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Scarves: Winters Secret Weapon

April 23rd 2008 01:42
Rugging up with neck line fashion


fashion scarf
Fashionable Warmth



Here in Sydney the gloomy weather and chill in the air has made it feel like winter has arrived early. Rugging up to fight the elements in the last few weeks I’ve pulled out the scarf and beanie (Tuque) as weapons of choice.

Scarves
A variety of choice fabrics and colours



Practical and importantly warm, an old hand-me-down favourite serves as a security blanket of sorts. Choosing an appropriately coloured scarf can add a sense of style and class to the winter wardrobe that is often underestimated.

Winter scarf
Stylish protection


Light or heavy, bright versus dark manufactured in a variety of fabrics there is an unspoken boldness to scarves that will always deem them a statement, even if it is one that granny knitted you last Christmas.

Scarf selection
The selection continues


One has to assume that scarves have been around for as long as clothing itself has existed, yet little has probably changed on an aesthetic level. What has evolved though is the way prestigious fashion labels have embraced them as an essential accessory on the runways for winter collections.

bright scarves
Attention getting accessories


There is elegance to the finely crafted, knitted woollen or cashmere neck wear that can sometimes accentuate the curves that seem missing when wearing a heavy coat. Breaking up the ensemble and directing the eye from top to bottom instead of the other way around.
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Men in Hats

November 9th 2007 00:00
How to become a Mad Hatter

Fashion Hat
is this a hat?

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Hats at the Races

November 6th 2007 01:24
Hats off (on) to the Melbourne Cup.


Melbourne Cup fashion
A selection of fashion from last years race

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Watches

October 21st 2007 00:00
Watches - A Brief Overview


Watch mechanism
A look inside

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We have all seen the power of the stylist. Before we knew it, Hollywood stylist Rachel Zoe had Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Ritchie and Jessica Simpson all sporting drapey gowns over wispy thin bodies. One journalist touts that its only since Celebrities and Designers realised that revenue could be bought in from red carpet photographs, that the Stylist has forged a position in society on par to a Publicist and Celebrity Manager. They are THE ultimate accessory and Celebrities today dont leave home without them.

A new super power has emerged with the baby boom among CEO's, Supermodels and Hollywood's A-List - having on call one's very own Parisian Baby Stylist. I had the pleasure of catching up with the name in every starlets Little Black Book - Laetitia Lerouge


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In this rainy wintry weather looking at Junya Watanabe’s men’s collection in Milan I was reminiscing about college. For those of you unfamiliar with the Canberra education system, years 11 and 12 at public schools are called colleges, are located on their own grounds, have no uniforms and the teachers are called by their first names. There’s no HSC, assessment is close to the university system and generally they’re far nicer places to be. Anyway when I was at college the boys used to dress like this, themselves nostalgic for some sort of 80s punky/motorcycle rider style.

Junya watanabe chequered pants
From Vogue.co.uk

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In my habitual internet trawlings I came across quite a feat on the Prada website. Admittedly I didn’t much like this season’s collection but the means by which it is represented is a true cultural document. Prada demonstrates wit, self-reflexivity and pastiche in a way that many other ‘postmodernists’ should envy. As a European luxury brand, descended from a grand tradition to a commercial reality, Prada is a modern day icon but the self-representation offers an entirely new perspective on the brand.

Prada sunglasses
From Prada.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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Maggie Gyllenhaal, Style Maverick

May 28th 2007 00:57
Gyllenhaal in Secretary
From Filmweb.no


From her first appearance alongside brother Jake in Donnie Darko, enjoyably quirky as the impatient older sister to her role as a masochist in the Secretary (pictured above) Gyllenhaal has, on the whole, chosen film roles and fashion wisely


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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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