How can you NOT get this dress?

Cate Blanchett talks about dressing for herself, and how not everyone got that stunning Givenchy Oscars dress. 

(Photo credit: smh.com.au)

J'adore et je convoite

Learning to leap

I'm learning to leap every day - to the moon, to the stars, into my dreams...to embrace the abandon of leaping into something you are passionate about, that inspires you and drives you.  That is freedom.  Whether it works out or not.  The act of leaping will get you part of the way.

Currently love, love, loving...(Fall 2011 fashion shows)

Getting ready for fall and loving what's coming off the runways: packing a purple punch at Pucci, thigh high sexy slits at Michael Kors, tying us up in tights at Fendi, starry skies and electro va-va-voom at D&G, the new IT dress at Roland Mouret and print me pretty at Lanvin. 


(Photo credits: The Sartorialist, Chicmuse, Mimi + Meg, Huffington Post)

"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever; it's loveliness increases, it will never pass into nothingness" - Keats

Photo credits: Absolutely Beautiful Things

And I can smell summer coming on...

It may be drawing to a close, so here are a few shots from a sparkling Aussie/Sydney summer so we can breathe in the last weeks of heat and sunshine.  Lindsay - this is for you!

Red carpet faves: The Oscars (aka Cate Blanchet wins the style stakes again)

Natalie Portman has obviously been saving the best of the maternity dresses for the last of the awards season - finally a winner.  Jennifer Hudson's dramatic weight-loss is shown off in her burnt organge Versace number.  Other than that neutrals were out in full force, with the celebs playing safe.  (Although those who tried not too didn't fare so well, Anne Hathaway anyone?)  Michelle Williams's pixie haircut shows she knew how to rock it well before Carey Mulligan and Emma Thompson.  Cate Blanchett was the runaway winner - no surprises there.

(Photo credits: smh.com.au; justjared.com and huffingtonpost.com)

I want a man, just so I can dress him

As many of male friends can attest, and certainly any number of boys/men in my office, I love a good comment on men's fashion - the details (thanks Andy), the elbow patches, the cardigans, the beautifully cut shirts, immaculate suits, and a brilliant shirt and tie combination.  It may have something to do with my brothers and their impeccable dress sense, it may have to do that italian exchange student and his prada raincoat in 2005, or it may just be because I love men.