All I want for Christmas is George Wu

George Wu has become a powerhouse of Brisbane fashion since launching in 2005, which is also the year he finishing a fashion bachelor degree at QUT.

After only a few seasons George was invited to showcase at Mercedez Brisbane Fashion Festival, with more invitation to prestigious fashion events around Australia to follow like Sydney Australian Fashion Week, and Melbourne Fashion Festival which all put George Wu into the international Fashion Market.

He was even asked to be a representative of young Australian fashion in the G’Day USA annual trade event to show America What Australia has to offer. All this resulted in him now stoking in stores around LA and NY.

Including gathering some celebrity fans like Cat Deeley who wore a George Wu on her show Americas version of ‘So you think you can dance’, Kate Miller-Hedike who wore him to this years ARIA Awards (And I’m loving the new hair color by the way), to one of the gossip girls been snapped around town wearing George Wu.

Not bad for someone who’s only been around for 4-5 years, but to George I’m sure it seems longer, considering he still does a lot oh his own production form pattern cutting to sewing and beading. which in hearing a well established designer is still doing themselves is really a breath of fresh air.

I would like to thank George Wu for taking the time to send me his photo’s of the current S/S 09/10 collection which is in stores now. I can't make up my mind so Ill just have to take it all for Christmas.

Marry Christmas everyone and hope it's safe and fun and all that jazz.

Something that's daring and a fun play of drapery.

This Is the one I want the most.


I think this says I'm daring but
sophisticated at the same time.























I do like a good twist or in this case a tie
at the front.




I want this one the most as well.


Love the color and I think the pleated scarves is
going to be a must have.


Perfect for the party girl with some class.
lovely use of color for someone who
doesn't usually wear it.

Fashionistas for Leigh Buchanan

Last Friday 'Fashionista Events' held a Christmas Luncheon with a Exclusive premiere showing of Leigh Buchanan's Project Runway Australias finale collection.

The even was held at 'Freestyle Tout' in west end. Freestyle tout is a Popular restaurant in Brisbane that specializes in Deserts.

The whole show was held like they use to do back in the day when lady's have lunch while models walk around there tables dressed in the latest dresses and the lady's would be able to take a closer look at the garments and take a feel of it as well. It was very "Lady's who lunch"

A big thank you to Natalie D'Alessandro of Fashionista Events for organizing EVERYTHING and To Leigh Buchanan for being a Total inspiration and an Amazing Designer. The event was such a highlight I had the best time, BEST LUNCH EVER.

'Leigh Buchanan' with the MC for the day 'Kath rose', introducing his collection that was about to come out.
This is the first piece that came out, It's from the episode that the contestants were given a surprise challenge of making a bridesmaid dress to complement there wedding dress from a previous challenge, only using the materials from the garments they already made in other episodes.

School Boy Chic. Inspired by Rufus Wainwright's "Release the Stars" album which the designer dedicate this to his mother.

"Barb's Frock!" Inspired by a pleated organza dress by leigh's Nanna dress that she made and wore to his uncle's wedding in the 70's.

This is noted as leigh's mum's favorite dress.


More of the 'School boy Chic' look with a close up of the crystal detailed embroidery on the vest.


" The little fringed cabaret corset". I tryed this on after the show and it didn't even reach my back. :'(



Leigh Buchanan's signature kilt look and the Egyptian collar corporate inspired outfit. With a little nipple action.


This dress was originally adorned with a gold and crystal cobra, posed to bite the breast. The cobra was the initial inspiration for the whole collection, but broke at the finale Project runway Australia after party.



"The Puff Ball" or as it's also know as "The Powder Puff" Dress.


This is literally my dream wedding dress. My mum will kill me for not wearing white but it would be worth it, now all I need is a groom.

A behind the scene shot of the clothes on the rake .



Just had to take a photo of the famouse Freestyle deserts but couldnt wait to dig into my Vanilla Crème Brulee topped with fairy floss & served with mixed berries, nut biscotti & blackberry sorbet. The person next to me had the White Chocolate Raspberry Brioche Dumplings with liqueur raspberries, vanilla bean ice cream & dark chocolate dipping sauce.


This guy was the entertainment for the afternoon, he was SO FUNNY. A true entertainer.



For more photo's of the event Click here to go to my facebook photo album.

The raven call of Emma Rea

Since lunching her label in 2008 Emma Rea has been the person to “keep an eye on” and “a name to remember”. She’s being featured in publications such as Oyster, Russh, Fallen, and Grazia, to name just a few.

Emma Rea is also a favorite amongst the fashion bloggers of Australia, so it was only a matter of time before I featured this local talent. Just in time for her A/W10 collection to come out.

Ever up for a challenge Emma Rea still hand makes every piece of clothing in the range herself, and ever the creative being this collection is called “ The Raven” with every piece of garment been named after the word raven in defend Languages.

I would describe Emma Rea’s range as being Poetic, Romantic, Feminine, dark, Ethereal, earthy, organic, and any other worlds you could think of when imagining a world of raven haired porcelain skin high priestess worshiping on the alter of both light and dark magic, under a full moon of an enchanted forest. I'm really quite obsessed with her use of flowing fabrics and organic shapes.

Emma’s range is stocked at both ‘Bessie Head’ ( City) and ‘Fallow’ (Fortitude Valley) in Brisbane as well as ‘Ricarda’ ( in both the Albany and Dalkeith stores, WA), ‘Dorbry Den’ (Surry Hills, NSW) and ‘Tuchuzy’ (Bondi Beach, NSW) with international stores to follow I’m sure.

Here's some choice garments from Emma Rea's Raven Collection.



All Photo's courtesy of Emma Rea

The madness of Simon Degroot

When I first looked at Simon Degroot's paintings my first thought was it looked like it was the artist representation of his internal feelings, as if it had to come out in one way or another and this was the result "Emotional throw up" I call it.

Having the words "throw up" by the way is by no means how I feel when I look at his work. Just to clear that up.

It wasn't until later on that I read, he sees some of his paintings as “being about spending time inside yourself and how sometimes there's something, a bit like a screaming beast inside, that's yearning to get out". This would explain why he named his self-publishing book “The Happy Mad"

I would describe his style as being childlike play of symbols and scribbles. It's something you would believe a child would do if he/she knew about playing with shading and had an interest in street art.

The local independent artist has had his work allover the place you would have seen it everyday and not know it. His had commissions from painting a whole side of a building to having a few traffic signal boxes dressed in his designs. In the past few years he's star has started to rise a bit more with several of his work been shown in Sydney, Melbourne and London.

Simon Degroot's latest show is a solo exhibition of new work called "Paper planes" (an obvious reference to his child like style and the name of one of his paintings. It's currently showing at the nine lives art gallery located upstairs of Mellinos Italian Restaurant. 330 Brunswick St Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Australia. until the 11 of December 2009.

Simon Degroot's traffic signal box in corner of Brunswick and Mclachlan, Fortitude valley. Photo courtesy of 'bandido of oz' on flicker

More of Simon Degroot's traffic signal box in the corner of Melbourne and merivale st south Brisbane. Photo courtesy of 'Rae A' on Flickr

Some Photos I took at "Paper planes" opening night

The Reign of Cyan Reign

Iv always been fascinated by corsets. There’s just something about them, the way it shapes the body and even the process of making them, and trust me it’s really a process. I think the most sexiest piece of clothing a women can ever own is a corset.

Iv always kept my eye and ears open for a local corset maker and for a very long time I didn’t hear or read of any in Brisbane Until one day way back in the good old year of 2006, I saw a cover of 'Image Magazine" (A local street Press) with a corseted girl on the cover and naturally this caught my eye. Inside was a story of a Brisbane corset maker named Cyan Reign. Finally! We finally have our own corset maker!

She makes all types of Corsets, from the spiral steel boned corsets for both men and women, and she also makes waist-training and tight-lacing corsets to baby corsets (no, there not for babies). Baby corsets are made of plastic bones and are only intended for light wear.

Cyan herself is a corset wearer and has trained her body to do so, so she knows all the ins and outs of how a corset should be worn and how it should feel.

Since my 2006 discovery of her, Cyan has been busy. Not only does she just make corset now, but she also has a label that does made to measure garments for private clients as well as a ready to wear ranges, all under the same name. Earlier this year she has also opened up her own shop called ‘Thread n Bones’ which not only stocks her label exclusively in Brisbane but also that of other up and coming avant-garde labels as well.

The location of the shop is at

Thread n Bone
Lower Level
Shop 5
253 Wickham Street
Fortitude Valley, QLD, 4006

With her design lab on the upper level of the same address


"Amelia Earhart" was her muse for this ' Flight of the Aviator" outfit which she won the 2007 " Do It With Denim" competition for Jeans for genes day That Year.


This is a white Velvet hooded wedding dress. The peacock feathers are from dropped feathers so no peacocks were hurt or killed in the making of this dress.



These are some pieces from her ready to wear range ‘Delusions of Grandeur Collection” which she lunched at Melbourne Spring Fashion Week earlier this year.

All photo’s courtesy of Fashionising.com , Australian Edge, Cyan Reign Myspace

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