gaga officially gaga?

We all know Lady Gaga is eccentric and never fails to go above and beyond when it comes to outlandish fashion. I have to say, this takes the cake. Or the cow, depending on how you want to look at it. At the MTV VMA's three days ago, Gaga rocked up in a dress made entirely of meat. What's more disturbing about this turn of events is that Gaga's stylist is now the new creative director for french fashion house Thierry Mugler. It is interesting however, to see what the experts had to say when asked what Gaga's meat dress meant: 1) an anti-fashion statement, 2) a feminist statement, 3) a commentary on aging and decay, 4) a comment on our hypocritical attitude toward meat or 5) no statement at all - the joke's on us for thinking otherwise. Leave it to Lady Gaga to shock the fashion world, once again.

adventures of a splendid nature

Splendour in the Grass is a mere 5 weeks away and I am drooling over all things festival related. I'm researching the perfect outfits for the three night extravaganza set to be held for the first time at Woodfordia on Queensland's Sunny Coast this year - tres exciting!

So, here is my dilemma: the festival is in the middle of Winter, Woodford will be freezing, I will be camping and there is no electricity or warm running water. How does one dress for this environment? I could slum it and wear tracksuit pants with a hoodie but that just wouldn't be in the spirit of the festival. So I have researched and internet shopped my little heart out and devised several outfits that are both warm and chic!

Day 1: I need to find a top that goes with these leggings from American Apparel, these will be what I wear on day 1. I'm thinking to match the pattern with some crazy thrift store find or a nice and over priced designer T. Thoughts?

Day 2: Day Dress + Biker Boots + Boyfriend Blazer - I'm yet to find the perfect dress but I'm going to buy these boots:

Day 3: Three quarter length cream knife pleat skirt from Miss Mouse boutique (pray for me that this hasn't been sold yet!) + floral singlet + Monochrome Converse Sneakers - it still remains to be seen how I will keep warm in this...

The line-up this year includes THE STROKES (I would die to meet Julian Casablancas and love-love-love his new album), 90s punk band THE PIXIES, blonde beauty GOLDFRAPP and red headed indie siren FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE, to name a few. One thing for certain is that I will be laughing, crying, screaming, flashing and yahooing the weekend away, do look out for my follow up with pictures from the weekend.

The Pixies

Julian Casablancas

Goldfrapp

Florence Welch (Florence and the Machine)

image of leggings sourced from http://www.americanapparel.com/rsapx301.html?cid=905

and boots sourced from http://fallowbrisbane.blogspot.com/

bearly appropriate

Seems like there are quite a few little boutique photogs popping up all around town. First we had Peny Lane who I'll go out there and say was the first Brisbane nightlife/street/fashion photography which was followed closely by Romance in my Pants, then everyone followed the trend and it looks like it doesn't really take much to get noticed in this small town. My very own sister, Tessa Colcough (Mouse) and her friend Ian Knight (Bear) recently started a nightlife/street/gigs photography venture entitled Bear + Mouse and I must say I'm rather impressed at the progress. I'll also be throwing around some branding strategies with the team so expect great things! Another lovely photographer blossoming into exposure (like my pun?) is Calum Spencer who if my quick Facebook stalk is correct is working alongside Romance in my Pants. I love what he's doing with colour and his images are so refreshing in a sea of try hard nightlife photography.

Bear + Mouse at Julian Casablancas - drooooool

The Cairos

images courtesy of Bear + Mouse and Calum Spencer

frock shock

Every Tuesday, I eagerly anticipate what new and exciting content has unfolded for the annual QUT fashion magazine Frock Paper Scissors. For those who don't know, Frock has been running since 2006 as a subject for fashion and journalism students who combine their powers to create a shit hot fashion magazine.

This year, I was lucky enough to be apart of what I think will be probably the best year yet. As PR Manager for the magazine, yes, I am also partly doing a little promoting. However, this is not your run of the mill street press consisting of flimsy fillers and half-arsed editorial. We are meticulous, creative and ingenious and take our time to ensure every finite detail of this magazine is absolute perfection.

We launch on the 19 of November this year, distributing around Brisbane and the Gold Coast and for those who want a preview of what we have titled the 'Fearless' issue, have a look at the aesthetics our online team have conjured. I also had the privilege of seeing one of our shoots which screamed Russh editorial with a hint of something else that made my feet tingle.

Frock Paper Scissors is only going to continue to improve as the years come to pass so take a look now for what's on its way this November.



Make sure you go to the survey section and vote for your favourite visual composition!

famous papa

He's been around for a while I won't lie, but it suddenly clicked for me that Jethro Cave is in fact the son of Nick Cave. Ten points for fashion awareness George.

Either way I can't make up my mind on this one. Cave comes across a little cocky in his interview with Russh magazine a couple of months ago and to me it seems he's riding on the tail coats of his father a little bit. I can understand his uniqueness having the whole rock image permanently instilled in his genetic makeup however whether or not Cave is high quality model material is questionable in my humble opinion.

Starting his career at the tender age of fifteen at the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Week he then moved onto working for Australian label Akira the following year at the Sydney Fashion Festival. Now at eighteen years of age, Cave is appearing on the international stage having recently modelled for Balenciaga at Paris Summer Fashion Week 2009.

He is certainly one to watch with no doubt a colourful and long career ahead of him.

(Images and info courtesy of www.thevine.com.au)

late night studying often prompts me to start meandering on style.com

It is far too easy to get distracted on a night like this. A little research here, some scholarly essay there and we're soon on our way to a winning recipe for some late night procrastination. Just to reiterate I hate hate hate uni and all the assessment that goes with it. Though studying fashion is not with out its perks, writing about something I'm interested in isn't so bad, its the analysis that makes me want to pull out my teeth with blunt rusty pliers.

So here are my picks for winter:

Blazers with shoulder pads, (I know, its an obvious choice, bare with me I'm obsessed) Balmain obviously takes the cake here for invigorating shoulder pads and I know some people yawn at Decarnin's latest collection but I'm sorry, I drool. The lapels on this jacket are devine:



Next is furrrrrr. Enough said, sorry Peta but hey I can't afford the real thing so I'll just talk about it. I must say I only like the smallest bit of fur, our climate doesn't really allow for the heavy fur look anyway. Oddly enough I can't find any looks I like so I'll move on to my next pick.


The fluid high waisted trousers. And as an added bonus they look undeniably comfy. Chloe brought out a series of khaki and beige styled with thin brown belts for their Fall RTW collection. So beautiful:


By the way I am far from done here...

sharing is caring

The time has come for me to submit myself to the phenomenon of blogging. I've tried it before, I must admit but now it seems as a journalist, blogging is somewhat pivotal to career success. Take for example a good friend of mine who actually inspired me to start blogging. She created fashionfalsehood a couple of weeks ago and has found immediate success with in the blogosphere.

So why shouldn't I give it ago? How better to spend the time I should be investing on writing assignments than writing about things I actually give a shit about.

Like music and fashion?

I should think so.

Now to get back to what I should be writing about - ironically an assignment on how online style blogging will have detrimental implications for print journalism...