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 [...]
Yeojin Bae ‘Crossroads’ Spring Summer 2010/11
Yeojin Bae is offering a glimpse of the 1980s for spring/summer 2010-11. Still as sharp and sophisticated as ever, we’re not talking eighties clichés here, there’s no power-dressing shoulder pads or Fame-esque leg warmers. It’s all about eighties elegance: the suave cool of Duran Duran and James Bond style glamour as Bae refines the [...]
A taste of Eat Street 2010
I was lucky to be invited to take a stroll along Eat Street last night. The epic charity event is a fusion of fashion and food hosted in the Grand Ballroom of the Sofitel Melbourne on Collins. Think the most glamourous hawker’s market ever combined with an unleashed visit to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory and you [...]
Elegance on Eat Street 2010
Returning to the Sofitel Melbourne on Collins Grand Ballroom are a plethora of Melbourne’s best restaurants, fashion designers and personalities combining to create Eat Street. This year the theme is “elegance” with pieces from Alice McCall, Yeojin Bae, Kirrily Johnston, Willow, LIFEwithBIRD, Mimco, Richard Nylon, Gwendolynne and Peter Jago to be auctioned off on the [...]
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 Runway 4
Eight amazing designers offered their finest, solid collections for the celebration of InStyle 10th Anniversary that evening. In the humid weather, participants were decked out in their best outfits to watch this new fashion revolution come alive.
Mimco opened the show with its treasured jewellery and bags wrapped and draped on each model. Each model [...]
Short & Sweet Style Wrap #16
Miranda Kerr will be instore at David Jones Bourke Street on Friday the 14th August for two styling sessions, Q and A and signings. The sessions start at 12pm and 1pm. Stop by the womenswear department on your lunchbreak!
Have you been checking out much of the State of Design festival yet? It includes quirky things like [...]
L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival; Runway 2
We fashionistas woke up this morning to find that after the first runway of L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival 2009 “black is back” and the second show cemented the infamous shade to its former glory but this time it is black with a splash- of bright, bold colour.
With the big names in Australian fashion treading the [...]
Vintage Soul Debut
Emily Highfield is a young Melbourne designer on a mission. She wants to bring past designer pieces back to life to invigorate our modern wardrobes. She sources high end pieces and often re-fashions them for her new label called ‘Vintage Soul’ and then combines this with a talent for creating entirely original items from scratch. [...]
Designers to Watch Right Now
To design is to create and plan something special. I’ve sourced five hot designers to watch and crave right now. All have their own innovative outlook on fashion and the competitive industry and how their collections stand out from the crowd.
1. Melbourne sisters doing it for themselves. Angela & Sarah McFarland are the talented duo [...]
