This shoot is “a story of a horse and her master”, as photographer Mark Drew explains it. Model Daria is the horse; bound up in harnesses and saddles of the actual equine kind (not the usual fetish-come-fashion leather harness accessories). Even her hair, styled by Livio Angileri into braids that encircle her neck, is representative of her state of submissiveness. By the end of Drew’s…

Sometimes inspiration can strike from the most unexpected places and create the most astonishing results. Case in point: photographer Andrew Akimov, who allowed for his work to be directly influenced by the desolated feel of the muddy waters, creating an artistic photo shoot by carefully playing upon contrast and imperfections. Akimov searched for the ugly beauty in the Russian landscape, steering away from ideality and…

This time of the year is deeply influenced by the Christmas magic and its fairy-tale like atmosphere, but sometimes the anticipation can feel bittersweet. Gone in a blink of an eye, the Holidays at least leave us with little somethings to hold onto or look forward to. Either we’re talking a fresh start, thrilling new plans or the post-Christmas sales, there are plenty of reasons…

Advertisement campaigns in the fashion and beauty industry are less about the product and more about the extravagance of the imagery or video. Especially where perfume ads are concerned, there’s no denying that we often see less of the tangible bottle, and more of everything else in that one frame, be it a nude body scattered on satin sheets or random imagery unlinked to the…

Karolina Kurkova, Coco Rocha and Angela Lindvall may all be of varying ages (28, 23 and 33 respectively) – but they have a big question mark in common: what happens once the modelling world no longer wants them? Plus, Anthony Vaccarello talks about his daring slit dresses, Wes Anderson discusses Moonrise Kingdom, and one author ponders the life of a Bachelorette. After the break: 5…

Forming habits, an unlikely style icon, the colourful history of the shopping mall, and a question of whether Karl Lagereld should concentrate his efforts into doing fewer things better. And to cap it off, an interview with Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. View our 5 weekend reads after the break.

Christopher Nolan’s film of the same name was mind-bending on a kaleidoscopic level. Dreams within dreams within twisted realities sending viewers into a rabbit hole even Alice would be careful not to fall down. In Mark Drew’s Inception, a shoot inspired by those twists and turns, the theme is much more subtle. Each image is marked by a little hint of futuristic intensity; an unusual…

Putting it mildly, this hasn’t been a great week for Australian department store David Jones. There was the profit downgrade, followed by a slump in the company’s value on the Australian stock market, and then there was the social media attack directed against them that followed. The social media attack wasn’t, however, directly related to their profit nor value downturns, but rather related to the…

Yet another reason to look forward to our visit to Italy in the new year (as well as, of course, Pitti and the Milan Fashion Week shows) – it’s another impressive Zara store for us to drop some pennies at. Not letting the heritage of the 120 year old Palazzo Bocconi building get in the way of innovation (a lesson MYER Melbourne could learn plenty…