We usually flag the top posts of the previous 12 months on Frockwriter’s July 4 birthday each year. This year we opted instead to focus on some of the challenges – and frustrations – of trying to maintain an independent news blog, whilst avoiding getting sucked into the vortex of the blogger gravy train. So here […]
Continue readingmelise williams, charlie brown AW13 backstage, auckland, september 2012 Just a quick one to say Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of frockwriter’s readers. It’s been a bit of a watershed year for this blog – one during which, as many know, we took the controversial step of introducing a metered paywall. Oops. Unable to support […]
Continue readingSo far in frockwriter’s New Faces series, we’ve met models who were scouted while riding their horses, at a bus stop, even on Facebook. Three weeks ago Chadwick Models agent Jaime McHugh spotted 19 year-old Sydneysider Kaitlin Carter at Central train station. both images: supplied by chadwick Considering her photogenic features and notably, her height – […]
Continue readingmadison stubbington via IMG models australia Ever since news broke of IMG Models’ intention to open up down under, the Australian modelling industry has been nervously awaiting further intel about precisely which direction the company plans to take in this market. First Chic Management general manager Danielle Ragenard defected to head up the new agency (she […]
Continue readingrichard freeman for KAREN magazine It’s been a big year for Kimbra. Two Grammy nominations, five New Zealand Music Awards, three ARIAs, two APRAs, 38million views of her own YouTube channel – not to mention 354million views of her cameo in Somebody That I Used to Know, the global hit penned by her Belgralian buddy Gotye, […]
Continue readingAchingly cool, impeccably pulled-together, kitted out in killer brands…. we know what they look like in the front row, at launch parties and out-and-about on street-style blogs. But exactly what do Australian style mavens – and maestros – wear when they’re just hanging out, far from the madding fashion crowd? Frockwriter puts this question to […]
Continue readingFascinating to hear just how models get scouted. So far in frockwriter’s New Faces series, modelling hopefuls have been spotted riding their horses, on Facebook, at a bus stop and enrolled in a grooming course paid for by grandma. In the case of indigenous beauty Martika Walford, she can thank her boarding school for bringing her to […]
Continue readingTwo years ago, when she was 14, April Tiplady’s grandmother bought her a grooming course at Adelaide’s Finesse Models to help her confidence. Last week she was signed to IMG Models worldwide. Literally, that’s how quickly things have happened for the 5’10” Adelaide 16 year old, who became a topic of discussion over dinner last […]
Continue readingAustralia’s Next Top Model is back in the news with this morning’s announcement that former Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins is the new host for Cycle 8, which commences production in January. But while AusNTM has proven to be the most successful NTM franchise in the world in terms of springboarding international modelling careers – from […]
Continue readingsuzanne carbone via the age Well, well, well. In today’s update about our post on Andrej Pejic’s planned ensemble for Crown Oaks Day at Flemington, we spoke to everyone other than Melbourne milliner Kerrie Stanley. We spoke to Pejic, his mum, his agent and even designer Arthur Galan, asking why he was en route to […]
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