One night, one location and two reasons to celebrate Australia’s continually evolving fashion industry.
Thursday evening saw the amalgamation of fashion and writing with the launch of LIFEwithBIRD’s new flagship store ‘Project 7’ and the simultaneous launch of Mitchell Oakley Smith’s debut title ‘FASHION: Australian and New Zealand Designers’.
After having opened their first LIFEwithBIRD flagship [...]
LIFEwithBIRD ‘Project 7′ x FASHION: Australian & New Zealand Designers
Win tix to the Designer Series at MSFW
The hottest tickets in town right now are to the Designer Series shows at Melbourne Spring Fashion Week. It’s the traditional runway experience that you could expect from any fashion capital around the world. You can purchase your tickets by clicking here now… or take your chances and win a double pass including access [...]
State of Design (for fashion lovers) 2010
Before Melbourne Spring Fashion Week 2010 becomes the festival du jour there is another event for design fans to hit our fair city. Presenting my short & sweet guide to the top ten best things (for fashion lovers) about the State of Design festival for 2010. In no particular order;
1. Preston Zly and The Red [...]
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 [...]
‘Feast of Fashion’ part one
Melbourne’s GPO hosted a boutique runway to celebrate the array of designers housed in the divine building. A vintage themed runway beneath high ceilings and spectacular arches, greeted guests with Cacao Chocolates and Deakin Estate bubbly in the heart of the city for a ‘feast of fashion.’
Lisa Ho opened the runway featuring the core of [...]
LMFF Runway 4
Eight amazing designers offered their finest, solid collections for the celebration of InStyle 10th Anniversary that evening. In the humid weather, participants were decked out in their best outfits to watch this new fashion revolution come alive.
Mimco opened the show with its treasured jewellery and bags wrapped and draped on each model. Each model [...]
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 [...]
Short & Sweet Style Wrap #24
Kit Willow will open her latest boutique on the ground floor of Melbourne’s GPO this Thursday 17th December. The store will feature rotating art exhibitions (the first being by illustrator Tania Mason and Clemens Krauss) as well as typically gorgeous Willow pieces from her latest Eternal Phi.
Rising stars in the local textiles, clothing and footwear [...]
Fashion at Altitude at Melbourne’s GPO
I confess I was on double duty at the Fashion at Altitude parades last week; both checking it all out in my capacity as editor of StyleMelbourne and also slipping into my role as community manager (basically in charge of writing/running their snazzy new website) for Melbourne’s GPO. So I guess that’s the disclosure thing [...]
Designer Series 2
The Melbourne Town Hall was awash with the fashionable and famous on Wednesday night, as the historic venue played host to Designer Series Parade Number 2 as part of Melbourne Spring Fashion Week 2009. The runway looked European in style featuring the simple wooden floor of the town hall and a basic black backdrop. [...]
