Fashion is My Muse

Photograph of Sleeve Detail of Countess Almaviva Costume by Ingrid Mida 2010 A few weeks ago I had the distinct pleasure of photographing t...

 I don't copy it. I talk about it. Doris McCarthy used to say this a lot when discussing her paintings. In her prolific career as a ...

Cover image from the exhibition catalogue from Roughing it in the Bush A 100th Birthday Retrospective of the work of Doris McCarthy Roughin...

Photo credit: Ben Franke Paper artist Lesley Haas, who I featured in a profile earlier this spring, currently has two pieces of her work ...

As a self-taught embroider, I have longed to improve my skills. After attending the lecture given by Hand & Lock CEO Alistair Macleod at...

As I wrote in my exhibition review earlier this week,  The Concise Dictionary of Dress at the Blythe House is a rare and extraordinar...

dic-tion-ar-y 1. a book containing a selection of the words of a language, usually arranged alphabetically, giving information about their ...

My Mum and I aren’t exactly in the same dress camp. One might say that our tastes are a little different although far from worlds apart. We ...

This glorious dancer costume from Opera Atelier was one of my finds at last night's Costume Sale Runway Show and Cocktail Reception . ...

When you grow up as the daughter of a fashion plate, the lessons of fashion are learned by osmosis. Artist Lesley Haas , who uses fashion as...

  Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea; Artist: Peggy Kriha Dye; Photo Credit: Bruce Zinger 2009. When I first heard that Opera Ateli...

Many of us can remember our mothers wearing aprons. Back in the days when laundry was even more of a pain than it is today, aprons were a pr...