If you asked me I’d say Tanja Gacic is 100% Australian. She’s lived on Bondi Beach since 2007, has appeared numerous times in virtually every Australian magazine – she’s a bit of a celebrity I think – and is married to Pav, the owner of that too-cool-for-anyone’s-good record label, Modular. She even has the accent down. But if my years of casting have taught me anything, I should recognize the Eastern European cheekbones and dark, [...]
There were a few absentees this Sydney Fashion Week. Dion Lee, one of Australia’s most promising young designers declined, perhaps because he just had a successful presentation in London? (That’s my suspicion.) Camila and Marc and Sass & Bide, two hugely successful design duos decided to wait it out as well and instead presented their collections at a showroom or organized some nice dinners for friends, editors and the likes of us, bloggers. But it’s [...]
The road to Palm Beach is a pretty uneventful strip of concrete. I am supposedly going to this incredible place in the Northern Beaches region, 41 kilometers north of Sydney, but so far the landscape is just getting a little bit greener going in-land and a little bit more winding going upward. Halfway into the trip I can make out a few lakes on either side of us, surrounded by thick bush and tall palm [...]
