View all the catwalk photos of the Collette Dinnigan autumn (fall) / winter 2013 showing at L'Oreal Melbourne fashion festival. Read the article to see the full gallery.

View all the catwalk photos of the Collette Dinnigan autumn (fall) / winter 2013 showing at Paris fashion week. Read the article to see the full gallery.

The sixties represent a time in fashion where women were able to ooze a certain grace and gentleness through their demeanour, poise and conduct. Eyes that bore that Twiggy sparkle, hair that flowed at waist length, thighs that created temptation and lure by revealing just that little bit of skin between miniskirts and thigh-high socks. This fall / winter 2013 collection from Collette by Collette…

Weddings are special: they mark a turning point in a woman’s life and Australian designer Collette Dinnigan celebrates this with her new bridal lingerie collection. Debuting with 19 pieces of couture lingerie, this collection is made for the modern woman to make her feel even more beautiful and confident on her wedding day.

Pretty is certainly a specialty of Australia’s Collette Dinnigan. For her spring 2013 collection she invoked it through ways both familiar to her aesthetic and yet appropriate for the season: peplums, pastels and prints being the most specifically on-trend elements. Dinnigan’s prints are floral and particularly beautiful, perhaps more so than the chantilly lace and beading elsewhere in the collection. These bursts of violets have…

Those who have loved their voluminous 'gorilla arms' for the past few winters will be pleased with this news: they're back again for fall / winter 2012. This time new textures and shapes give fur or feathered sleeves a more feminine feel, while keeping the warmth and trend-focussed appeal. Read on for the full report.

Collette Dinnigan’s resort / pre-spring 2013 collecton opens with graphic scarf prints that scream of the 1960s. Wait, what? Australia’s queen of lace and embelishment going all Pucci on us? But turns out this is a breif diversion, not a complete one. The lace frocks still have their mandatory place, the embellishments are there aplenty.

View all the alternative-angle photos of the Collette Dinnigan autumn / winter 2012 showing at L'Oreal Melbourne fashion festival. Read the article to see the full gallery.

View all the catwalk photos of the Collette Dinnigan autumn / winter 2012 showing at L'Oreal Melbourne fashion festival. Read the article to see the full gallery.

In any runway show, the perspective from the press pit is very different to that of the audience. And there’s very good reason for that: it’s so photographers can capture the full outfits, in all their glory and drama, much like Kelly Defina did at Collette Dinnigan’s LMFF (Melbourne fashion festival) show this week. This shot captures model Sophie Van Den Akker in mid step…