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October 2013

  • The Count takes supper with Julia.

    Social doyen and roving Voxfrock contributor Shiva “Count Shiva” Singam, describes a rare evening at jewellery gallery e.g.etal with the extraordinary designer Julia deVille. Photographs: Meagan Harding ….How can I recall…

  • LOVE. FASHION.

    Bendigo Art Gallery (BAG) was a noble institution, as keepers of culture go, until 2008. Then its exhibition, The Golden Age of Couture from London‘s Victoria & Albert  Museum ranked it…

  • WE'VE BEEN OUT….

    To a chic Circa lunch of shiso oysters, bass grouper and muddled pavlova with 40 women of substance best known to London’s Matches fashion house as its premium current and potential…

  • FEEL THE CHIC

    PICTURES: National Gallery of Victoria WORDS: Janice Breen Burns, editor Voxfrock There are dresses, in the National Gallery of Victoria’s Edward Steichen & Art Deco Fashion exhibition, so evocative you can…

  • WE'VE BEEN OUT….

    Main picture, top Sam D’Agostino Caulfield Cup Carnival fashion ambassador Erica Heynatz, with glamourous wrangler for the day, Rebecca Maddern, and model Kasia Z. Melbourne Racing Club’s Members’ annual Trackside Luncheon…

  • ABOUT LAST NIGHT – A NOTEBOOK

    Main picture, top: VanityFair.com I dined with legendary comic Dan Aykroyd and his wife Donna Dixon Aykroyd last night  As luck would have it, their friends, legendary Hollywood director John Landis…

  • SPRING 2014 – WEAR IT NOW

    PICTURES: STYLE.COM WORDS: Janice Breen Burns Voxfrock presents your complete guide to Spring 2014, fully workable now. Australians are blessed, down here on earth’s curvy bottom. “Down Under” is not only…

  • MR. CASTLE SHOOTS PARIS.

    PICTURES: PHILIP CASTLE WORDS: JANICE BREEN BURNS (Longform: 10 minutes to read) Philip Castle shoots Paris from the back. Backstage, back of house, a fashion show’s interminable, mind-numbing backstory of castings,…