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Why gothic fashion will never die

The whole Stephenie Meyer/Twilight phenomenon has spawned some interesting spin-offs, most notably the new vampire TV series, True Blood, but for a cultural phenomenon to be truly zeitgeist-defining, it must do more than spawn the occasional TV show. In...
Fri, November 27, 2009, 6:05 pm WST
Ever had the Pretty Woman shopping experience?

Today I heard a story from a colleague that made my blood run cold, and it reminded me of the famous scene in Pretty Woman where Julia Roberts' character, Vivian Ward, gets booted out of a swanky Rodeo Drive boutique based purely on her...
Wed, November 11, 2009, 4:30 pm WST
The great weight debate

Planet Fashion recently landed itself in hot water, re-igniting, as it does periodically, the debate about when skinny becomes too skinny.Firstly, a furore broke out over the extreme photoshopping of a Ralph Lauren model, Filippa Hamilton, for a...
Mon, October 26, 2009, 5:10 pm WST
What's so great about topshop then?

News that mammoth UK chain store Topshop is coming to Australia has sent the fashion media into a frenzy. Open up any recent edition of the Sydney Morning Herald, Grazia or Harper's Bazaar, and you'll no doubt read something about the much-loved...
Thu, October 8, 2009, 4:51 pm WST
What are your favourite fashion films?

It's been a veritable flood of late: films that go behind the scenes, or recount the lives, of fashion's most significant players. We've had documentaries like The September Issue (chronicling Anna Wintour's job at American Vogue)) and Valentino: The...
Tue, September 29, 2009, 6:16 pm WST
Confessions of a late-blooming high-heel addict

In a recent edition of The West Australian, two of our most esteemed news reporters, Kate Tarala and Christiana Jones, faced off to debate one of the most important issues facing society today.High heels versus flats?Okay, so it's not exactly in the...
Tue, September 22, 2009, 11:46 am WST
Has Marc Jacobs finally lost the plot?

Fashion's seasonal merry-go-round has swung into action again, and we are deep into Round 1, New York Fashion Week.That being the case, I logged onto every fashionista's bible, Style.com, to check out the latest Marc Jacobs show....
Thu, September 17, 2009, 7:05 pm WST
Project Runway is a winner

Project Runway Australia has its critics on Planet Fashion - quite a few of them, actually. But I, for one, am a bit of a fan, despite being completely and utterly aware of some of the show's more ridiculous aspects....
Wed, September 16, 2009, 10:54 pm WST