Making your wardrobe more sustainable begins with getting more creative with your clothes.
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The quest for comfortable shoes
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What to do when you’re sick of the boozy team lunches and the paint-balling terrifies you!
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True confession time. Though it’ll hardly come as a surprise…
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The art and science of dressing for hospital (let’s not take me too seriously here - lol - but read on regardless for some useful tips!)
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I’m often asked what I do so I’ve set out some info. I like to call myself a Personal Style Specialist. I could also describe myself as a fashion advisor, image consultant or image professional. But I’m not a stylist. A Personal Style Specialist is different; read on for how…
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Conditions for women in the developed world have come a long, long way in the last hundred years, however…
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Clothes convey immediate messages in this very visual society we live in
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Living Coral; authentic and immersive, connection and intimacy, sociable and spirited…
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Gifting personal experiences, instead of simply more stuff, is becoming more highly valued than ever.
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So you think fashion can’t be for you? Think again. The world has reached a tipping point and fashion is for everyone.
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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.
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This year I decided it was time for a little rebranding and I’m writing this in preparation of launching my new website, which I’m excited about. So how do I announce that and what does it mean to me? Find out here.
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Our Fashion by Foot initiative is a walking tour that showcases micro businesses designing and producing clothing or accessories locally and independently. Come along to have your eyes opened to the amazing talent we have right here in Melbourne – highly skilled and innovative people who create beautiful, quality pieces.
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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!
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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).
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Putting together an outfit is like any other creative process - only you're designing it to fit on your own body. It's highly personal, but how well do you know your own body? Have you analysed its shapes and lines - and do you know how its shapes and lines relate to different styles of clothing? This workshop will teach you how.
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Fashion is not frivolous. Rewind; clothes are not frivolous. Personal style is not frivolous. Clothes are required, particularly outdoors. Personal style exists. It exists in us all, whether or not we are conscious of it and whether or not we can articulate it. As we must clothe ourselves, so must we choose how to clothe ourselves. Our choices are based on our preferences and it is these preferences that comprise personal style.
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Around this time last year I lost my prescription sunglasses…This was a tragedy! I rely on them heavily. I wear prescription sunglasses ALL the time, whenever I am outside, all year round. Along with my keys, they are the first thing I reach for as I leave the house. They protect me from Summer sun, Winter glare and Melbourne wind. Oh yeah, and they enable me to see better.
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Advanced Style has done more for celebrating older women and men than any other single contemporary work I can think of. Ari Seth Cohen’s work, Advanced Style, has manifested into a blog, several books and a film. So he photographs stylish people over 60 – but what’s so revolutionary about this? Find out here.
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