I was going to start this post with some tired, old, cliche about how every woman should own an LBD, but then I got thinking, does everyone actually own one or have the need to?
I haven't won an award for the blog in donkeys years so when I was contacted to say that I'd won The Fashion Guide's Online Shopping & Fashion Awards 2012 category for best fashion blog I was really kind of stoked.
The blog has had a little face lift, can you tell? I like to think of it as a little refresher, a little botox, not the whole hog 'I've-been-to-Thailand-on-holiday-but-really-I-went-to-the-Gold-Coast-and-had-a-face-lift.' ANYHOW! ...
This is my fourth year doing Frocktober an I have to say that it is you the Lady Melbourne reader that spurs me on to participate each year. In my first year I think I raised about $50 from memory, last year? Just over $1500.
On Friday ASOS held their global launch for the Spring/Summer 13 'In Your World' collection. Global. That means that we see it here first in Australia. Pretty special huh?
This blog post is dedicated to the Irish national Jill Meagher who was abducted, raped and murdered this week in Melbourne. I understand that this is a departure from usual blog content, but I wanted to acknowledge this story because its really affected me.