Bang Bang Bang. Voxfrock’s 10-top roundup of shrunk-down hot-frocky-pop news items starts NOW…
Shades of cool
Martin Margiela collaborated with German crafthouse Mykita to produce Voxfrock’s favorite sunshades-de jour. Say no more. Viewable here, below, and main photo, top.
Maison Martin Margiela for Mykita
There, not here
The Voxfrockers had conniptions earlier this year when rumors fizzed in Certain Circles about a possible visit to Melbourne by the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2011 blockbuster, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty. They were wrong, of course, and well, Gutted R Us. But, this week – chorus of angels! – reports the show that lured thick queues for kilometres, day after day, (estimates of 500,000 visitors) will be re-mounted in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum early next year. We are (slightly)comforted, but also unnerved as, since the UK announcement went global five days ago, the V&A’s system has staggered under the demand for tickets. So, best get a wiggle on, yes? Yes. Join the legions booking for a legend, here.
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, coming to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum
Slim love
The Voxfrockers arrived late to the altar of sugarlessness, but have embraced the slimming lifestyle with gusto and just the odd greedy lapse. Our fave current recipe is for Chocolate Wellness Rum Balls which we selflessly share here: In a highpowered food processor, combine 12 pitted dates, ¼ cup cocoa powder, one cup blanched almonds, one cup walnuts, one teaspoon vanilla extract, 45grams Well Naturally Sugar Free Dark Chocolate Melts and half a capful of rum. Scoop and roll tablespoon sized balls of the thick paste in shredded coconut. Refrigerate 20 minutes then scoff. For even more virtuous sugarfree chocolates recipes, click here.
Well Naturally sugarless chocolate rum balls. Like, yum.
Cashing in
Instagram is now testing video ads by 15 brands handpicked brands including Burberry and Levis.
Blanch on Normcore
Matchesfashion.com, the onliner giving net-a-porter, et. al. a run for their frocks in Australia, interviews Russh magazine editor, Jess Blanch, 34,(below) for its Style Report blogzine this week. Ms. Blanch is intelligent, interesting, bogglingly stylish and gives a cracker definition of normcore for any one, like the Voxfrockers, who has only recently encountered this inherently logical sartorial concept. (Also see Run in Heels below). Click here.
Tres chic: Jess Blanch, editor of Russh, interviewed on Matchesfashion.com
While he waits
A Netherlands-based jeans webstore is offering 15 minutes “try on” time with courier deliveries. Theory goes; if it doesn’t fit, sling it back to the courier, no problemo, no schlepp to the post office, no return costs. The concept’s fraught with “what ifs”, natch, so is officially a work in progress but worth a ponder, n’est pas? Here’s the webshop: www.jeansonline.com
And finally: spanking new shops, kitchens and clubs are popping open like corn in Melbourne; here’s our pick of this week’s trickiest:
Street food beat
Rue & Co. by George Calombaris, Chris Lucas and Salvatore Maltesta spruiks an uber-mo-derne souvlaki, Japanese, Korean barbeque, cafe and coffee street menu as part of QIC Global Real Estate’s creative use of the old Le Louvre site at 80 Collins Street. While it lasts, check it out here.
Run in heels
Scandinavian shoe guru Ecco’s flagship store is open at Emporium. Ecco slots neat into socalled normcore fashion, a concept swelling in the Zeitgeist and based around clothes light on hype, heavy on quality, longevity and fad-transcendant style. Voxfrock’s hands-down pick of Ecco’s collection is the Structured 75 bootlet with rubber-based platform and finger-high heel so comfortable you can run in them. As we do. Check the full Ecco offering here.
Run in them: Ecco Structaral 75 bootlet, $299.95
Georgia May not, but…
Thomas Sabo’s swank new store in the vast Emporium complex offers a small, elegant compensation for Melbournians crestfallen to miss Georgia May Jagger when she flew in for the recent fashion festival, then out in a blink to be with grief-stricken dad, Mick, after the tragic death of his girlfriend. Ellen Von Unwerth’s rather lovely poster-sized photographs of the gap-toothed Miss Jagger (a lilt of Jess Hart in that smile) hover over its glossy counters. www.thomassabo.com.au
Here she is.
Night society
Lux Night Club opened this week at number 373 on Chapel Street, South Yarra. Very thrilling. Very sexy. Not your average. Click here and here. And here….See?
Compiled by Terry Carruthers, Emily Chapman and Michaela Summers,intern@voxfrock.com.au, with editor, Janice Breen Burns, jbb@voxfrock.com.au
