The Mauritian-Australian Melbourne-based designer’s first solo show at Afterpay Australian Fashion Week was a joyous, noisy, exhilarating ode to everything he stands for – inclusivity, fashionart, free expression – and played…
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Janice Breen Burns cherry picks the girly bits out of Photo2022. Melbourne’s sprawling city-wide international festival of photography launches April 29 – May 22 with 90 exhibitions by 123 artists from…
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Janice Breen Burns meets the curator unpacking one of the decade’s most anticipated exhibitions. (First published on Creative Victoria’s Fashionews, your regular drop of local fashion yarns, best events, grants news,…
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Small experimental wildly expressive labels are key to Melbourne’s unique fashion heritage. Independent Runway, a highlight of The PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival, is where many of the best muster. Voxfrock Rookies…
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(Story published first in Creative Victoria Fashion News, click here to subscribe for free) Meet Melbourne’s most elegant young influencer who doesn’t think of herself as an influencer at all. “I…
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Fashion is polarising: fast mega-brands up one end, tiny independants run by impassioned, politically engaged creatives up the other. It’s a good thing. By Janice Breen Burns. (First published The Age/Sydney…
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It’s been tough. 2021 brought many in fashion to the brink of despair. It could easily have stripped the joy out of Christmas, turned summer holidays into a month of worry.…
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After a hundred years Gabrielle’s radical chic is still modern womenswear’s evocative backstory. Words by Janice Breen Burns (Story first appeared in The Saturday Age) Main photograph (above) from “Paris Madness”,…
