He's had exhibitions in the Sydney Opera House Gallery and the Museum of Sydney. He designs art and fashion with the maturity and style of Warhol, but he's only 23. He takes a mean photo and has painted some nice kombi art too. Meet Elvis Di Fazio. Photographs featured on ...

Pic by Janie Barrett via SMH From Mark Coultan and Pattie Huntington via SMH: The designer jeans label Tsubi will be no more - at least outside Australia - after settling a trademark infringement dispute with the US shoe label Tsubo. The boys will keep Tsubi in Australia, but in the rest of ...

Raw and unfiltered from Sydney's street scene, Curious clothing tells a very deep story. Sombre designs featuring crucifixes, skulls and hurricane fences tell Sydney's story from the wrong side of the tracks. It's a fusion of designer Tom Synnott's design background and love for fashion, and Tom tells how Curious ...

Nothing short of superior quality and style, the winter 2006 collection from N/A by Nicole and Aaron exudes fine fabrics and refined class. When N/A burst onto Australia's independent scene a couple of years ago contrasting fabrics, an assortment of unusual buttons and creative linings were the distinguishing features. In ...

The men's winter collection from Zanerobe is suitably titled 'Go Play'. There's a sporty, outdoor theme running through the predominantly casual collection with a strong ski focus. The 'Search and Rescue' hoody is perfect outerwear for the temperate Australian ski slopes, and the Zanerobe blazer might even help catch some ...

Gareth Moody co-founded Aussie indy fashion monolith Tsubi and recently went solo with Chronicles of Never, a collection limited to jewellery and shoes. Today Patty Huntington got the scoop on Gareth's solo clothing venture; the Frankenstein Project. Chronicles of Never has a dark image. There's a sense of foreboding along with ...

Are you an aspiring fashion journalist? Maybe you've got dreams of becoming a fashion writer, editor or photographer. Perhaps one day you'd like to write for a glossy fashion magazine or leading fashion website. What's holding you back? You don't have a portfolio, let alone a reputation. You can't get ...

"Hooded sweatshirts for graffiti artist, ugly people, snowboarders, fetishists...or just superheros" French label Anticon (pics and quote above) is pumping out masked hoodies. The label doesn't actually sell any hoodies without masks. Crazy, and pretty cool. You'd think they'd be the only ones, surely there couldn't be a big demand for ...

Artists can become fashion designers, and labels employ artists. Most labels and artists have an artistic background, and labels using 'feature artists' as a once-off or special event is not a new concept. However, since the launch of Threadless the trend has somewhat changed. Rather than using dedicated artists or ...

The Melbourne-based Lucid Business Network was established to assist in developing small business in the fashion and textile industry. There are some impressive labels and designers on board including Alpha 60 and Prudence Todd, and it's an excellent way for designers to network and find support in marketing, event management, ...

The 400 semi-finalists in the Nescafe Big Break competition have just been announced and I'm proud to be one of them. The competition is essentially recognising entrepreneurship and small business ventures in Australia and New Zealand by awarding a number of prizes, including a first prize of AUD$100,000. There was ...

As you can see, Camarilla is supported by Paris-based global fashion monolith ManChic. So what? Well, ManChic has just featured Australia's very own Leopold! This is awesome international exposure for Leopold and is certainly well deserved. Here are some comments: Shandor Gancs and Boyd Parry decided to take their label Leopold ...

What features do you want to see in an online indy fashion store? If you want to buy fashion online what are the unique items you look for? If you want to sell fashion online what functionality do you need? Any particular needs for Australian indy fashion stores, perhaps some ...

Somewhere during my massive review of the Tight Knickers show I attended last night at the Overseas Passenger Terminal, Circular Quay, I logged out of my admin console in a different window so in attempting to publish the review I actually lost it.. all of it... no draft, nada, zip. I ...

Akira took to the runway this morning with an interesting collection. Quite bold and very appealing. (pics via vogue.com.au)