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I have lacked inspiration big time since I moved to Sydney, so I've started up a new blog.... have a squiz here.Au revior for now - until I win the green card lottery in July and move back to New York, anywayxx

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The SartorialistMy friend GretaChloe s/s 09/10I love girls who wear man-style denim shirts with jeans. Whether the denim matches or not doesn't matter, the girls that can pull it off have that certain je ne sais quois feeling to them; like they couldn't give a shit but still look effotlessly put together.

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Emporio Armani s/s 09/10Marni s/s 09/10Karen Walker s/s 09/10 Luella s/s 09/10Josh Goot s/s 09/10When I was little, my mum had this old Country Road mousy brown chiffon blouse with big cream polka dots all over it, and she used to wear it everywhere. Out shopping with jeans, with a pencil skirt for a day at the law firm, with high waisted shorts in the summer. Ever since that blouse, I've had a

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I have just arrived home from covering New Zealand Fashion Week; exhausted in a if-I-have-to-look-at-one-more-stick-thin-model, wintery-garment-or-runway-show-I-think-I'll-strangle-myself kind of way, and all I was looking forward to was coming home to our amazingly awesome (foster) dog, Ziggy Stardust.But, being a foster parent to a dog (other than saving them from the terrible fate of being

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The spring issue of New Zealand's Fashion Quarterly has finally hit the shelves, with the gorgeous Olivia Henderson and Catilin Lomax both landing the cover. On an extremely crisp (read: bloody freezing) spring morning, the whole team drove two hours out of Sydney to an amazing Edward Scissorhands-worthy manicured garden for the cover shoot. Here are some behind-the-scenes snapshots.Photography:

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A bamboo plant arrived on my desk this morning. While I thought that was weird, I think the Bamboo Eyelash Enhancing Serum that came with it is ever weirder.The press release claims that some sort of natural biofermentaion, whatever that means, will let me achieve remarkable results with my eyelash growth minus the irritation. I don't have particularly short eyelashes, but they're not remarkable

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Our flatmates have recently moved out which means it's overhaul time for our apartment. I've never had my own home to do exactly what I want with (without having to worry about the clashing tastes, or lack-there-of, of all parties) so I've become a little bit obsessed with decor magazines. I'm now an avid reader of Good Housekeeping and instead of flicking straight to the fashion pages of the

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Missoni 1968After 50 long years, Missoni is still creating their timeless and beautiful zig-zaged, striped, patterned, colourful and cosy knits. Dresses, coats, and sweaters; pullovers, chemises, trousers, and skirts - plus all those way-too-expensive but beautiful towels, rugs and blankets. I would trade my heater in any day to be able to wrap myself up in nothing but Missoni for winter.

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As is the ACP rumour mill, it seems Australia's Harper's Bazaar and Grazia will be merging. I'm not sure what it means for either magazine, but it appears Jamie Huckbody is out of job and so are a few other people. Bit of a shock to the system really.

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Very few of these advertising films capture my attention long enough for me to actually pay attention (with the exception the Chanel No.5 short films, and maybe Sofia Coppola's romantic Miss Dior Cherie commercial). But this YSL narrative starring Jules, the 11-year-old son of its director and writer Samuel Benchetrit, is as funny as it is beautiful and sweet; and despite the très fabuleux

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These oxidized Gucci accessories have started to arrive in the Harper's fashion cupboard. I'm not sure how I feel about them. I hate the bag, but the shoes...cheap hooker or absolutely fabulous? I'm torn.

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Picture this: Anna Wintour has resigned. The sheer effort of keeping an immaculate bob and an unfeasibly large pair of sunglasses in place 24 hours a day has finally taken its toll. In a move that has shocked the fashion industry, American Vogue has appointed as her successor graphic-designer-turned-artist Scott King. For his first issue in charge, King decides that Vogue should have an anti-war

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Apparently my good-old home country of New Zealand is the safest place to be in the world right now.

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Vogue 1950'sWhile researching a story today I came across this hilarious article which was published in Peterson's Magazine way back in 1861. I assume this was (like Vogue in it's early days), a sort of social gazette for young aristocratic women who wanted advice and assistance on how to be 'in style' at the time.Here are some of my favourite excerpts...can you just imagine what these women

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Last night the much anticipated (well by us, anyway) documentary The September Issue screened at the Sydney Film Festival, and while the 45 minute line (chock-full of Sydney's fashion elite and mega movie buffs) wound around three blocks, it was definitely worth the wait.The film is an amazingly candid portrayal of the very weird, sometimes strained and extremely amusing relationship between Anna

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Therese Rawsthorne S/S 09Kate Sylvester S/S 09Karla Spetic S/S 09Ansdorf S/S 09camilla and marc S/S 09My week so far has been saturated with apricots, peachy creams and pink grapefruits with a touch of onion and cashew. All of these tasty things I'm very fond of when they're in their rightful food form, but when it comes to clothing, I think I'm missing out.We've been getting ready for an

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I have a very stylish friend who wears a pair of Karen Walker merino thigh-high socks effortlessly, usually with a pair of very cute cut-offs. Unfortunately when I try and rock knee-high, or thigh-high socks, I just feel like a silly school girl who belongs more in a Parisian private school than on the prairie. After stewing it over, I've decided my bob is working against me. The key to looking

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The Hermes S/S 09 ad magazineCan Hermes get any cooler? And Bruce, can I fly you back from Milan in this?

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They are magical little places found every bedroom - so small and seemingly insignificant, but such beautiful places to sit and think, to daydream your life away bathed in warm sunshine or under glowing moonlight. You never know what you'll find on a windowsill - a candle, a bouquet of fresh flowers, a cherished perfume bottle, favourite books, a butterfly stopping by. I love the windowsills

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Mud cake with satin chocolate glaze.I thought I'd share with you the best chocolate cake in the world, one that I made the other day with Bruce to many an 'ooohh', 'holy cow' and 'yuuuuuuuuuum'. Enjoy!Ingredients:250g butter, chopped200g dark chocolate, chopped2 cups caster sugar1 1/3 cups water1 tablespoon dry instant coffee¾ cup plain flour¾ cup self-raising flour¼ cup cocoa powder3 eggs,

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Hailing from the deep south of Timaru, New Zealand, the lovely Grace Atikson has called Sydney home for two years now. She's a busy girl working as the full-time assistant for super stylist (and original Russh fashion director) Tamila Purvis; not to mention styling her own shoot for the current issue of NO magazine (see below). She's my favourite person to sip chai tea with, especially while

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Wolford fishnets in W Magazine To say I love stockings more than any other winter accessory is an understatement, but I was a late bloomer in the Wolford arena. I'd seen their stores in Milan, been tempted to enter even, but I pretty much thought $110 tights were a bit of a joke, even if they are supposedly the creme de la creme of legwear.I mean stockings encrusted with gold? sure. But just

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The other day I discovered that one of my newest friends from Sydney (originally a New Zealander, go figure) lost his sense of smell a few years ago thanks to a head injury involving a skateboard, a car dressed up as a cow in the Undie 500, too much beer and no helmet - luckily his taste wasn't affected, bar the odd herb or two.For me this was deeply disturbing. To say that smell is important to

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They remind me of childhood birthday parties; of fairy floss and carnivals; having too much fun trying to pop and squish them by jumping up, down and all around on them; trying with all your might to blow them up, losing your breath and nearly fainting in the process. For me, balloons evoke happiness, freedom, love, adventure and solitude all at the same time, but I mostly love them just because

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Images courtesy of The SartorialistIt's been raining non-stop now for three days and two nights. It's freezing and I'm excited - I'm over summer (and this season they call autumn in Sydney, which is really summer all over again) already, the sweat, the humidity, the fake tan; it's finally time to bring out the winter woollies!It's something I actually miss from the -14 degree New York winter -

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I stumbled across this article the other day, from the San Fransisco Chronicle. It perfectly sums up why I still love pink so much, and why it will always be one of my favourite colours."The shyest color and the boldest, pink has soul. It's the color of the underside of a twilight cloud. A puff of cotton candy at a summer fair. The inside of a seashell. A baby's ear. The nose of a kitten.The

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I love coming home to our magical room with fairy lights delicately draped over paintings and photographs on our long white wall. Like little tea candles placed on shelves, dressing tables and desks, fairy lights add a girly, timeless and beautiful touch - making even the most mundane rooms look like a fairy tale.

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Moving to a new city, while fun, can be extremely difficult and frustrating. You've left your favourite hairdresser behind, your trusted waxer, your family doctor. When you have a toothache and urgently need a dentist, how the hell are you supposed to know who to go to?This problem was never an issue for me in New York thanks to an excellent website that acted like my best friend, mother and

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Our roof. A Bolex camera. A kaleidoscope. A seven-year-old niece. Our flatmate Charlotte. Her filming, my photography, Joel's set design, lots of chocolate and patience - the beginning of a music video is born (it seems we live in a bit of a creative household).All images are copyright of the photographer.

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Here's a bit of a peek at a shoot my boyfriend and I collaborated on - a couple of unused photographs.Photography: Bruce Raubenheimer. Styling/Art Direction: Olivia Fleming. Model: Greta from Chadwick Models. All images are copyright of the photographer.

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Prada Fall 09Claudia, the very lovely fashion director at Harper's Bazaar sauntered into work the other day wearing tiny denim cut-offs and some very enviable thigh-high black suede boots. Stevie, the fashion editor at Russh, wore her thigh-highs throughout RAFW. Then of course there's Prada, Rodarte and those Margiela thigh-highs on Carine Roitfeld.I've always thought of thigh-high boots as a

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Chanel Cruise 2010 They might be unforgiving at times, but thanks to Chanel's Cruise 2010 collection I'm dreaming of bold sailor stripes, the French Riviera and effortlessly chic Parisian girls sipping espresso in the springtime.In fear of resembling Where's Wally or possibly a Zebra, I'm not sure I could go all out with head-to-toe stripe mixing, but whether it's a striped tee poking out from

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My hair is in that annoying in-between stage - not quite a bob but not yet long enough to do anything amazingly pretty with.After about a year of not being able to tie it up at all, my hair is just long enough to throw into a messy bun (with the help of a bobby pin or two), so now I'm spending every morning trying to prefect it - ballerina bun, messy knot, loose twist. My aim is to look as

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A tree house, a free house,A secret you and me house,A high up in the leafy branchesCozy as can be house. A street house, a neat house,Be sure and wipe your feet houseIs not my kind of house at all~ Let's go live in a tree house.Shel SilversteinAnother day, another dilemma. I wish I could go back to life as a child sometimes, when high-tea parties were held in your best-friend's treehouse,

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In ode to some of the world's most stylish mothers. Happy Mother's Day mum x

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Working in the publishing industry means I'm constantly surrounded by gorgeous, lust-worthy shoes. Unfortunately my nonexistent magazine salary means they are now a bit out of reach, but one can still daydream.

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Some of Sydney's best cafe's are destinations in their own right; here are four of the best...The Bourke Street Bakery - Surry HillsWho: indie kids and cool creatives ride there on vintage bicycles, stuffing themselves into this small corner shop that has queues regularly weaving out the door and around the corner.Eat: in the land of baked goods, The Bourke Street Bakery is king of artisan breads

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With a day to go before her SS10 collection shows at RAFW, I caught up with Kym Ellery - the effortlessly chic former Market Editor of Russh and designer behind her name-sake Australian label, E L L E R Y.I would describe my personal style as relaxed and comfortable meets chic, and a bit boyish and tough.I'm happiest when I'm having a mani/pedi with my lamb (stylist Ilona Hamer).I couldn't live

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Where is home? Is it a place on a map, or is it found in the treasures we've salvaged from our past?For me, the answer to the bland question "Where's home?" has a confusing answer. My father lives in Melbourne and my mother lives in Auckland, but I didn't grow up in either of those houses so I wouldn't call them home. My childhood home was sold when my parents divorced, as was my grandparents

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1930's French Art Deco illustrationMarc Jacobs Spring 09Edgar Degas’ “The Green Dress” ballerina PaintingPatrick Demarcelier editorial for Harper’s Bazaar,USYTL Residence, Kuala LumpurViktor & Rolf ballet slingbacks

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Photos: KT Auleta The fashion world seems to just keep on rocking despite an uncertain economy. These images from KT Auleta Photography give such an accurate (and to be honest, a little bit comical) depiction of what is happening in the world at the moment.Despite all the headlines we're being bombarded with - World Financial Crisis, Mortgage Meltdown, Global Recession - and while the world is

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Since my boyfriend and I arrived in Sydney, we've been spending a lot of time with a certain Parisian model who unfortunately flew back home yesterday. Being around her has made me pine for anything and everything French. Her accent, her effortless and casual chic way of dressing, her ramblings about France in French, her stories about her tiny apartment and her friends back home..it's all

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Claudia Schiffer could wear a bin bag and still look amazing, but to me she epitomizes ladylike dressing.She does elegant, polished and casual chic effortlessly, and gets it right day after day. While she looks just as gorgeous as she did in the height of her super days, at 37 she dresses her age in feminine separates - soft bow blouses, lightweight knits and classic cardigans - that embody a

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Oscar de la Renta Fall 09Lanvin Fall 09These days when it comes to matters sartorial, where have all the manners gone?If you take a walk around Sydney, you’ll see a hell of a lot of undies – under sheer cream dresses, there are navy g-strings; beneath bum-grazing hemlines are polka dot boy shorts, visible with every step. Then there is the bright orange skin, after too many fake-tan applications;

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It first happened while having breakfast in a small French café in Kirribilli. A very fake-tanned woman, dressed in a little mini skirt and a far-too-tight singlet teetered in. As my eyes scanned her outfit, I couldn’t help noticing the red sole on her sky-high heels. Christian Louboutin's! In fact, they were a pair of this season’s snakeskin peep-toe platforms. My first day in Sydney and already

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Remember taking a trip to the library in primary school? The librarian would sit at her desk - nose in an encyclopaedia sized book, hair coiffed, manicured nails, eyes in the back of her head when you were getting up to mischief.When you’d finally picked out a book, after lots of deliberation with friends, you proudly handed over your library card and she’d smile at you warmly, commenting on what

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After a bit of a quiet patch (I returned to Auckland with no internet and I've arrived in Sydney with no internet) I'm back, this time on the sunny shores of New South Wales.And so, another adventure begins and the challenge of finding your spot in a new city and looking for an apartment starts all over again.While it's certainly no New York, I'm sure Sydney will have it's own good points - which

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Well I'm finally in the air, bound for L.A. on an American Airlines flight that has wireless! America never ceases to amaze me.Though I will miss many things about New York, the cold is something I definitely won't (this morning it was -11 Celsius which is a tad too chilly for me), so as I bid farewell to this lovely city I came to call home, I leave you with 15 things I fell in love with during

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Photos courtesy of the New York Times and The Daily NewsI should be in a taxi to JFK airport right now, getting ready to fly to L.A. and then onto Auckland. But instead, I'm sitting at my local cafe having breakfast and watching a blizzard unfold - the worst we've had all winter, go figure.According to the New York Times, New York dispatched 1,600 plows to deal with the storm and an army of salt

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I love a good love story. Whether the tale is told through novels such as The Bronze Horseman, The Time Travellers Wife or even the Twilight series (yes, I've read them all), on the big screen in movies like Gone With the Wind, Roman Holiday and Ghost, or through my own friend's trials and tribulations - I'm a romantic at heart.This is dedicated to the perfect kind of love.

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Holy headrush, who needs cocktails when you can have sugar? Manhattan seems to be the unofficial town of cupcakes and I've had a bit too much fun trying out as many as I can get my sticky little fingers on.Without further ado, the top five cupcake purveyors in town:1. Sugar Sweet Sunshine - 126 Rivington StThis cute Lower East Side bakery, decorated with funky light fixtures and mismatched

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With the world temporarily blinded by all things lovely and beautiful during the Fall fashion shows, and with a boyfriend modeling in those shows in Milan and London, it got me thinking about how much we don’t know behind the glamorous facade. Or how much we do know – but choose to ignore.For a model, right next the drugs always on offer from agents and having to deal with seedy male clients who

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Being a million miles away from my boyfriend in London, friends in Auckland and parents in Melbourne has gotten me thinking about letters.Sure, Skype and Facebook have helped to keep me sane since I moved to New York, but I'm always so envious of my flatmate Julie when she receives letters and parcels in the mail with hearts and flowers drawn all over the pretty envelopes.In a world where so many

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Watching Jennifer Aniston present the award for Best Animation with Jack Black definitely wins the Oscar for most awkward and awful moment to sit through. I just wanted to jump through the screen and give her a great big hug.Angie and Brad were sitting directly in-front of her just a few feet away, with the camera jumping from her to them and back every few seconds, presumably watching for some

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Something that comes with closing down an office, is throwing things out.It can actually be quite therapeutic, throwing out the tonnes of paper that has accumulated over the years, the mounds of cds of paparazzi images, the old floppy disks - of which the contents will be forever unknown.But it was distressing when I had to face the magazines. The 15 years of Vogue (American and British), the 12

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In the last two years I've become a bit of a hair chameleon. The thrill of the change is rather addicting - sitting there, scared like hell that you've made a mistake, but then loving the blow-dried new you once the scissors have stopped snipping and the foils have come off.It's like the ultimate adrenaline rush for wimpy people, like me, who don't have the guts for sky diving, bungee jumping and

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Cynthia Rowley Fall 09 Proenza Schouler Fall 09 Oscar De la Renta Fall 09 Micheal Kors Fall 09 Vivienne Tam Fall 09 Marc Jacobs Fall 09 Jason Wu Fall 09 J. Medel Fall 09It's one of those well know facts about New York, that come October, all the pastels and pretty colours are put away to hibernate in the depths of closets, where New Yorkers suddenly turn into an army of little-black-dress

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Photos courtesy of fashionologieIt was quite fitting that guests, including a doe-eyed Kirsten Dunst, sat in tinfoil-wrapped folding chairs at Rodarte this morning. Laura and Kate Mulleavy mixed more materials than ever (leather, lace, metallics, crystals, and of course those knits they're so well known for) for their Fall collection that there were moments when the models looked like they could

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Photos courtesy of nymag.comThis evening's Marc Jacobs show was a show-stopping affair to remember.Being held at the N.Y. State Armory meant Lexington Ave was bustling with police, intense security, barricades lining the street, paparazzi crowding the sidewalks and women teetering in such mammoth high heels they could only walk at a snails pace from their private cars and up the grand

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This afternoon's Donna Karan show (right next to her new Urban Zen store in the West Village) was an intimate affair compared to DFV yesterday.The Voguettes were out in force, as were bloggers, stylists and a few supers - we made no attempt to hide our ogling, especially with Anna Wintour's bob that close. Enjoy xL'Uomo Vogue's Giovanna Battaglia Lily DonaldsonJourdan DunnLa Bobette making a

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Waiting for the Diane Von Furstenburg show today was possibly more entertaining than the show itself.First, there were the hundreds of paparazzi swarming the likes of Heidi Klum, Molly Sims, Jourdan Dunn and of course Olivia Palermo and Whitney Port who work at DFV on MTV's The City.Then then were the Public Relations glitterati, who created more drama in ten minutes than any reality show could

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Today is the first day of Fashion Week - but it's not quite the same Fashion Week New Yorker's have come to know and love. The always anticipated Marc Jacobs after party? Cancelled. The lavish Betsey Johnson celebration everyone talks about? Not happening. Calvin Klein and Zac Posen also cancelled their post show dinners and Vera Wang moved her runway to her boutique.As for the sponsorships, the

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Often helpfully hidden by hemlines, knees have never really had a reputation for beauty.Most people are not proud of their knees, and it could be said the knee is a woman's least favourite feature. I mean, who would ever try and pick-up a girl by telling her she has great knees?There are fat knees, skinny knees, knobbly knees, saggy knees...the list goes on. Mine certainly aren't pretty - I've

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On Monday and Thursday evenings, and on Saturday mornings, somewhere on the Upper West Side, you'll find me dancing up a storm - attempting things like Développés, Piqués, Relevés, Ront des jambes and well, you get the point.After an eight year hiatus from Jazz Ballet and Tap, I'm now burning calories in a haze of Centre Stage, trying to Chaîné up and down the dance studio in my trusty pink

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The frigid and frightful winter days are (hopefully) over for another year.I've just had two winters back-to-back moving from the Southern hemisphere to North and my skin is now more of a blinding white than a charming Nicole Kidman ivory.But, there was no better pick-me up than the tropical heatwave we had this weekend. I nearly did cartwheels when it hit 14 degrees (Celsius) on Saturday

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The beautiful and eminently cool Cat Power doesn’t need an introduction.Last night I saw her live for the first time at the very intimate Music Hall of Williamsburg. From the moment she started singing, her ethereal voice was totally and utterly mesmerizing. Replacing the old and unsure Chan Marshall (aka Cat Power), was a confident and charismatic performer who sang with conviction, dancing

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Grab your girlfriends, grab some take-out and get ready for some front-row (as in, edge-of-your-sofa) drama leading up to, and during New York Fashion Week -Running in Heels, the documentary that tracks the lives of three Marie Claire interns hoping to make it in a women's magazine, premieres just after Fahion Week on the Style Network March 1st at 8/7 c Yves St. Laurent: 5 Aveneu Marceau 75116

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As Molly and I struggled in the snow, wandering from my apartment in the Lower East Side into the depths of Chinatown and finally down a dark and deserted alley, we started to wonder whether we'd gotten ourselves totally lost.An old Chinese man suddenly whooshed past us on his bicycle, shouting something while frantically pointing to an obscure door with a red Gold Flower Restaurant sign above it

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I like vegetables, but I love cheese more. I will also pick a juicy steak over a salad any day.I don't really share the refusal to eat anything that once walked and talked with my vegetarian friends, and I have no allergies which requires me to go gluten free, dairy free, egg free - in other words, vegan.But surprisingly, since moving here I've found myself eating tofu cream cheese (which, if I

Oliviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549771056594488275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1497630784289272985.post-74847457232062490342009-02-03T01:00:00.000+11:002009-02-03T03:22:38.320+11:00

Composite image by Markley Boyer, Courtesy of AbramsHere's something I bet you didn't know: Manahattan was named after a poem by Walt Whitman called Mannahatta, which means “island of many hills.”All of said hills were leveled when the street grid was imposed on the island in the 19th century, and this image shows you how Manhattan looked in 1609 versus today. From National Park filled with

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Just because New York women have stopped buying from Bergdorf's and have started shopping at J. Crew, doesn’t mean they wouldn't spend a few hundred bucks for tickets to a runway show.American Express told the Wall Street Journal that 97% of their $150 - $250 Fashion Week packages sold in just five days.André Leon Talley, Diane von Furstenberg, and Anna WintourMost of those tickets are to the

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There's nothing better than looking at pretty pictures over Sunday morning coffee and pancakes, so here are some of my favourite fashion images from New York with love. Enjoy.Vogue cover, 1928New York Times Sunday magazineIrving Penn, 1948Annie Leibovitz for Vogue Helmut Newton, 1992Grace KellyFairy under Brooklyn Bridge, photographer unknownAndy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick, 1965

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The Rainbow Room is one of those places, along with the Staue of Liberty and the Empire State Building, that true New Yorkers expect to never visit.But how could we pass up a visit after that scene from Sleepless in Seattle, when Annie (Meg Ryan) is having dinner with Walter at the Rainbow Room on Valentines Day. As Annie sits down, she sees the spectacular view of the Empire State Building, lit

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Woa.Anna Selezneva, Anna Jagodzinska and Natasha Poly aren’t wearing much more than their Calvins in the new racy Calvin Klein Jeans ad. Sex sells I guess - literally.The commercial is so provocative that it's banned from even late-night cable TV. Instead, Calvin Klein is working on an edited version to be aired in the U.S., but European countries such as Italy, France, Spain and Germany will

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I've become a bit of a bookworm since I moved here, mainly because I don't want to waste the 30 minutes I spend on the subway each day dumbly staring at the cringe-worthy ads plastered all over the train walls.The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath was a depressing but excellent read (special thanks to Charlette), and if you're a fan of The Lovely Bones or The Time Travellers Wife, you'll love Water for

Oliviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549771056594488275noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1497630784289272985.post-3999630070448688982009-01-28T15:30:00.009+11:002009-01-29T03:49:25.499+11:00

It's one thing trying to get dressed for work every morning, but it's quite another trying to get dressed for an interview. At a fashion magazine at that.What you want is to come off all cool and casual, in a 'you're so fabulous you whipped your outfit together in five minutes while simultaneously downing your morning coffee and applying a lick of mascara' kind of way.But the truth is you stand

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Today I became a statistic. I found out that I no longer had a job, along with the other 35,000 people in New York.ACP Australia has decided they can no longer afford their offices in New York and that means we were all made redundant, effective Friday - as in, in just four days.Who knows, perhaps this will lead to bigger and better things (it will certainly make me try harder for that elusive

Oliviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549771056594488275noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1497630784289272985.post-57665570180173582002009-01-26T14:10:00.008+11:002009-01-26T14:16:33.434+11:00

As much as I love New York, one of the city's great pleasures is being able to just get away from it all.Stretching 51 blocks between 59th and 110th streets, Central Park is an 843 acre oasis of tranquility. Seriously.No matter what kind of day the city has thrown at you, you can walk into Central Park and you wouldn't even know Manhattan existed.It's like walking into your own little fairytale,

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This morning all my magazine Christmas's came at once.Not only did I find out that the Luella magazine is a done deal, with Jourdan Dunn appearing on the Spring (so soon!) launch cover, but I very nearly had a heart attack when I stumbled across Russh in the window of what seemed like a small and inconspicuous magazine boutique in the West Village.It's something I didn't think I would see again

Oliviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549771056594488275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1497630784289272985.post-58920233195347070452009-01-24T12:20:00.001+11:002009-01-26T14:04:59.125+11:00

People in New York love little dogs.No where else have I ever seen so many pint-sized companions in one city - they are tucked under arms, on leashes, in cages or scoping out the world from the confines of a Balenciaga look-alike bag.Like all the top New Yorkers, these pooches dine downtown at Mercer Kitchen and window shop for boots at Gucci. They go everywhere with their mistresses, and I swear

Oliviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549771056594488275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1497630784289272985.post-34529779512081353162009-01-23T13:25:00.000+11:002009-01-23T13:27:02.340+11:00

Want free cosmetics? Well it's every Manhattanites for the asking this week at Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom.When I heard about the possibility of free makeup I made a beeline for Macy's after work.In hindsight this was not the best for speed and ease (Saks apparently was line-less today, their shoppers seem to be above free makeup), but it was worth the

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Learning to become a 'recessionista' in New York means cab rides start to evaporate right next to Dries and Prada purchases.But besides being much cheaper, using the subway and your legs for transportation is so much more entertaining. For one, you discover (or re-discover) the city and it's endless nooks and forgotten gems; but more importantly, the conversations one overhears while on the way

Oliviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549771056594488275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1497630784289272985.post-76019881949107317542009-01-19T01:46:00.014+11:002009-01-19T05:25:38.945+11:00

This morning I woke up to a beautiful milk-white tree outside my window. It's snowing! The novelty never wears off.Coming from a snow-less city, there is nothing better than rugging up in layers of winter woollies, drinking a cup of green tea and looking out at a snow covered Manhattan.One minute the city is loud and buzzing, the next it's eerily quiet and peaceful; the city suddenly transforms

Oliviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549771056594488275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1497630784289272985.post-57800766087884733612009-01-18T01:59:00.010+11:002009-01-18T08:55:49.830+11:00

Most of us didn't have the funds in 2001 to buy the Stephen Sprouse Louis Vuitton collaborations, and I for one still don't. But many will be maxing out their credit cards this time around for the many covetable pieces that pay homage to Sprouse, who passed away in 2004. $8,000 skateboard anyone?In time for the collection’s arrival last week, Louis Vuitton's boutique on SoHo’s Greene Street was

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A pair of high heeled shoes has the power to make a woman lose her mind temporarily, where a casual flirtation becomes a love affair that can quickly turn into a full-blown obsession.No where else is this more true than in Manhattan, where the world of high heels knows no limits and where shoes seem to be more addictive than coffee and cigarettes put together.Angelina Jolie wearing Christian

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I am currently sitting at my desk at ACP New York watching a US Airways plane sink into the Hudson River on CNN. This is the first time New York has seen a plane fly so low over the Hudson in eight years. According to CNN, the plane took off from LaGuardia Airport at 3:26 p.m. was bound for Charlotte, N.C. and had 146 passengers and 5 crew members on board. The plane, according to the news report

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It’s as hard to find a consistently great latte in New York as it is to find scrambled eggs for breakfast in Italy.It’s an understatement to say that coffee here is severely lacking. New Yorker’s are completely unaware that brewing a good coffee is akin to an art form and words like properly short, rich and dense describe something closer to Wall St bankers than an espresso - basically as long

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The dream: finding a one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment in an elevator building with a doorman in the West Village for under $2,000 a month.The reality: never going to happen.Let's face it, we all want the Sex and the City apartment. We want the brown-stone stoop à la Carrie Bradshaw and Holly Golightly, the Magnolia cupcakes around the corner, the cobble stone streets and 'the closet'. But

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Moving cities can be daunting, especially when your moving to New York city from out-of-the-way New Zealand. But, since I was 12-year-old, I have been devouring books, Vogue articles and movies about the magical city that is Manhattan, and for 10 years it has been my dream to live here and maybe, just maybe, land my dream magazine job.So, after a stressful journalism and advertising degree, and

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"Look what can happen in this country, they'd say. A girl lives in some out-of-the-way town for nineteen years...and ends up steering New York like her own private car. Only I wasn't steering anything. Not even myself."The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

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