celebrating centuries

"The face you have at age 25 is the face that God gave you, but the face you have at 50 is the face you earned"
- Cindy Crawford -

Celebrating 100 followers got me thinking about what even triggered my deep infatuation for models, pretty pictures and fashion. Then I remembered Cindy Crawford in 'that' 90's Pepsi Ad...and so my obsession begun. I had that commercial taped and it was replayed constantly, I stole my mum's Cleo and stuck pictures of Crawford all around my room (much to my parents credit they said nothing about the fact that a 7 year old girl had half naked pictures of a model in her room) and I begged my mum to draw a mole on my face with black eyeliner mirroring the infamous Crawford spot.

To this day, to say that I have a crush on Crawford is putting mildly.

would you like a side of fake with that?

Last week, a friend of mine made the comment that he rarely reads an article these days that doesn't ridiculously over-praise the likes of someone in the fashion industry. He said it is a great deal rare to find articles that truly critique the likes of a designers collection. He said we were all in it for our name on a guest list, a plus one and the freebies involved in the praise.

I disputed this to a degree. I love to write, I love fashion, pure and simple. But I guess its a bit of a catch 22. When you're a wannabe fashion journalist, making contacts is like the Wang without the Alexander...without contacts you have no spine to hold your back up. Praising people makes you more friends (facebook friends that is), more friends means more contacts, more contacts, means more work, more work means more happiness right?

Doesn't it...

ineed. iwant.

I've been MIA...Bali, Perth and the like...mostly just sheer laziness though to be honest, because getting back from holidays is soul destroying. It's like that feeling you get when you're 3 months into spring and your still wearing woolen knits...or is that just reality Melbourne?

Either way, I HEART THESE SHORTS. Maybe these shorts will help relieve my post holiday lull. I need. I want. You know the drill

"She who wears leather belted, studded, laced up short shorts has the last laugh".

bali belly and a bout of zimmerman

Heading to Bali tomorrow and so very much wishing my suitcase contained every single pair of these bikinis for Zimmerman's Summer 2010-11 collection.

Unfortunately I will just have to make do with my Zimmerman bikinis circa two seasons ago and my non size zero body...

colour me violet and i

Melbourne label Violet and I embodies all that is feminine and floaty, a contrast to the style that one usually envisions when they think of our great city. So it is somewhat refreshing that designer Anna Linklater has bucked the typical Melbourne trend (black on top of lashings of black) and instead embraced a palette of vibrant colours and summer pastels that leave you with a hankering for ice cream, hot summer nights and garden tea parties.

For a info on Rose of the Taj, the latest collection from Violet and I check out my article here at Laneway Magazine.