Here's two amazing Melbourne labels you need to know about if you don't already: Lady Petrova and Anna Davern. One of my passions for the blog over the years has been the opportunity to bring you local Melbourne and Australian designers, and I'm so proud to have shot both designers current collections for this blog post. When I visited both of them in their store and studio respectively I thought that they were a match made in fashion heaven, even though they'd not been paired together before.

The Gardener took these photos, and they are just how I like them. Late afternoon sun, deep, long shadows and a filmic quality. We work together with such synergy these days that I tell him the fashion story I want to tell, find the natural light I'm after and he does the rest. We have a time of day we call 'magic hour' where the sunlight is just right. I don't like flash photography, and I've never had the equipment to light my own photography so over the years have learnt to shoot in natural light. It just so happens it's his forte, so together I just love the imagery we make and the stories we can tell.