Line II

It was one of the only shows of the week that wasn't beholden to the fads of international fashion. Which isn't to say that the show wasn't trendy: there were midi skirts, and the luxe, languid lines of 90s-style dressing, flat sandals and deconstructed tailoring. But it was done Dion's way. It was done with the deft, light hand that has come to characterise a Dion Lee design: effortlessly cerebral, ingeniously constructed and wholly, almost breathtakingly wearable...

...Everything a nuanced, carefully orchestrated balance between edginess and chic, between confidence and comfort, between masculine and feminine. This is his particular talent, the ability to understand what women want to wear, and to make clothes that speak to how we dress now. - Hannah Rose Yee

No one can say what my eyes feel the way HRY can...but you all probably know that by now.
We (as a team, always) covered many more shows for Broadsheet Sydney which can be seen here, here, here & here.

Photos: Rachel Kara

HRY LOVE

I know this girl. She's one of my only friends I can eat cake with mid afternoon, midweek and not feel as though I'm a fraud at life. She knows the freelance life. She lives it too.

We like to dream a lot. We talk way more than we do. We have many half formed ideas sitting and weaving their way through our conversations. The ideal home, job, child, cake, meal, day, wardrobe, holiday, packing list, kitchen, life - they've all been covered that more than a few times, always growing and refining themselves as #thedream each time they are spoken out. 

We're as bad as one another at going all the way with action plans. 

We like to sit, find comfy places to settle in. We've gotten really good at that. We like things to be honest.

We admire glamorous women, but really, would always go for whoever was laughing the loudest and wearing flats with their hair not quite done.   

We crave simplicity and get seriously blissed out at brief moments of experiencing it...driving out of the city, staring at the ocean, early mornings, sitting & sharing around a table, BABIES, love, a great novel, crisp air. 

We love love. Actually, we need to talk about this more. 

We are learning to value our skills. When they undervalue her work I'm always dying to send an eff yourselves email to who ever is responsible. Instead we bitch about it and drink some tea and eat cake. We're ladies after all. 

All the love heart eye emojis for you HRY. When I'm not so sleepy I'll tell you some more. xxx

Photos: various taken from Capture The Castle by Hannah Rose Yee 

I Love Mr Mittens

Even as I sit upon the sunny cliffs of Uluwatu a piece of me see's these and wants in on that winter that is continuing on, without me, back home.

HTR had the joy of working together on this project for I Love Mr Mittens debut collection with our classic combination of words by Hannah-Rose, illustrations by Talisa and photos by me, Rachel.

When it comes to knits I can honestly & wholeheartedly declare that these are the real deal. You really need to pick it up to feel the weight and gentle clunkiness that comes with double knitted cotton for yourself...so luckily I have a piece to giveaway! Maybe even two if we can hit the lucky number. 
For the chance to win one of the infamous I Love Mr Mittens urban turbans you just have to do these 3 simple things

1. Repost your favourite image or detail from the campaign above on instagram tagging @rachelkara1 @ilovemrmittens
2. 'Like' I Love Mr Mittens on Facebook
3. Comment to let me know you've done that with an email address (to contact you if you win)

Winner will be chosen on the 1st of July so get going! xR

life itself

 "A person should live in a way they love, they should love the way they live, they should always keep their eyes open, they should travel earnestly, ridiculously, spontaneously and copiously, they should use their hands as well as their hearts, they should smile easily and laugh often."  Hannah Rose Yee

For more on how & why one store, one concept, one lifestyle brought much brightness to our eyes and souls last Friday morning go visit Hannahs blog for the full recount of our Girl and Graaf experience. Concept store // 189 Bondi Rd, Bondi


Photos: Rachel Kara

More on that dream

"When we think about the future it looks like this...

Sun-drenched rooftops and leafy driveways, water, water everywhere, lapping at the dock with a calming insistence. Men (husbands, sons, the ones we grow old with) in white shirts and panama hats perpetually reading the paper, and smoothies at 11am for no reason at all." - HRY

Photos: Rachel Kara, Words: Hannah Rose Yee 

Emma Mulholand

   Words by Hannah Rose Yee, Photos by Me, Layout, Edit and Handwriting by Talisa Sutton

Think about the coolest kids you know. Not the most fashionable or the most popular or even the trendiest, but the coolest. Because there's a difference, right? Something in the way that they wear the clothes, rather than what it is, exactly, that they are wearing. It's an insouciance but not an affected one, like a perfect nonchalance. It's not that they don't care - of course they do, everyone does, deep down, did we learn nothing from The Devil Wears Prada? - but rather that they don't need to care. Innate coolness trumps premeditation in matters of style, always. 

Innate coolness is how we would describe Emma Mulholland. The cool kid's label of choice, she designs for the boys and girls that flit through your existence in 90s prints, bleached hair and high-top sneakers; usually simultaneously, with a beer in hand, at The Cricketers. Formerly of Romance Was Born, this season represents Mulholland's first runway presentation for her eponymous label, but it didn't show. A slick, tightly curated presentation (it was a packed house - standing room only - with big-name editors, international bloggers and scenester party photographers jostling for attention on the front row) with slick, tightly-curated clothes paraded by models across the room, weaving around a surfboard installation with the singular motion of sharks. 

You know these clothes are going to get worn. The polar bear spring break sweatshirt? Coming to a boozy barbecue near you. The paint-splattered overalls over the 'Let's Get Physical' one piece? Practically made for Bronte Sundays. And that sheer finale dress, embroidered with a killer whale rendered in sequins (incidentally, Mulholland's favourite look, though it began life as her nemesis)? A party starter if ever we saw one. The theme of the collection was 80s and 90s ski-wear, spliced through with Malibu references to lighten those icy motifs. Cleverly styled with everything from Skins activewear to Ryan Storer or Dinosaur Design jewels each look was fully realised, so much so that the inspiration required no leap of imagination. Fluorescent boardshorts and sheer leopard print tee shirts for the boys, silky bomber jackets emblazoned with logos fresh out of an 80s teen movie and what is becoming Mulholland's signature; chalk-hued backpack with accompanying sharkfin, this season offered in bright, resplendent metallics. Why not? That's the question that seems to drive Mulholland's designs, and it's not a bad one at all. That's the thing about cool kids. No matter what they do or what they wear, they always look like they're having so much fun.

HTR have had such fun taking you to the shows. If you missed it you can see more from here, here, here and here. Sexy bed heads at Ellery, the perfect baseball capped Marilyn Monroe at Kate Sylvester,   silk suiting sitting just right in a warehouse at Christopher Esber.

Being the good bloggers that Hannah and Talisa are it will require a little bit of a dig to find more of our fashion week experience together but do it, you will find much treasure as you go.