New in Rag & Bone Langlen Moto Leather Jacket

  As you know I’ve been searching high and low for the prefect leather moto jacket for Winter. Ideally I would have liked to buy one from a physical location where I could try on and do my change-room-pouts in front of a mirror, but I took a chance and ordered the Rag & Bone

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Designer feature: Karen Lee – a dress that morphs

In the lead up to Canberra’s Food & Fashion Market and FASHFST in May, I will be featuring a number of unique Australian designers involved in these events. It’s not often that a ready-to-wear designer involves the buyer/wearer in the design process. I was pretty amazed by this ‘dress’ by Canberran designer Karen Lee (her

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Dress to Impress with $70 or Less at Canberra Fash’n’Treasure

  When was the last time you bought a whole outfit complete with shoes and accessories, from the same shop, on the same day, and all for under $70?  I was given a $70 budget to shop a whole outfit at Canberra’s Fash’n’Treasure Market and make a video about it. A task like this may

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Symmetry

  I love mirrored prints for their chaotic orderliness. Nothing makes randomness look as attractive as a little bit of symmetry. Remember the folded paper paintings we used to do as kids? Paint was arbitrarily blotted onto one side of a piece of card, and then you’d fold it. No matter what you did it

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Leather on leather

In a coversation with my mother the other day, she said she doesn’t agree with leather jackets because they are not feminine. I was a bit surpised because to me leather was everything elegant and luxe. It occurs to me that people’s perceptions about leather and how it is worn is always evolving. In past

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Designer Feature: Toby E Handmade Jewellery

In the lead up to Canberra’s Food & Fashion Market and FASHFST in May, I will be featuring a number of unique Australian designers involved in these events. Toby E is a hand crafted jewellery label by Toby Eagle and has been worn by celebrities including popsta Kesha and tv host Amanda Keller. Wearers of

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