Melbourne Spring Fashion Week - A Retrospective

Doll Face

I went along to Doll Face  - the gala launch party of Full-skirted Productions & shot some snaps for the online mag laneway magazine. I felt like I'd stepped back into 1949 when Lady Diamond, a burlesque performer, got on stage. 

Nautical Musings

I just spent 3 days and 3 nights sailing on the sea...this is our boat, the Solway Lass.

Secret Animal Realms

A friend and I were at the gallery for a lecture and we stumbled upon this exhibition - Secret Animal Realms by Tasmanian textile artist Cat Rabbit. Don't you think these creatures secretly come out at night and have a raging party when the final light is switched off & Cat Rabbit goes home to bed?... I do...

Eden

Breathing in the country air and squishing my toes in the sand at Eden

Fashion Festival Trends - Colour in Your Darkest Day

I love colour, I love it to brighten my winter days & put a rose in my cheeks. At L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival this year the colours were surprisingly out in full force. I say surprisingly due to Melbourne's extreme passion for black, black and more black in the darkest season of them all.

My faves? Bright blues, greens & reds not to mention the crowd's take on colour.

crowd pleaser

bianca spender

Life with Bird

Carl Kapp

Karen Walker is tugging at my heart strings

I ventured off, as you do, to the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival a wee while ago. A little taste test of Karen Walker's SS2011 collection really tugged on my heart strings - particularly the refreshingly yellow a-line skirt and her pretty accessories and floral trousers. She made me want to pack my bags and jet off to Paris for a Spring time rendezvous. Paris Runway 6 was hosted by the lovely Frankie magazine - thank you Frankie!