The Order of Melbourne transformed to host ‘The Naked Truth’ for Melbourne Spring Fashion Week. The provocative name of the event, instantly invited a number of connotations – some that turned out to be more literal than others. While every participant was indeed clothed, the show attempted to strip away the mystery that [...]
Spirit of the Black Dress
The Spirit of the Black Dress opening gala kicked off this evening, attracting a beautiful crowd to match the beautiful and innovative takes on the wardrobe essential – aka the ‘Black Dress’.
Georges on Collins provided a stylish space for fashion and textile designers’ individual interpretation of what constitutes an amazing little black dress. [...]
MelbourneStreetFashion.com Exhibition
The opening party for Melbourne Street Fashion (MSF) was like a red carpet event for no fear fashion. As I sifted through the large crowd, I witnessed some amazing outfits including regular sightings of anything tartan, this springs upcoming safari prints, sequins from jackets to accessories and leather pieces. I also reminded myself never to [...]
Samsung Cameras & Secret Event Passes
Samsung has just unleashed their newest camera! The ST500 features a world first with two LCD screens – one at the front and one at the back – that you can tap to take your desired shot. It looks handy for taking those, formerly awkward, happy snaps of yourself with your friends. Now [...]
Short & Sweet Style Wrap #14
Menswear boutique Harrolds, at 101 Collins Street, welcomes Marc Jacobs for Spring 2009. Available from September.
Bloom are releasing their Sheer Mineral Tint from July. It is a light-weight mineral liquid foundation with vitamin A, vitamin E, Gingko B and Ginseng. It also has a SPF 15 which is always a (must have) bonus.
Bloom have [...]
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 [...]
When Fashion & Art collide
The fashion world is a bit of a floozy. It always likes to indulge in flirtations with other creative fields like music, performance and, especially, art. There’s a few arty exhibitions coming up that may whet any fashionistas appetite for a deeper aesthetic than weekend window shopping may bring;
Photographer Samantha Everton is back with a [...]
Cafe Society Photographic Awards 2008
The judging of the 9th Annual Sanpellegrino Café Society Exhibition took place in Persimmon restaurant at the National Gallery of Victoria recently. The idea behind the project is for cafes from around Melbourne to work with final year RMIT photography students to, this year, come up with an image that conjures “the art of living [...]
