Vanessa Jackman

Wednesday, 26 May 2010

Running With The Fash Pack....Australian Fashion Week 2010

I completely adore this fuschia dress on model Tiah Eckhardt. It hugs in all the correct places and looks amazing with her red hair.

p.s.Tiah has the cutest little 6 month old baby girl!!

Running With The Fash Pack....Australian Fashion Week 2010

Former model turned fashion designer Amber Keating wearing a gorgeous dress from her own collection AmberJules. Having just returned from Santa Margherita Ligure and Portofino in Italy, I could so see this dress working for summer in Europe. Popped over a bikini, with a little pair of flat sandals and a headscarf (I spied a number of Italian women in Santa Margherita wearing one and they looked utterly fabulous) it would be perfect for day, and for night a pair of wedges and some oversized earrings would work beautifully. Just need the plane ticket to get there!

Melbourne Street Street Style....The "Giles" Glasses

Whenever I see someone wearing glasses like these ones, I immediately think of British designer Giles Deacon (incidentally, congrats to Giles on the Emanuel Ungaro appointment).......I think they are just so geeky cool. Although I suspect that if I had been made to wear them in the 1980's when I was growing up, I would simply have refused to leave the house!

I spotted this girl as I was wandering along Chapel Street in Melbourne. She and her boyfriend were lugging an enormous bag between them. It turns out that they were both from Stockholm and had been working in Australia. They were due to return home to Sweden (via Bali) the day after I met them hence the giant bag containing all their belongings! Mmmm a summer spent in Aus followed by a summer in Europe = Bliss :)

Running With The Fash Pack....Australian Fashion Week 2010

Australian model Lara Bingle (in Camilla and Marc ruched mini dress and jacket?) who was guest reporter for Harper's Bazaar (Australia) during RAFW.

Wednesday, 19 May 2010

Running With the Fash Pack...Australian Fashion Week 2010

Stunning New York based Aussie model (and new face of Moschino Toujours Glamour perfume) Alexandra Agostan.

p.s. Am madly repacking my suitcase as I have a wedding to go to in Tuscany this weekend (very excited!!). Not sure how much posting I will be doing over the next few days but I have lots of photos for when I get back next week :)

Running With the Fash Pack...Australian Fashion Week 2010

Perforated leather top from Witchery store (kind of like a smaller version of Zara, Topshop or J.Crew for any non-Aussie readers).

Monday, 17 May 2010

Running With the Fash Pack...Australian Fashion Week 2010

The perfect striped summer dress.

Running With the Fash Pack...Australian Fashion Week 2010

The always fabulous Michelle Jank. Stylist, jewellery (apart from her own jewellery line she has also recently collaborated with exclusive Australian jeweller Fairfax&Roberts to create a fine jewellery line) and fashion designer, Michelle was back in Australia to style some of the shows at Australian Fashion Week.

Running With the Fash Pack...Australian Fashion Week 2010

Current Vogue Australia cover girl, Aboriginal model Samantha Harris (who was with her mama when I took these photos). There is a fab little Q&A with Samantha on page 68).

Sydney Street Style...A little bit Josh Goot

In Josh Goot.

Running With the Fash Pack...Australian Fashion Week 2010

In Zimmermann.

Saturday, 15 May 2010

Running With The Fash Pack...Australian Fashion Week 2010

And the award for the most pathetic blogger goes too.......ME! I know, I know-I am completely hopeless at keeping y'all updated while I am away. My only excuse for not blogging while I was in Brisbane was that neither my mum, nor my husband's parents have internet access at home so we were reduced to sitting in Mcdonald's carparks around Brissie and madly checking our emails whenever we could. It almost did my head in not having web access (even Starbucks at Chermside Shopping Centre had no wifi-what's up with that???!). And um, I was sort of out every night catching up with friends while I was in Sydney :))Anyway, I got back to London yesterday and am slowly catching up on all my emails and looking through all my Aus photos.

What can I say about Australia? It is a bluddy great country, and I appreciate it even more now I have been away for 3 years. If you haven't visited Australia, start saving now-you will completely and utterly love it. The weather is fantastic (okay, so it is a tad warm during summer: maybe go during April/May if you don't like the heat), the food, coffee and wine are amazing, the people are just so warm and friendly (and fabulously healthy and fit looking!), the beaches are outstanding....I could go on and on :)

I was completely blown away by the girls I photographed during Australian Fashion Week: Bare, (fake) tanned legs, sky-high heels (I barely saw a flat all week), short everything (shorty shorts, shorty skirts, shorty dresses), toned bodies (hence the short everything!), glowing golden skin, designer handbags, colour (barely any black), exposed underwear are just a few words that spring to mind when I think about what I photographed during the week.

And the Overseas Passenger Terminal setting? Just beautiful. I feel so fortunate to have had such a beautiful location to photograph in. I really hope I get to go back again next year to do it all over again :)

Running With The Fash Pack...Australian Fashion Week 2010

This was one of my fav looks from Australian Fashion week: it is laid back, effortlessly stylish, entirely wearable*, subtle, beautifully accessorised (love the Alexander Wang leopard wedges and her necklaces).....with just a hint of peek-a-boo-black-lace-bra sexiness thrown in for good measure. Helps that she is entirely gorgeous, of course!

*obviously if you don't work in a fashion office the visible underwear might be a look you will want to keep for weekends only :)

Running With The Fash Pack....Australian Fashion Week 2010

The gorgeous Eleanor Pendleton, beauty editor, Famous magazine (Australia), in her grown-up version of (almost) every little girl's dream: the tutu. I forget where she said she got it from (hopeless once again, I know!)

I very much like Eleanor's oversized watch: paired with the tight plain top it makes her look less girly and more sporty.

Running With The Fash Pack....Australian Fashion Week 2010

Alice McCall (whose biography you can read here.... I didn't realise she was a stylist in London before she started her own label) just after her show, and just after the fantastic rain we had. Everyone who has lived or visited Australia will know the little ripple of excitement/nervousness/fear that accompanies the darkening of the sky, the distant flashes of lightening, the low grumble of thunder, the distinctive smell of rain just before a storm. It was so awesome to have the heat break (it was rather hot in Sydney at the beginning of the week- I had obviously come dressed for London autumn weather, not Sydney-autumn!) and to see the storm arrive over the glorious harbour.

I think Alice's label will be more readily available in Europe in the coming months....yay!

Running With The Fash Pack....Australian Fashion Week 2010

I fell completely head over heels in lust with her caramel leather skirt (as with all the long leather skirts I spied over Australian Fashion week [most were Kirrily Johnston]). She said it was a vintage one she has had for ages.

I also saw someone wearing some great caramel leather pants going into one of the shows but lost site of her afterwards :( Oh well, she looked fab.

Sunday, 2 May 2010

Melbourne Street Style...A little bit Sass & Bide

Tonight is my last night in Melbourne before I head for Sydney tomorrow and the start of Rosemount Australia Fashion Week. I cannot tell you how much I am just loving being back in Australia! I spent the first day giggling at the accents and Aussie sayings (I forget how strong my accent must sound to everybody) and being blown away by how friendly everyone is......not to mention the outstanding coffee (I think I am averaging 5 a day- NOT GOOD!) and food. We have been puttering around Melbourne in a little Smart car trying to visit as many cafe's as possible and, of course, all of my favourite boutiques: Belinda, Gorman, Scanlan & Theodore, Husk, Willow, Fat, Fiorina jewellery, Chambermaid, Le Louvre (conveniently located right next to our hotel!)....the list goes on and on. I will do a little post on my fav Melbourne places when I get back to London :)