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 [...]
LMFF Cabaret Parade at QV Square
Is it fair on the Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival organisers to suggest that one of their ‘free’ shows was probably the best I’ve been to all week? Well they do say that honesty is the best policy, and I can honestly say that the Cabaret Show held at QV Square on Friday night was [...]
Suit Up Custom Playing Card Exhibition Opening
I recently overheard a precocious five year old boy confidently explain to his mother why graffiti was good even though she had just advised him that ‘people are not supposed to do it.’ It’s colourful and makes the city more interesting to look at, he reasoned to his now lost-for-words mum. Over the last few [...]
The Illumination Experience at QV
This festive season ENESS, digital designer duo extraordinaires, deliver an art installation of light to flood QV square with a theme of peace for Xmas. Entitled the Illumination Experience, the intriguing project is interactive and runs from now until Xmas Eve on the 24th December.
It will be bursting forth from dusk (9pm) every evening until [...]
