Films

The Great Gatsby

We’ve spotted our Italian knit ‘Little Green Peaks’ in Vogue Australia’s May Issue. This special edition issue celebrates the impending release of Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, with a glimpse into the characters and the actors portraying them. The costumes look…

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Neapolitan Bespoke Tailors

O’MAST from Kid Dandy on Vimeo. Thank you to Sue from Perth, who shared this link over on our Tessuti Fabrics page on Facebook today. I just had to share this with everyone, it’s a wonderful look into Neapolitan tailoring…

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Spotting Retro Nouveau on the ABC.

Online customer, Emma ( from Canberra) emailed us this evening to let us know that she spotted Retro Nouveau on the trailer of an upcoming series on the ABC1 – Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. It stars Essie Davis (played Anouk…

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Unfolding Florence

Back by popular demand…. a FREE film screening of Gillian Armstrong’s Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives Of Florence Broadhurst When: Wednesday 9 JuneTime: 6:00-8:00pm. Where: The Mitchell Theatre at Sydney Mechanics’ School Of Arts 280 Pitt Street, Sydney – Tel…

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Beyond Biba

There’s yet another fashion documentary, this time about trendsetter Barbara Hulanicki, the woman behind Biba an iconic fashion store in London. Her stores changed the face of UK fashion in the 60s and 70s. Fingers crossed it gets screened here….

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Coco Chanel film

I can’t wait to see Coco before Chanel coming out this Thursday 25th. Isn’t gorgeous Audrey Tautou the perfect choice to portray fashion icon Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel? Haven’t been this excited since this great film was released!

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2008 Italian Film Festival

Starting tomorrow is the Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2008 at Palace Cinemas ( Norton Street, Leichardt and Academy Twin, Paddington) in Sydney (Sept 24 – Oct 12). Greg and I are sure to check out as many as we can…

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