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Editors Let ter
Welcome to the 2009 edition of
Frock PaPer SciSSorS...
When we were working towards this issue, what struck us most was the dedication,
talent and daring attitude our team encompassed. Our love for all things new, innovative
and edgy was the starting point for what is aptly entitled our Fearless issue. Here,
we showcase the up-and-comers on the Brisbane fashion scene, with our QUT Fashion Graduate
shoots, The Hunter Becomes the Hunted and The Final Cut. It is refreshing to see such a young
group of designers with an exciting and inventive vision. Also, keeping true to our Brisbane roots,
we take you on a journey of fashion through the city, in our women’s wear shoot, Into the Night.
We have also addressed the emerging role of fashion, beauty and the contemporary woman in our
features The Woman Destroyed and The Beauty Curse. And while we discuss the Fearlessness
of the fashionable new-woman (our cover is the perfect example); The Baccia Girl shoot
uncovers the beauty of our landscape and the vintage finds that not only make for a high
fashion moment, but also create an individuality and unique-ness that exemplifies the fearless.
And so this is it - the result and celebration of months of hard work, dedication and now,
excitement, to bring you the 2009 edition of Frock Paper Scissors. We trust that
our vision translates, and will bring you as much joy as it has us. But most of all, may
it inspire and encourage you to live fearlessly. As Cecil Beaton once said, “be daring, be
different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative
vision against the ‘play-it-safers’, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary”.
Madelaine Brown Rebecca Dickson
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EDITORS
MADELAINE BROWN
REBECCA DICKSON
Art Director
JOSEPHINE CAMPBELL
Deptuty Art Director
MACUSHLA KILVINGTON
Features Editor
KATIE GOSS
Chief Sub-Editor
PHOEBE PARSONS
Fashion Editor
AUSTIN MORO
Deputy Fashion Editor
BRETT BEVEGE
Web Editor
SARA DONALDSON
Assistant Web Editor
KELLY CHAI
Contributing Web Assistant
SABRINA MAN
Managing Editors
Kay McMahon
Sandra Kafrouni
Sub-Editing Team
Bridget Barnett, Rhianna Bull, Jade Dunwoody, Ashleigh Elliott, Anna Havers, Rachel Howard, Eliarne Iezzi, Olivia Noakes, Megan Stephensen, Jiayi Ying
Feature Writers
Bridget Barnett, Rhianna Bull, Alexander Campbell, Josephine Campbell, Amy Cloumassis, Georgia Colclough, Felicity Cooney, Amanda Curtis, Jade Dunwoody,
Ashleigh Elliott, Alexandra Gilfedder, Claire Grimshaw, Sara Hankiewicz, Ambre Harford-Birkett, Anna Havers, Ashlee Hill, Menefrida Horbino, Rachel Howard,
Alexandra Hull, Eliarne Iezzi, Elizabeth Ljubinkovic, Jacqueline McWha, Cathey Niven, Olivia Noakes, Holly Ryan, Lucy Slater, Sarah Spear, Megan Stephensen,
Jasmine Tan, Jillian Trevethan, Stephy Yang, Jiayi Ying
Fashion Contributors
Felicity Cooney, Brent Derepas, Rannulu De Zoysa, Clare Duffy, Cassandra Egan, Matisse Forman, Menefrida Horbino, Rachel Howard, Paloma Kennedy-Lopes, Mary
McHugh, Phaedra Murray, Holly Ryan, Lucy Slater, Kim Touhy, Nathalia Viana, Natalia Vidovic
Art
Layout Alexander Campbell, Amy Cloumassis, Rannulu De Zoysa, Clare Duffy, Jade Dunwoody, Jessica Gunn, Sara Hankiewicz,
Alexandra Hull, Jacqueline McWha, Sarah Spear, Kim Tuohy
Illustrators Amy Cloumassis, Clare Duffy, Xenia Mazarakis, Luke Sarra
Photo Editors Felicity Cooney, Clare Duffy, Jasmine Tan, Stephy Yang
Photographers Yohan Budiman, Felicity Cooney, Clare Duffy, Jaclyn Fellows, Claire Grimshaw, Mike Hilburger, Belinda Holloway,
Callie Marshall, Sophie Mills, Sarah Spear, Maximilian Tynan, Natalia Vidovic, Malin Viktoria
PR
PR Team Georgia Colclough, Amanda Curtis, Ashleigh Elliott, Alexandra Gilfedder, Ambre Harford-Birkett, Menefrida Horbino, Elizabeth Ljubinkovic, Megan Stephensen,
Jillian Trevethan
Chroniclers Felicia Tu & Milani Zepeda
Models Beej Albany, Amy Boughen, Paige Bradford, Rob Bullock, Tiernan Cowling, Steve Fox, Luen Jacobs, James Jang, Rose Lindgren, Wendy Ma, Marianne Mackintosh,
Adina Maree, Anna Stretton, Zoe Theodore, Paula Kyle Walden, Sarah Waller, Kate Weatherston, Samuel Vucko, Ethan Widin
Hair/Makeup Ellen Armstrong, Jessica Cameron, Sam Harris, Kali Mataitoga, Izaq Olomi, Isabelle Slater
Special Thanks Natalie Denning, Gavin Sade, Paula Kyle Walden, QUT Fashion Graduates & Peter Cooney
Sponsors Terry Duffy Optometrist
For further information please email k.mcmahon@qut.edu.au

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CONTENTS
UPFRONT
1 Editors’ Letter
2 Contributors
FASHION
8 The Baccia Girl
22 The Hunted becomes the Hunter
28 The Final Cut
34 Into the Night
41 Brave the Storm
FEATURES
5 Fleur Wood Profile
7 Hot Couture
13 Paula Walden
14 The Woman Destroyed
16 Backstage Secrets
18 Come Dive with Me
20 The Beauty Curse
33 And Her Underwear...is from Target
39 Insiders Only
40 The New Man
55 The Lion, the Bitch and the Wardrobe
ART & CULTURE
6 Fashion the Dance
46 Ink. Paint. Love.
48 Test-tube Trinkets
49 No Need to Fret
50 Destination Brisbane
51 Ole! Delicious Espana
52 What’s Hot
54 Southside Story
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Q & A
If you could redesign a religious uniform what
would it be?
I really like the flowing robes of Tibetan Buddhism but I’d have to
change the colour palette. I love this season’s fascination with the
shade of nude.
Where do you develop new fashion ideas
from?
I do definitely have intense moments of inspiration.
Sometimes it’s a pair of shoes walking down the street,
other times it’s a movie. Recently I’ve been inspired by the
photographer Vee Speers. She’s a beautiful photographer
with a really crazy, crooked view of the world.
What is the most important lesson you’ve had
to learn?
When you make a mistake you have to make it quickly! Don’t
stay there trying to fix it or just thinking that it will change:
recognize it and change it quickly.
What trend are you loving at the moment?
I’m really loving the whole 80s revival. What I love most
about it is how we are doing it – with a much more eclectic
and twisted view.
WE know Fleur Wood for her flowy
dresses in BRIGHT colours, but what we
didn’t know is how time in a Tibetan
monastery steered her career...
WORDS Rhianna Bull
PHOTOGRAPHY Courtesy of Fleur Wood
AS an aspiring designer at age 23, Wood travelled for two
years through the Indian Himalayas; living in a nunnery
and designing for a culture preservation project for the Tibetan
Exile Government. “I was really lost and I didn’t know what I
wanted to do with my life,” she says.
Working in public relations and specialising in retail sales and
merchandising, Wood admitted to having no qualifications in
manufacturing or design experience when accepting the job.
She worked for an Institute called Norbulinka, a division of
the Tibetan Exile Government dedicated to the preservation
of Tibetan culture. Wood liaised with traditional artists and
craftspeople, helping design projects and products which could
then be exported overseas to help raise funds.
Wood watched as the daily influx of Tibetan refugees, who
had walked across the Indian Himalayas to Nepal and on to the
Dharamsala refugee centre, steadily increased.
Living in a nunnery for a short time, Wood was inspired by the
strong, spiritual energy of the Tibetan people. Having little to
no contact with the women of the monastery, due to their daily
spiritual practices, Wood was left to meditate and study Eastern
religion and philosophy. Her experiences helped her discover
herself and develop moral standards which were then carried
into her business. “I don’t want to make money from having
animals killed,” she says.
Wood’s morals also influenced her decision to donate to
charity. “I think it’s about corporate responsibility. We do a lot
of manufacturing in India and I feel like I have a responsibility
to give back to the community which supports my business,”
she says.
Returning to Sydney at 25, Wood originally set up her
business as an import company; bringing fabrics, scarves
and shawls from India into Australia. From there she started
developing products for other Australian companies and
manufacturing them in India. After steadily building her
reputation, Wood went on to launch her own self-named label
initially consisting of four slip dresses in four different colours.
Wood never thought she would achieve what she has.
“I was only 25, never had a business before and had very
limited work experience. I think a lot of the reasons for my
success have been a combination of my naivety and hard work,”
she says.
With amazing life experience behind her, she leaves us with
these words of wisdom: “It is important to do what you love,
what you’re passionate about and the rest kind of just falls into
place”.
WX
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Dance
Artists of Bavarian State Ballet
Fashion the
WORDS Katie Goss
PHOTOGRAPHY Wilfried Hoesl, courtesy of The Australian Ballet
Dressing up in costume can make a
girl dream; of becoming a celebrity
fashion designer or a prima ballerina.
The artful fusion of fashion and ballet can evoke
images to inspire the imagination.
This year, high fashion met high theatre in a
new way when Karl Lagerfeld collaborated with
the English National Ballet in tribute to legendary
French company the Ballets Russes. He created a
sublime costume – a torso made up of pink, pale
grey and white feathers extending over a silk net
below.
Costume designer for the Queensland
Performing Arts Company, Christopher Smith,
describes the earlier twentieth century designs
seen on the stage of the Ballets Russes as
inventive and risk taking; something the world
had never seen before. “The combination of the
colours and shapes, the representing of different
cultures absolutely got picked up by designers like
[Paul] Poiret and appeared in high fashion and
eventually worked its way down.”
For the past 20 years, top fashion designer,
Christian Lacroix, has designed costumes for
22 landmark European and American theatre
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The connections and
collaborations between
fashion and the arts
continue to grow and
connect in new and
exciting ways.
productions, acting as inspiration for many of
his collections. This year, Paris based designers
Viktor & Rolf made costumes for Carl Maria von
Weber’s romantic opera Der Freischütz.
In Australia, designer Akira Isogawa, who’s
opened a fashion outlet in Ann Street Brisbane,
has created costumes for four Sydney Dance
Company productions. In 2003, he and 16
other well-known designers, including Brisbane’s
Easton Pearson, created their own versions of
the iconic costumes for The Australian Ballet’s
TUTU project. Pamela Easton and Lydia
Pearson enjoyed “the chance to design a fantasy
garment within the constraints of a strict set of
formulas regarding fit and shape for dancing, and
the thought of the beautiful bodies that it might
grace”.
The head of wardrobe at The Australian
Ballet, Michael Williams, explains the specific
considerations that need to be made in terms
of designing for dancers. “Construction has
to be durable to withstand the rigours of the
choreography and we expect the costumes to
withstand many performances over a period of
many years. For this reason I think the level of
construction is well above that of haute couture
whilst the design is at least on the same level.”
In his view, contemporary fashion will
always impact on a costume designer, “and
hence influence the outcome of the design even
when set in another period”. For example, while
working on the costumes for The Silver Rose
(premiering in Brisbane in February 2010),
modern fabrics have been used to recreate the
Belle Epoch influenced costumes. “Availability of
fabrics can restrict the realisation of the designer’s
ideas,” he says.
Fashionista and marketing manager of The
Australian Ballet, Kate Scott notes, “ballet and
fashion have long influenced each other; with
romantic tutus finding form in 1950’s couture,
Audrey Hepburn popularising the ballet flat, and
countless fashion designers lending their flair to
ballet costumes”.
The connections and collaborations between
fashion and the arts continue to grow and
connect in new and exciting ways. In Williams’
view “when the audience reacts with awe as the
curtain rises - that is the most rewarding outcome
for a designer”. The dance goes on forever.
WX

Haute Couture: this topical, but little
explained pocket of the fashion
industry, has been a booming source
of income for the past 150 years – the crown
jewel in the tiara of fashion. The purpose of haute
couture has long been questioned, dismissed
as an irrelevant extravagance, existing simply
to seduce us into buying a fragrance or lipstick.
Nevertheless, haute couture has undoubtedly
manifested into an important marketing tool in
defining and maintaining the status of high end
luxury brands.
Haute couture itself is expensive to produce
and provides fashion houses with little revenue,
as there’s only a small client base. The media buzz
generated from haute couture shows boosts sales
of the mass produced accessible lines of labels
such as Dior, Yves Saint Laurent and Chanel.
These creative designs are seen as a way for
fashion houses to showcase their talent and build
brand awareness.
Chief executive of Christian Dior, Sidney
Toledano, says haute couture brands generate
publicity as an investment for their mass
produced accessible lines – cosmetics and
fragrances. “In this industry you either keep it on
a small scale or go completely global,” Toledano
says.
The first haute couture fashion house was
Hot Couture
WORDS Megan Stephensen
ILLUSTRATION Clare Duffy
““The reason why haute couture
exists and will always exist is
because without it, there would be
no fashion – ideas trickle down
from couture collections and that
is how fashion is born.”
– Paul Hunt, 2009
established in the mid nineteenth century
by entrepreneur Charles Frederick Worth.
He provided a paragon of the most beautiful
clothing, handcrafted with exquisite detail and
sought after by thousands. Nowadays, haute
couture is used as a tool for positioning and
marketing a brand, adding to its visibility and
prestige. It assures consumers of its quality, and
helps push sales of mass produced goods.
Brisbane couture fashion designer, Paul
Hunt, believes the ‘trickledown effect’ provides
consumers with a greater accessibility to haute
couture. “Haute couture is used as a clever
marketing tactic to promote a label’s mass
produced luxury goods, and as long as consumers
keep buying [lipsticks and perfumes from the
haute couture brands], the collections will
continue to be profitable,” he says.
Hunt describes haute couture as “absolutely
essential to how fashion works” and believes
it will continue to strive in this era of mass
marketing.
In an interview with The Taipei Times,
President of the French Chambre Syndicale de
la Haute Couture, Didier Grumbach, offers his
perspective on the role of haute couture and its
evolution in the fashion world today.
“When haute couture was organised and
structured the way it was in 1944, there was no
ready-to-wear as we know it today. Everything
was made for you. Creative ready-to-wear did not
exist. Today Chanel and Dior, the most mythical
couture houses, are also at the same time among
the biggest exporters of ready-to-wear, and
without their ready-to-wear lines, their couture
lines could not exist,” he says.
Grumbach says however, without the
creativity and craftsmanship of haute couture,
the ready-to-wear lines would not hold the same
prestige. “The brands that we all know were
founded by artists who expressed themselves on
the body rather than on a canvas,” he says.
Haute couture is continuously put on a
pedestal in the world of fashion. It’s the rarefied
realm inhabited by the very talented, extremely
particular and truly dedicated. Believed to be
the enhanced status of brand association, haute
couture will continue to stand as an effective
marketing medium in the twenty first century. To
achieve success, designers will have to continue
to reconcile their artistic vision by implementing
a smart business plan to inspire consumers.
There’s no doubt women want the unattainable
look they see on the haute couture runways, even
if it comes from a spray of Chanel No.5 or by
applying Dior lipstick. Haute couture, unrivalled
and inaccessible, continues to fascinate and
ultimately sell a dream. WX
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The Baccia
Girl
FUN and FREE the Baccia girl lives by no rules. She imaginatively
styles the clothes of yesteryear and with a touch of MYSTERY and
INTRIGUE, brings forth a new woman of power.
PHOTOGRAPHY Mike Hilburger
STYLIST Matisse Forman

HAIR STYLIST Sam Harris
MAKE-UP Kali Mataitoga
MODELS Anna & Paige
Garments stylist’s own

paula walden
WORDS Lucy Slater
PHOTOGRAPHY Nat Lynn
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Showcasing a collection at fashion
week is something of a dream for
many designers. For Paula Walden this
dream became a reality, at only 26. Walden’s
designs were recently showcased as part of
George Wu’s and Riot swimwear’s collections
at Brisbane’s 2009 Mercedes-Benz Fashion
Festival.
When asked about her rise in what’s
normally a cut throat industry, she says,
“Oh I don’t think of it like that, I mean,
everything is just growing organically. I just
try to keep on top of things”.
Paula began her career straight out of high school when
she was accepted as a jewellery apprentice. The three year
apprenticeship initiated her appreciation for detail and keen
interest in the reasoning behind a piece. “I’m very concept
driven. I come up with words or imagery before I start to
design. I can never go backwards either, some people will want
me to recreate a past collection for them but I can’t, I hate that.
I always want to make something new,” she says.
Walden attributes her creativity to her carefree childhood
in Papua New Guinea. “When I was growing up we would
go to the beach... It was on one of those perfect beaches most
people see on postcards and I could do what I liked. Lots
of the things I did, looking back, were quite dangerous, like
chasing wild pigs and going swimming with sea snakes... I
don’t think a lot of people understand what it was like, but it
was magical to me.”
Walden gives Brisbane credit for embracing its young,
creative, new artists. “There is a different vibe in Brisbane,
people want to support you not cut you down. I don’t think
you find that in many other places,” she says.
Walden’s latest endeavours, both in jewellery and fashion, look
at shape and form. “I have been thinking about jewellery and
clothing not only as an expression of the self but also as an
extension of the self; those objects we choose but that literally
project 3D into space, and then the forms around that; the
silhouettes that are created and the negative space that is left, is
endlessly fascinating for me,” she says.
Walden says the most important thing to remember in the
fashion industry is to follow your passion and not let yourself
get discouraged by what others think. “You might fail whilst
trying new things but if you produce what is already there
then nothing new will ever happen. Change and creativity are
interlocked; you can’t have one without the other,” she says.
When asked, what the future holds for Paula Kyle Walden
brand, she just shrugs, “anything is possible”.
WX

The Woman
Destroyed
WORDS Rachel Howard
PHOTOGRAPHY Callie Marshall
MODELS Tiernan & Sarah
Feminism is often married with visions of women screeching down the
streets, brassieres ablaze; which often leaves audiences, male and female,
with shivers running rampant down their spines. Quick! Turn the page and
rid yourself of this vulgarity. The tenuous relationship between fashion and
feminism is explored with the influence of Simone De Beauvoir.
Parisian feminist Simone De
Beauvoir (1908 – 1986)
played a vital role in the
development of existentialism and
feminism during the twentieth
century. A number of her novels
explored existentialist themes
which “attempt to find meaning and
purpose in an absurd world”, Austin
Cline says in the biographical History
of Existentialism.
“If her functioning as a female
is not enough to define a woman,
if we decline also to explain her
through ‘the eternal feminine’, and if
nevertheless we admit, provisionally,
that women do exist, then we must
face the question: what is a woman?”
Simone De Beauvoir says in The
Second Sex.
The way a woman is perceived is
often due to the manner in which she
dresses. Despite charming pre-existing
stereotypes, not all radical feminists
have arm pit hair long enough to
plait nor make a serious pastime out
of verbal man bashing. Women have
been defined by dress in both social
and cultural situations throughout
history. Dress is a form of expression;
it conveys the ideals, beliefs and values
of any woman, therefore making dress
objective. A typically oppressive garment, the corset, accentuated the waist,
which may have sexually liberated many women. Therefore, women may not
have been destroyed by the fashions of their eras and rather, embraced the
styles that appealed to their feminist ideals.
Honoured member of the Zonta Organisation: Advancing the Status
of Women Worldwide and author of essay, Feminist Movements: The 1960s,
Polita Cameron, is an advocate for feminist rights.
“Fashion is a very obvious way to communicate and express ideas about
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“If her functioning as a female
is not enough to define a woman,
if we decline also to explain her
through ‘the eternal feminine’,
and if nevertheless we admit,
provisionally, that women do exist,
then we must face the question:
what is a woman?”
Simone De Beauvoir The Second Sex
how you see yourself in society, thus the
connection would appear quite a strong one.
Interestingly however, the one outfit could
mean many different things depending on
the woman wearing it and the interpreter.
One outfit that to me would appear scant,
showing too much flesh, looking showy
and blatantly wanting attention from men
could make the wearer feel empowered by
showing off her sexual prowess and may see
this as dominating and indeed feminist,”
Cameron says.
The way women have dressed in France
throughout history contains notions of
submissiveness, constraint, emancipation
and equality. Different periods in French
history represent feminism in a fashion
context. Marie Antoinette represents a
feminine aesthetic style that women have
grappled with over centuries. Domesticity
and femininity are illustrated through
pastel shades, floral patterns and the
accentuation of particular parts of the
body through corsetry and the crinoline.
Style exploded in Paris in the 1920s.
Hair was cut short and women were
liberated by smoking, drinking and
obtaining employment. The 1940s saw
a rise in ‘military’ style dress. Women
were emancipated through pants and box
style suiting and with the encouragement
of sportswear and athleticism; the life of
leisure was embraced.
Today feminism is considered passé and outdated; opposed to the
cultural cringe, it resembles something of a ‘social cringe’. Feminism has a
distinct stigma that possesses a destructive relationship, not unlike that of
incandescent pink thong meets kitten heel. Considering how expressive dress
can be, it’s interesting some believe they are exempt from style and feminism,
when in actual fact, the simple act of being dressed displays, each woman’s
values, beliefs and feminist ideals.
WX

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BACKSTAGE
IMAGINE walking through big black doors
to a different world. The fashion world.
Imagine being backstage watching dozens of
lanky girls with their slender limbs stretched over
chairs, getting their hair and make-up done in
exciting new ways.
Imagine, after 10 minutes when the novelty
has worn off, you’re stressed and frazzled.
Truth be told, most of the models at a fashion
show are rather plain without make-up and
disappointingly less glamourous than they are in
the fashion editorials in the top magazines.
Backstage, at the fashion show, their prayingmantis
bodies and pale, sunken faces look eerie
when illuminated from the harsh light radiating
from bulbs lining the mirrors. More than a dozen
top stylists and makeup artists work furiously fast
as the models saunter in, zoning out on an iPod
or poking away at a Blackberry to pass the time.
The models subsequently, after hours upon hours
of being tortured, primped and prodded, morph
into the beautiful creatures that walk the runway.
Lining walls in the dressing rooms, stand many
racks carrying the coveted spring collections.
Dressers sit on the floor, wherever there’s room,
taping the bottom of heels with contact paper.
Drama erupts as someone points out there is
only one shoe in one of the boxes that just arrived
from the downtown department store. There’s a
commotion of chatter before two assistants are
sent off to get another shoe and swiftly return,
hailing the missing platform heel.
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The energy backstage gradually escalates as
the runway show time edges closer. It’s supercrowded
all of a sudden. There are models,
hairstylists and reporters packed together like
a department store at Christmas. It’s a frantic
race to get all the models in their garments and
then ... drum roll please ... the designers arrive.
Cameras follow the debonair designer’s every
move backstage.
“ Truth be told, most of
the models at a fashion
show are rather plain
without make-up and
disappointingly less
glamourous...
”
The following day of the fashion
festival begins with more prepping of shoes,
steaming of garments and putting outfits together.
The buzz from the catwalk show the night before
was predominantly about one model, who was
walking in her first-ever catwalk show. Apparently
she’d fallen over on the runway and was fired
immediately by the show’s director. Ouch! There
are no second chances in the fashion biz.
Backstage, at this show, models’ have blisters
the size of Uluru. Dressers cuss at the tedious
buttons on a black, cut-away dress. They do this
while slathering fake tan over models’ bruised
legs. You wouldn’t think, not being able to do up
Secrets
WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE WORLD’S MOST GLAMOUROUS INDUSTRY IS LIKE ...
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS?
FROCK
goes behind the scenes of a fashion show and
talks to fashion innovators, whose WORK STANDS
FOR INGENUITY, BEAUTY AND STYLE and who are sketching new
fashion settings.
WORDS Josephine Campbell
PHOTOGRAPHY Josephine Campbell & Ashlee Hill
buttons would seem reason enough to bring on a
heart attack but yes, it can. Another dresser works
up a sweat while attempting to zip a model into a
child-sized corset. After what seemed like half an
hour of flesh pinching, she was eventually zipped
up and tucked-in to the midriff corset. But being
20 and fitting into a garment that would snugly fit
a six-year-old is hard work.
“I’m soooo hungry” can be heard from a
model who apparently has only eaten a handful
of almonds in the past three weeks. It was then
the realisation came across. Not once was there
a morsel of food to be seen. But honestly, we
can’t feel too bad for her. We’d be pretty happy
starving too if we were raking in mad cash for a
few minutes on the runway.
Few words are as ubiquitous in the
contemporary mass media as glamour. When
we think of glamour we imagine the people who
live it, the clothes that scream it and the make-up
that makes it. But as you can see, despite the
drama that goes on backstage and its seemingly
unglamorous duties, the dazzling illusion
compensates for all the hard work.
As the fashion industry comes together to
view and celebrate the newest trends for spring,
it becomes apparent what seems trivial backstage
is part of a bigger design that is endeavouring to
bring more fashion glamour to us all.
WX

ISABELLE FALCONER
What do you do?
i am a full-time model and a part-time artist.
What’s the best thing about your job?
The travel and the people you meet ... oh and getting
to see the latest collections!
What do people say you look like?
A baby deer! ... Bambi.
What did you used to draw as a child?
A butterfly and birds in gardens.
What did you want to change your name to?
Raphaela.
If you weren’t modelling where would you like to be?
A full time artist with a few exhibitions under my
belt and some paintings sold.
What are you wearing?
Marc by Marc Jacobs top, Zimmermann skirt, Sachi
boot, Fendi necklace and Chronicles of Never bracelet,
YSL bag.
Hidden talents?
I can do the Smeagol voice from Lord of the Rings.
What’s next?
A holiday to Nevereverland...
Rock, paper or scissors?
Paper.
AMANDA CALLAN
What do you do?
Modelling, studying naturopathy, plus
many other things such as.......... watching
another model get her blue nails
removed.
What’s the best thing about your job?
Filling out questionnaires and foot aids
(for blisters).
What do people say you look like?
Claudia Schiffer, Lady Gaga, Aretha
Franklin.
What did you want to change your name to?
Cordelia.
If you weren’t modelling where would you like to be?
At home watering the worms in the
wormy farm, in the sun anywhere
outside.
What are you wearing?
Someone else's clothes (but mine now),
a size 14 blue 'discovery' jacket with
shield buttons, a black velvet skirt and
an old black top with flowers on it.
Total price: $24 haha. So fancy.
What’s next?
My underground GoMa to China
expedition via Bunnings (haven't
got a head torch).
Rock, paper or scissors?
Rock!
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COME
DIVE
WITH
ME
WORDS Sara Hankiewicz
PHOTOGRAPHY Clare Duffy
STYLIST Mary McHugh
IT’S Thomas’ buck’s night; he and a van
full of his friends are seeking out the dark
corners of the city. They look over their
shoulders to ensure no one is watching and sneak
in the back entrance.
Tonight’s mission doesn’t lead the boys in
search of babes and booze. Instead, they’re
scouting a selection of delicacies for tomorrow’s
wedding.
Thomas and Anna, his fiancé, are a wedding
planner’s nightmare. After exchanging vows
barefoot in the local community garden, guests
will be offered a selection of pizza, doughnuts,
salad, fruit and nuts – all fresh from the
commercial bin.
For a ‘freegan’, this is a way of life. Freeganism
is an anti-consumerism lifestyle. Shopping
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in supermarket bins instead of supermarkets,
‘dumpster diving’ is one of the latest trends
attracting people who seek a sustainable lifestyle.
“When people choose a lifestyle, whether it’s
fashion or dumpster diving, I would like them to
step out of the image it’s associated with and see
the responsibility that they have,” Thomas says.
Australians throw out three million tonnes of
food every year, with a wastage value of more
than five billion dollars. With figures like these,
it isn’t surprising Australians are embracing this
waste conscious lifestyle.
At Brisbane’s Griffith University, students of
the Food Politics subject study the global food
system; investigating starving nations and the
organisation of local supermarkets, with the
added bonus of a dumpster diving tour.
Recycled garments by
QUT Second Year
fashion students
“It really is a transformative experience, I see
my city in a different way,” one student says in
a recent 4ZZZ radio interview. “I thought this
would be something like a protest thing, how so
much food is being thrown away, but it [dumpster
diving] is actually a subculture I didn’t know
about.”
While dumpster diving is not illegal, dumpsters
are often located on private property where
trespassing is not allowed. It’s the pushing of
boundaries which has fostered this controversy.
“For me, it’s just another form of recycling.
Responding to the fact that there is so much
food waste, dumpster diving is a necessity,”
Thomas says.
WX

1. DRESS FOR THE
OCCASION
Full body coverage
is recommended to
avoid contact with
unidentified matter.
Something loose fitting,
with lots of give allows
a greater range of
movement for deeper
dive potential.
2. KIT OUT
Know what you’re
diving for and pack
accordingly. You don’t
want to be caught out
having retrieved three
cartons of mangoes with
nothing but a bicycle to
get you home.
3. MAN UP
It’s going to stink in
there, so if you’re new to
dumpster diving maybe
opt for a rubbish bin and
work your way up the
ladder.
4. CLEAN UP
After your rummage, be
sure to put everything
back in the dumpster
and do a general clean
up of the area. You’ve
just scored a free meal;
it’s the least you can do.
5. THINK OUTSIDE
THE BOX
Don’t just stick to
supermarket dumpsters.
Suss out your
neighbours, it will tell
you a lot about what’s in
their bin.
how-to
dumpster dive:
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the beauty curse
WORDS Eliarne Iezzi
ILLUSTRATION Xenia Mazarakis
SONG LYRICS Bon Iver - Skinny Love
YOU may be the most beautiful
woman in the world, but you’re
not getting any younger. There
will always be anti-wrinkle cream to
spend your money on. You may have
gorgeous naturally blonde locks, but when
‘brunette’ is in – there will always be hair
dye to spend your money on. You’re thin
enough to fit in size six jeans, but you
could always buy breast implants to fill out
your top.
This is the beauty curse.
Brainwashed by a tsunami of images of
‘flawless perfection’ in the media – many
people blindly pursue this unattainable
goal. By its very nature, the industry wants
you to be dissatisfied with yourself. If you
were simply happy with your image – how
would they make money off you?
Renowned Sydney nutritionist, Arlene
Normand, says too much importance is
placed on the idea of beauty. With 70 per
cent of her clients struggling with serious
body issues, Normand feels women put
too much pressure on themselves to look
a certain way. It’s a result of what they
are led to believe is ‘normal’. From her
experience, cosmetic procedures provide
a short-term self-esteem boost, “but
often lead to an obsession with cosmetic
surgery”.
Even cosmetic surgeon and founder
and director of COZmedics, the Australian
medical group, Dr Alison Jamieson says,
“You only need to open the Sunday
paper to be bombarded by choices of
venues and people using technology and
creating extraordinary claims. There is a
huge amount of marketing hype and sales
pressure to encourage all to purchase the
latest expensive device”.
Addiction to beauty can and does
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cause serious social problems in today’s
society, where technology and knowledge
is intensifying. In Obsession with Youth
Explored, Denise Scott asks, “When did
this obsession reach and addict the general
population?... This is definitely a modern
day phenomena perpetuated by the media.
The media tells us we should want to stay
young. The manufacturers provide all
manner of ‘stay young’ products and the
retailers avidly promote their ‘stay young’
merchandise”.
To understand beauty’s true cost,
you only have to examine the industry
where beautiful people are traded – the
modelling industry. Being an international
model of three years with agencies in
Europe and Australia, Emaonn Katter, has
seen the industry at its worst.
“Some models, not all, go to extreme
lengths to achieve a certain look. The
problem is the current aesthetic in the
industry is for very thin shapeless models.
This is easily achieved by 16 year-olds but
anyone over that age needs to alter their
natural body shape by depriving it of food.
Simple as that,” he says.
He cites, first hand, Spanish Fashion
Week, one of the only fashion weeks in the
world where models must prove to be in
a healthy weight range, as a key example.
If models fall below their body mass
index (BMI), which according to Katter
is lowered to accommodate more models,
they are removed from the shows.
“In order for models to meet the BMI
minimum they drink copious amounts of
water just before they are weighed. If they
don’t make it initially, they are given one
hour before a final weigh in. If they failed
the first attempt, the model will normally
go away and bloat themselves with even
more water and attempt to hide jewellery
in their underwear to add weight,” Katter
says.
Despite apparent advantages, the
physically ‘blessed’ have disadvantages
as well. Having completed a degree in
law and business at the University of
Queensland and currently studying
history and art at the Cambridge
University in the UK, Katter feels he isn’t
taken seriously. “There are stereotypes that
are associated with being a model. Not a
day goes by where a line from Zoolander is
not quoted to me,” he says.
Is it possible to reverse the curse?
In a small step towards a healthier
societal body image, Australian model,
Sarah Murdoch, just appeared on the
front cover of the Australian Women’s
Weekly in a completely non-airbrushed
photo; freckles, wrinkles and all. Does
this make her less ‘perfect’? Or rather
more beautiful for the fact she embraces
characteristics which the industry has
deemed undesirable? She is also part of
the body image taskforce advising the
Australian Government on a proposed
code of conduct for the beauty industry.
Hopefully ‘plastic fantastic’ is on the way
out, and ‘unique fantastique’ takes over.
So, before dwelling on your next
flaw or insecurity, consider the words
of renowned British naturalist Charles
Darwin, “If everyone were cast in the same
mould, there would be no such thing as
beauty”. WX

The
Hunted
becomes the
Hunter
PHOTOGRAPHY Felicity Cooney
STYLIST Lucy Slater
DESIGNER Marnie Perkins

DESIGNER Priya Cox

DESIGNER Catherine Maddin DESIGNER Jeremy Gillis

DESIGNERS Lauren Clarke, Jeremy Gillis

DESIGNERS Heidi Davidson
Priya Cox

DESIGNER Aimee Jayne Kahl
Assistant Stylist Brett Bevege
Assistant Photographer Peter Cooney
Hair & Make-Up Isabelle Slater
Models Kate & Samuel

THE
FINAL
CUT
PHOTOGRAPHY Malin Viktoria
STYLIST Clare Duffy
DESIGNER Alice Leahey

DESIGNER Kasey Brooker DESIGNER Kristen Siemon

DESIGNER Carla Parr
DESIGNER Cassandra Taylor

DESIGNER Aleema Ash
DESIGNER Erica Stagg

DESIGNER Robyn Taggart
Assistant Stylist Mary McHugh
Models Luen & Marianne
Hair & Make-Up Jessica Cameron & Izaq Olomi
Shoes Models Own
DESIGNER Jess Laird

And her underwear... is from Target
WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHY Jiayi Ying
Here comes a nouveau movement of ‘mix and match’. It’s the trend of
mixing the costly with the low-cost. As the financial crisis lingers,
global consumers are upgrading the art of doting luxury with an
economical conscience. The desire-driven pursuit of luxury and exclusivity
thrives.
Luxury brands have become a set of symbols denoting modern
elitism. From Armani coats to Cartier watches, luxury products are worn by
consumers to define their identity and social position. Paris-based fashion
author, Dana Thomas, identifies the contemporary luxury goods industry as
being fashioned around the ‘‘profit-driven, yet noble sounding concept of
making luxury accessible’’. From Hermès bags to Chanel lipstick, the
conglomeration of luxe business has fueled the spread of luxury.
“Global consumers are infatuated by the contagious addiction. Marketing
directors are striving to make luxury available to anyone, anywhere, and at
every price point,” Thomas says.
Depending on the individual’s budget and yearning impulse, the luxury
dream is now an achievable reality.
The era of designers being integral to their brands has passed. Ex-creative
director of Gucci, Tom Ford, has always been aware that he was not an artist,
because he was creating something to be marketed, sold and used. Fashion
Her coat is Burberry.
Her bag is Chanel.
Her watch is Dior.
Her coat is Burberry. Her bag is Chanel.
Her watch is Dior.
and luxury is all about business in today’s market. Luxury brands’ expansion
into the “middle market was something to be addressed”, Ford says. “Had we
not done it, someone else would have.” Brands’ pursuit of greater size and
greater profits has cultivated a mushrooming phenomenon of the accessible
modern luxury culture.
Modern luxury has become a cult, with devotees from entrepreneurial
elites, to cash-strapped students. For the true luxe affluent, teaming genuine
items with a fake is merely an entertaining game of having some ‘naughty’
fun. For the not so rich, it’s about creating the statement appearance with
cheap finds and an investment luxury staple. Take for example the ‘it’ bag
phenomena of 2000, which saw fashion followers reaching for their piece of
high-end in Fendi and Balenciaga.
Combining mass-market items with luxury pieces is becoming a fashion
in itself. A New Luxe Syndrome of combining the cheap with the expensive
is paralleling the growing consumer society. Many now favor caviar with
popcorn as a fashionable articulation of tasteful individuality. Whichever the
case, the worth of luxury is a dimension relative to personal values,
preferences and finances.
So, what price tag will you put on your Louis Vuitton bag? WX
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Into the Night
PHOTOGRAPHY Maximilian Tynan
STYLIST Austin Moro
Bodysuit by Camilla and Marc, Pants by Ksubi, Cape by
Konstantina Mittas, Neckpiece and ring by Paula Kyle Walden

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but
in a city, with its blaze of lights,
it is unnatural, hostile and menacing.
It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
- Somerset Maugham

Jacket by Konstantina Mittas, Bodysuit by Camilla and Marc, Jeans by Ksubi, Rings by Paula Kyle Walden

Dress by Emma Rea, Knit Top by Stolen Girlfriends Club

Dress by Konstantina Mittas, Jewellery by Paula Kyle Walden
Assistant Stylist Natalia Vidovic
Fashion Assistants Brett Bevege, Frida Horbino
Hair & Make-Up Sara Donaldson
Model Rosie
Stockist Bessie Head

f
Insiders Only
WORDS Bridget Barnett
PHOTOGRAPHY Bridget Barnett & Felicity Cooney
Wholesale hotspot 1: B & C
Centre For the fashion savvy girl
who wants a real bargain.
B&C Centre is a fashion wholesaler’s dream.
Set in the industrial area of Lai Chi Kok, the
shopping haven extends along a single winding
corridor stretching 500 metres. The clothes and
accessories here are usually without a brand label,
and come in sizes ranging from Australian size 6
to 14. A wholesale centre for retail stores, clothes
here are usually a year ahead of trends. French
boutique owner and editor of Hong Kong fashion
magazine Prestiage, Maire Lebailly, stumbled
across B&C Centre five years ago.
“Although some locals are aware that B&C Centre
exists, what they don’t know is that the store
owners are usually happy to sell to individual
customers at wholesale prices. It’s great, I can
pick up accessories to send back to the store in
France and find a few things to add to my personal
wardrobe too,” she says. The downside? The busy
shop owners, organising orders for stores globally,
don’t have time to give you quality customer
service. “Try not to get in their face too much,
they‘re happy to let you browse, just don’t hassle
them. They are selling on huge scales so making a
sale with an individual customer isn’t a priority of
theirs,” Lebailly says.
Best Buy: Black buckled motorcycle
boots – approximately AUD$50 (Pleather, not
leather. You will have to sacrifice the smell of your
feet for fashion).
Tip: You often are not allowed to try on clothes
at B&C Centre – make sure you know what size
and measurements you need and bring a tape
measure.
SECRET HONG KONG
WHOLESALE SHOPPING
HOTSPOTS REVEALED!
Wholesale hotspot 2: Sham Shi
Po DIY district For the girl who
doesn’t mind doing it for herself.
Sham Shi Po is a hub for everything you need if
you want to create clothes or make jewellery.
Between about 10 streets, there are dozens of
fabric, bead, ribbon, stud, chain, feather, leather,
zip and hook stores. You need to know exactly
what you are looking for, down to the thread
count. The biggest downside of this DIY district
is when ordering in bulk, minimum orders are still
going to be enormous, with the minimum number
for beads being 1000. American instillation artist
and statement jewellery designer, Emily Eldridge,
uses this district to source interesting pieces for
both her art and jewellery. “I usually try to just buy
on the day because I don’t like the risk of ordering
1000 beads without having orders for that many
necklaces myself. However, sometimes you don’t
have a choice… If there is something you really
want and they’ve run out in store, ordering in bulk
is your only option,” she says.
Best Buys: Gold studs AUD$2 for pack of
10.
Tip: If you have photos or samples of fabric or
jewellery that inspire you bring them along. Some
shopkeepers have poor English and visuals can aid
the process.
HONG KONG is one of the
world’s most renowned shopping
destinations. Bargain hunters from
around the globe flock to the
island in search of a good buy.
While most travellers are trolling
the well-known tourist spots
buying their standard souvenirs
and I ‘heart’ HK T-Shirts, boutique
owners and independent
designers are scoring their buys
at the real shopping gold mines.
Now fashion insiders are letting
you in on their secret shopping
destinations.
r
Wholesale hotspot 3 : Lowu
Commercial City For the hardcore
shopper who wants it all – and is
prepared to fight for it.
This hotspot is located in Shenzen, China.
Although not technically Hong Kong, it’s
only a forty-five minute train ride away. Lowu
Commercial City looks like a huge office block,
but is actually a sprawling shopping centre with
close to 1500 small shops. This district sells
everything from dinosaur eggs (yes, they‘re real!)
to high fashion designer handbags (no, they’re
not real!). The best part – nothing has a price tag.
Everything in the shopping centre can be bartered.
Hong Kong based accessories buyer, Kate Barnett,
says the store owners will often try and rip you off.
“As a rule of thumb divide WX whatever number they
throw at you by three and you should get roughly
its real worth,” she says.
Best Buy: Wolf head diamante studded
cocktail ring, approximately AUD$20 each
(depending on your bargaining skills).
Tip: While it’s relatively safe, there have been
some reports of robbery. Dress down and leave
your jewellery at home. WX
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The
NEW
Man
WORDS Phoebe Parsons
PHOTOGRAPHY Jaclyn Fellows
Ladies, there’s a new man in town…and
just in time. At long last we may have finally
seen the back-end of the metro
movement. The scantily clad, size 26 jean
wearing strain we’ve come to accept as
our ‘male counterpart’ may soon be,
officially dead.
Women have grown tired of waiting for their white knight; the
knight whose biggest fear isn’t ripping their taut jeans while
getting on a horse. Women want ‘real’ men who scale tall
buildings in a single bound.
Coined in 1994 by British journalist, Mark Simpson, the term “Metrosexual”
paved a way for the hetro-sexual man to openly adopt certain traits
in regards to his shopping and grooming habits.
According to Simpson a Metro-sexual is “a man with money and with an
interest in fashion and beauty who lives within easy reach of a city”.
Adopted and popularised by a host of big name celebrities, such as Justin
Timberlake and David Beckham, the metro craze spread faster than swine
flu.
In next to no time, you were hard pressed finding a man whose hair
contained less product than Pamela Anderson and whose jeans were worn
high enough to conceal his Calvin Klein underwear. And just for the record,
no, he wasn’t checking you out as you walked past; he was checking his
behind in the reflection of the shop window…until he spotted the sale sign
that is.
No stranger to exfoliating face masks, tinted moisturiser and eyebrow
shaping, it’s safe to say Beckham’s long standing crown as poster boy for
metro-sexuality is not likely to be revoked (pity the same can’t be said for his
appearance on trend pages).
Senior booker for Chadwick modelling agency, Lyli Estalote, says the
term ‘Metro-sexual’ came about due to a progression in society. “The
everyday man no longer has to settle down, have children, and take on traditional
roles if you will. This allows them the luxury of exploring different
ways of living, which culminated in the importance of looking and feeling
good which is considered in high regard within our society,” she says.
Just when we had lost all hope, our white knight took off his skinny jeans.
Similarly to Beckham’s hairstyles, masculine identity has undergone many
transformations in the last few decades, making it hard to keep up with the
current batch.
From the exuberated elegance of the Dandy to the subtle
sophistication of the SNAG (sensitive new age guy), to the blatant boldness
of the Metro-sexual, the latest buzzword illuminating masculine identity is
the Neo-sexual.
The Neo may just be the perfect man. Attaining more masculine qualities
than his Metro counterpart, he’s still sensitive to his partner’s needs and has
been likened to ‘James Bond with a sense of humour’.
Estalote noticed a shift in the type of male models cast globally in this
year’s fashion weeks. “The choice of boys was decidedly more manly than
last year. Fashion week parades globally like to change the types of models
they use because that is fashion for you. One minute the boy look is all over
the catwalk and editorials, the next year it’s the opposite, the following year
they mix it, then the year after that they go back to the boy look,” she says.
“It’s exactly like you see in fashion. Most looks and trends come full
circle and at some point always get repeated, but with a relevant more
contemporary shift.”
Maurie Powell, long standing staff member of men’s retailer, Harry
Henry, says he noticed a shift in his customers’ desire for a more classic
and masculine style. “Namely the colour pink has lessened noticeably as a
fashion statement. Blue for boys is an old adage and is very popular again,”
he says.
Powell, who has over 45 years experience in men’s fashion says men in
the public eye who have always epitomised masculinity influenced the shift.
“There has always been an elder statesman who always looks classic, namely
George Clooney, the epitome of looking good and feeling comfortable in
what he wears. The younger males who most take our eyes are Daniel Craig,
Clive Owen and Michael Buble, to name a few. These stylish masculine
dressers will have a great influence on this new generation,” he says.
Now that the Neo-Sexual has arrived; without the fear of helmet hair and
with more stretch to his stride, it may not be too late for our white knight to
catch us. WX
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Pants by Filippa K, Shirt by Dr Denim,
Shoes and Hat Models Own.
Brave
the Storm
PHOTOGRAPHY Natalia Vidovic
STYLIST Austin Moro

Clouds come floating into life, no longer to carry rain or
usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky

Jeans by Friedrich Gray, Shoes
Model’s Own
Opposite: Long Sleeve Button Up by
Fernando Frisoni, Shorts by Saint Augustine
Academy, Shoes and Hat Model’s Own
Tshirt by Claude Maus, Shorts and Coat
by Chronicles of Never, Shoes Model’s
Own.

Fashion Assistants Brett Bevege, Frida Horbino, Model Beej, Stockist Dirtbox

truly
madly
hatly
WORDS Holly Ryan
PHOTOGRAPHY Erin Hourigin
MODELS Zoe & Ethan
ILLUSTRATION Macushla Kilvington
Since the 1800s the Boater style sun hat has
made a mark for itself. Traditionally associated
with sailing and the seaside, it now represents
a functional work of art capable of erasing the
segregation of men and women as equals. The Boater
hat is also popularly known as a Sailor, Sennit, or
Skimmer. It is a stiff brimmed hat, easily distinguished
by its flat top crown. Not to be worn carelessly, the
Boater is required to be worn with exquisite costume.
Transported to a modern day setting, the Boater is a
memento of taste and elegance and a celebration of the
past in both style and practice, at a time when D.I.Y is
on the rise. Since it’s now summer, it seems fitting that
a likely addition to anybody’s wardrobe would be a
brand new hat! So how about celebrating this summer
in style and with the satisfaction of knowing you
created your very own sun hat?
WX
Head straight to
www.frockpaperscissors.com
for the pattern for a classic Boater style sun hat…
Think bikes with baskets, long summer days
flying kites and ice creams at the beach…
D.I.Y has never looked so good!
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INK paint love
WORDS Rhianna Bull
PHOTOGRAPHY Fernata Photography
BODY Art, like the culture of drag in
Australia, is seen as an outrageous,
revolutionary and rebellious form of
artistic expression. To wear nothing more than
jeans, flower petal nipple-covers and a top made
out of body paint requires a person to throw their
inhibitions to the wind.
But is Australia ready for body art fashion to
enter the public domain?
Director for Rainbow Creations Body Art and
founder of the Australian Body Art Carnival, Ria
Clauss, says lack of forward thinking is the primary
reason for Australia’s prolonged development in
body art.
“When I first started body painting, people
thought I was painting cars, piercing people or a
tattooist. It’s taken society a long time to realise;
to educate them that body art is a serious practice
and should be taken on board as a new artistic
medium,” Clauss says. She describes the creative
effect it has on the wearer: “It’s like when you paint
a tiger on the face of a child they go around and
roar all day”.
Originally from the Sunshine Coast, Clauss’
obsession grew from her travels in the 1970s
throughout Africa and India. It was on home
soil however, that she became infatuated with
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Aboriginal body painting culture. These intricate
designs of paint were encrusted with tales of tribal
hierarchy, children, wars and marriage to create a
unique identity.
“Our current translation of that is ‘emos’ and
‘goths’. This is a really good start because it means
that we are changing…Our creative expression is
taking over and soon we’ll all be going out face
painted,” she says.
On the Gold Coast, Isabelle Vesey went from
being a struggling artist to being the professional
make-up and body artist at Dracula’s cabaret
restaurant. She paints and applies special effects to
herself, actors and models featuring in the shows.
“Wearing make-up and applying a costume
allows me freedom; I can do and say things my
everyday self wouldn’t dare do…It’s the extended
version of your own personality, the wilder more
daring side…Management loves it when we dye
our hair bright colours, get a new make-up idea
or ink on a new tattoo. And we’re encouraged to
do so…Very few things are taboo and that’s what
makes it so special,” she says.
As a chunk of pink hair escapes her black
wig, Vesey admits there’s still a strong social
stigma towards tattooing, piercing and body art
modification despite its popularity among youth
of the twenty-first century. “Turning the body into
a canvas is so exciting because it is art that is always
with you, not hanging on a wall somewhere,” Vesey
says.
Author of The Fashioned Body, Joanne
Entwistle, analyses the role fashion plays in the
formation of modern identity through the body,
gender and sexuality. She says people of nonconformity,
who practice in alternate body fashion
or who go without clothing, defy the conventions
of their culture. She notes these minority groups
are often subversive of the basic social codes which
dictate cultural values and therefore risk exclusion,
scorn and ridicule by mainstream society.
It seems the assortment of gawks, mutters and
rude stares will continue to follow those brave
enough to enter the public realm in little more than
paint. You don’t have to be as extreme as risking
arrest for indecent exposure, but don’t let body art
be refined to the pages of history books.
Communicate your creativity with your body
as the canvas. Tomorrow, paint on a necklace, a
new tattoo or even just some orange lipstick, and
see what happens. You never know, you might
inspire others to do the same.
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Test-tube Trinkets
WORDS Madelaine Brown
PHOTOGRAPHY Yohan Budiman
The jewellery you see on this page is made of human skin cells.
Pressures from an environmentally conscious public have forced
designers and manufactures to evolve their methods for sourcing
product. Now there is a new form of renewable material rocking the
artistic world, and it all comes down to science. It’s called ‘Bio-art’. The
concept stems from a basic sustainability theory, creating a product using
pre-existing material.
Brisbane fashion designer, Rannulu De Zoysa, is collaborating with a
scientist to make jewellery pieces through bio-art techniques. The head
piece pictured is made from skin cells grown in a laboratory environment
using tissue culturing.
De Zoysa’s interest in a more sustainable method for fashion design grew
from what he saw during visits to international garment factories while
working as part of a design team in California. “There were tons of smelly,
decaying textiles discarded in landfill sites that were going to stay there for
years to come. It was basically careless consumer and manufacturer consumption,”
he says.
After the initial research and experimental trials, the process takes
approximately six days to develop the pieces. “We have been able to achieve
different forms, and different textures such as smooth, glossy and corrugate,”
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De Zoysa says. For example the headpiece shown has a velvety texture.
“We swabbed some of my skin cells for the scientist to put it into a tube.
We then gave it protein so that it grows. After a few days it’s about 8 by 4
inches. We then stop feeding it and add some chemicals to ensure the cells
are no longer alive. We add colour and mould it to the style we want.”
The trend towards the collaboration between scientific process and artistic
fashion is also a result of heightened creativity and artists ‘pushing the
boundaries’.
“It encourages designers to approach their work with an unexpected
creativity and experimentation to generate work that expresses their vision.
Most importantly there are more possibilities to have profound concepts
and original designs,” De Zoysa says.
The SoFA gallery, a division of the Indiana University, has a longstanding
exhibition exploring Bio-art pieces. Gallery director, Betsy Stirratt, is not
surprised by the collaboration claiming both “share an affinity for
experimentation and a desire to forge new frontiers in their fields”.
It’s to be expected that the technology will continue to grow as will the
designer’s imagination. So what is the future of the science-art paradigm?
Bio Fashion? It could be the future of textiles.
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No need to
Fret
WITH a nonchalance toward
criticism, it comes as no surprise
that Brisbane based band, The
Frets, have taken the music scene by
storm.
A long way from their garage days, The
Frets have had the opportunity to travel
the world. They’ve written with some of
the most respected names in the industry,
aje
bassike
claude maus
cybele
ellery
emma rea
fernando frisoni
friedrich gray
gail sorronda
gary bigeni
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WORDS Georgia Colclough
For concert dates log onto http://www.myspace.com/conradsewellandmattcopley
in preparation for the release of their
debut album late 2009.
“The Frets’ sound is all the little bits
of music that we love, put together into a
song,” lead singer Conrad says.
Dubbed ‘smart pop’ the boys have
used a combination of pop and rock
elements to create records through their
backgrounds in jazz or classical music.
Sure, they’re “all about the music” but
when it comes to a question of whether
they’d prefer mainstream popularity
over street cred; it’s simple according to
Conrad – “The more our fans like our
music and the more popular it is, the
more we’ll like playing it. You make music
to make other people happy”.
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lonely by lonely hearts
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romance was born
seventh wonderland
superfine
therese rawsthorne
tina kallivas
tristan blair
william phillips

WORDS Ashleigh Elliott
PHOTOGRAPHY Brett Densley
It would be nice to say Australia’s iconic
fashion sense is celebrated as being that
of Kit Willow or Sass and Bide designs;
but unfortunately we’re more likely to
be known for pluggers or thongs. When
it comes time to showcase the National
Costumes at the Miss Universe contest,
Elizabeth Hayem - El Salvador
When did you migrate to Australia?
June 17, 1989.
Why did your family move here?
There was a civil war at the time. My parents wanted to
leave because of the danger it posed to our lives.
How does your multi-cultural heritage influence
your life now? Now that I’m making decisions
about careers and potentially my own family, I find that I
want to keep as many of our traditions as possible, while
still integrating in Australian society.
Explain your traditional form of dress?
I’m wearing a traditional dress which comes in many
different colours. It’s not an everyday item and is usually
only worn for festivals, shows and theatre.
Sesole Slade
- Samoa
When did you migrate to Australia?
In 1991; I was four.
Why did your family move here?
My parents wanted a better lifestyle and to give us better
opportunities.
How does your multi-cultural heritage influence
your life now?
The Samoan lifestyle is very family orientated. It’s
very much about respect for your elders and putting
your family first. At special occasions, like birthdays,
there is a traditional dance that all the family does.
Explain your traditional form of dress?
A traditional form of dress in Samoa is usually sarongs. My
tattoo is a tribal Samoan tattoo. The patterns are clearly
Samoan and represent my heritage.
Des
tin
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BRIS
BANE
the traditional outfits adorning contestants
clearly indicate their heritage. As a new
country, it’s easy to see why Australia has a
hard time finding a unique identity.
FROCK looks into the stories of some
of our new migrants and the ties they still
have to their traditional dress. WX
Amrita Patel - India
When did you migrate to Australia?
In 1994; I was nine.
Why did your family move here?
My Dad wanted to open a business and we heard good
things about Australia.
How does your multi-cultural heritage influence
your life now?
Food is a big part of our heritage that we keep alive.
We don’t eat meat from cows, which can be considered
strange in Australia. My mum tries to keep religion
prominent in our lives and we visit the Temple in
Graceville.
Explain your traditional form of dress?
I’m wearing an Indian Sari with a tikka (the dot we put
in between our eyes). Unmarried women wear them as
a form of decoration and married women wear a red one
to signify their marriage.
Lihn Nguyen
- Vietnam
When did your family migrate to Australia?
My dad came to Australia about 27 years ago, and my mum
and two sisters came over about 25 years ago.
Why did your family move here?
Both my parents lived through the war, and were exposed to
poverty like many other families at the time. After the war,
life to them became restricted and extremely controlled. My
dad was an officer in the Imperial Navy and after the war was
a POW (Prisoner of War). The loss of freedom was greater
for him.
How does your multi-cultural heritage influence
your life now?
I’ve definitely come to have a greater appreciation now than
I did 10 years ago. I feel that Australian society has come to
embrace differences in culture more, which makes it ok to be
different.
Explain your traditional form of dress?
The traditional dress, ‘ao dai’, for the female, is a symbol of
graciousness, elegance and beauty. Traditionally, the dress is
something that can be worn for all occasions. Today however,
perhaps due to the influences of globalisation, the ‘ao dai’ is
more common on special occasions.
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Ole! Delicious Espana
Food is a fuel, food is fulfilling, food is
fabulous. From falafel to fettuccine, from
fresh to fast, food is a fad. The latest trend
allows for fine feasting and fearless fun, flamenco
style.
It’s sexy, sultry and just a little bit spicy.
According to renowned Brisbane food critic, Jan
Power, Spain is the new ‘IT’ place for fabulous
and fashionable food. “Spanish food is the new
fashion; it’s quite glamorous and it’s always been
there but now people are discovering it’s really
worth it,” Power says.
“Spanish food is very popular in Brisbane
and as we have a similar climate and similar
personalities it works because we always need a
change in fashion. “I’m a total fan of Spain, they
do everything well; eating to them is a total social
component and something to share.”
As summer approaches and everyone dreams
of squeezing into their teeny weenie bikini, the
Mediterranean diet appears to be in sync with
both the Queensland climate and its health
conscious population. The ingredients used in
Spanish cooking are fresh, natural and nourishing,
with liberal use of herbs, oils and spices, delivering
scintillating flavours.
Brisbanites are jumping on the Mediterranean
bandwagon with nine Spanish restaurants
currently operating within a five kilometre radius
of Brisbane’s CBD. Additionally through the
popularity of television programmes such as,
Masterchef Australia, people are eager to try new
and exciting delicacies at places from fine dining
eateries to backstreet cafes.
Bistro C on Noosa’s Hasting Street, hosts a
Latin night every Wednesday, decked out with
Spanish inspired cocktails, Latin dancing and cool
cuisine. The animated atmosphere makes for a
magical night in Madrid.
Bistro C waitress, Tania Martin, says she looks
forward to Wednesday and the surprises the night
may bring. “I’ve been working here for a year
now and latin night is by far my favourite shift
to work; it’s a crazy night with so much laughter
and adventure. The atmosphere is amazing and
everyone from staff to families to groups of friends
gets involved in the food, dancing and sheer fun of
it all,” she says.
Language and latin dance schools are also
seeing increased numbers of people seeking to
learn Spanish and the sexy and seductive moves
of the Tango and the Samba. Latin dance teacher,
Anthea Tert, who’s been dancing for 33 years,
believes the Spanish way of life is taking over as
the international flavour in terms of music, culture,
food and dance.
“I teach private classes and there has been a
huge growth in popularity in the last two years
as there are more people wanting to learn just for
fun. Spanish music is very rich, it makes you feel
like dancing and it has a special way of reaching
people internally,” she says.
It seems Brisbane is also following (or maybe
even started), the international trend of the
popularity of Spanish cuisine. Recent results
from the 2009 San Pellegrino’s Worlds Best 50
restaurants, found restaurants in Spain currently
hold four of the top 10 positions worldwide.
Brisbane restaurants confirm the local and
international following of this cultural cuisine.
Owner of Pintxo Spanish Taperia Tapas
Restaurant in Brunswick Street, Melissa Telecican,
attributes the popularity of Spanish food to the
assortment of taste sensations and unique social
atmosphere. “People like having variety and trying
lots of different things and as the food comes
out gradually it makes it ideal for the individual
with our tapas train, couples or larger social
groups. “We have Spanish tourists drop by for an
authentic Spanish meal, however, we mainly cater
to Brisbane locals, particularly those who have
travelled to Spain and are passionate about the
food and culture. “I opened the restaurant after a
trip to Spain, realising there were Spanish quarters
in both
Sydney and Melbourne yet there was a market
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for Spanish food in Brisbane that had yet to be
discovered,” she says.
A patron dining at Pintxo, Jason Quinell, said
he would definitely be back. “It’s my first time
trying Spanish food and I love it.”
Spanish cuisine is sizzling hot right now. Why
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summer, sangria in one hand, flamenco fan in the
other and adopt a fearless fixation for the latest
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what’s hot in Brisbane...
1.
WEST END MARKETS
Davis Park, West End
The West End markets are famous for their variety of fresh
produce; unbeatable for quality and value. You’ll find an
interesting array of stalls with beauty products and services on
2.
offer, including $9 ‘threading’ eyebrow shaping.
LILY G BOUTIQUE
172 Bennetts Road, Norman Park
Lily G Boutique is an interior retail and design business. Their
stock is sourced from all over the world and is presented
beautifully in store over two levels. Lily G is truly a lifestyle
revolution unlike any other we’ve seen.
3.
COMING UP ROSES
118 Bilyana Street, Balmoral
Located in the beautiful green suburb of Balmoral, Coming Up
Roses is a trendy little gift shop adjoined to a plant nursery few
people know about. A must see!
4.
SECONDI
2/85 Riding Road, Hawthorne
Secondi is all about the love of vintage. With retro and vintage
clothing now in such high demand, it won’t be long until the
whole of Brisbane knows about this little gem. So hurry in and see
what vintage bargains you can bag.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
LE CLASSIC
420 Cavendish Road, Coorparoo
Le Classic is one of Coorparoo’s hidden treasures. With
internationally sourced labels and an inviting and relaxed
atmosphere, you’re sure to find an outfit for any occasion.
KYLIE RYAN
7/377 Cavendish Road, Coorparoo
Shoes, shoes, beautiful shoes! Kylie Ryan is a designer shoe
retailer stocking labels including Rachel Gilbert, Nicola Finetti
and Juli Grbac. The store also stocks jewellery from local designer
Paula Hall and Kylie Ryan’s own bridal range, ‘Confetti’.
CARO MIO
598 Stanley Street, Woolloongabba
Hidden in the nooks and crannies of a nineteenth century
building is café Caro Mio. So sit back and ‘let them eat cake’.
VERVE
109 Edward Street, CBD
Adjoined to independent art gallery Metro Arts, Verve offers an
informal dinning experience; delectable modern Italian cuisine at
ultra affordable prices.
RETRO MODERN
11 Logan Road, Woolloongabba
It doesn’t matter if you’re in the market for a sofa, chess set or even
a wooden bathtub, you’ll find it all at Retro Modern.
10.
BYBLOS
7/13 Portside Wharf 39 Hercules Street, Hamilton
Byblos is an award-winning restaurant offering a superb mix of
Mediterranean cuisine. You can even opt for the $25 movie and
dinner deal and see a flick at the Dendy cinema. Talk about an
affordable night out!
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WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHY Claire Grimshaw & Sarah Spear
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Southside
Story
On the outskirts of the city
lies a space with picturesque
buildings laying claim to
a street that momentarily
sweeps you up and takes
you back to an old world full
of romance, class and style.
WORDS Ambre Harford-Birkett
PHOTOGRAPHY Claire Grimshaw & Sarah Spear
Woolloongabba has long been known
as a run-down backdrop for late night
drunken brawls, but following eight
months of construction and twelve months still
looming, it is fast transforming from dilapidated to
delightful.
The main street, full of charm, with its high
illuminated umbrella lights, tall trees and garden
beds, takes you back to a time much like a scene from
Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook.
Then there are the century old shop fronts which
are now home to several charming stores such as
Miss Mouse, Absolutely Fabulous and the Pearl Café,
making Logan Road the perfect place for style and
culture.
Some say there’s no such thing as love at first sight,
yet after visiting Miss Mouse your faith in the saying is
restored.
The store’s unique character hits you from the
moment you’re inside, from the framed, hand-written
short stories to the magical poem written by the
owner’s young daughter scribbled across a mirror in
bright red lipstick.
Beautiful dresses from local designers are draped
over antique chairs, while one-off jewellery pieces are
laid across a large wooden table which sits between the
raw brick walls, creating a treasure trove for style lovers.
Stocking only garments that are “classic with a
twist”, owner Dee Harris, loves that every piece can
be worn in a different way. “I try to get pieces that will
embellish and customize an outfit so everyone who
walks out of the store can personalise it with their
individual style,” Harris says.
It was Woolloongabba’s historic buildings and the
suburb’s own individual style which attracted Harris
to leave her well-loved Paddington cafe, Lure, to open
Miss Mouse in 2008.
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Across the road,
Absolutely Fabulous has
walls stacked with quirky pieces, giving the store a well
earned spot along the Logan Road stroll.
Owners Mary and Peta recently closed their New
Farm boutique, merging its belongings into the cleverly
overstuffed Woolloongabba space for the same reasons
as Harris.
Everyone loves a laugh and it seems this is the
place to let your inner giggle loose. Laughter is a central
vision Mary has for the ever-expanding store. “We want
people to have fun here,” she says.
Upon exploring the store, both new and old pieces
can be uncovered. Breath-taking antique furniture
shares the floor with unconventional items, such
as a high-heel shoe cake server, a necessity for all
fashionistas turned domestic wannabes.
“We will only stock a piece that really rocks our
boat,” Peta says, explaining the collection of witty and
well-designed items which makes Absolutely Fabulous
one of a kind.
Further down the street, is a coffee hot spot which
has created quite a stir with its large loyal customer base
that swears by the addictive caffeine experience.
The man that brought us The Gun Shop Café in
West End, Daniel Lewis, has transformed an antique
terrace house into the stylish Pearl Café. This quiet
café positioned between a shade of trees and shabby
ceramic potted plants, lets you sit back to enjoy some
afternoon people watching.
The finer details are what gives this spot its quirky
style; freshly baked cakes are placed on stands while
the daily blackboard specials live in gilt picture frames,
making it almost too charming for words.
The modern lighting contrasts with the bentwood
chairs and stripped back brick walls which create an
experience usually found on the streets of Europe.
The ultra-modern yet traditional interior sets the
scene for the efficient and friendly service, coupled
with simple food and rich, creamy coffee; even the
most skilled baristas talk about for days.
While Logan Road may be frustrating at times,
with the maze of road works and gravel sticking to new
summer thongs, Woolloongabba’s array of tall historical
buildings and quirky characters is quickly putting the
streets of Paddington and New Farm to shame.
There seems to be no better time to make the move
to the Southside.
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the lion the bitch
and the wardrobe...
WORDS Jade Dunwoody
ILLUSTRATION Xenia Mazarakis
Dress is often the difference between grace and social
suicide. a solitary defining moment you’re standing in
front of your wardrobe,over-confident and bold...
YOUR shoulder angel is persuading you to reconsider, but your fortitude
to rebel is reigning. Your outfit is the mirror image of your mood;
ripped, torn, tragic rock. Lips are fire engine red and hair is teased to its
element. You’re a cross between rock chick and hobo. But later that day,
you run into a boss, a teacher or someone else of importance, and you’re
repulsed by your choice of dress. Your mood has changed and it fuels your
regret. Or perhaps you’re feeling confident and a little promiscuous, so you
shorten your dress in the freezing, cold winter. A little inconvenient and
problematic.
When it comes to fashion, we’re often pushovers. It’s our mood that acts
as a catalyst for the forever-agonising dilemma, what was I thinking?
Expressive dressing - how you feel - is often reflective in what you wear.
Whether Mother Nature kicks in, your day takes a 360 or you’re simply
trapped in a faux pas, it’s your mood that’s the pillar. The lion, the bitch and
the influence on your wardrobe. There’s even a name for us. Mood dressers.
We’re feeling youthful, we accessorise. We’re feeling down, we wear dark
colours. The problem lies with later on and how you’ll feel then. What will
you be thinking? You’re feeling bright and energetic one moment, so your
outfit is bold and quirky. The next you’re having a fat day and wish you were
wearing a potato sack.
You’re feeling sophisticated before work, so you wear stockings and
corporate heels. The next moment, you’re deflated and wish you’d worn
ballet flats. You’re feeling elite. You’re wearing heels, a sequinned dress and
are carrying an oversized clutch. The next moment you’re walking the streets
in the middle of homeless central. You then feel ashamed of your choice.
Mood dressers, whether you’re a lion, a bitch or even a princess,
we all can relate to this. Our mood can influence colour, pattern, outfit
combinations and style. But most of all, our mood directs what we do and
how we feel, present and in the future.
It’s as simple as feeling confident to wear white pants after Labour Day.
The next thing you know, you’ve spilt lunch all over yourself.
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Capricorn
Capricorns are business
focused, dressing in classic
and timeless outfits. Invest in
a good fake tan to add a bit of
colour.
Horoscopes
WORDS Amanda Curtis
ILLUSTRATION Amy Cloumassis
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Aquarius
Aquarians can always be found in a
thrift store scouting interesting pieces
that don’t break the budget. Keep
make-up simple and shift the focus
with a statement headpiece.
Virgo
Minimalists by nature, Virgos wear
comfortable and traditional styles. Don’t be
afraid to ditch the conservative look and
wear something daring that complements
your hot bod!
Scorpio
Scorpios are masters of disguise so think
bold statement jewellery with dark lips or
long and seductive false lashes.
earnings.
Sagittarius
Pisces
Your trend adapts to your
Aries
You have an abundance of self
assurance which gives you the
confidence to parade the most daring
of trends. Stay true to your fiery
nature with a black and red ensemble
complemented with dramatic, smokey
eyes.
Cancer
Cancers are known to be as
Sagittarians dress for comfort, rocking the
oversized tee. Strong primary colours, a bit
of bronzer and tribal style jewellery will go
a long way.
attached to their clothing as they
are to their loved ones. Don’t be
afraid to have a garage sale, and
vamp up your image with the
Gemini
Geminis live to try everything once,but
colours with classic pieces.
Taurus
In the current financial
crisis, don’t be afraid
to visit op shops and
sacrifice that $200
Hermès scarf for a
vintage option, no one
will think any less of
surroundings and you feel you!
most comfortable in free
flowing clothes. Pisces should
complement their relaxed style
with earthy jewellery.
don’t get too distracted that you let your
mood dictate your style. Try to mix bold
Leo
Comfort comes last in Leo’s book. You
wouldn’t be caught dead wearing less than
the best. You love anything that draws
attention, so stay true to bright colours like
oranges and yellows.
Libra
Librans are known for their creative flair and innovative style. Keep
your clothing simple and express your true self through your unique
and timeless jewellery pieces.

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