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Style Wilderness
stylewilderness.blogspot.com
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I'm an ex-Vogue Japan editor who now lives in Melbourne and loves op shopping, remaking and customising just about anything wearable. Follow me for dirt-cheap DIY fashion fabulousness!
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RIP Vogue Nippons Yuki Matsuyama

Last Friday I had some very sad news from some of my former colleagues at Vogue Nippon. Yuki Matsuyama, the accessories director, had died the day before from cancer. Shed been in hospital since the ...

22 h ago

If you dont like it then you shoulda put a ruffle on it*

*All the sewing ladies.. all the sewing ladies.... heres a simple DIY for you!Years ago I made a dress from some printed Thai silk that was given to me, probably by my grandmother, but I dont remembe...

2 days ago

Painted love

Do you buy the pattern and then find the fabric to fit when youre sewing? Or do you work the other way around? I must say that after years of working with vintage kimono material, I have got used to ...

15 feb 12

Love a good cause

Awwww.... its Valentines Day, but instead of flowers and chocolates, I got you this cute picture of a tiger cub giving his mum a kiss (image from here).Unlike many of my posts where I put in gratuito...

13 feb 12

Glindas won the giveaway!

Oops, I meant Glenda, but the image of Glinda the good witch was too cute to waste! (Image from here). Glenda is soon to be the proud owner of one copy of Naked Fashion. Thanks to all of you for ente...

12 feb 12

Dont forget!

Just a reminder to enter the giveaway for Naked Fashion (thats a book, not something dirty! Shame on you for thinking that!)! You have until tomorrow!

09 feb 12

Short and sweet

As most of you would know, Im something of a hoarder (although I prefer to think of it as "collecting"). Some of my favourite things to collect are vintage sewing patterns such as this one.Ad...

06 feb 12

Giveaway! Naked Fashion

Its my blogs birthday (terrible two!), its Friday, and I have a spare copy of this book. What better reasons are there for a giveaway? If you are interested in sustainable fashion and fair trade (whi...

02 feb 12

Spinderella, cut it up one time

While Im all for slow fashion, I dont know about waiting eight YEARS for a piece of clothing. But thats what it took to create this golden silk cape. Eight years, and a MILLION golden orb spiders. I ...

31 jan 12

Twinkletoes DIY style

Are you a fan of A Pair & a Spare? I have been ever since some friends got me hooked on its DIY goodness and the super style of its creator (how many ladies do you know who can wear a bathmat as ...

29 jan 12

The seminal Seminole experience

What do you do when someone gives you an entire shoebox (and they had large feet) full of bias binding in all the colours of the rainbow? This was my dilemma (yeah, first world problems) a few months...

24 jan 12

Hey Dude!

Hi guys, and I do mean GUYS specifically. You see, recently my sisters friend was out with a guy and who knows how they got to talking about me, but it turned out that this particular extremely intel...

22 jan 12

Why dont YOU?

Whenever Im short on inspiration, I like to flick through my little library for ideas. Particularly helpful is this book about Diana Vreeland, fashion editor extraordinaire for many years at Harpers ...

17 jan 12

Take seven drops of creative essence, three times a day

It sounds like hocus pocus, but Ive been told to take seven drops of creative essence, at least three times a day. Im also taking the same dose of some other botanic and mineral essences which are me...

15 jan 12

Colour & crochet

A little while ago (well, fine, if you want to be picky, it was more than a year ago) I bought yet another not-quite-right garment at an op shop. Like a simple-minded bird, Im drawn by bright colours...

11 jan 12

A hook-up for knitwits

A fun idea, no? I am doing a fashion shoot on that weekend but Ill try to make it down to city square at some stage. Will I see you there?

10 jan 12

Double dose of DIY

Its a sad fact of life that all good things must come to an end, holidays in particular. Ive had three whole weeks off but am back to the daily grind tomorrow - not that Im really complaining as I kn...

08 jan 12

Bachhara to work? Not quite...

No, I never can resist a play on words. Although you probably wish I would go back to work so I didnt have time on my hands to muck around with language. But if I were back at work, I would not have ...

04 jan 12

In the pink

Happy 2012! How did you see the new year in? I celebrated with some Japanese friends eating way too much, including toshi-koshi (bridging the years) soba noodles which are traditionally eaten for a l...

01 jan 12

Jakarta Fashion Week

Can it really be more than a month ago that I was at Jakarta Fashion Week with the lovely Thom Whilton of Couturing.com? (No, Im not a midget, he is just incredibly tall!) To be honest, I was wonderi...

22 dec 11

Melbourne summer must-dos

Yay! Work is over, summer holidays are here and Ive finally had a chance to get some blog posts going again!So whats kept me so busy? All that end of year socialising! Actually getting outside and aw...

19 dec 11

Fair@Square fashion show

Did you make it to the http://moralfairground.com.au/ fairfashion.html last Friday night? If you did (and even if you didnt), maybe youd like to find out a bit more about the featured labels. As you k...

11 dec 11

Fair ideas for Christmas

Yes, its that time of year again. The Fair@Square fashion show is over, so I can finally get back to the blogging (more on that, with pics, in a future post!) and its just a few weeks until Christmas...

05 dec 11

Sleepy stylist

Its another rainy weekend in Melbourne but I dont mind because Suki and I have had to stay indoors to style the looks for the Fair@Square fashion show.I really did intend to do a blog about Jakarta F...

27 nov 11

We have a winner!

Woohoo! The lucky "One of Echos Daughters" (very interesting name!) has won the double pass to Fair@Square fashion show next Friday. Thanks to everyone who entered - if youd like to go, there...

24 nov 11

Indonesian adventure

Im back! Did you miss me? (Did you even notice I wasnt around?) Sorry I didnt tell you where I was going but things were crazy before I left and then I forgot my camera cable so couldnt put up any pi...

22 nov 11

Melbournalia

When you think about Australian souvenirs, what comes to mind? Mass produced, made-in-China crap? It doesnt have to be that way any more - at least, not if you know where to look.For the next few wee...

13 nov 11

GIVEAWAY Fair@Square fashion show double pass!

Whod like two free tickets to a fashion show? Im sure you all would, but this one is only for Melburnians (although if youre willing to fly to Fed Square on December 2, you can enter this wherever yo...

09 nov 11

Zombies and exploding guts are in style

Quite an intriguing title for a post, I think youll agree... but this time theres no punning or tricky wordplay. This post really is about zombies and exploding guts, and its all thanks to my sister ...

05 nov 11

Hoarding with a twist

Recently my workmate handed me a copy of this article about hoarding to make fun of my habit of keeping just about everything (I set myself up for it, really, with this recent post).I dont really thi...

01 nov 11

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