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 [...]
Short & Sweet Style Wrap #25
The nominations for the Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival 2010 Designer Award (presented by Woolmark) were released recently. The nominees are Dion Lee, Gail Sorronda, Gary Bigeni, Konstantina Mittas, Therese Rawsthorne and Melbourne’s own Lui Hon and Dhini. Designers in their first five years of business have the chance to win $10,000, a trip to [...]
Limedrop & other Pop-Up Shops
So I’ve been doing a little moonlighting over at a chic new online publication called Broadsheet Melbourne (as some of you may know I freelance ,writing about anything Melbourne or lifestyle-themed when I can). My first article can be found here and will give you a run down on all of the pop-up shops that [...]
Short & Sweet Style Wrap #23
Paper queen Cristina Re now offers high tea, crafty workshops called the Papercraft Academy in her flagship Collingwood store ‘Where a Girl Goes’. Good for crafty types or making your own invites or cards for big events. Call to book your group.
Drink Me Alice designer jewellery has a shiny new website to check out and [...]
Cloud 19
Now that the State of Design festival has wrapped up for 2009 I wanted to give you some great reasons to mark it on your must-visit calendar for next year. If you didn’t happen to make it this time around the Cloud 19 event was a highlight for me at 1000 £ BEND (St [...]
This Is Not A Design Market
As part of the State of Design festival Bigger than Ten Bears and Moth Design present This is Not a Design Market. The market is on next Sunday 19th July from 10am – 5pm at The Factory, 500 Latrobe Street, Melbourne. You’ll be able to discover all types of ingenius designs in homewares, art, [...]
2009 State of Design Festival (for Fashion lovers)
Presenting our hand-picked guide to the best public events for the fashion-inclined at the State of Design festival. We’ve picked out the best fashion related design events across the festival and condensed them into brief tidbits so you don’t have wade through every event. For full details on the events below, visit State of Design [...]
Penthouse Mouse 2009
The Capitol in South Yarra has been temporarily transformed into a giant space in which fashion and art fans alike can let their imaginations run wild. The public exhibition of independent artists and fashion designers will be running until the 22nd of March, and is well worth the trip if you are a fan of [...]

