Fashion shoots don't always try to push boundaries. But when they do, they tend to push them hard or risk the failure of going unnoticed. With a title like City Of God, surrealistically perverse settings, and liberal splashings of nudity, Mario Sorrenti's pictorial for V Magazine may strike you as blasphemous. I can't help but feel there's a safety net for Sorrenti and the magazine, though, in the labelling of the shoot as a tribute to The Holy Mountain, Alejandro Jodorowsky's twisted piece of 1973 celluloid art. The controversy is still Jodorowsky's; just modernised and captured in glossy print.

If you've ever watched The Holy Mountain (which I, for some odd reason, have) the pictorial, which features Natasha Poly, may make a little more sense to you. But only a little.

Entire Article: Read it by clicking The Holy Mountain of fashion.

Related Pictures (6 in total): See them by clicking Natasha Poly: V Magazine 67, Fall 2010 (NSFW) or read up on fall 2010 fashion trends if you're not keen on the pictures.

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Two-tone jeans and a fringed top paired with little else gave Trimapee's spring 2010 opening at Melbourne fashion week (MSFW) an impact worthy of a label of their standing. Retain their trademark aesthetic without compromise they did, but, particularly amongst the women's component of the parade, there are still pieces to be had for the fashioniser whose tastes simply aren't as 'Melbourne'.

Entire Article: Read it by clicking Trimapee: on target, broader appeal.

Related Pictures (44 in total): See them by clicking Trimapee Spring / Summer 2010 (MSFW) or read up on fall 2010 fashion trends if you're not keen on the pictures.

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When Tom Ford made the leap from fashion design to filmmaking, we expected there'd be lots to love. But bringing so much more than just impeccable fashion to the screen, Ford's directorial debut - A Single Man - had many pining for a retro-furnished redwood retreat with an open plan layout and glass frontage. Designed by architect John Lautner in 1949, the house at the centre of the film is the ultimate bachelor pad; nestled at the bottom of a woodland valley and yet 15 minutes from downtown LA.

Entire Article: Read it by clicking A Single Man's residence for sale.

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In a week where Melbourne has turned out little but torrential, wet weather, Arabella Ramsay gave 2010's Melbourne fashion week (MSFW) a collection of mostly effortless pieces that left me with a strange desire to stamp a foot and demand a proper onset of spring into the city.

Entire Article: Read it by clicking Arabella Ramsay: bring on spring.

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Repeating patterns, bold prints, and simplicity: Limedrop offered 2010's Melbourne fashion week (MSFW) a little bit of each without ever opting to play it safe by pigeonholing a particular style to a gender. Hitting the runway, a bold print for men would be followed by subdued stripes and then subtler linen, though it was a shirt dress of wafting proportions that married both the collection's simplistic and standout elements.

Entire Article: Read it by clicking Limedrop spring 2010.

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Socks in heels fused with clogs on Gorman's Spring 2010 catwalk. A different look indeed, but definitely not one off-the-mark for the coming season, though the styling did leave me miffed. Yes, such foot and sock wear pairings worked with the collection's bobby sox an polka dot looks, but I certainly wouldn't advise you to pair them with the collection's pastels and 70s fashion elements in any hurry.

Entire Article: Read it by clicking Gorman's summer palette.

Related Pictures (37 in total): See them by clicking Gorman Spring / Summer 2010 (MSFW) or read up on fall 2010 fashion trends if you're not keen on the pictures.

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Here's yet another play on the lace dress as a trend: black lace overlaid on a nude slip, with the addition of 3-dimensional black flowers across it.

Entire Article: Read it by clicking Lacy in 3D.

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With gorgeous styling that draws in clashing prints of vintage florals and polka dots, and a colour palette of sherbet pinks and lemon yellows, this pictorial for Fiasco just gives you that breath of new Spring air. And nothing gives an injection of youthfulness better than some cowboys and indians dressups.

Pino Gomes photographed the shoot, while the beautiful styling was by Patrick Hausermann.

Entire Article: Read it by clicking Vintage prints and playfulness.

Related Pictures (7 in total): See them by clicking Natt Mitrovic: Fiasco, September/October 2010 or read up on fall 2010 fashion trends if you're not keen on the pictures.

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Windswept hair and red lips: a simply stunning Freja Beha Erichsen, captured by Tommy Ton.

Entire Article: Read it by clicking Wind-swept Freja.

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Abstract prints may have been a large part of Nevenka's Spring 2010 collection, but it was the infusion of white that set itself apart. A women's collection for high-summer if you live in Melbourne, or all of spring / summer 2010 if you live most anywhere else in the country.

Entire Article: Read it by clicking Nevenka: standout whites.

Related Pictures (42 in total): See them by clicking Nevenka Spring / Summer 2010 (MSFW) or read up on fall 2010 fashion trends if you're not keen on the pictures.

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The move away from the mod / Brit-rock look that helped define Jack London continues with their spring 2010 collection, with the move taking them to a look from a less obvious era of fashion inspiration.

Entire Article: Read it by clicking Jack London: moving on.

Related Pictures (28 in total): See them by clicking Jack London Spring / Summer 2010 (MSFW) or read up on fall 2010 fashion trends if you're not keen on the pictures.

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Statement earrings by Alexandra Blak dominating the features of models pounding to a cover (and not a great one, either) of Robert Palmer, and lace to immodest effect added up to a spring / summer 2010 collection from Manning Cartell that seemed to come to us from a period of somewhere between the 80s and 90s. Not that it was a collection without merit, nor one that will fail to find an audience.

Entire Article: Read it by clicking Manning Cartell: 80s cum 90s.

Related Pictures (31 in total): See them by clicking Manning Cartell Spring / Summer 2010 (MSFW) or read up on fall 2010 fashion trends if you're not keen on the pictures.

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Always a store that helps define Melbourne's fashion scene for a season, their summer catwalk showing may have featured a women's line-up of high waists and exposed shoulders, but Fat's spring 2010 catwalk was owned by just one piece: a white, cross-backed bodysuit.

For Melbourne's male scenesters their hat tip towards an Americanised military fashion seemed like a last hoorah, given the style has evolved to new military for next season.

Entire Article: Read it by clicking Fat's picks for the city's summer.

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Remember the paper cutouts that provided so much pleasure for you long before you discovered the joys of shopping? above. have managed to translate that look into their spring 2010 collection for a potentially as as edgy take on the cutout trend. Naturally they've applied the effect broadly, and you'll find that you're able to weave it into your wardrobe by way of shirts, blazers and playsuits. An experimentation with the cut of clothes it was, but the only concept above. infused their collection with it wasn't. And with other pieces that felt like a melding between a dressing gown and streetwear, above. presented a Melbourne fashion week (MSFW) catwalk that was largely an experimentation with preconceived notions of silhouettes and cuts.

Entire Article: Read it by clicking above.: paper cutout memories.

Related Pictures (47 in total): See them by clicking above Spring / Summer 2010 (MSFW) or read up on fall 2010 fashion trends if you're not keen on the pictures.

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Of late, Alpha60 have had a penchant for prints that have me doing a double take, their blown out colouring leaving me uncertain of exactly what the print was actually depicting. Case in point: the opening print for their spring 2010 collection. At this stage, and I can't be sure if it was impacted on by the Laurent-Perrier, I'm still not certain what the opening print was: a smiley face inspired by Heath Ledger's Joker, an owl, or perhaps a Rorschach test. The magic of publishing means that I shan't be certain until Allan's pictures of tonight's catwalk are online, and that shan't be till long after I've scribbled these thoughts with my trusty Montblanc pen while sitting through the actual show.

Prints of an ambiguos nature aside, Alpha60 are put forwards a collection of man-made fibres during Melbourne fashion week (MSFW); in particular man-made fibres with a sheen. And both the sheen and fibres worked best on the repetitive, non-double-take patterns worked into various pieces, such as a printed take on chainmail that drew you in as if a fractal.

Entire Article: Read it by clicking Alpha60: summer with a sheen.

Related Pictures (57 in total): See them by clicking Alpha 60 Spring / Summer 2010 (MSFW) or read up on fall 2010 fashion trends if you're not keen on the pictures.

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It's been a while since we've had the pleasure of featuring work by photographer Taylor James, so I was more than pleased to stumble across this gypsy-inspired shoot of his today. I'm not sure what I love more: the flowing hippy hair or the uber-cool bohemian styling by Mila Franovic. Either way, it's more than worth a click through.

Entire Article: Read it by clicking Gypsy queen.

Related Pictures (16 in total): See them by clicking Janice by Taylor James or read up on fall 2010 fashion trends if you're not keen on the pictures.

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young&restless is a fitting name for the collaboration between designer Ashburn Eng and Singaporean label max.tan. There's a darkness to the theming, a heaviness to the materials and colour palette that bring the 'restless' component to the otherwise youthful and figure-hugging forms. But the key word in all of this is the former: theme. Titled 'Ritual' the draping fabrics and pentagon motifs add edge to an ultimately clean and sophisticated collection.

Entire Article: Read it by clicking young&restless spellbinding for Fall 2010.

Related Pictures (11 in total): See them by clicking young&restless Autumn/Winter 2010 lookbook or read up on fall 2010 fashion trends if you're not keen on the pictures.

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It's a pretty big call, but Elle UK think they've managed to single out the 25 most key clothing pieces of all time and work them into one big (and admittedly stunning) shoot. So how do Elle turn key pieces into key styling ideas? Take some cropped cigarette pants and a cashmere sweater, some Breton stripes, or a shearling aviator jacket and watch the rocking '50s looks pour forth; while the sexy '60s is represented by bombshell corsetry and full skirts with cinched in waists. Whatever the look, whatever the setting, Coco Rocha shines and David Vasiljevic's photography captures every movement in theatrical style.

Entire Article: Read it by clicking Oh, Coco: 25 key pieces.

Related Pictures (13 in total): See them by clicking Coco Rocha: Elle UK, October 2010 or read up on fall 2010 fashion trends if you're not keen on the pictures.

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