Monthly Archives: March 2014

Berta Fisher

Berta Fischer a Berlin-based artist who works with bold-hued synthetic materials, such as acrylic and PVC, to create sculptures that play with the principles of form and light. Many have a fluid quality bending and twisting as thought they had formed by some kind of natural force. Learn more about Berta Fisher here.

Flower Show

An hour and half outside of Tokyo Hitachi Seaside Park is park carpeted in blooming flowers all year round. The park is known for its fields of baby blues, rivers of tulips and pine forest clearings of daffodils surrounded by snow-capped mountains. Definitely on our travel hit list!

Nostalgic Australiana

Dion Lee’s Autumn/Winter 2014 collection was shown at New York Fashion Week this year. Described by Dion as ‘Nostalgic Australiana’, the suiting and tailored pieces were inspired by the uniforms of convicts from the 18th century penal colony. But what would an Australian inspired collection be without a reference to it’s exotic wildlife? Dion’s prints… Read more »

INTO THE WILD

This shoot is a bit of a fashion flashback, but amazingly doesn’t look that dated. Shot in 2002 by Ruven Afanador for Vogue Germany, we love it for it’s use of rich textiles, furs, silks, colours, beaded fabrics and mostly for its imagination!

GARY BIGENI

Known for his masterful draping and precision tailoring Gary Bigeni has released his SS14 with some beautiful print work, including a graphic inverted black and white polka dots and beautiful blue gradients in 2 ways. (Gary Bigeni is digitally printed in Sydney, Australia by Think Positive Designer Prints.) 

All That Is Sacred And Holy

Happy Saturday! After 30 years cutting his teeth as a fashion photographer in Milano Toni Meneguzzo has turned his lens to the sacred cows of India. Shooting them and then removing them from their context, almost as though they were “swimming in their own milk” he says. Enamoured the creativity that goes in to decorating each… Read more »

We Are All Equal Under The Sun

[iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/i4gbsdAGfJM” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe] Prolific Australian director Baz Luhrman has partnered with Absolut to create a specially flavoured vodka inspired by Australia: Absolut Oz. Set to capture the spirit of Australian beach culutre in a drink. The flavour is Spiced Orange which blends a range of spices including cardamom, clove, mint with the fruity… Read more »