Material Visions
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This week Rosie Findlay is writing her column from the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia (MBFWA) describing in detail the experience of the live event. You walk down the stairs leading to the buildings…
I’ve always found fashion shows intriguing. Maybe it’s my natural curiosity, which is only heightened by the fact that people not in the industry are excluded from attending these events, or maybe it’s…
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York begins tomorrow, thereby kicking off “fashion month”. This is when fashion’s travelling circus of editors, critics, buyers, models and assorted hangers-on dress their…
Two weeks ago, the bi-annual runway collections got off to a cracking start with the display of the Men’s Collections in Milan, Paris, London, New York and Pitti Uomo. (You will be entirely unsurprised…
The range on luxury e-tail powerhouse Net-A-Porter looks pretty simple. Sleek leather leggings, standard party frocks (sleeveless, nipped-in waists, full short skirts) and a range of printed t-shirts offering…
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how certain garments override the body of the person wearing them. For example, it doesn’t really matter what kind of torso/upper-thigh situation you’ve got going…
There is something fascinating about the contradictions that hold tension within fashion. It is an imaginary that we dress into each day in the privacy of our homes, the clothes we choose covering us in…