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February 23rd, 2013

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Burberry: She’s got the moves like Jagger

Karlie’s got some swagger / Garance Dore

See Karlie Kloss’ street style

Read my interview with fashion photographer/blogger Garance Dore

February 20th, 2013

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Eye spy jewellery at Maria Francesca Pepe

Maria Francesca Pepe at London Fashion Week

Read my interview with the hauntingly beautiful NY-based jewellery designer Vera Balyura

See bracelets by Australian label Petite Grand + a few of my favourite things

February 11th, 2013

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Must avoid ‘Posh’ puns at Victoria Beckham autumn/winter 2013/14

Because, y’know, anything this sleek, shiny and impeccably tailored also screams ‘posh’ in a non-Spice-Girl-related way. Go VB.

Victoria Beckham autumn/winter 2013/14 /style.com

The devil is in the details at Victoria Beckham autumn/winter 2012/13

Carven + Victoria Beckham - an understated sartorial match made in heaven?

February 10th, 2013

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She’s an uptown city girl at Rag & Bone autumn/winter 2013

Rag & Bone autumn/winter 2013/14 /Style.com

Read my review of Rag & Bone spring/summer 2013 on sheermag.com

See highlights from last NYFW

September 17th, 2012

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Backstage at Holly Fulton

Backstage at Holly Fulton spring/summer 2013 at London Fashion Week

See prints and femininity at the Rachel Comey spring/summer 2013 show at NYFW

Read about Australian model Olivia Thornton’s backstage experience

September 11th, 2012

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Cherry pink suede + a floral blossom skirt at Pierre Balmain

With spring in her step, literally.

Pierre Balmain spring/summer 2013 at New York Fashion Week / Style.com

Read about Australian model Olivia Thornton’s backstage experience

See avian-inspired femininity at the Thakoon spring/summer 2013 show at NYFW

September 11th, 2012

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All the pretty birds at Thakoon

The Thakoon aesthetic is nothing if not ladylike. Modest, refined, elegant – these are signatures of designer Thakoon Panichgul’s work the same way sexiness is for Versace, or British humour is for Mulberry. But if this sounds a little plain, think again.

The Thakoon spring/summer 2013 show was a cleverly restrained celebration of embroidered motifs, sheer fabrics and indeed, beauty. Playing with the idea of birds and their feathers, he began the show with an exquisitely lineated dress that drew on the notion of a birdcage to strengthen and give structure to the female body in a way that highlighted rather than restrained, before moving on to several wallpaper-inspired prints that added a sense of early 20^th century elegance to his pieces. The shape of a preppy collegiate sweater was re-imagined in delicate organza and floral-print paneling to add a sense of lightness and femininity to an often dowdy shape. The airy prettiness of the first party of the collection petered out as the parade ended with some lackluster silhouettes, but there was no doubt this will be a lovely collection to wear in summer indeed.

Marie Piovesan, Ros Georgiou, Marine van Outryve, Maja Salamon, Cara Delevigne X Thakoon spring/summer 2013 at New York Fashion Week / Style.com

Read the interview with Australian model Olivia Thornton from last fashion season

Behind-the-scenes and designer interviews at at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia

September 7th, 2012

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Bokeh prints and velvet textures at Rachel Comey

And so it begins: the spring edition of the biannual fashion frenzy collectively referred to as Fashion Month, also known as New York/London/Milan/Paris Fashion Weeks.

Commonly more optimistic and upbeat than its autumn counterpart (perhaps a reflection of the mood of its season?), the world’s most sartorially and genetically gifted have already filed into New York City to both see and be seen; after eight days, they will move on to London and so forth.

New York Fashion Week officially kicked off the festivities with a bang last night in the form of Fashion’s Night Out. But the day before, locally-based designer Rachel Comey showed next season’s collection against the white open space of Pier 59 Studios, featuring bokeh prints and colourful embellishments for a collection that was elegant and relaxed and I-can-picture-that-in-my-wardrobe-already-wearable yet somehow quietly subversive; above all, it was playful, fun and feminine. Summer 2012 may be over but can it be spring 2013 already please?

Rachel Comey spring/summer 2013 show at NYFW /Armando Grillo via NYmag.com

Are you ready?

New York, London, Milan & Paris Fashion Weeks.

Smythson Runway textured-leather notebook / Net-A-Porter

April 30th, 2012

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zimmermann-sydney:

Pre-Fashion Week Diary: 60 seconds with… Tamila Purvis.

Reblogged from ZIMMERMANN

April 30th, 2012

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Manning Cartell part 1: stylist Peter Simon Phillips talks hardcore Latina b*tches

What were you thinking when you styled the collection?
I was… thinking about who the girl was from the collection.

Okay, so who was the girl?
She was inspired by Frida Kahlo, so we kind of made a bit of a hardcore Latina bitch… can I say that? Just a strong type of woman.

A hardcore Latina… I don’t think I’ve ever met one of those.
You haven’t? Well you’ve just met 21 of them.

March 2nd, 2012

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Dries Van Noten autumn/winter 2012/13

If Milan is the fashion world’s peacock habitat, all vibrancy, flash and glamour, then Paris is perhaps home to the falcon: a subtle, creative breed with a sharp sense of direction.

It’s fitting then, that Dries Van Noten shows at Paris Fashion Week. His subversive sense of style, courtesy of his homeland Belgium, blends beautifully with the city’s understated sartorial aesthetic – and it this skill for blending that shone through in this latest collection. Although the term ‘East-meets-West’ often brings to mind imperialist notions of ‘orientalism’, Van Noten proved that when done based on pure appreciation of aesthetic, cultures can indeed be married for a tasteful, and ultimately glorious, result.

Taking inspiration from traditional Chinese, Korean and Japanese art as seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the colour, form and clean lines of Eastern art were appropriated into modern tailored pieces that carried a hint of the military and of masculinity. The Ming vase blues, vibrant oranges and reds and graphic shapes worked surprisingly well with the dusky khakis for an effect that was neither dreary, as khaki can sometimes be on its own, nor excessive, as the colours and prints could have been on their own.

Prints were cut and pasted into graphic pop-art forms, but balanced with black and white. Indeed, Van Noten expertly blended Asian iconography with wit and militant sophistication. The resulting collection was wearable and simply beautiful. Bold but not flashy, intellectual but not erudite, this collection is surely an example of what an acute sense of design, self and culture can result in.