As promised, the ever talented Giang Cao from Through The Looking Glass has been hitting the city's thoroughfares for some very select Melbourne street style; all part of our endeavor to track the best fashion throughout Melbourne Spring Fashion Week (MSFW).
[ Click to read 'Melbourne street style; MSFW 2009' ]
Incorporate the sheer trend into a lingerie as outerwear look, and you have a winning combination. Or so had Lily Allen when she hit the stage at 2009's V Festival in the UK. She paired a see-through bodysuit with a fringed bob hairstyle and glittery eyeshadow.
[ Click to read 'Lily Allen: sheer trend and bob hairstyle' ]
Not so long ago we drew your attention to Astrid Munoz in one-shouldered Givenchy at Paris Fashion Week. Street style snappers Jak & Jil also nabbed some shots of Venessa Traina in a similarly-divine Givenchy piece that marries gentle volume with bondage-inspired straps and cutaway detailing.

[ Click to read 'Street style: cut-away Givenchy, Paris' ]
Here's another shot of ripped stockings on the street; the trend showing no signs of disappearing just yet. This one was a Denmark Street Style snap.

[ Click to read 'Street style: ripped stockings, Denmark' ]
By 2010 the leather clothing trend will span the vast depths of our wardrobes; finding its way into everything from skirts to shorts to tops, even to lingerie. Angelina Jolie demonstrates the trend with her most recent red carpet fare; a black leather Michael Kors dress.
[ Click to read 'Angelina Jolie in a leather Michael Kors dress' ]
Kristen Stewart seems to have grown quite a bit more accustomed to her short hairstyle. She stepped out at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards rocking a messy up-do and a spike-covered Rock & Repulic 'Roma' dress; a young and fresh interpretation of the fetish fashion trend we're seeing so much of right now.
[ Click to read 'Kristen Stewart fetish trend in Rock & Republic' ]
As fashion weeks roll on around the world so to do the many interpretations of current fashion trends. Today comes a street style interpretation of the sheer clothing and studded heels trends.
[ Click to read 'Street style: sheer fashion trend, Copenhagen' ]
With her bold sense of style, Rihanna is one of the biggest proponents of the lingerie as outerwear trend. Some preview pictures of Rihanna on set of the filmclip for the upcoming song 'Run This Town' show her to be teaming exposed suspenders with a military jacket. In another scene, Rihanna wears over-the-knee boots and leather hot pants.
[ Click to read 'Rihanna film clip fashion: 'Run This Town'' ]
A fashion trend that's been with us for sometime, but one we definitely expect to see carry on through 2010: accentuated shoulders.
[ Click to read 'Street style: accentuated shoulders' ]
Fancy partaking in the lingerie as outwear 2010 fashion trend, but don't want to actually wear stay-ups? Imply it with lace boy shorts under denim shorts instead.
[ Click to read 'Exposed lace stockings street style' ]