A woman dropped by her modelling agency at size 10 for being ‘too big’ has launched her own agency to help ‘normal-sized’ women break into the fashion industry. The UK model, Saffi Karina, “failed” to maintain a figure consistent with the standards of a thin-obsessed fashion industry when “womanhood ensued” and she was told her […]

Fashion bloggers are airbrushing images of scarily thin models to make them appear more healthy but the Melbourne girl whose anti-airbrushing protest prompted Cleo magazine to reconsider its retouching policy says it’s never ok to publish altered images of women’s bodies. The Weekly reported yesterday that images of models at Australian fashion week were being […]

The skeletal models stalking the catwalks at Fashion Week in Sydney this week have been so painfully thin they’ve raised eyebrows, even in fashion circles. But while girls are reportedly collapsing backstage and fashion bloggers are being forced to use Photoshop to cover up runway stars’ protruding bones, prominent Australian designers are insisting they use […]

Rumours Miranda Kerr has been dropped by lingerie giant Victoria’s Secret are “untrue” her agent has claimed. Reports the 30-year-old Aussie supermodel had been dumped as an “Angel” because she was “too difficult” began circulating yesterday. The New York Daily News claimed Miranda — whose current three-year $1 million contract with Victoria’s Secret ends this […]

Models at Australian fashion week are so shockingly thin fashion bloggers are Photoshopping them to cover up their protruding bones. Fashion publications are often lambasted for using Photoshop to slim down models and celebrities but while covering Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia, editor of fashion blog Style Melbourne Sarah Willcocks, has had to smooth out one […]

She’s been on more worst-dressed lists than any other celebrity but Brynne Edelsten refused to tone down her outrageous sense of style for the Logies on Sunday. The 30-year-old wife of flamboyant medical entrepreneur Geoffrey Edelsten donned a revealing white fringed dress with a huge jewelled necklace and bright pink shoes. Anywhere else in the […]

What would you do with $1.5 million? Buy a new house or two? Several sports cars? A lavish around-the-world trip? Or you could blow it all on this new solid gold dress. Designer Zac Posen created this one-of-a-kind gown in honour of Magnum’s new Gold ice cream bar. It is completely covered in 24-karat gold […]

Eighties fashion is much-maligned but the decade that followed had even more questionable style moments. Even the classic pant suit – so hard to get wrong – went hideously awry in the decade style forgot, with Celine Dion wearing hers baggy and back-to-front and Bon Jovi choosing a maroon crushed velvet variety. Hair was huge, […]

What would you buy with $90,000? A couple of decent cars? Some nice jewellery? Set your kids up with a solid education or even make some wise investments? OR you could become the proud owner of one Hermes ‘crocodile chiffon’ t-shirt. The most expensive t-shirt in New York City has been discovered in the Hermes […]

Blurring the boundaries between men and women has brought Andrej Pejic international celebrity as a model, writes Caroline Overington, who talks to the 21-year-old and his mother about his career and family life. ASK any mother what they want for their children, they’ll probably say they want them to be happy. Drill down a little, […]