blonde venus: Introducing...VERNER Melbourne & PALACE London!

Hi Everyone!

I popped down to Sydney on Monday to see some more

treats like the Provensen AW13 shoe collection and the latest

jewellery delights from Adriana Giuffrida's extraordinary POMS.

Jane Morley, Alison Robinson, Me, Karen Turnbull and Monique White feeling the VISION of Vreeland!

On Monday night, a little group of about 18 of us saw our first BIFF

film for the festival, the documentary called Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel.

I gave the film 5 stars and can't wait to see it again.

It was very funny and very inspiring.

If you happened to miss it, luckily the film now has a season release

and will open next Thursday night the 22nd at 6:30pm at Palace Centro on a new

night called Premiere Thursday!

Premiere Thursdays will feature special treats and giveaways and

to celebrate the opening of Diana Vreeland, we are giving away 2 x $100 vouchers!

https://www.palacecinemas.com.au/sessiontimes/session/120/83421/

All the films I've seen so far at BIFF have been great but my other higlight

was Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present.

That's another 5 stars from me. What a woman.

There has been a lot of talk recently about the decline of print media.

I couldn't disagree more.

I've never really been one for the throw aways or the gossip magazines

but I really identify with quality print that you have the desire to keep

on your bookshelf.

I'm advocate for turning off the television (AND the computer) and having a

quiet, uninterrupted read.

I'm a advocate of The Gentlewoman, Purple Magazine, i-D, Another, Self Service

Apartamento, Another, Dazed & Confused and Fantastic Man.

The latest Fantastic Man (AW12 issue) is such a good read that I thought I'd share a little

bit with you and hope that you might go an buy it.

Here are a couple of amusing excerpts from a story titled -

UGH

SOME THINGS TO DETEST

FLAT AND WHITE

The Flat White, the smuggest of coffees, consisting of a shot of espresso topped with hot milk, but

bereft of the latter's most capricious characteristic - froth - is a drink prepared exclusively by a

stock character who, himself, is always smug, flat and white - and who confuses barrista skills

with the predictable cool of the fixed-gear bicycle, an armful of regrettable tattoos and a

charity plimsole.

FRAGRANT WAX

The apparently popularly held illusion that the addition of a measure of scent to a common

household staple, the wax candle, bestows upon it a sense of luxury and elegance.

AIR FORCE

The experience of being on a long-haul flight - whether in economy or business -

on which first wine is manically poured and then blinds are suddenly drawn and

lights switched off before one has even had a sip, and on which a sorry imitation

of a proper breakfast is served 90 minutes before landing - 90 minutes that could,

and should, have been used for glorious sleep.

WRAP

The practice, favoured by a staggering majority of lunch outlets, of ruining perfectly good

food by serving it wrapped in a cardboard-like, wheaten sheaf and attaching to it the fallacy

that the 'wrap' somehow, constitutes a healthier choice.

http://www.fantasticman.com

Introducing...

Verner