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Masterpieces, Arts & Letters

Fashion Masterpiece: Romance Was Born - ‘The Oracle’, 2011

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‘The Oracle’, the fifth major show by two Sydney-based iconoclasts, initially had Australian Vogue decrying the absence of the “madcap prop...

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Blankett Slate: Australian Style

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“Are not the colours exquisite? And see how intricate the patterns.” So said the two swindlers intent on convincing Hans Christian Andersen...

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The Nation Reviewed

Dance With Me, Baby

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It’s a sparkling Sunday afternoon, and three grimacing youths are loitering in the bile-green doorway of Off Ya Tree, that marvellously...

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The Monthly Essays

This Year's Model: Fashion's Coming of Age

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Those with an appreciation of the firm and youthful female form may be interested to ogle Terry Richardson’s photographs of the latest crop...

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The Monthly Essays

Those Most Peculiar People : In Praise of Eccentricity

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In January, Jones was on stage at the Enmore Theatre as part of this year's Sydney Festival, clad in a G-string, a corset and a series of...

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Books

Flappers & Snappers: ‘Vanity Fair Portraits’

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The origins of the word ‘glamour' lie in the swirling mists of Scottish thaumaturgy; to be glamorous in Robbie Burns' time was to...

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