The Little Black Dress with Decjuba Canberra

As I put fingers to key board to open with a cliché ‘everyone needs them a little black dress’, I gave myself a metaphorical slap on the wrist – you deserve more from me than a sartorial pickup line. So instead, a question for you: is the little black dress still so prolific these days that

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The Split Maxi Skirt

I used to lament the fact that I didn’t live in a place where I could pop down to the mall for my favourite international brands. However, recently, I can’t imagine a better place to be right now but right here in the middle of – dare I say it – the Australian fashion renaissance.

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Casual in Classics

While I (very often) satisfy my fashion victim itch and buy out the trend of the moment – I’m talking about all things fur covered baseball caps, mesh sweaters and the what-were-you-smoking-printed-tights – I’m sensible enough at least to know that those little experiments are destined for eBay, while the classics are for keeps. See,

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The Tuxedo Dress

Though I do try to put a bit of variety into the ‘colours’ I wear, I always find myself going back to black. The one thing I do bemoan is the fact that I hadn’t come across the idea of wearing a blazer as a dress until now. The cat being out of the bag with

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Tailored Trousers and Men’s Shirt

Being a woman and working men’s clothes is definitely a thing in my books. So just to be clear, the fact I own more men’s shirts than my boyfriend (come to that, his shirts are also my shirts) doesn’t mean I envy the male sex. Except, I suppose, the luxury of getting better looking as

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Adam Liew of Melbourne

At this year’s FASHFEST in May, Canberrans had a first taste of up and coming Melbourne haute couture label Adam Liew, in the form of that crop top and puffed skirt on gorgeous model Mimi. Since then, in six short months Adam Liew has taken leaps and bounds in establishing its presence in Melbourne and internationally,

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