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Week 11: LBD, statement accessories & a fake

March 18, 2012 Autumn

It’s Week 11 of the BusiChic Little Black Dress (LBD) Project where I’m wearing a LBD to work once a week for the whole year to share 52 different ways of styling this staple for the office. This week, I’m working in ethnic accessories, a cardigan and a faux-fur vest. It’s early Autumn here in [...]

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Penthouse Mouse

March 10, 2012 2012

Penthouse Mouse (PHM) is one of my favourite events on during the L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival (LMFF). Held this year in Fitzroy in an empty warehouse, the space was home to exciting emerging and independent fashion and accessory designers and artist installations. Many many thanks to my dear friend, Meagan Harding, for use of her [...]

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Lara McPherson at LMFF

March 7, 2012 2012

The L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival (LMFF) Cultural program is well underway which means that I’ve been getting to see a lot more of my fashionable friends. Lara McPherson is one such lady and with whom I feel lucky to get to collaborate with from time to time. Lara contributed an article to the Spirit of [...]

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Australian fashion labels that do business attire

January 26, 2012 Spotlight

Happy Australia Day, BusiChics! It’s a complicated day of national celebration where the focus has moved from celebrating the day the First Fleet arrived in Botanty Bay (and the British disregarded the rights of our Indigenous people), to focusing on the positive and celebrating what’s great about our country. I highly recommend reading Dr Charlie Teo’s Australia Day [...]

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Week 2: Adding a collared bib to a LBD

January 15, 2012 Black Dress Project

In this installment of the BusiChic Black Dress Project, I add a collared-bib to my Bento Ruby Little Black Dress (LBD) from fellow Aussie designer, above. My friends will know of my personal aversion to wearing anything with a collar. Being of the rounded-cheek variety, I find that collars are simply too close to my [...]

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How to wear one little black dress (LBD) to work every week of the year!

January 8, 2012 Black Dress Project

Dearest BusiChic, Welcome to a new series I’m starting here today: The BusinessChic Black Dress Project! Fashion magazines often talk about the timelessness of the Little Black Dress (“LBD”). In May 2009 Sheena Matheiken put this to the test when she set herself the creative challenge of wearing one black dress everyday for 365 days [...]

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Beads for Wildlife at Work

December 1, 2011 Afterwork

The thing about BusinessChic is that I’d love for this site to be about things of substance as much as it is about style. Which is why last year I jumped at the chance to style and photograph a campaign for Zoos Victoria, Beads for Wildlife program. Did you know that there is a place [...]

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Have You Met Miss Jones Jewellery

November 21, 2011 Contemporary business wear

One of my favourite home-ware finds this year was a ceramic pear from the team at Have You Met Miss Jones. It now takes pride of place in my room and even inspired me to line the drawers of my wardrobe with wrapping paper that features an illustrated pear print: true story! Such is my [...]

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Hannah & Sophie in a Bento

July 12, 2011 Popular Culture

Want to get your hands on this Janie Bryant x Banana Republic collab ensemble but can’t wait until August? Check out the similarly classic offering from hyper-local Melbourne designer, Bento. Buy the look now from local label, Bento: Hannah blouse in Pearl | Sophie Skirt in black I asked Bento designer, Samantha Hardman what inspires [...]

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A blogger-inspired outfit + Win: CLiO Italian Collection

May 16, 2011 BusinessChic on the street

Dearest BusiChic – how was your weekend? I’ve been meaning to ask whether I should post on the weekend – any thoughts? Speaking of thoughts, post fashion week I’ve been thinking a bit about how the style of fellow bloggers has inspired me even more than the looks I see on the catwalk. It may [...]

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