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Tag: Queensland
Grace Loves Lace’s bridal face mask contributes to brand’s phenomenal growth this year
November 19, 2020/3.44
Bridal fashion is still a strong sector, based on what’s come across our news desk, but there’s one accessory that’s particularly 2020: the wedding day face mask. Grace Loves Lace’s Megan Ziems has created a bespoke lace bridal face mask to match a wedding dress, and has had great interest, especially from the US, […]
Double WOW: Rinaldy Yunardi wins World of Wearable Art Supreme Award for the second time
September 27, 2019/10.45
Stephen A’Court Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images Above: Rinaldy Yunardi’s The Lady Warrior nets the designer his second Supreme Award at WOW. Indonesian designer Rinaldy Yunardi becomes the third person—after last year’s sisters Natasha English and Tatyanna Meharry—to win the Supreme Award at the World of Wearable Art awards (WOW) in Wellington tonight. In the 32-year […]
Marine Lorphelin, Miss France 2013, gets a Peugeot RCZ as part of her prize package
January 2, 2013/12.00
Motoring news seems to be outnumbering fashion news: it’s been reported that among Miss France 2013 Marine Lorphelin’s prizes is a Peugeot RCZ, a very stylish Austrian-made sports’ car. Given that 40 per cent of the viewing audience watches the Miss France telecast on TF1 each year, it’s not surprising that the pageant attracts […]
Queensland plays host to Prado masterpieces, and Hamburg Ballet, Philharmonic and State Opera
August 24, 2012/23.59
© Holger Badekow Dirk Messner Top The Hamburg Ballet performs A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Above The Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Brisbane has grown from strength to strength, ever since one of its mayors gave the city a fresh energy, involving the arts and youth in its progress. That energy has continued to fuel the city, and […]
Queensland Art Gallery to present Hats: an Anthology by Stephen Jones
February 16, 2010/4.18
Peter Ashworth/www.ashworth-photos.com Above Milliner Stephen Jones in 2008 (image from the Victoria & Albert Museum). The Queensland Art Gallery will present an exclusive-to-Australia exhibition, Hats: an Anthology by Stephen Jones, a collaboration between the Victoria & Albert Museum and milliner Stephen Jones, from March 27 to June 27, 2010. The exhibition features over 250 […]
Water crystals inspire Dogstar collection
November 8, 2009/20.58
It’s not every day you see photography of this calibre in a catalogue. The label is Dogstar, the work of Masayo Yasuki and her team. What’s fascinating with the Laika range—named for the first mammal in space—is the collaboration with visual artist Paolo Milani, inspired by the work of Dr Masaru Emoto. Even […]
July 20, 2009/6.03
Saturday’s Miami Swim 2010 shows featured one label from the antipodes: White Sands Australia, from Queensland. Already known in Australia for its colourful, stylish swimwear, the Aussie label joined others showing at IMG’s Miami collections. Poko Pano, from Brazil, was another international label showing a southern hemisphere take on 2010’s designs. Mara Hoffman Ed Hardy […]
Five days in New Zealand with Summer Rayne Oakes
June 11, 2009/10.14
It’s been a wonderful few days chilling out with our ed.-at-large, Summer Rayne Oakes, in Lucire’s home country of New Zealand to promote her book, Style, Naturally. Summer Rayne was out this way to attend Greenfest in Brisbane, Queensland, and decided that she should venture to New Zealand to see us and to give […]
