Looking back: Top fashion moments in 2011

1. John Galliano's downfall.


2. Kate Middleton's Alexander McQueen wedding dress. Remember all the speculations? It was really the most well-kept secret in an age of superfluous information.


3. Alexander McQueen's "Savage Beauty". It was the Metropolitan Museum of Art's most successful fashion exhibit in history.


4. The Carine Roitfeld scandal. Did she get fired? Did she quit? Why?


5. Missoni for Target. And Target's website crashing at the very release of the range.


6. Bill Cunningham New York. The documentary about the street style photographer way before The Sartorialist.


7. Kate Moss's wedding.


8. Marc Jacob's stolen spring 2012 collection en route from Paris.


9. Death of Elizabeth Taylor.


10. Versace for H&M.


11. Christian Dior's sloppy haute couture mess. Granted, I’m observing, much like you, from my laptop thousands of miles away and thus the intricacies of the gowns are lost on me. Still, with haute couture, particularly with Dior Haute Couture,  there should be a brilliance that shines through in spite of the viewer’s distance or technical knowledge!


12. Emma Watson, style icon. 

Obsession Du Jour: Super Mod eyeliner

The updated cat-eye, is trending at the moment, spotted at D&G, Lanvin, Versace, Dries Van Noten, and many fashion editorials, Spring and Fall.

Basic Instinct: Vogue UK April 2010

I have started my own collection of Vogue magazines to have a fabulous source of inspiration in years to come when the trends have come back in a new cycle. The US, UK, Paris and Italia editions of Vogue are the best for this kind of collection as their fashion spreads are sadly a lot more inventive than our Australian edition. I don’t know why, perhaps budget?

My scanner is overheating from scanning my Vogues to death!