Rosemount Australian Fashion Week - Day One

The SP Princesses have just finished a very fashionable, busy and productive day. We will keep it short and sweet as we believe pictures tell a more exciting story! Our day started with a quick trip to Mecca Cosmetica and the MAC counter for last minute essential makeup purchases needed for the week ahead (as if we can't buy them back home or did we even really need another mineral powder and body lotion!) - this is a buying trip after all - that's our logic!!

Back to the Westin Hotel with a muffin and takeaway coffee followed buy a shot of Noni Juice to give us energy for the day ahead, we added the finishing touches to our styling that started at 7.30am and the day hadn't even begun yet! Once we checked each other out with a nod of approval we walked (Princess Jodie's choice) to Circular Quay in our platform wedges (it will be Princess Darlene's choice tomorrow!).

We started our first day with the Camilla parade which didn't disappoint. It was then a mad rush to the Lucette parade - a newcomer to Style Palace this summer. The Women's Ready to Wear collection was next where we saw Story by Tang and Uscari (another new addition to the Palace). We then made our way to the glamorous Rachel Gilbert show and visited a few new labels before settling into our final show for the day ... Bec & Bridge. We loved all the shows and are so glad we are bringing you more of your favourite Style Palace labels as well as introducing some gorgeous new Australian designers to our ever-growing stable. Stay tuned for what's to come this summer at the Palace - you will pleased to see our hard work during Fashion Week resulted in some great styles coming your way!!

It's hard being a fashion lover and a 'Style Palace Princess' so we felt we deserved a relaxing evening with friends and a glass of Pinot Grigio at the most delicious Italian restaurant in Sydney - 'A Tavola' in Darlinghurst - a must if you are ever in the area.

It's hard to keep our stories short - as you can imagine there were many more funny moments throughout the day. Instead of lots of words, here are lots of pictures for you to check out as we have to give in to our sleepy heads and go and dream of all the beautiful clothes and wedged boots that we saw today - it was the best eye candy ever!!!

Sweet dreams xx SP Princesses

Hallo Possums!

Whether you love her or hate her (well, him actually), you can’t argue there’s nothing more Australian than Dame Edna! Played by Australian satirist Barry Humphries, The Dame is as Australian as Vegemite, lamingtons or snags on a barbie.

For years, the world’s perception of Australia was coloured by this outlandish character whose mop of purple-rinsed hair would put any self-respecting hairdresser to shame and whose high pitched, whiny voice which called “Hallo Possums” was rather like fingernails down a blackboard. Despite the irritating overtones, Dame Edna has always remained a much-loved Aussie icon and has become synonymous with our sun burnt country.

To celebrate this colourful character, MAC Cosmetics have just released the show-stopping Dame Edna collection in a fitting tribute to this great Australian icon.

Each product in the collection comes in fitting lavender-coloured packaging and sports a motif of Edna’s famous winged red glasses. The ‘looks’ of the collection are as spectacular as the muse, including Wisteria, Spectacle, Possum Nose Pink and Kanga-Rouge to name a few.

The collection is available now from your local MAC Cosmetics counter or log on to http://www.maccosmetics.com.au/ for more inspiration.

That’s right possums; it doesn’t get more Australian than this … apparently.

SP
xx