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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...
More ...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...
More ...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...
More ...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...
More ...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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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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