Written by Tania Braukämper on 23 Jan 2012
Bellechasse are something of an Australian answer to the UK’s Agent Provocateur or Lascivious. They’re all the kind of brands where fashion and fetish and lingerie and luxury all tangle together into one intoxicating blend; where underwear begs to become outerwear, too good to remain covered. Peter Coulson shot this campaign for Bellechasse which plays to that desire to liberate your lingerie out into the …
Written by Daniel P Dykes on 19 Dec 2011
Is it another example of the death of department stores, just a further sign of the economic woes impacting upon fashion retail, or just proof that a brand name can’t mean everything to everyone? As Australia’s Myer department chain looks to shutter stores, our money is on the latter.
Written by Daniel P Dykes on 8 Dec 2011
In our times we’ve all been to markets. The good ones. The bad ones. And then there are the great ones. Yet defining what precisely makes a market great is no easy task, try as we might. Great markets have that it factor, that cool vibe, that relevancy that even the most vapid of celebrities depend on for their success. Great markets are to good …
Written by Daniel P Dykes on 8 Dec 2011
The word around town is that the luxury end of Melbourne’s fashion retail sector is doing quite nicely, with luxury retailers at the Chadstone shopping centre enjoying unexpected growth. Exclude the luxury end of the market and, despite the gloss that the opening of Australia’s Topshop seems to provide, things aren’t so positive. In fact, they’re almost archaic with Australia’s retail sales growing at only …
Written by Daniel P Dykes on 7 Dec 2011
It’s been almost six months since Fashionising.com broke the news of the coming of Topshop to Australia detailing both its Melbourne and Sydney ambitions, and today we finally got to see the store first hand. You can get your first look inside the store after the break.
Written by Daniel P Dykes on 6 Dec 2011
Get an in-depth look at all of the latest men's hair trends, hairstyles and haircuts for 2012. Fashionising.com takes you through them all, including guides on how to style each look, what to ask for to have your hair cut, and who each style is best suited to.
Written by Daniel P Dykes on 2 Dec 2011
On the first day of December it’s unlikely that you’re focussed on much beyond Christmas and, perhaps, New Year’s Eve. Not so in the fashion world, however. With shelves stocked and fingers crossed in the hope of a good Christmas for retailers, the industry en masse openly admits that it has turned its focus away from the remainder of the year and is instead focussed …
Written by Tania Braukämper on 1 Dec 2011
Nick loves shoes. So much so that, if rumour is correct, he’ll soon be making them his life’s work – much to the benefit of Melbourne’s male population. But more on that later; for now we’re reminiscing back to Sunday’s Melbourne tweed ride, at which Nick was one of the willing and sartorially splendid participants. Nick’s shirt is bespoke and he had his pants and …
Written by Tania Braukämper on 29 Nov 2011
If you shun the legal requirement to wear a helmet in favour of a classic bowler, not to mention having a vintage hat box strapped to the front of your bicycle in place of where a basket might be, one could quite adequately guess your profession. Yes, this gent is a hatter. Not all hatters may be mad but they most certainly are stylish, and …
Written by Tania Braukämper on 28 Nov 2011
Melbourne’s weekend Tweed Ride couldn’t have asked for more idealistic weather conditions. Except that, well, most people were perspiring a little than they would have liked to in their vintage plus-four suits. But a far merrier option to the previous day’s deluge of rain, Sunday’s event was smiled upon by sunshine and calm winds as the 200 strong participants pedaled their way along the city’s …
