Now firmly embedded within the Melbourne indie fashion scene, is the Penthouse Mouse/Moth Design crew who threw not only a spectacular party on Friday night, but put on a fabulous runway showcasing the best of up and coming Melbourne fashion design.
Hosted by the Old Navel and Military Club in Little Collins St, Moth and the [...]
Midmouse Runway
Penthouse Mouse 2010
Once a year, art and fashion combine under the watchful and very capable eye of the Moth design crew to create a space where all who worship fashion can come to pay homage, this Mecca of design is known as Penthouse Mouse. For the two week duration of Melbourne’s L’oreal fashion week, the former Naval [...]
Style Spotting at the Australian Open
It doesn’t have to be all bare, bronzed backs draped in flags at the tennis. Nor does it have to be a competition to see who can wear the most titillating sportswear on centre court. The Australian Open can still be a place to scout some fresh summer looks. Our prime position for a spot of style [...]
Fashion + Aid 2009
After the spectacle that was last year’s Fashion + Aid event (with acrobats, dancers, opera, rock bands and multiple fashion parades, oh my!); the event returns for a second time in aid of the Make a Wish Foundation.
Actor Matthew Newton will host the grand evening on Saturday 12th September from 7pm at Crown’s Palladium Ballroom. [...]
APL Photography Launch
One of the StyleMelbourne team finally got around to celebrating the launch of his own photographic studio last week. Anthony Licuria, who took some of my favourite runway shots from the last Melbourne Fashion Festival, gathered his friends, family and aquaintances (including actor Mathew Newton and a gaggle of Amazonian models) under the one roof [...]
Chat with Fashion Photographer Isabel Engelhardt
As I flick through the pages of my favourite fashion magazine; the illuminating images bounce back at me and I am mesmerized by the array of hot new trends dancing around my eyes. For every fashion-infatuated person out there, lies the influence under it all. The images that showcase the beauty and uncanny fashion world [...]
Prey Red Carpet and Film Premiere
Last night the Como in South Yarra played host to a bevy of up and coming Australian film stars as well as sporting and television celebrities who had turned out to view the premiere of the independent film, Prey. Neighbours prodigy and singer Natalie Bassingthwaite stars in Prey, it being her first full length feature.
Upon [...]
Livestyle Launch 2009
Last week saw the launch of the Livestyle Fashion and Music Festival. The luxe party played host to a myriad of fashionable celebs and models as far as they eye could see. Guests of note included Samantha Downie (AusNTM) and Rhys Ulrich.
The festival includes runway shows featuring some of our favourite labels including Bettina Liano, [...]
Nobody Was Famous
There was no hint of a global recession at the Nobody Denim store in Brunswick Street Fitzroy this weekend, with the team pulling out all stops to ensure that their fashion week opening party was an affair to remember. The recently renovated store has been fitted out with sleek white tiled benches, vintage brickwork and [...]
Decorum Fashion Show
Sprinkle Emporium has bucked all the fashion norms and last night put on a fashion event for women of all shapes and sizes. If that wasn’t refreshing enough, Sprinkle Emporium ensured that guests of Decorum were not only treated to a simple fashion show, instead the evening was filled with singing, dancing, ‘poetry’ and frivolity. [...]

