In a surprising (they were entered as a the people’s choice) yet thrilling win Melbourne’s Limedrop designer duo Clea Garrick and Nathan Price took out the Chambord Shine Award last night. Traditionally not ones to design for the Spring Racing Carnival set, Limedrop caught the judges’ eye with an edgy frock featuring a regally dressed [...]
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 [...]
Rainy Day SALE
It’s raining, it’s pouring, my wardrobe’s looking boring… Alexi Freeman and Milly Sleeping have teamed up for a sale to solve my sartorial issues while keeping fashion lovers warm and dry. Selected current season Alexi Freeman pieces will be available at up to 30% off while past seasons could be as little as half price.
Milly Sleeping [...]
Chambord Shine Awards 2010 Melbourne
On tuesday evening, the Longroom was flooded with fashionable faces as the Melbourne leg of the Chambord Shine Awards‘ tour of the east coast took to the runway. The equestrian-inspired Jolet and Anna Campbell were the chosen ones according to judges (fashion journalist Emily Power, iSpyStyle’s Kate Vandermeer, designer Joe Farage and Chambord’s Kate Mansour) [...]
70% off mid-season sale
Limedrop, Lenko, Thom Finch, Who Am Eye and Trimapee have banded together for a communal sale this weekend only. Today and tomorrow from 10am to 6pm and Sunday from 12pm to 5pm you can find them all at Gorker Photography Studio at the corner of Kerr and Gore Streets in Fitzroy. Clea from Limedrop is [...]
Lady Melbourne & Oh Jamie photoshoot
After her recent appointment as Editor of Melbourne Street Fashion, it was only apt that Phoebe Montague a.k.a Lady Melbourne took it to the streets for an uncharacteristic photoshoot featuring our city’s landmark destinations. A guerrilla-style romp around the city with emerging photographer/blogger Jamie Wdziekonski took in Flinders Street station and bookshop, Degraves Street (where we [...]
Short & Sweet News Wrap #28
Melbourne designers and other creatives have come together for the Good Friday Appeal. You can bid on these customised Marquise baby singlets by Arthur Galan, Mimco, Bloom, Kat Macleod, Yeojin Bae and Arabella Ramsay.
Thread Den has opened its second store for those who take a personal approach to stocking their wardrobes. Level one of the Art-Deco [...]
LMFF 2010 Runway 6
The L’Oreal Paris Runway 6 at the 2010 L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival was littered with cool, cutting-edge labels. After all, it was presented by Yen magazine so what more can we expect? From Runway 6 I love the quirky digital prints and off-kilter silhouettes coming through this season. See below for the latest, highly-covetable collections [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
