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2.5.10

Beautiful one day, perfect the next

I have had a lot of time to blog whilst I've been here at Audi Fashion Week but I did want to make sure that these photos made it onto the blog.

I was lucky enough to be invited in store to Raoul to view the Spring/Summer 2010 collection and the darling people there let me choose an outfit to keep. Pictures of that will come, but the shoes, oh THE SHOES!

Apparently there was one size range in store so I feel even more special to be taking these home with me. Of course I wore them at last nights parade, perhaps I hobbled home but I almost slept in them I love them so much.

1.5.10

Sing Sing Sing!

The Frockette and myself outside the festival tent.

Hey y'all, so did you know I'm in Singapore for Audi Fashion Festival? No?!
Well in that case welcome to Singapore!
I'm so thrilled to be here, I'd been off the plane not 2 hours before I was seated front row at the Herve Leger and Tiffany retrospective show. Beautiful does not do credit to the gowns that strutted in front of me, not to mention the accessories.

I couldn't help but show you what I got up to between shows because I thought it was just so gorgeous that you could be sat in front of $6000 gowns one minute and on the street eating ice-cream the next.

I got a hot tip that you could get wedges of ice-cream between bread(yup you read correctly, bread) from street vendors on Orchard Rd and low and behold there was a man right outside one of the tents at fashion week.

I actually chose to have mine in wafer, but I'm going back for the bread at some point during my stay. For $1 you can't really beat mid show action to cool you down.

30.11.09

The Cullen: Lady Melbourne's latest staycation

This weekend, I was a guest of The Cullen in Prahran for the weekend to celebrate the opening of their newest hotel in The Art Series Hotel Group and I have never stayed in a hotel quite like it- I felt like I was staying at the home of a very stylish friend!

The basic premise is that each hotel is based uniquely on the work of an established Australian artist.

There is The Blackman, The Olsen which are yet to open, and The Cullen. Each room is individual, and there is artwork by the artist(in this case Adam Cullen) on virtually every surface, of every room.

Anyhow, I decided to try and pack everything I needed into my Oroton bag above because it is technically a 'weekender' but it proved a little more difficult than I thought because I stupidly didn't factor in all the shopping I would do!
I managed it by taking things that would mix and match easily and can you believe it- I only took two pairs of shoes with me. It's true.

I managed to fit all my cosmetics in my brand new Borne Naked pouch which is now coming everywhere with me. I've emptied it of my makeup but replaced the contents of my bag so when I am rumaging through I no longer have to wonder why I fish out the TV remote or a tube of toothpaste as I did last week. VERY EMBARRASSING. My coffee date who is no doubt reading this will be laughing their pants off, I looked quite mad.

There was a lot of 'OH MY GOD!!!' when I walked into the room.

They give you a little art kit when you check in. Divine!

Blogging, blogging and more blogging....

If you come to Melbourne and want to have a unique dining experience, you have to go to Borsch Vodka and Tears on Chapel St. I implore you, it is one of my favourite restaurants. If I could somehow reach through the computer and feed you the chevapcici or potato blintz I swear you would be booking your flight quicker than you can say 'pass the sour cream.'

That's sour cherry vodka and a local Rose to wash it down with, yum!

There are piles of books in the rooms on fashion, art and typography and if you like you can buy them and take home with you. I've never seen that in a hotel before!

Like I said, there is art work on pretty much every wall and surface in the hotel, I'm in the foyer.

Yep, just hanging out with a mosaic cow, you know how it is....

I had the most wonderful weekend and I'm really pleased to show you a piece of Melbourne that you might not otherwise find if you are travelling to this great city of ours. I'm often asked by people coming to Melbourne where the best places are to shop and stay, and The Cullen gets a big thumbs up from me.

Vote for me for Best Fashion Blog in the 2threads Fashion Awards!Pretty please!

29.10.09

What I bought in Singapore

I am finally home and it is lurvely to be back. You probably realise by now that part of what this blog is about is looking glam for not a lot of money. And I don't mean buying cheap clothes, I mean buying good clothes cheaply. Never.Pay.Retail.

So here goes with my purchases from Singapore. Above are two maxi dresses I bought at Bugis St market. They were meant to be $29SDG each but we got three for $72SDG. Not as much because we bargained, but because that's all we had on us and the guy seemed to like us.

This dress was $19SDG from hula&co in Far East Plaza. It's a little big around the waist but I can easily take it in.

This dress is from Dulcetfig in Haji Lane and was $79SDG. The belt is from Elitrend on lv 3, Far East Plaza.

This dress is also from Dulcetfit and was $59SDG. I picked the cuffs up at Talisman's in Bugis St market but they are dotted all around Singapore. I think it was like, three pieces for $10SDG.

The jelly shoes are from Mimosa level 3 Far East Plaza and were....wait for it.....$12SDG!!

These enamel earrings were all $1SDG each at a stall upstairs at Bugis St market. Yep, you read correctly.

27.10.09

Haji Lane

I met the delightful Stephie from Fashion Nation on Friday night at the awards ceremony who was a fellow nominee.

She asked if I would like to go out for a spot of shopping and some tea and who was I to refuse a day's shopping with one of Singapore's biggest bloggers?!

First stop was Haji Lane and I have to say you were all right- I loved it! It had the best shopping in Singapore in my opinion for the following reasons:

1. You could buy local designers

2. It was inexpensive

3. They had vintage and quirky home wares stores

I found some amazing little boutiques like Soon Lee, Collage and Dulcetfig where I did most of my shopping.

There was a divine top in Collage that I didn't buy and now regret it so if you are in Haji Lane, pop in and look for a long line, cream t-shirt/singlet with black ruffle netting on the shoulders. Divine!

This is a peek inside Soon Lee:

Stephie told me that graffiti in Singapore is virtually non existent so this stencil was quite rare. I can't say I saw any graffiti while I was there, it's one of the cleanest cities I've visited.

So here is a peek inside Dulcetfig which is run by Lovie Wong who was in the shop when we were there.
She has three cats that wander around the shop and just added that quirky 'X' factor to Haji Lane.

I pretty much could have bought this entire rack of vintage or re-worked vintage dresses. They were so pretty, the prints were retro but bang on trend. God knows where Lovie finds them, second hand or vintage clothes are really hard to find in Singapore because according to Feng Shui principles they don't believe in wearing recycled or second hand clothes.

I wondered if that is why so much of the 'vintage' that I found(all of two shops) was re-cut in order to make it new again? Jump in and tell me what you think or know!

The dresses I bought hanging up in the change room. You can see them but I had cats milling around my feet. So cool.

17.11.08

It's almost time to go....

My journey is soon coming to an end, which makes me sad and happy all at once. I was worried about being away and the capability to keep up with posting about my wardrobe and travels, but it has been easier than I thought. I seem to have picked up some lovely new readers that have come along for the ride as well. Hello out there!

Being home however will mean that I can get back to what these pages are all about: clothes.

I have a new episode of Lady Melbourne TV to launch, new clothes for the Etsy store, the return of Happy Friday and, well, new clothes to showcase!

I do appreciate all of the regular and new readers that have kept up with me and my travels, this blog is not about me standing in front of monuments in foreign places so I have tried not to bore you with historic facts and holiday snaps!

See you sooner than you think,

Wait a pretty minute!

How could I forget what I bought today?!

I picked these up in a store called Peacocks, which is sort of like a daggy sister to Primark. They are as cheap, but don't seem to be as 'on trend.'

Anyhow, as they were twelve pounds and I couldn't decide which I liked better, I got both.

You can buy the cream one here.

15.11.08

Harrods

I love going to Harrods, it's so eccentric. Every room has a different feeling, like the architect was on acid when they designed the place.

'Put that giant golden sphinx there. Make that two of them! You heard me!'

Anyhow, I can't afford to shop there on the best of days, let alone with the Australian dollar the way it is at the moment, so I only picked up a few little mementos of my time there.

Stopped in and had a giant chocolate sundae at the ice cream bar on my way to buy some tea for Mother Melbourne and a box of my all time favourite chocolates, Marc Du Champagne Truffles from Charbonnel & Walker. If anyone knows of a place in Melbourne that sells them do let me know, otherwise I'll have to stock up while I'm here.

Then I popped into Zara on my way home and this little creature begged me to take them home:

Well, I couldn't refuse now could I?

p.s: I can't stand the quality of my pictures at the moment but there isn't much light to work with here, and I don't have my usual set up. I am looking forward to much clearer and better posed shots in the not too distant future!

p.p.s: I found these boots in a charity shop on my way home as well. I had a different pair on but decided to change into these for the picture, sharing is caring!

Rain coat: Zara(current season)

Beret: Grandmother Melbourne knitted it

Jeans: MK One

Boots: Local Charity shop

Scarf: Episode

Bag: Longchamp

Lady Melbourne has a new home!