Janice Breen Burns ponders the fraught facts of fashion’s most glamourous heirlooms. The loveliest fur is still mink. Words fall pathetically short of its sheer, watery softness, its gentle gloss…
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Pens poised, recorders blinking, pants tightening, the Voxfrock team ploughed valiantly through a week and a bit of lush lunches, multi-course dinners, canape-‘n-cocktail functions and morning-teas-with-cupcakes to assemble this buffet of…
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Check your preconceptions at the door, writes Janice Breen Burns In Nunawading, of all far-flung ‘burbs, the Brandsmart factory outlet is bucking an old iron myth that factory outlets are souless…
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Reflections outside your fitting room, by Natasha Fowler I may be one of the few souls who feel a pang of nostalgia at the cacophonous, jamming sounds of cash registers in…
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Mr. Murphy triumphs, Icebreaker cracks on in Aus., Mr. Esber’s pre-season pod is on Jasu, Kirrily Johnston blitzes online, and Please Louise save some (ridiculously cheap) shoes for me ##Haircare and…
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ONE BUTTON TOO MANY HAS popped off my frocks. One hem more than I can bear has worked itself loose and sagged to my unhappy knees. One final thread – on…
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Fashion Week is a frockfest far far away and of negligible interest to most ordinary mortals who are not privy to the VIP trade-only fabulousness and glamourosity of Carriageworks in April.…
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Photographer Monty Coles and writer Janice Breen Burns drop by an unusual fashion shoot for Melbourne charity event, “Philip Boon Presents: ML Vintage”. For Mr. Coles’ complete photographic essay visit www.theloupe.org.…







