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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.
Why Ngali's Fashion Week return felt bigger than a runway slot
Ngali's return to Australian Fashion Week did not need spectacle to land. Denni Francisco's Wander with Wonder made a calmer, sharper case for what Australian style can hold.
Harry Styles fans still dress like they mean it
Harry Styles concert outfits in Amsterdam looked less like merch and more like a dress code, with sequins, crochet and private references doing the work.
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.
The useful clothes in Cannes are nowhere near the carpet
The best Cannes outfits this year are the ones that can cross a hotel lobby, survive a kerb and still feel glamorous by dinner.
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Where Australian fashion still feels alive
AGWA's Pulse in Perth suggests the liveliest Australian fashion stories are happening outside the usual runway circuit, in clothes still rough with local feeling.
Why the ’90s sandal keeps embarrassing quiet luxury
In Australian summer, the ’90s sandal keeps winning because it makes room for heat, movement and a life that doesn't stop at the tram platform.
The winter capsule wardrobe that does not begin with black
A practical Australian guide to editing your winter wardrobe into a small mix of layers, knitwear and local labels that still feels like you.
What cotton country knows about style
Sam Coulton's label began with fibre and farm weather, then grew into a national clothing business. In Goondiwindi, style starts with material, place and staying power.
Forget the Met Gala: The designers making clothes you'll actually wear
The Met Gala is a content farm. The designers showing at Carriageworks this week have more to say — and they're saying it in fabrics you can machine-wash.
Three fingers, six fingers, and a prompt: AI meets Australian Fashion Week
Karla Spetic asked AI to generate images for her latest collection and it gave her hands with six fingers, but it also demanded a clarity she did not know she needed. As Australian Fashion Week opens, the industry AI debate is getting specific.
What Beare Park doing the CommBank uniform means
Two days before Beare Park's Opera House show at Australian Fashion Week, CommBank handed Gabriella Pereira the brief for its frontline uniform. The forty-year designer-and-bank tradition has a new entry, and the choice is more revealing than it looks.
Three days from sketch to Shein
A Melbourne designer finds her own dress on Shein for $18, four colourways, days after she posted the tech pack to Instagram. The numbers, the lawsuits, and what it means to make things slowly in 2026.
Gloria Chol walked across a country to survive. Now she walks into Australian Fashion Week
The Melbourne designer is about to become the first South Sudanese–owned luxury label on an Australian Fashion Week runway. She tells Imogen Hartley why that matters, and what it took to get there.
Australian Fashion Week Hits 30 With First Nations On the Front Row
Sydney's 30th Australian Fashion Week opens this week with a record First Nations slate, a debut Vogue Vintage Market and a leaner local line-up reflecting a brutal year for AU labels.
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