I was reminded on a recent road trip how important it is to slow down sometimes and just be. When you’re in touch with your sense of self, you can relax into comfort more quickly. Appreciate the moment, because it’s actually all we really have.

Fun as it might first seem to critique the personal style of others, what is it really saying about our own self esteem, mental health?

Fashion sales are big business and some business models depend on them to stay afloat. While ever tempting, are they worth your investment?

Here are 5 ways to style it when you’ve ditched the job but not the blazer.

This is the final post on the challenge I set myself to travel Europe with just carry-on luggage and includes a snapshot of every outfit I wore.

One of the things I love most about fashion and style is its connection to psychology and its ability to reflect social changes. Some brief insights here…

The quest for comfortable shoes

Lots of people have warmed to combining prints these days, but what is the key to doing it well..? Carly Findlay helps us out here.

Conditions for women in the developed world have come a long, long way in the last hundred years, however…

Living Coral; authentic and immersive, connection and intimacy, sociable and spirited…

When I delve into a woman’s wardrobe I usually see one of two things… either there’s a conglomeration of disparate but potentially exciting items or there’s a sparse, neatly ordered system with few pieces but in co-ordinating colours.

Picture this: a glass of bubbly, meeting some of our finest independent fashion and accessories designers in their studios, a guided tour through Melbourne’s hippest fashion precinct, uncovering hidden gems and finding fabulous fashion – and of course free style advice all the way!

The exceptional fashion exhibition, The House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture, is well worth seeing, particularly for those who ever doubted fashion is art. Following are some notes I took listening to a talk by Katie Somerville, senior curator at NGV (National Gallery of Victoria).

Out walking recently, I came across one of those things I’ve always loved – a large market full of home baked goodies and secondhand and vintage fashion in a pretty, sunny garden. Sadly, I have to say I only found 4-5 things even worth considering. The rest of it was junk. Pure junk. The designs were bad, the fabrics had pilled or faded and the seams looked dodgy. In a word: cheap. Cheap, disposable, fast fashion.