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What Shein copies are asking Australian fashion to admit
Shein copies are exposing how little backup small Australian designers have when a sketch becomes a knock-off at industrial speed.
What clean performance wear is asking fashion to rebuild
Clean performance wear is forcing fashion to rethink stretch, waterproofing and the chemical shortcuts that made modern activewear feel effortless.
Personal taste is getting harder to hear
Personal taste feels flatter in 2026 because algorithmic feeds now shape wardrobes, playlists and rooms before we know what we want.
What Katharina Mildren is proving when the shop never opens
Katharina Mildren's shop-free fashion label turns social media, scarcity and pop-ups into a sharper Australian retail model.
Paris wants a showroom. Australia wants proof
Australian designers in Paris are being sold as an export story, but the new AFC showroom also asks whether local fashion can survive on attention.
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Ethically made T-shirt cost: what feels fair now
Ethically made T-shirt cost is less about the tag than labour, fabric, certification and how often you will actually wear it.
Chanel Sydney runway: Australia gets the mirror test
Chanel Sydney runway plans for November 2026 turn a luxury calendar note into a sharper question about Australia’s fashion confidence.
What Dua Lipa’s bridal suit knows about weddings
Dua Lipa bridal suit moment shows why brides are moving toward separates, repeat wear and ceremony clothes that feel like themselves.
After the noise, Jordan Gogos sounds clearer
Jordan Gogos after Australian Fashion Week looks less like a retreat than a pivot, with Parádeisos at UNSW turning scraps, colour and refusal into a longer argument about Australian style.
Why Australian fashion’s outsider runway feels more alive
Australian Fashion Week 2026 looks slick on paper, but the off-calendar runways around it are where local risk, access and excitement now live.
Alo lands in Sydney, and the matching set follows
Alo Sydney store turns activewear into an off-duty uniform, showing why wellness dressing still slips from Pilates to coffee to work.
What happens when the billionaires become the dress code
Met Gala backlash has become a fight over what fashion is selling when Bezos money, worker anger and taste all end up in the same room.
Shopify ghost stores are swallowing Australian fashion
Shopify ghost stores are turning copied designs, fake local branding and scam storefronts into a trust crisis for Australian labels.
When Perth changed the mood at fashion week
Australian Fashion Week 2026 felt sharper when Perth arrived, bringing designers, stylists and a city-sized confidence Sydney could not fake.
The sale that makes Everlane feel like a warning
Everlane sale to Shein confirms what shoppers feared: sustainable fashion’s moral language could not outrun debt, discounting and speed.
Blundstone spent 150 years perfecting the work boot. Now it wants you to wear a sandal.
The Aerocork sandal is heavier than you expect. Blundstone spent 156 years perfecting the work boot — now the Tasmanian brand is making its first sandal, and the question isn't whether it's any good. It's what the sandal means.
Who Australian Fashion Week still imagines into the room
Australian Fashion Week's size report found just 1.75% plus-size looks, exposing the gap between inclusion talk, casting and who fashion invites in.
Seersucker is making linen feel slightly uptight
Seersucker summer style works because the fabric stays sharp in heat, shrugs off linen's creases and now suits looser, easier tailoring.
When fashion history turns up in a garment bag
Isle of Monday vintage rental offers borrowed access to archive fashion, but the real lure is how a worn garment can still feel improbably personal.
When the coffee table starts dressing the wardrobe
Ralph Lauren’s new Catwalk book lands at the centre of a bigger shift: fashion archives, resale and coffee-table books are shaping how we dress.
When the white tee lost its halo
Everlane's sale to Shein makes the sustainable fashion pitch look suddenly fragile: a $100 million deal, $90 million in debt, and a mood that has curdled.
What fashion success asks of the woman wearing it first
Rochelle Gregory's new film turns the glare of fashion success back on the designer herself, asking what happens when a label and a life become hard to separate.
The best room at fashion week was full of old clothes
Australian Fashion Week vintage market showed that resale, archival labels and personality now pull as much heat as the runway in Sydney.
When a runway feels like a room learning to exhale
Nicol & Ford AFW 2026 turned Elizabeth Bay House into a queer, intimate fashion show that felt less like trend forecasting and more like collective relief.
What Sydney Fashion Week looks like in a coat
At Sydney Fashion Week, the best street style is layered, weather-wise and repeated, revealing how Australians actually dress when the cameras are on.
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