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A Poppy in Full Bloom

October 10, 2010 Contemporary business wear

Springtime is in full-swing! The golden weekend which just passed, generally providing some well-earnt respite from that drawn-out winter chill. Congratulations to those of you who participated in the Melbourne Marathon, a fantastic effort and I hope you’ve booked yourselves in for some deserved massage. To all of you, I hope the little video clip at the end of this post gives you a burst of [...]

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Behind-the-Scenes of a Fashion Week

October 7, 2010 Contemporary business wear

Fashion week. No matter what city you may be in, it would be very hard to happen without the small army of people behind it. Today I feature only three types of the many roles involved. There’s the fashion-student-volunteer who manages the flow of fashion types to their seats; the client development manager who handles [...]

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Set Free @Alexi..

April 26, 2010 Industry

11.59am Dear All, My retail dream has come true. As an auditor, I once got excited that I was going to have a look at Country Road… however looking at the books was not quite what I had in mind. Thank you to Alexi Freeman for giving me reign of his store to work on BusinessChic.com.au’s upcoming [...]

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@busichic @ALEXIFREEMAN @melbournes_gpo

April 23, 2010 Industry

If you didn’t get the Facebook update or the tweet – Australian fashion design talent, ALEXIFREEMAN has invited me to use his space to work on BusinessChic.com.au – please do pop in for a visit! – ANZAC Day: 11am-5pm at Melbourne’s GPO – If you happen to be around, I really hope that you will stop by and [...]

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amuse-bouche

April 13, 2010 Industry

amuse-bouche [amyzbuʃ] or amuse-gueule [amyzɡœl] is a single, bite-sized hors d’œuvre.[1] Amuse-bouche are different from appetizers in that they are not ordered from a menu by patrons, but, when served, are done so according to the chef’s selection alone. [source: Wikipedia] BusinessChic fans on Facebook will have received this update, pictured above, laced with gastronomical-speak as I’d originally intended to [...]

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Get Independent – LMFF-style !

March 29, 2010 Industry

Ladies & Gentlemen, I hope you enjoy this BusinessChic coverage of the L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival (LMFF) Independent Parade because I certainly had a lot of fun in the making…! I have categorised offerings from these up-and-coming Australian designers by work dress code: Polished, Smart Casual and Art after Dark (which could also mean ‘creatively polished’…), with some notes on [...]

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False start; fun time..

March 22, 2010 Industry

Dear reader, after a fair amount of much ado… Friday night did not go quite the way any Cinderella-wannabe might have expected.. That said, new friends were made, fun times were had and in the end this Cinderella still got to go to a ball.. a pretty sweet series of events indeed! While I work on my LMFF entry, dissecting the goodness that [...]

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BusiChic is going to LMFF – Runway7

March 18, 2010 Industry

Dear readers… for those who didn’t see my giddy tweet today- The fashion fairy-god-mothers have heeded my call and granted me media accreditation for L’Oréal Paris Runway 7 ! Now to get to any of the shows was going to be amazing, but the line up for 7 is quite simply.. out of this world, especially for me… [...]

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Fashion & the Law – LMFF event

March 16, 2010 Industry

So… I thought it’d be a great idea to attend the LMFF Fashion & the Law breakfast (yay food!) held at Middletons this morning (yay lawyers??)… when I got up at 6am it seemed like a less-than-great idea but the views from Rialto- level 25 were really something… and for someone who suffers from vertigo.. it turned out to be the exact something I [...]

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