Sunday Age fashion editor Rachel Wells has recently had the simultaneously enviable and daunting task of shuffling through the Age newspaper’s photographic archives for evidence of Melbourne’s fashionable past and present. The Age of Fashion exhibition, part of Melbourne Spring Fashion Week, is the result of her hours spent trawling through stylish images. The breadth of Melbourne fashion [...]
Duck Duck Goose…
Duck Duck Goose…a charming name for a restaurant that has been in the works for longer than it takes to play 100 rounds of its namesake childhood game.
The space is ambitious with a multiple personality. Designed in two halves; the luxurious higher-end dining room and a budget-friendly modern Asian eatery I note both sides serves [...]
Winter Q & A with Kam Otto
As winter’s icy fingers grasp at our city I prefer to look towards Parisian style for a chic take on cold-weather dressing. Textured stockings, waisted coats, luxurious scarves, high rise flat boots and long leather gloves will be my best friend this season. Yet that is simply my idealised version of the Gallic dresscode. [...]
Fashion Dollhouse
The QV building was briefly transformed into a little girl’s dream, a life-sized doll house. While it was no Barbie Malibu Beach house, the catwalk was adorned with a swing, a luxurious love seat and accessorised all in black and white.
For men, Dollhouse featured classic suits in grey and black by Platinum and Wayne [...]
Fashion Dollhouse Shows
On Monday March 15th QV invites you to visit them and watch as they play dress ups with their (life-sized) dolls. QV Square on level 2 will become a larger than life dollhouse as they present three shows as part of the L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival. Each 30 minute show is free and open [...]
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 [...]
Cruise into Summer Showcase
The wintry Melbourne weather might be stubbornly hanging on, but the season has definitely changed in the fashion world. Despite the cold, Melbourne fashionistas are already looking ahead to summer and sunnier times. Last Thursday at the QV Cruise into Summer fashion showcase, guests wrapped in winter coats gazed wistfully at the Mediterranean backdrop [...]
Cruise into Summer Fashion showcase
So it has been a while (read: never ever) since I was last yachting around the Mediterranean with my “driver” named Jeeves and my “poolboy” named Yanni. Luckily some bright spark has decided to turn QV Square (Level 2 at QV, corner of Swanston and Lonsdale Streets) into a luxurious beach resort [...]
Welcome to the Frat House
Roller skates, big plastic cups of punch (admittedly spiked with organic Vodka O to lessen the guilt) and Twister! Those are the elements Frat House –a wholly Australian owned retailer of authentic American labels – combined to launch its latest flagship store in Melbourne. All they needed to add was a few bed-sheet togas (and [...]
Short & Sweet Style Wrap #13
There are a few perks that come with winter. Looking cute in earmuffs as you skate around an ice rink perhaps? QV (corner of Swanston and Lonsdale) is changing its square into a 15m square, eco-friendly skating rink from Saturday 27th June to Saturday 25th July. The kitschy deliciousness continues with fake snow, pine [...]
