"Who is your style icon?" Cue *Heavy groan and eyes rolling back into the head* I always feel like I'm being deliberately difficult when I answer that question by saying that I think the words 'icon' and 'iconic' are carelessly overused and that in a fashion context so often the same tried and tested answers… Continue reading The I Word
The Experienced
For all my talk of the young and the new, there's also no denying that experience sometimes shows. I thought I knew the land of the lay when it came to Australian Fashion Week, having attended for the last four years. This time marked my first Toni Maticevski and Easton Pearson shows, with over ten… Continue reading The Experienced
The Utzon Effect
Sydney Opera House. It's probably the one picture postcard tourist attraction in the whole world, that I will never tire of stare at over and over again for a good length of time. It just imposes its presence on you, from every angle and in every situation you look at it – far away, up… Continue reading The Utzon Effect
Make a Scene
>> It's been over fifteen years since French Connection told everyone to basically go FCUK themselves, in the age of laddish mad fer it tactics, and since then have shirked away from such controversy and given itself several rebranding uplift. Remember the I am Man / I am Woman campaign, cleverly conceived by agency Fallon two years ago?… Continue reading Make a Scene