Threads is a new series profiling emerging designers in Australia. Whether your work is classic, avant-garde or just plain cool, we want to hear about it. Get yourself out there! Send an e-mail to [email protected]. We’d love to get to know you and your work. First in the Threads series is Zoe Brown, a young designer who’s…
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For many, getting dressed is a simple question of what’s clean. Occasionally, the process is a little more involved. An outfit for a hot date or a day at the races, for example, may be carefully curated over a few days or a week. But when the outfit planning starts in kindergarten and lasts twenty…
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I am awed by the way my female forebears can rustle up any outfit from scratch. I grew up with store-bought clothes and negligible sewing skills. But lately, I have longed for the rumble of the sewing machine and the smell of home-baked cookies. The Handmade Market is being held at Kamberra Winery this Saturday…
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Labels have a bad reputation. As the oversized shiny manifestations of our oh-so-insatiable consumer appetites, they reek of the fashion depraved. Metallic slogans slapped on buttocks, plastic rip-offs on Bangkok sidewalks and horror of horrors, the corruption of real design aesthetics. All this and more is implied beneath many a fashionista’s breath as he/she announces…
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