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Florence

Mumford & Sons

The Silent Disco with DJ John from Cut & Paste

The XX

While out Dropstitching last week, someone I was photographing asked me how long I’ve been blogging and I was stumped – I knew I’d started Dropstitch a few years ago but couldn’t be sure of the exact date. When I got home I checked the archives and realised that the blog was brought in to the realm of the living in June 2007, which makes June 2010 our third year birthday. I’ve decided to celebrate this occasion with a shindig of some description, including an exhibition of Dropstitch photographs, and was wondering if anyone has suggestions about the location…? Also, if anyone knows of somewhere/someone who might like to print some of my favourite Dropstitch photographs at a reasonable price, please let me know!

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Design by Alysia Harvey

Design by Meghan Hosie

ECU Mt Lawley’s third year Contemporary Fashion class put on a spectacular exhibition and runway show this evening, showcasing their graduating collections. Congratulations to Grace Macri who won the X-Press Fashion Graduate award, which entitles her to a profile in X-Press, including a photoshoot with her garments.

Installation by Grace Macri

Creepy eyelid eyes!

Grace Macri and one of her models, more of her designs below:

Tim’s nifty bow-tie is by All Of Our Lives

The lovely lasses at Cleo contacted me a while back to see if I would be interested in being part of a feature they were compiling on Australian street fashion photographers, and of course I said yes! Then I did a jig around the room – those who know me have seen this happy jig many times before – it’s based on Gob’s chicken dance from Arrested Development.

Anyway, the February edition of Cleo came out today and I was stoked to discover a full page spread on Dropstitch, as well as one of my favourite Australian bloggers, Hayley Hughes (known to her readers as Fashion Hayley). Also featured are Fernando Frisoni and Paul-Simon Djite. Click on their names to view their blogs.

A big thanks to Cleo for supporting Australian street fashion photographers! If you haven’t picked up a copy of Cleo for a few years, do yourself a favour and re-introduce it to your magazine subscriptions – it’s come a long way from the Cleo I read as a teenager (in a good way), and has some superb fashion shoots.

To see the feature in all its glory, pick up a copy of Cleo February, and flick to page 114.

Evelyn at the I See Red shoot

I bought a Holga camera from Pigeonhole a couple of months ago and I’ve tried to whip it out at recent photoshoots to get some fun shots. Thought I’d share some of my favourites…

Summer Festival Fashion shoot with Melissa & Scott from Scene Models.

Andrew Bird’s spinning gramophone and sock monkey (Andrew pictured below)

I headed down south to Busselton this weekend for Sunset Events’ 3 day camping, music and arts festival – Southbound. The line up was awesome – Andrew Bird, The Phenomenal Handclap Band, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Datarock, Tim & Jean, plus heaps more.

Wolfmother

The Phenomenal Handclap Band

Melissa wears Feather Children headpiece from Pigeonhole $220, Peacock necklace from Pigeonhole $50, ring from Pigeonhole $45,White Sands Swimsuit from Daneechi $188, I.D.S shorts from Planet $45, studded sandals from Planet $155. Scott wears Extinct singlet from Planet $79, Insight shorts from Planet $89.95, Raben sneakers from Planet $29.95, key necklace from Pigeonhole $39, Feather Children headpiece from Pigeonhole.

I loathe fluffy leg warmers, fluoro makes me want to scream and shirtless men with crap written all over themselves in permanent marker drives me mad, so seeing people wearing this crap at music festivals leave me feeling super frustrated. I understand that people want to be comfortable when they go to Summer music festivals but come on folks, it’s really not that hard to look good while still feeling comfortable. For this reason, X-Press Fashion has put together a special double-page shoot in our Summer Festival Guide, to show people the way, which will be distributed alongside X-Press on Thursday, January 14. I’m heading down to Southbound in Busselton this weekend and will hopefully have some real-life summer festival outfits to share with you when I get back next week.

Photographer: Otilee

Stylist: Emma Bergmeier

Hair Stylist: Jody Fiannaca

Make Up Artist: Samantha Enticknap

Models: Melissa and Scott from Scene

Melissa wears Colab Corbu sunglasses from Pigeonhole $198, Hotel Bondi swimsuit from Daneechi $264, Junk shorts from Planet $65, ring from Pigeonhole $45, Diana Mini Lomography camera from Pigeonhole, $110, Bonbons sandals from Planet. Scott wears Dusty tee from Pigeonhole $159, Bookclub jeans from Pigeonhole $240, Colab Superfuture sunglasses from Pigeonhole, hat from Pigeonhole $65, Raben shoes from Planet $29.95.