Fashions on the field

Fifty frocking years

Janice Breen Burns When Flemington began parading fillies in finery five decades ago, women's lib was only a whispered notion of modern womanhood.

Young designers

Teenage dream

Janice Breen Burns High School student Andy Truong is certainly one of the youngest fashion designers to show at fashion week.

Myer parade

Jen does her thing for Myer

Janice Breen Burns Myer showcased its spring collection with Jennifer Hawkins and Kris Smith leading the way.

Recap: Miranda Kerr for David Jones

Janice Breen Burns Miranda Kerr may be the most clicked and photographed woman in the world right now, but last night the young mum belonged exclusively to David Jones.

Style Watch

Fashion Fusion

Janice Breen Burns Fashion designer Roopa Pemmaraju is bringing two artisan cultures together for the first time: Indian weavers and Aboriginal artists.

Glasses

Are you wearing the right spectacles?

Janice Breen Burns PETER Coombs is a font of subtle knowledge on the illusory power of what he calls ''jewellery for the face''.

Net-a-Porter

Net-a-Porter's Australian roots

Janice Breen Burns How Melbourne's Megan Quinn and Net-a-Porter pioneered online shopping.

Costume design

Secrets of a costume designer

Janice Breen Burns Oscar-winning costumer designer Colleen Atwood had a lot of fun with Charlize Theron's get-ups in Snow White and the Huntsman.

Costume design

Secrets of a costume designer

Janice Breen Burns The Oscar-winning costumer designer behind Charlize Theron's get-ups in Snow White and the Huntsman.

Fashion flashback

Fashion as high art

Janice Breen Burns A new exhibition has been designed as a 'conversation' between Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada.

Was fashion week really that bad?

Janice Breen Burns Fashion editor Janice Breen Burns calls derivative, schmerivative on the criticisms of this year's fashion week.

Fashion Week

The fashion minute: Maticevski

Janice Breen Burns Armed with her iPhone, fashion editor Janice Breen Burns captures the Maticevski ... in a minute.

Mercedes Benz Fashion Week

The fashion minute: Camilla

Janice Breen Burns Fashion editor Janice Breen Burns uses her IPhone to capture Camilla's runway show.

Style

The rise of modest fashion

Janice Breen Burns A new generation of fashionable Muslim women are challenging notions of fashion and faith.

The ugliest and loveliest of jewellery on show

Janice Breen Burns Unexpected Pleasures, an exhibition of the world's ugliest, loveliest, most intriguing contemporary jewellery, opened at the National Gallery of Victoria International yesterday.

All eyes on Esber

Janice Breen Burns These are early days but bits of legend are already clinging to fashion's 'next big thing', Christopher Esber.

The new boy wonder

Janice Breen Burns These are early days but bits of legend are already clinging to fashion's 'next big thing', Christopher Esber.

Fashion

Maticevski collection an ageless work of art

Janice Breen Burns Toni Maticevski showcases his remarkable couture skills in a solo show that closed the 16th L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival.

Fashion

LMFF shows what to wear on the weekend

Janice Breen Burns Last night Morrison, Bassike, LifewithBird and Kirrily Johnston tackled fashion's trickiest category: quality weekend wear.

Style

Plenty of bling and bright young things at LMFF

Janice Breen Burns Highlights of day six of the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival included a bling-tastic Mimco show starring Jessica Gomes and the highly anticipated National Graduate Showcase.