BROKEN BEER BOTTLES & TIARAS . Melbourne, Australia, December 2014. Have you ever held an emerald worth more than your home, or a looked into a ruby that has infinite depth but is the size of your little finger nail, breathtaking and forever memorable and just a part of the wonderful experience that it was to 'spend time' with Adrian Lewis. This post has been waiting in my vault, why, I am unsure, but I feel now it's time...

LA CHAMBRE DE BONNE. Melbourne, Australia, December 2014. On a very hot summers day back in December 2014 we made our way to S!X at 'La Chambre de Bonne' in Melbourne for one of the funniest shoots I have been on in a long time.  Denise Sprynskyj and Peter Boyd formed the label S!X in 1994 'as a response to the local Australian fashion industry's lack of originality, over consumption and over production'.  'S!X ...

THE COLOUR GREEN.  Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, December 2014. Green.. the colour of life, renewal, nature, and energy, of growth, harmony, freshness, safety, fertility, and environment. "Green is the grass and the watermelon skin, fourth colour in the rainbow, the emeralds in a ring." [Extract from the poem GREEN by James Hörner] Kirsten Albrecht is the managing director of Kozminsky, a learned scholar of psychotherapy,...

WALKABOUT. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia December 2014. I am Virginia Dowzer and I am a stylist.  I’ve dedicated my entire working lifetime to creatively exploring the potentials of visual communication, primarily in fashion but also working on projects, with fashion-related themes.  It is crucial to me that my work has a sense of wonderment and interest because of its complexities and balance - I want it...

BLUE. Mary Lipshut's ML Vintage collection, Melbourne, Australia November 2014. 'Where we are sitting now is my friend Mary Lipshuts' showroom, I suppose where I met her a few years ago and I was asked to do an exhibition for her and we became firm and fast friends. I think she was in her early eighties at that time and I was, oh, I won't say.' Philip Boon[PB] Fashion Stylist and Creative Director Philip Boon and...

BORN FREE. Taggerty, Central Victoria, Australia September 2014 "This is the remnants of the greatest tree I've ever seen in my life. The Oak tree was bigger than the farmhouse itself, [and] we used to call it "The Faraway tree".   "It was one of the most extraordinary trees to climb as a child, it had the biggest branches and the hugest trunk..[and, ah] there was probably three, four, five or six of us that...

ELEVEN and TWELVE.  St Kilda,  Melbourne Australia, August 2014 "Isolation made us more unique, maybe. Sort of going down a wild journey of our own, trying to do the most mad prints I could. It's just a moment in time, what you could get away with and pushing the boundaries, there was an audience and people were prepared to go with the journey. It's so for the masses now, it wasn't mainstream. It's so for the...

    In bed with Philip Treacy.  Flinders Lane,  Melbourne Australia June 2014 "Love the shock of the new, that's what I say. It's about the hunt and the catch.... And then, always when I come back the thing that shocked me the most is the thing I can't stop talking about. Because it's so exciting when people take things beyond our imagination. And I always feel like when I am traveling...