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Anne Schofield Antiques – Giving Love Jewellery for Xmas
How delighted I was when a catalogue of fine antique jewellery from Anne Schofield Antiques of Woollahra in Sydney turned up on December 1, heralding only 24 days until Christmas 2015. The catalogue...
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Outlander: Cult Fashion, Highland Chic – Paris Haute Couture
Why does a trend seem to appear out of nowhere and how does to manifest itself into the main stream fashion market? Influences come from all parts of our lives and can be quite subtle, creeping up on...
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First Monday in May – Jo Reviews Fashion’s Exclusive Party
The First Monday in May, maybe just another day to many, but to those in the heady world of haute couture it’s the day for the super bowl of fashion – The Met Gala Ball held in New York City. Just what...
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Love and Friendship – Tantalizing, Delightful, More Please
The beautiful Kate Beckinsale, as Lady Susan Vernon in Whit Stillman’s Love and Friendship England’s famed author Jane Austen loved to tease her readers. In her novels she placed her heroes and...
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Fashioning a Reign: 90 Years of Style – Lynsey Scott, Review
Queen Elizabeth II arrives at Leicester Cathedral, Thursday, March 8, 2012 from where she has started her four-month Diamond Jubilee tour of the UK to celebrates 60 years on the throne, accompanied by...
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Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion – The Met Fifth Avenue, NY
Viktor&Rolf, Cutting Edge Couture, Spring–Summer Collection 2010, courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion an exhibition on show now in The Costume Institute...
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The Sydney Fair 2017 – Focusing on Movements in Modernism
During the first three decades of the twentieth century simplicity of line in art and design achieved universal appeal. Together with nature, economy, quality of materials and craftsmanship, simplicity...
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Ballarat Gold Museum Exhibition – Re-Awakening the Dragon
Ballarat Gold Museum at Sovereign Hill, is now showing until April 15, 2018, an exhibition Re-Awakening the Dragon, with a focus on the social, cultural and religious ceremonies the Chinese community...
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The Costume Designer: Edith Head and Hollywood by Derek Parker
Edith Head Designer, showing off her Oscars for Costume design, courtesy Bendigo Art Gallery Over seventy costumes produced from the 1930s to the 1960s, which have been taken from the archives of...
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Phantom Thread: Bespoke Style – Immutable, Impossible Chic
Phantom Thread directed by, and importantly photographed by, Paul Thomas Anderson, features incomparable multi award winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis in his final and perhaps most masterful role on...
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