Got six empty minutes? Fill ’em up with our six pod-pack of frocky fascinations
#1 MICAH FOR MOSSMAN
MELBOURNE IT-GIRL MICAH GIANNELI is among fashion’s most prolific bloggers, stylists, models and citizen fashion reporters. She is also gobsmackingly attractive, with a lofty, superior gaze, sleek figure and hair she alters so dramatically, so often, she might be unrecognisable from one week to the next were it not for her extraordinary cheekbones. You could chisel rocks with those cheekbones. Miss Gianneli and her – also remarkably attractive partner – model, blogger, stylist, also citizen fashion reporter and photographer Jesse Maricic plugged into the social media universe early and quickly nailed all its important platforms, securing loyal fans, followers and likers in the 100s of 1000s. Both are Chic Management talents and lend instant, profound cachet to the fashions they fancy and hook into for personal or commercial ends. Miss Gianneli’s most recent collaboration, with Mossman Clothing, produced this small, tight monotone mix of clean-lines well-priced NOW components including leather and mesh boy shorts, structured brassiere midriff top, boyfriend jacket and pencil skirt shaped sharp across the backside and narrow into the knees for maximum womanly boom-shakka-boom-shakka hipswing. Pictured from left, Up All Night skirt $79.95 (also featured in main picture, top), Ballin’ Shorts $79.95, Cashin’ Out Blazer $139.95, Get Like me top $89.95, and For the Love of It shirt $189.95, (love the names!) from the “Buy me Now, Love me Forever” click category at www.mossmanclothing.com.au
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#2 AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE
IN THE HISTORY OF PARISIEN COUTURE only three Australian designers have ever been invited to show their ready-to-wear collections within coo-ee of the rarified Mode a Paris schedule, lorded over by the Fédération Française de la Couture du Prêt-à-Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode. Collette Dinnigan (technically a New Zealander via South Africa, but let’s not quibble) will celebrate her 20th year on the inner-sanctum schedule in 2014. Ex-pat Martin Grant‘s runways are also a permanent and widely celebrated fixture of Paris Fashion Week. And now, Kym Ellery, 30, Sydney based designer via Perth and St. Martin’s College, London, will debut her spring/summer 14 collection on Paris Fashion Week’s official “off schedule” schedule, tailored to test freshman designers’ mettle for the official “on schedule” schedule. “Depending on their success,” Federation president Didier Grumbach explains, “They become part of the official calendar.” Voxfrock is thrilled to the gills Miss Ellery has been so recognised. (Aren’t we all?) We reckon she’s a knack for nailing whatever’s floating about in the Zeitgeist with pinpoint accuracy and an astounding level of originality every season. Cate Blanchett, Rihanna, Eva Mendes, Gisele Bündchen, Mischa Barton, Abbey Lee Kershaw and Catherine McNeil are among the many happy wearers of Miss Ellery’s brand who obviously agree. Pictured, we lifted this lovely portrait of Miss Ellery by photographer Daniel Nadel, from her website, www.elleryland.com
Our three Aussies are scheduled to show on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, Paris time. Check out the schedule here and, in Voxfrock’s opinion, the best post-show reviews, slide shows, highlight galleries and videos on www.style.com , www.nowfashion.com and www.wwd.com.
#3 BEYONCE’S ONESIE
THE ONESIE HAS HIT CRITICAL MASS, proliferated in collections from discount to designer. It WILL anchor summer 2013/14 in all our memories. Camilla Franks included one of Voxfrock’s faves in her Pachamama collection and among its most visible purchasers recently, was Beyonce. The onesie or playsuit as Miss Franks more accurate calls hers, is fashioned in a silky, Missoni-esque rhythm-striped fabric that fits, flares, flutters and drops slack and flatteringly where it counts. Gorgeous. Beyonce picked it and packed it for a recent sojourn in the Italian sun and social-media-ed herself wearing it, with and without an ocelot brassiere visible between the halter-neck bodice panels that can be secured tightly or loosely in sync with mademoiselle’s mood. Voxfrockians who fancy their own need a lazy $399, and a minute or three at www.camilla.com.au, or phone (02) 83531800 for stockists.
#4 PRETTY KATIE
KATIE HOLMES, SHOT FRONT ROW at Michael Kors‘ Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week show (below), could pass for a Melburnian in this rose print heart-flutterer from the designer’s pre-fall 2013 collection. Mr. Kors’ ready-to-wear is not easily come by in Australia, but we did find dregs of stocks of this marvellous skirt – a shoe-in for racewear – in printed faille on net-a-porter for the not-exactly-snack-price of $2,830 suited to cashed up Voxfrockians who fancy snaffling one. (Also, shop for Michael Kors accessory collection at Westfield, Shop , Level 4, Corner Pitt and Market Sts., Sydney (02) 92338332, www.michaelkors.com
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#5 MILLA’S CHANDELIERS
MILLA JOVOVICH‘S EMBRACE of the chandelier-earring fad has manifest in a full wardrobe of sparkly danglers, pearl droplets and weighty shoulder-grazers since way back in 2010. With an up-do, the jewels enhance the happy circumstance of her longer-than-average neck (very elegant). Juxtaposed with a down do, on the other hand, they nestle in her hair and offer teasing glints, in and out of sight, as she moves (very lovely). Voxfrock offers the Swarovski chandeliers, pictured, as an example worth highlighting because Miss Jovovich looked particularly fetching when she wore them at Cannes recently, and they are now available for ordinary mortals to purchase in the crystal house’s eponymous stores in all states. Pictured left, Miss Jovovich’s “Velour” chandeliers, $505, are fitted to clip the ear, and right, “Vermillion” crystal burst design, from the same Secret Treasures Fall/Winter 2013/14 collection, fitted for pierced ears, $245. www.swarovski.com
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#6 UNCONQUERABLE
THE IRREPRESSIBLE NAPOLEON PERDIS WON yet another swag of cups at last night’s 2013 Australian Beauty Awards (what MUST his poolroom look like?) for his Auto Pilot Pre-Foundation Skin Primer (celebrating its first decade on the global market), Bronze Patrol bronzer, Off Duty Tinted Moisturizer foundation, Camera Finish Powder Foundation and Mosaic Powder Flushing blush. Beauty directors, editors and readers from Aussie glossies Cosmopolitan, Cleo, Harper’s Bazaar, Dolly, OK!, Shop Til You Drop, Woman’s Day and NW judged more than 8,000 products in the awards’ mind-numbing 48 categories. Click here for a useful wrap of products worth buying in a crowded and puzzling market. Amen. (Pictured, Mr. Perdis and his family, at the recent launch of Napoleon Perdis. Lifestyle in Melbourne’s Como Centre.)
Compiled by Terry Carruthers and Candice Burke, intern@voxfrock.com.au, with Janice Breen Burns, jbb@voxfrock.com.au and Emily Wilson, info@voxfrock.com.au
