Alfred and Edith

Posted by on Apr 26, 2012 Our wonderful friends have recently let us borrow their precious collection of Alfred Hitchcock films. We’re making our way through them and loving every minute of it. Please don’t ask me to nominate a favourite film. Whenever I see the name Edith Head in the titles, I know to expect fabulous costumes. I had a scout around and found these wonderful sketches by Edith Head for Grace...
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The frock that stopped a nation

Posted by on Oct 28, 2011 In 1965 Jean Shrimpton was in town for the Melbourne Cup. She wore this infamous outfit. No stockings (she’d ditched them at the last minute because it was a hot day), no hat and no gloves. Melbourne society was aghast. It looks so simple and modest by today’s standards. “… surrounded by sober draped silks and floral nylons, ghastly tulle hats and fur stoles, she was like...
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Maggie T

Posted by on Sep 7, 2011 As a young photographer in Melbourne Helmut Newton’s favourite model was a young lady named Margaret Tabberer. These days everyone in Australia knows her as ‘Maggie’. What a picture they made together.   Helmut...
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Zara zen

Posted by on Jul 28, 2011 How I love this photo of the monks outside a Zara store. But I have so many questions…   Photo: Dikor,...
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Window shopping

Posted by on Jul 1, 2011 It’s hard to reconcile a cerebral, thoughtful life with a love of fashion. These days I look through magazines and try to see things purely from a design perspective: the colours, the photography, the styling, the beauty of the model and of course, the craft of the fashion designer. Somehow this keeps things academic, and I don’t get the urge to own the stuff. That they all come...
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Farewell Liz

Posted by on Mar 24, 2011 They don’t make movie stars like they used to. Farewell to Liz Taylor, one of the silver screen’s great...
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Sitting on the digital park bench

Posted by on Jan 11, 2011 I’m a sticky-beak. I love to people-watch. This condition has left me with a house full of magazines and a blog favourites list a mile long. One of the first blogs I began following is The Sartorialist. He’s now a household name. In this little film he describes sitting on the ‘digital park bench’. And that’s exactly what I’m doing: sitting at my computer,...
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Summer: where art thou?

Posted by on Jan 11, 2011 Summer is conspicuously absent from Australia this January.    Photo: Terry O’Neill,...
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Baby fashionista

Posted by on Nov 28, 2010 How well dressed are the kids these days? Some of the little devils put me to shame. Even the fashionistas start young. Their #1 accessory appears to be a cool mum.  (Photo by Stockholm Street...
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Time to knit

Posted by on Jan 25, 2010 I am sure I was built for a cold climate. It’s summer, but I feel the need to...
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Vogue girls

Posted by on Sep 7, 2009 I’ll put in my order now to come back next time around as a French Vogue girl. What on earth do they do to get such long, skinny legs? Pic below and much more from the fabulous Jak & Jil...
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