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Bags to wear

October 18th 2007 00:00
bags for all


bags colour
Anything catch the eye?


Hand, shoulder and backpack bags, all serve a practical purpose but hopefully also accentuate the shoes and clothing design. It is safe to assume that as long as we have had to transport small items a bag has been there to do the job. Ancient Greeks probably made bags to match there toga and sandles.

Traditional bags
A tradition


More than just a place to stash the makeup, different scenarios demand alternate choices wether its day or night, casual or formal. The bag that fits with jeans would not go so well against that flowing black gown you plan to wear to the ball.

Bondage bags
This one won't go with everything


Yellow bag
Where is tweety and big bird?


The hand bag offers a lot of versatility with its smaller size and often ingenious use of inside pockets and partitions. With designers like Gucci, D&G and more competing in the arena the casually elegant and stylishly classy choices are turning heads.

Evening bag
Time to hit the town


Formal hand bags
Which one is for you?


Laid back shoulder bags may be larger but find one that fits your curves and you don’t even know your carrying it. The canvas models look good and are durable. Leather can be daring or black tie.

Shoulder bags
Shouldering the load


Shoulder bag model
A snug fit


Shoulder bags bunch
One for everyone


Backpacks have come along way since their military origins, now more than just a flower power, student or travellers helpers. Fashionable and able to move heavier items with ease the rucksack packs let you keep both hands free to manoeuvre into more interesting positions.

Fashion Backpacks
Ready to move


Net bags
Moving with the times


Underestimated by some, an absolute essential for others, colour, shape and fit are components as crucial for selection as a dress or sweater. In this fashion conscious world it seems the choices are vaster than ever. The perfect accessory is just waiting.

Fashion backpack
The fashionable choice
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Melbourne Cup Carnival Fever 2008

September 10th 2007 15:35
Whilst Sydney's spring carnival racing may have been bought to a standstill, the Stylist whose Celebrity was voted one 1 of 9 best dressed at the Melbourne Cup, this very blogger shares her tips as she prepares the 2008 VRC Ambassadors wardrobes for this years Melbourne Cup Racing Carnival...

What’s In


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Who's Hot for Summer 2008

September 7th 2007 16:15
Who's Hot for Summer 08

Forget the unwearable items you see strutting down some fashion runways, european fashion speaks to the sillhouette and moves us back to the real aim of fashion - expressing ourselves AND flattering our body shape


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Sarah Jessica Parker SATC
Is SJP to blame? - image from typepad.com


Blame Carrie Bradshaw and her Patricia Field Sex and the City ways, but it seems that the spring trend from the Northern Hemisphere is set to make its way down under. A more streamline and elegant alternative to the hobo and the tote bags we’ve seen lately, introducing the new day clutch
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Silver Springs

August 17th 2007 03:42
Initially metallic fashion appeared to me to be something of a transient trend. For some reason to me, if something is shiny and popular, then it will fade fast. It seems however, that silvers and golds may one day be the epitome of noughties fashion. It has survived several seasons now, and continues to make an appearance on the catwalk. In a decade’s time, will we look back and cringe at how much glimmer made its way into our wardrobe at the start of the 21st century?

For now, there are a plethora of options available to those who can carry off some glam metal. For the more formal wear, for cocktail parties and nights out clubbing, Filippa K amongst many, have created some very cute mini dresses in shiny fabrics like the one below.

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Snatch-proof handbags

June 18th 2007 00:59
Having had a handbag snatched off my person on Cleveland Street last year I’ve been a little more wary of this particular fashion accessory. After all, I not only lost the bag (beautiful black leather with pink and white candy striped lining) but worst of all my notebook! Thankfully, designers this year have taken this general concern into account with the inclusion of the detachable shoulder strap. So when walking through a dodgy part of the city you can sling your sac around your body in an effort to prevent further heartbreak (and lost genius in the form of moleskines.)

Miu miu bag
From Net-a-porter.com

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VivienneWestwood.com
From Viviennewestwood.com


After visiting the Victoria and Albert exhibition which travelled to the National Gallery in Canberra a few years ago, I’ve been obsessed with Vivienne Westwood. It’s not just that she’s sixty and has a beautiful thirty-year-old Italian lover, although that does impress me, and it’s not just that she’s been an inspiration for generations of fashionistas, mostly it’s because for Westwood, fashion is thought


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One of the most striking models of the contemporary brat pack is Jessica Stam, a statuesque Canadian who has the kind of natural physique required for catwalk shows. She is indeed long and slender but there is nothing painful about the proportions of her legs or the position of her clavicle. My general rule is that if the knee is wider than the thigh there’s a problem but Stam is in proportion as you can see from the Stella McCartney show.

Jessica Stam in McCartney
From Style.com

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Black is invariably the new black

June 5th 2007 23:49
Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy
From photobucket.com


Although Coco Chanel was really the first to bring the black dress into the everyday wardrobe of the modern woman, its place was indeed cemented with Hepburn’s appearance in Givenchy during Breakfast at Tiffany (see Sisi's post) last year for more on that dress


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Bottega Veneta

May 23rd 2007 23:48
Bottega Veneta jacket
Exquisitely detailed leather jacket


This is a brand to which I was largely indifferent before stumbling across some of their pieces on net-a-porter.com which is incidentally where these images come from. Their recent string of advertisements in British and American Vogue also helped. A certain wistful nostalgia resonates through the garments while an accompanying attention to detail and quirk of cut pulls them out of the average everyday


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