On our reading list this weekend: what does the future hold for Armani? What does the future hold for Playboy magazine? Remembering the inspiring women who served as secret agents; and the lives of F Scott Fitzgerald and wife Zelda. After the break: 5 weekend reads.

As the camera pans over 1920s New York in the opening of the newly released Great Gatsby trailer, you might expect a soundtrack of brassy, hip-shimmying jazz. But this is Baz Luhrmann, the man who had Shakespeare’s brave Mercutio dressed in drag and belting out Young Hearts Run Free. The man who gave Paris circa 1900 a soudtrack of Smells Like Teen Spirit and Like…

One wouldn’t argue the association of summer with colours, be it in the garden or on clothing racks. But if you’re tilting away from the predictable colour palette of the spring 2012 season, then black and white should be your protocol. Londoners and Melbournians are often criticised for purposely injecting this colour palette on the streets of these cities, but you can’t blame them, a…

Despite the abundance of black clothing that comes out with the cold weather, there’s no reason why bold, bright colours can’t defy the change in mood. Outside the Viktor & Rolf show at Paris fashion week an example of winter brights manifested in hot pink and vibrant orange, proving such tones can easily liven up a grey day.

On the street in Paris a chic look can be something as simple as a black tuxedo-style jacket, a slim cigarette, and a thick blunt fringe. The latter hairstyle is perfectly suited to this wearer’s face shape and works particularly well with the nonchalant androgyny of the outfit.

Trash magazines get turned on by the thought of it: issues of their titles emblazoned with headlines such as ‘stars without their makeup.’ Oh, how they chortle. One week their covers are dedicated to celebrities who diet too much, and the next week they mock anyone who they haven’t been able to previously lampoon by focussing on the fact that they’re ageing – shock horror…

It wouldn’t be a stretch to suggest that Miu Miu’s pointed, printed collars were the fuel that stoked the removable collar trend fire. Hanneli proves as usual that clashing prints really can work wonders.

There’s a problem facing autumn / fall and 2013′s fashions, at least there is to my mind. Take a look at the closing collections of this year and the opening collections of the next one and you’ll see one theme dominate: androgynous fashion. While you can follow that link for further insight, what’s ahead is not the sapphic and questionable-gender androgyny of year’s past, but…

Despite taking inspiration from New York City’s architecture, Parisian lifestyle and the British silhouette, new fashion label, macgraw, is a lovechild of local Australian passion. The worldly muses set aback, as this high-fashion label sharpens its knives to carve its place in the Australian fashion industry.

First it was Gisele and Vogue Paris, and now L’Officiel Netherlands follows suit with Saskia de Brauw making the derriere the modern muse.