Voxfrock is back for 2016 Dear Ones, with all keyboards blazing just for you. We have new interns, a new shooter in Paris and a packed work sheet of reportage imminent, from full-bore fashion week roundups, to portrait features on fascinatingly frocky people, to regular shop-floor frock-rack critiques for your information and entertainment.
For starters, jot Jeep Portsea Polo in your Kikki K, and watch for our pix and scuttlebutt from this gorgeous seaside bash, now recognised as one of the finest, quirkiest polo meets in the world. (Note: pix of handsome Argentinians flailing mallets on gobsmackingly agile ponies are our specialty, not to mention our customary gallery of pretty-babes-in-frocks and smashing-chaps-in-rolled-up-chinos-and-sockless-loafers.) Everything you ever wanted to know about Saturday’s Jeep Portsea Polo will be answered on Voxfrock‘s social media streams as the ponies gallop and the girls wobble in their wedges, followed by a more elaborate report right here, after we’ve trudged the 1km back up the road to our car, motored back to Melbourne, and possibly had a nice lie down before we write it up. Just for you.
Meanwhile, the Voxfrockers are ATM more focussed on togs than chukkas. Today, right here, we’re talking togs in the first of our shortshot Voxreports for a fashion news category we’ve creatively and exuberantly named Shopping. (Yes, Shopping.) Under the banner of Shopping, we’ll sieve the best of the best of the Stuff Out There, then we’ll sieve it again and present our gems – our best picks – with a few explanatory words and a couple of explanatory pick-chores. You get the drift? Today, it’s togs. Tog shopping. We’ve often pondered – haven’t you, Dear Ones? – the genius of your average garden variety swimwear designer. How clever they are! Their raw materials are – let’s face it – so teensy-tiny (a neck-to-crotch oblong? Two strips? Three triangles?) while expectations Out There are impossibly high and rise higher every season for the perfect figure-correcting-flattering-uber-moderne-sex-bomb-tog-configuration! We salute tog designers!
And, case in point, we particularly salute the subject of our first Shopping report, Maison du Maillot, launched online in Australia this summer. Sisters Leila and Fifi Faiz opened their luxury swimwear e-boutique from their home island of Bahrain in 2014 with brands such as Melissa Odabash, Mara Hoffman, Cali Dreaming, Dodo Bar Or, Solid and Striped, Marysia and Tori Praver. (No idea either, until we squizzed through their collections.)
We like sleek, well cut maillots and we found them here. We also like bikinis and two pieces that stretch the very limited aesthetic potential of a couple of strips of stretch fabric without resorting to popped-out breasts and buttocks. And, we found them here too. Click here for tog heaven www.maisonmaillot.com
Our main picture, top of this page, and shot in flat-lay above, is a bikini by Cali Dreaming on Maison du Maillot, designed by Carrie Jardine and Lisa Priolo of Venice Beach, California, US. Isn’t it clever? And, utterly lovely, underpinned by a sleek, clean-lined mo-derne aesthetic. Not your average.
Janice Breen Burns, jbb@voxfrock.com.au. Additional research, Terry Carruthers, info@voxfrock.com.au
