ART & DESIGN Project Series Walking Tour ALEXIA BREHAS   The Virgin Australia Fashion Festival is all wrapped up, however the style and design continues on. Today I am attending the Project Series Walking Tour, an illuminating and informative guided tour of the most contemporary, cutting edge exhibitions currently showing in Melbourne. Spanning across eight […]

ART & DESIGN INTERVIEW WITH EILEEN BRAYBROOK AND JOHN BROOKS DISCUSSING BEAST CULT INTERVIEW BY ALEXIA BREHAS   Meet Eileen Braybrook and John Brooks. They are the artistic power duo behind Beast Cult, a unique fashion exhibition showcasing during the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival. After meeting through a textiles course during their academic years, […]

ART & DESIGN INTERVIEW WITH GRACE LILLIAN LEE Alexia Brehas Grace Lillian Lee is a fashion designer and curator who is bringing Indigenous design to the forefront of the fashion industry. I had the honour of chatting to her about her work with the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair and the upcoming fashion performance as part […]

New Palm Court Orchestra and Vincent Li Review The Deakin Edge Review by Marisa Jayne   Gemma Turvey was not wrong when she described her New Palm Court Orchestra and Vincent Li collaboration as “poetic, theatrical and fantastic.” She was spot on with her depiction, and the evening was nothing short of eerily magical. The […]

ART AND DESIGN Recalling the Glamour: The Johnston Collection Review by Alexia Brehas   In a modest Victorian house in East Melbourne on a Wednesday morning, filmmaker and writer Lesley Sharon Rosenthal is preparing to take her audience back in time to the golden age of Collins Street. After being greeted with complimentary tea and […]