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Versace updates its glamour armour

17 May 12 | Donatella Versace talks to Georgina Safe about the return of the brand to the couture calendar and using key motifs from her late brother Gianni's final collection.

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Strengthening the cultural fabric

17 May 12 | An initiative fostering links between India's craftspeople and Australian fashion labels is helping to preserve skills and livelihoods.

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Seeing red over stockings ban

14 May 12 | Women fight back against restrictive corporate dress codes.

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Street seen: Christian Remrod

13 May 12 | This man of many professions says that with a classical style you don't need to be on trend.

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Find your style and develop it

13 May 12 | Those of short stature face specific sartorial challenges, so it's a delight to see a tiny kindred spirit overcome all obstacles to elegance, writes Maggie Alderson.

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Derivative, schmerivative

12 May 12 | Australian Fashion Week finished on May 4 in Sydney with a bewildering spray of criticism from local and international media.

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Sydney, Melbourne in fashion festival war

11 May 12 | Sydney's Australian Fashion Week will clash with the Melbourne Fashion Festival in 2013.

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Designer finds a spot to show his stripes

10 May 12 | Paul Smith has hit Australia with a flagship store in Melbourne and he has an eye on Sydney too, writes Avril Groom.

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Essentials by the book

10 May 12 | The founders of upstart TOME keep it real through simplicity and clarity of vision, writes Megan Johnston.

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Party of the week

07 May 12 | Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia Various locations

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Street seen: Annabelle Loton

06 May 12 | The painter says she normally buys kids' clothes because they are cheaper and I alter them so they fit.

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It's high time for Gillard to roll up her sleeves

05 May 12 | In her new column, Germaine Greer tells the Prime Minister to get a new dressmaker.

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Masters stand out from the jacks of all trades

05 May 12 | There is an adage that if you can't do something well, you shouldn't do it at all.

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Cover girls

05 May 12 | Modesty trumps midriffs as Australian designers lead the style stakes for Muslim women.

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How the west won over fashion week

04 May 12 | It was one of the most highly anticipated shows of Australian Fashion Week and Perth designer Kym Ellery didn’t disappoint her famous fans and heavy weight fashion editors with her resort wear collection.

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The uniformity of lawn bowls and nurses

04 May 12 | Yes, the vomitous green and gold is, to all intents and tasteful purposes, gone.

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Designers see more clicks than bricks as online buyers shake up fashion market

04 May 12 | FOR the first time this year at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia, clicks outnumber bricks when it comes to prominent buyers attending the event.

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