This is the final post on the challenge I set myself to travel Europe with just carry-on luggage and includes a snapshot of every outfit I wore.
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One of the things I love most about fashion and style is its connection to psychology and its ability to reflect social changes. Some brief insights here…
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The quest for comfortable shoes
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Lots of people have warmed to combining prints these days, but what is the key to doing it well..? Carly Findlay helps us out here.
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Conditions for women in the developed world have come a long, long way in the last hundred years, however…
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Living Coral; authentic and immersive, connection and intimacy, sociable and spirited…
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When I delve into a woman’s wardrobe I usually see one of two things… either there’s a conglomeration of disparate but potentially exciting items or there’s a sparse, neatly ordered system with few pieces but in co-ordinating colours.
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Picture this: a glass of bubbly, meeting some of our finest independent fashion and accessories designers in their studios, a guided tour through Melbourne’s hippest fashion precinct, uncovering hidden gems and finding fabulous fashion – and of course free style advice all the way!
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The exceptional fashion exhibition, The House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture, is well worth seeing, particularly for those who ever doubted fashion is art. Following are some notes I took listening to a talk by Katie Somerville, senior curator at NGV (National Gallery of Victoria).
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Out walking recently, I came across one of those things I’ve always loved – a large market full of home baked goodies and secondhand and vintage fashion in a pretty, sunny garden. Sadly, I have to say I only found 4-5 things even worth considering. The rest of it was junk. Pure junk. The designs were bad, the fabrics had pilled or faded and the seams looked dodgy. In a word: cheap. Cheap, disposable, fast fashion.
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