Fashion

Australian Fashion Week has come to a close, and with it we have no doubt about what we’ll be wearing this coming summer. While Australian designers don’t particularly set the trends on the international stage, instead taking inspiration from their European counterparts (from the bright colour-blocking of Jil Sander to the minimalism of Celine), they […]

She is barely out of nappies and according to recent pictures still sucks a dummy, but that doesn’t make Suri Cruise any less stylish. The five-year-old daughter to Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise has come in at number 21 in Glamour magazine’s best-dressed women poll for 2011. Suri has beaten the likes of reality TV […]

The woman behind Catherine Middleton’s wedding dress reportedly believes her late mentor Alexander McQueen is speaking to her from beyond the grave. Sarah Burton was McQueen’s protégé, and took over his fashion house after his suicide in February, 2010. Sarah, who designed both of Catherine’s wedding dresses and Pippa’s much-admired bridesmaid gown, is one of […]

Anneliese Seubert was a 15-year-old schoolgirl living in Cooma when she gave in to her friend’s nagging and entered a magazine modelling contest in 1989. Just two years later she was strutting the catwalks of Paris, New York and Milan for some of the world’s top designers including Christian Dior, Karl Lagerfeld, Givenchy and Calvin […]

Sydneysiders beware. Fashionistas venturing into the CBD today should be armed with protective padding, comfortable footwear, plenty of fluids to keep up stamina, and of course — the trusty credit card. Zara has landed and if the crowds at last night’s frenzied launch party and VIP shopping night were anything to go by, the hype […]

From 9am Wednesday the countdown will be over, Zara’s first Australian store will open its doors in Sydney. The store, located on Pitt Street within the new Westfield Sydney, offers a customised fashion range in woman’s, men’s and children’s clothing. A Melbourne store is also in the works to be opened on Bourke Street within […]

They cause more injuries to women than contact sports but it takes more than a cautionary tale, or even a nasty fall to get some women to climb down from their towering high heels. Women in the magazine world — coined “clackers” for the sound their heels make on the floors of publishing houses in […]

As the lift pings to signify my arrival at the lingerie floor of David Jones, I break out into a cold sweat. For me, underwear shopping is a nightmare. Everything looks sexy in an A-cup, but by the time I wrest an E from the back of the rack (if the style goes past a […]

It is a fashion truth universally acknowledged that women of a “certain age” should keep their cleavage and thighs to themselves. But to celebrity stylist Gok Wan, ankle-length skirts and billowy blouses belong in a Jane Austen novel and nowhere near the modern-day woman. This season’s hot colour: white “There is no such thing as […]