fashion
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A campaign to die for: Illamasqua’s ‘Toxic Nature’ colour collection, Autumn 2011
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As a make-up lover (yes, make-up is another addiction of mine!), I am often disappointed by the majority of advertising campaigns the high-end make-up brands deliver into the market space every year. They’re often the same drab looking old ads: a model – or in some cases, a celebrity – perfectly manicured within an inch…
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They don’t make them like they used to…
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I loved …Paul’s post last week of Back to the Future: a photograph concept. Photographer Irina Werning recreated old childhood photographs, with some very goofy results. This got me thinking – isn’t it great that we live in 2011?! The advertising strategies and fashion in the 70s and 80s is something quite unbelievable, but my…
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The importance of colour in design
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Colour, or lack thereof, can change the feel of a scene in a movie, a photograph or even a room. How many times have you been indoors blissfully unaware of a storm brewing, and when you step outside it seems like the life has been drained from the trees, grass and the people? Many photographers…
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Form over function in car design
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Vogue came up with Victoria Beckham for the launch, she who was once spiced up, and is now cashed up, and with her own fashion label, to identify the new car as desirable to the target market.
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India Fashion Week showcases fantastic designs
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The launch of the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week commenced in New Delhi this week. The five day event organised by the Fashion Design Council of India is the largest fashion trade event in the country and will feature more than 115 designers. At the launch this week, models adorned with giant face and box…
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Sass and Bide shines at London Fashion Week
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Flying the flag for Australia at this year’s London Fashion Week is Sass and Bide. The brand returned to the city which discovered them back in 1999 when Heidi Middleton and Sarah Jane Clarke sold their designs at West London’s Portobello Markets. Now 11 years later, Sass and Bide launched their Spring/Summer 11 collection at the…
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Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival wraps up tonight in Brisbane
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Have you got plans after work tonight? If you love fashion, food and music you can’t go past the final evening of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival as it draws to an end at Little Stanly Street Supper Club tonight (Friday 13 August 2010). The street will be abuzz with activity, a great way to end…