What to wear in Melbourne at twilight

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The Melbourne venues that were the backdrop for our latest fashion shoot were as stylish as the clothes.

The beach is the new frontier for luxury fashion brands. It’s getting crowded, but Australia has a deckchair in the ...

Australia's hottest new export

It's the new frontier for luxury fashion brands and private equity investors. It's getting crowded but Australia has a deckchair in the prime spot.

Candle maker Cire Trudon is launching its debut collection of five fragrances, including this one, Bruma.

'Sophrologist' key to perfume launch

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Georgina Safe

When luxury candle maker Cire Trudon decided to branch into perfumes, it employed a sophrologist to put perfumers in a relaxed state of mind to help them develop their own mental images and ideas. It worked.

Trino Verkade, founding trustee of the Sarabande Foundation.

Multimillionaire leaves money to designers

Fearless creativity was a feature of Alexander McQueen’s fashion. Now, his foundation is giving young designers are getting the chance to maintain the rage.

“It was hard. I lost half of my body weight, but it was also a very challenging
and learning experience," Font says of ...

Why Melania Trump loves Delpozo

How designer Josep Font catapulted Delpozo onto the world stage – and himself onto the 'rumour list' of designers to replace the likes of Karl Lagerfeld.

Cesar and Nina Cueva of Courtesy of the Artist in their gallery space (The Loft) at the Strand Arcade, Sydney.

The best place to be a jewellery maker

Artisanal jewellers are benefitting from a city presence, thanks to a strategy crafted by the Courtesy of the Artist group.

Mark Langer at the Hugo Boss Technical Centre in Metzingen, Germany. The company is banking on robotics as the future of ...

How the new boss is rescuing Hugo Boss

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Georgina Safe

At Hugo Boss, the business of suit making is getting more than a nip and a tuck. CEO Mark Langer is replacing master craftsmen with robots.

Ménéhould du Chatelle, director of cultural heritage at Hermes.

The woman who knows all Hermes' secrets

Hermès devotes an entire floor of its Paris flagship to precious objects that cannot be bought, such is its reverence for the stories they tell about the $7 billion company. Meet the museum director who guards this portal to the past.

The 21-year-old who changed furniture design

This British interiors stylist-turned industrial designer sure knows how to work a room.

Iris van Herpen’s Skeleton dress, created in collaboration with Belgian artist Isaïe Bloch.

The designers making money from 3D fashion

3D printed creations wowed the world when they first appeared on Paris catwalks. But instead of revolutionising fashion, its impact is more beguiling.

Ties are out (but here's why watches are still in)

While ties appear to be falling out of fashion, an expert suggests the wristwatch is unlikely to suffer the same fate.

"I can't just read on the bus for 10 minutes. I need to read from two to six hours at a time," says Orsola de Castro.

Do you never finish books? Try this

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Nicole Abadee

Fashion Revolution's Orsola de Castro is obsessed with the provenance of the clothes we buy and where they go when we discard them. And then there is her appetite for books.

"It's exciting to make something that's different to what's come before – to take Australian merlot in new directions," ...

The winemaker reinventing merlot

This grape is back on trend, thanks to new clones introduced by Ruckus Estate.

This master milliner believes a hat gives a person confidence, saying “hats are totally transformative”. After 40 years ...

Why Rihanna, Madonna and Kylie love this hat maker

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Georgina Safe

Master milliner Stephen Jones has been making hats for the stars for 40 years. But he sports a beret himself, calling it "the T-shirt of hats".

The late Georgia Blain, who penned 'The Museum of Words' between bouts of treatment for her brain tumour.

This book about death is different from the rest

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Nicole Abadee

Amid the plethora of books about dying in the past few years, this one stands out: writer Georgia Blain's greatest fear was that her brain tumour would kill her ability to communicate.