JEEP PORTSEA POLO
A brutal weather forecast kept half the glitterati at home and set the other half in a spin of sartorial confusion. What to wear in a chill breeze and expected downpour? No idea! Stringy frocks, winter coats, rubber boots, trouser suits, a leather romper? The polo dress code for girls (summer frock and flat shoes) was dumped for practicality by some, and replaced, bewilderingly, by six-cylinder bells-and-whistles nightclub-esque ensembles (including gobsmackingly stupid high heels) by others. As it happened, the forecast was wrong, wrong, wrong (blast the Bureau!), the day brightened and dried into a genuine sparkler, and polo-goers’ oddball blend of dress codes resolved into a spectacular sartorial circus. Here, Voxfrock’s edit; chicest of the chic…
PICTURES (INCLUDING MAIN PICTURE, TOP) BY KARON PHOTOGRAPHY
Helen O’Connor at Jeep Portsea Polo
Julie Bishop and The Romanos at Jeep Portsea Polo
Nadia Bartel at Jeep Portsea Polo
TAG HEUER SUMMER PARTY AT MS COLLINS
The Australian Open is a Voxfrock’s third favorite annual event, when Melbourne – bless her blue courts – fills to the gills with smashingly fit, terribly attractive boys and girls. Tag Heuer is a vital associate of the Open and an ambitious party host every year including this one, themed “Don’t Crack Under Pressure”, at glamourclub Ms Collins. Tag Heuer president and CEO Jean-Claude Biver hosted several hundred Very Important People with global brand ambassadors Maria Sharapova and the DJ duo known simply as NERVO.
PICTURES BY APL PHOTOGRAPHY
Maria Sharapova (centre) and the NERVO DJs at Tag Heuer
Lydia Lassila at Tag Heuer Summer Party
Kate Peck at Tag Heuer Summer Party
MYER LAUNCH OF “1 MILLION STARS TO END VIOLENCE” PROJECT
Nothing warms Voxfrock’s cockles quite like the philanthropy of gargantuan corporate entities. It sort of rebalances and restores, n’est pas? Faith in humanity. Like, Myer Melbourne’s backing of the 1 million Stars to end Violence project, a plan hatched by artist Maryann Talia Pau following the brutal murder of Jill Meagher. Maryann and Myer hope a million of these little symbols by 2018 will focus the love, help solve the phenomenon of violence against women. Myer ambassador Lauren Phillips hosted the first of future workshops planned to run in the Melbourne store until Saturday February 21, to weave palm-sized stars from glossy satinesque ribbons. Lots of lovely Myer VIPs, including milliners Natalie Bikicki and Richard Nylon, menswear guru Dom Bagnato, and international fashion illustrator Kerrie Hess, turned out to fiddle their ribbons into stars that will be suspended in a spectacular artwork to be revealed in the store on International Women’s Day, February 23. Click here to find out how you can weave and add your own star to the galaxy.
PICTURES BY MYER
Maryann Pau (left) and Lauren Phillips at Myer’s launch of One Million Stars
Kerrie Hess at Myer’s launch of the One Million Stars project
Compiled by Janice Breen Burns, jbb@voxfrock.com.au
