring Summer collection for the 2009-10 season. Over 20 designer collections graced the catwalk including Akira, Sass and Bide, Zimmermann and Calibre who were celebrating two [...]
Catch up with Alannah Hill
As I sit here trying to write an introduction for one of Australia’s most iconic and successful fashion designers, I realise, for the first time, an introduction is not necessary. Sure, if I was to open one of my journalism text books I would find the basic structure for any article or story: beginning, middle, [...]
Short & Sweet Style Wrap #16
Miranda Kerr will be instore at David Jones Bourke Street on Friday the 14th August for two styling sessions, Q and A and signings. The sessions start at 12pm and 1pm. Stop by the womenswear department on your lunchbreak!
Have you been checking out much of the State of Design festival yet? It includes quirky things like [...]
L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival; Runway 4
Runway 4, the halfway mark of LMFF, a day at the end of a long Melbourne summer with dazzling orange skies glinting over the sultry sway of the sea. The line up of designers read like a who’s who of Department Store Royalty – each designer being backed by either Myer or David Jones. We [...]
