Clothing & Accessories

Stella McCartney’s latest lingerie offering faithfully toes the line of what you’d expect from the designer: it’s softly feminine but never too far from the minimalist aesthetic she’s known for. Soft cup bras in pastel hues are the kind that will happily put themselves on display under sheer layers; lace-trimmed slips or triangle bras and tap pants in floral prints border loungewear; a racer-back bra …

Never one to rest on its laurels, ASOS.com have just launched ASOS Salon – a range that offers vintage-style pieces at a higher level of quality and detail to ASOS’s everyday offerings. The launch collection nods gently to the likes of Valentino and Missoni with “beautiful appliqué finishes, feminine floral shapes and a palette of sugary, ice-cream shades shot through with bold pops of neon …

Gone is the traditional English foundation, the tartan and lace; for spring 2012 McQ by Alexander McQueen is seemingly Texas bound. Sarah Burton’s designs maintain their femininity through strictly cinched-in waists, as is customary, but this time she adds a 50s rockabilly meets Western flavour. Metal-tipped collars, ribbon neck ties, embroidery, and denim all play a part in this cowgirl scene, smashed together with modern …

Spring / summer 2012 is a hotspot for the the hottest of what has become colloquially known as an arm party. No one’s tastes have been left out (except, perhaps, those who’d thumb their nose at the term): bright coloured bangles mingle this season with gemstone-embellished wristlets and leather strapped cuffs sit next to metallic gold bracelets. The jewellery this season is chunky and bold, …

Despite taking inspiration from New York City’s architecture, Parisian lifestyle and the British silhouette, new fashion label, macgraw, is a lovechild of local Australian passion. The worldly muses set aback, as this high-fashion label sharpens its knives to carve its place in the Australian fashion industry.

Cult LA label Wildfox don’t just pick a theme and loosely flirt with it, they grab it, squeeze it for all it’s worth, build a collection from the cobwebby essence of its very dreams. Case in point: their latest collection. Titled Magical Creatures, it picks up everyone who’s a fan of the label’s aesthetic and transports them into a constructed dreamland of pink hair and …

Young Germany-based fashion designer Rayan Odyll is having a love affair with multi-tone prints for spring 2012. Finding their way onto luxe silks, these prints were “developed from abstracted childhood memories, floral motifs and Polkadots” resulting in an exotic mix that warrants the collection’s title: Cultural Limbo. Odyll’s peplumed, waist-accenting shapes have a certain femininity, while his accessories add their own exotic whimsy to the …

Clashing bold colours with pitch black, ladylike silhouettes with vampish perforated leather, modern flair with a vintage mood…. there’s barely an outfit amoung Jitrois’ spring 2012 collection look book that doesn’t captivate visually. Jitrois’ designer Jean Claude Jitrois has a fascination with leather, which shows in the look book. Skin – with its textures and scars and imperfections – is equal to a biography, he …

Colour, texture and abstract prints all draw your eye with magnetic force when you view Carla Chan’s graduate collection. But the thing your gaze then hovers on is the unique shapes, the twists and gathers and drapes that bend the mind like an Escher sketch. A graduate of Nottingham Trent University in association with the Hong Kong Design Institute, Chan’s quirkiness is her trademark. Timmothy …

While no doubt there was much about 18th century life that would preclude it from earning the title of glamorous, that may also have much to do with where you sat on the social divide. If you were born into castles and powdered wigs, glamour might have had plenty to do with it. That’s the side we often see interpreted through cinema and popular culture. …