An Illustrated Fashion Blog by Angie Rehe
From the monthly archives:
Put it down to thick calves (according to a survey in Dolly magazine in 1981 my calves were 10cm outside the “normal” parameters), but I always said I didn’t understand people who had a shoe obsession. That is, right up until the day I was hit in the head by a (boot) shoe box which [...]
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If I needed any more evidence that I’ve gone a little off the sane track of late, then the fact that I’m sitting here in the pm-turned-am drawing and writing a blog post, after 2 days on the brainiac chain-gang trying to pull a Masters proposal out of my arse, would be it.
Yes, readers in [...]
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Working into the wee hours as I do, there are times I admit when the drawings speak to me. Or is that the cognac? No it’s definitely the drawings. Other times, in the very wee hours, they move around on & above the page. Or is that the valium? In any case, I don’t think [...]
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There may not have been a sexy boy in make-up, but there was plenty of booty, tassles, burlesque fans and cheeky striptease to keep me interested on Sunday at Dr Sketchy’s. And as if that wasn’t enough there was even a mermaid. Most likely attributable to the fact that I couldn’t swim as a youngster, I [...]
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In my various roles as a designer, it became painfully clear that I had a disproportionate penchant for certain motifs – namely birds, feathers, and cats. To the point where I was once banned from using any of them for at least 2 seasons. How joyous I was to change jobs and have a whole [...]
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Setting your own working hours can do funny things to your body clock. The first thing I noticed was that I would stay up a teeny bit later each night, consequently staying in bed a teeny bit later the next day. This worked brilliantly for communicating with the London office of WGSN, but not so [...]
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“Short, sharp and streamlined” was how my journalistic hero Suzy Menkes described the black leather dress which opened the Celine Spring 2010 runway show in Paris on Monday. How I’d like to be described as that. Short? Check. Sharp? Well I was once described as sharp-as-a-tack (does the fact that it was said by someone [...]
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The lucky recipients of the Patsyfox newsletter will already be clued up on the Together Alone exhibition that opened yesterday at the NGV Australia in Melbourne. They will also know that I, being the multi-hatted laydee that I am, was there at the opening, drinking the house dry and reporting for WGSN and of course [...]
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This may well be the lousiest blog post I’ve ever done, but I can do that now – I’m almost famous.
As if being welcomed as media at the opening of the new fashion exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (Ian Potter Centre) – Together Alone (see following post) wasn’t enough, I have within the very [...]
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