As the temperature drops in Queensland we don’t huddle around open fires drinking mulled wine and roasting chestnuts – quite the opposite... we get equestrian fever!

With winter races in full swing many Queenslanders are donning their best to head out to the track and cheer home their favourite champion to a win, revelling in all the spoils and heartache the racetrack has to offer. Don’t...

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As a stylist, I find the first question the majority of women are dying to ask is ‘So, what body shape am I?’. For a professional, it usually is a pretty quick task to translate someone’s visual proportions into a category. Knowing your body shape, however, is still only half the equation; and regardless of whether you’re petite or curvy, unless you know how to dress your body shape properly yo...

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Everyone wants to make the best impression, especially in the fiercely competitive business world where folk garner favour with clients and employers trading on their highly specialised skills and experience wealth. Most, however, forget their appearance is often the first communication they send. Initially, appearances swiftly tell others a lot more about who they are and the level of care the...

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Is it boy leg underwear? A tight fitting mini? Or maybe the crotch of a pair of hosiery determined to make its way to your knees before lunch. Clothes that creep (up, or down) aren’t exactly what’s been sending the fashion industry into a frenzy of late. The popularity of the so-called Creeper (it’s a style of shoe) quite conveniently ‘crept’ up on us whilst we were busy obsessing over McQueen’...

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1. Review your wardrobe every three months
Our taste changes, our bodies change, our lifestyle changes, so let your wardrobe reflect on what's going on in your life too
2. Take a fashion list next time you hit the shops
Just like food shopping, your fashion list should include only the items you need in your wardrobe, take control on what you will really wear.
3. Don't r...

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It’s official. The career of outlandishly outspoken British fashion designer John Galliano has taken another fresh turn for the worse with news that he has been sacked by his own label.

His ejection from his eponymous brand has come six weeks after he was removed as creative director of Christian Dior for alleged anti-Semitic remarks during a imprudent row in a Paris cafe.

Gallian...

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It’s six o’clock in the morning and we’re down at Byron Bay shooting swimwear – sounds like a blessed life, right? Well it is – because it’s the middle of winter, the sun isn’t even up yet and we’re rugged up in scarfs, leather jackets and warm wooly knits. The same, however, can’t be said for the beautiful leggy blond who gasps at the skimpy crotched bikini she will be wearing in 45 minutes ti...

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Most of us know how to live, but not too many know how to live well; and there is a world of difference between the two – and the difference is style... Style is not like anything else held in societies cache, including beauty, brains, breeding or billions in the bank. Style cannot be bought, sold or bartered, but it can be acquired, so long as you know where to look. But what defines our coun...

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GaGa. She’s the blue cheese of fashion. You either love her or hate her; and the man behind her latest aesthetic isn’t all that all that different. Nicola Formichetti, creative director of the Mugler label has joined forces with the style juggernaut to bring together a true reflection of collaboration – a project that is clearly larger than the simple sum of its parts.

Nicola Formichetti...

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When I was 10 my father, bless him, organized a present for my sister and I to give my Mum for Mother’s Day: a bread maker, crudely wrapped up with other ‘fun’ kitchen items like a new paring knife and an electric fry pan. Even I thought it seemed like a good idea at the time—Mum wasn’t one who was always in the kitchen, but this was the day to celebrate her and we wanted to make her life easie...

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