You know a swimwear label is doing it right, when it delivers a collection that’s riding high on the functionality radar, while still conforming to the season’s bikini trends and the brand’s unique aesthetic. Kooey highlights all the aforementioned essentials to drive the consumers wild, for the summer months to come, in their spring 2012 runway show at Australian fashion week (MBFWA) .

Cars crashed, choppers circled the arena and police sirens echoed from around the corner; and just like that, the audio chaos at Romance Was Born took every comic book lover’s breath away. Scoring an exclusive sponsorship deal with Marvel comics, designer duo Luke Sales and Anna Plunkett took their spring / summer 2012/13 collection to new heights for Australian fashion week (MBFWA). Quite literally. The…

The cover of the fall 2012 / zero issue of CR, Carine Roitfeld’s forthcoming magazine, has been released along with a number of mock-up layouts from the zero issue. You can see the cover below, and the mock up photos after the break.

When it comes to colour, sometimes there’s no choice but to throw caution to the wind. If you’re going to go bold it’s no good going half way and then diluting it with timidity. Georgy Rushev’s styling for this shoot by Igor Oussenko tackles the go-hard-or-go-home path and comes out on top. Well on top: fluorescent yellow nailpolish against metallic silver and shiny purple mermaid…

If you’ve seen 1978′s Grease then the odds are that you’re more than familiar with Frankie Avalon’s song of the same name. In it Avalon, as guardian angel, opines the future of Frenchy; a high-school drop out with dreams of becoming a beautician. Frenchy is sadly “a teenage ne’er-do-well”; not much of a student and even less of a beautician. While it’s right there in…

Androgyny has always been a source of interest and intrigue. But as society's boundaries have changed, so too have the masculine-feminine boundaries blurred. From ambiguous sexual and physical attributes to a focus on gender-crossing fashion, we look at the changing face of androgyny - and how women's fashion is taking a masculine turn.

It’s too easy to go back to black time and again when you need a jacket to keep off the chill at night. But, as Carl Kapp reminded us on the L’Oreal Melbourne fashion festival (LMFF) runway yesterday, bold hues can have twice the impact when paired with more bold hues. And it was the vibrant parts of Kapp’s palette that stood out: a red…

Navigate your screen to anything from Instagram to Tumblr and you’ll see a common theme emerge: pictures of perfectly manicured nails. Few, though, are pictures of the traditional manicure. What you’ll find instead are pictures of something more akin to fake nails – textured and printed nail-art finishes layered upon a natural finger nail. Some have the cute factor (Alexa Chung wore eye ball nail…

Vogue Italia dedicated their February issue to it, Love have been dabbling in it, and Eniko had an encounter with it in Tar. Surrealism, it seems, is having a fashionable moment.

Things change, things remain the same. Nudity, sex, fashion: somehow it’s a triangle that these days fails to stand up without all three sides. That’s true for magazines like Purple Fashion, a magazine that often has just as much skin as fashion but that has the latter word in its title – leaving no doubt of what it considers itself to be. Purple fashion. So…