What the fashion girlies are actually wearing

0:08This episode of Stylish is brought to you by Dan Murphy's find out what's new now and next when it comes to trending drinks. This is Stylish, the podcast for all things fashion, business, beauty and lifestyle. What is that place for, Rhiannon Joyce? You said business instead of brand. Whoa! But that's okay. That's fun. That's Friday's corner. I'm your host, Madison Sullivan Thorpe. I am joined by my lovely Joanna Fleming and Rhiannon Joyce. Happy Wednesday. Happy Wednesday. Happy Wednesday. stay. Look, I know we have a format that we usually sort of follow and that we like to end with, but I need to get something off my chest.

0:47I am obsessed with off campus. I am sick. I have never been this obsessed with anything. I've seen this advertised, I think. Can you give me a little synopsis? I would love to do nothing more than to give you quite a big synopsis. Go on then. If you want to feel the feeling of what it felt like the first time you ever fell in love, watch Off Campus. Like this show is on Amazon Prime. I am obsessed. I'm sick. All good men are written by women. We know this by the summer I turn pretty. We know this by this. Look, Conrad walked so that Garrett Graham could fucking sprint. Like this guy is that hot.

1:31Like from now on people are like, oh, what's your type? that. It is that. If you see me at a hockey ring every weekend, you know why. Like, guys, the energy in the room is palpable. Like, Jo and I are like so. I just made eye contact. Like, is she okay? I've got the sweats like if I was like at a buffet. Like, it's unbelievable. I binge watched all eight episodes. We went up to Sydney last week, did a stylish Kelvin Klein event in the evening. I was like at dinner with this, like, yeah, yeah, yeah, ready to wrap, ready to wrap it up, ready to wrap it up. All I could think about for probably the last half an hour of dinner was getting back to the hotel, quickly having a shower and getting back into bed to keep watching it.

2:12Mads, if you don't get an Amazon Prime partnership after this, something's wrong. I just have to say, like, it got me thinking though, because I haven't been into a TV show for such a long time. Although I do love Landman also. Yeah, but you love Landman, but the way you just pitched for this show was like nothing I've ever seen before. I haven't seen this level of excitement from you about a TV show since The Summer I Turned Pretty. Like you're like, let's go. I'm jazzed up. Jazzed up, jacked up, whatever. Whatever. My whole thing about this show and what I loved about it was I think it's been a long time since I've just let myself, probably like I did with The Summer I Turned Pretty, but because they were drip feeding, it was like that one hour a week.

2:53I just let myself not want to be productive. Like I feel like everything this year is like being about more efficient or being smarter or trying harder. And I'm like, I just minced on the couch and I was like, what a joy, what a little pocket of happiness. And it got me thinking about like all those happiness non-negotiables that you have. And I was like, maybe my happiness non-negotiable is that I'm going to give myself permission just to do the thing that's not efficient or productive and just fucking fun. Binge the TV show. Enjoy it. I love having a little show. I love having a little show.

3:26How devastating is it when your show finishes? And you're like, what am I going to do next? I've already started re-watching it. Have you? Yeah. Last night I just chucked a little epigame. I haven't watched it yet. Everyone is talking about it. My point is, like those little happiness non-negotiables, what are yours? Like is there something that you're like, that you're either doing or that you want to do that's like your little, luff? Oh, God. What gets you jazzed and jacked? What gets me jazzed and jacked? I quite like that. J &J, jazzed and jacked. And, oh, my God, mine is so boring. Do you know what?

4:00Can I give you a recent one that isn't something I do all the time, but last week really served my inner child. I was at the airport flying to Sydney, and there is a little Popmart vending machine there. Have you seen this at Melbourne Airport? No, I have. And Popmart is the brand that famously launched Le Boo Boo's and all these other little, I don't know, like collectible figurine things. So I just stopped and had a little look, and I was, you know, perusing and going, oh, I was a big Powerpuff Girl fan when I was younger, and they had their own iteration of the Powerpuff girls that are like these little key chains and they have like the big eyes and are exaggerating.

4:30They're like a crybaby range. So I went, you know what? I'm going to spend 22 bucks and I'm going to buy one of these little Powerpuff toys and I hope I get the one I want. I didn't, but the process itself was really joyful and fun. And you know, I was on a work trip. It was like quite high pressure going to Sydney. And I took this five to 10 minutes to serve my inner child and it brought me so much joy. So that's mine. Good on you. Serve your inner child. So it doesn't have to be that specific, but that's my tip. That's cute. What's yours? Mine at the moment is that I found a fondue kit at the back of the cupboard that I got probably for my 21st or something.

5:05It was like a Maxwell and Williams one. And you put a little tea candle in the bottom of it and you melt chocolate in the top. And we've just been cutting up strawberries to watch our show at night and dipping the strawberries into the fondue and just having it with melted chocolate. Okay, Max Brenner.

5:20Do you remember going there when you were younger? I'm not even joking. There's a Max Brenner at High Point. Stop. Which is like near my house. And I genuinely have been to Max Brenner recently. Because of it. You've reignited the flame. Yes. I love it. I love the waffles at Max Brenner. So you could combine Maddie's little moment and your moment and make a super moment. 100%. That is my super moment every night is having a show and my little fondue. Do you know what? I think at the core of all of this, it's remembering that we're adults with free will. Yes. And happiness, you can like lean in.

5:50Yeah. You truly can. Like last Monday I was at dinner with a girlfriend of mine and she was like, what an ice cream. And I'm like, it's Monday night. And she was like, we're actually adults. We can drive to go and get an ice cream. So we did. I frequent Yochi work once a week. I love it there. Love it. I'm the oldest person there. Don't care. It's like a club in there. It's great. And you're the only one not on a date. Well, I'm always with Lou, so technically. Date night. Oh, Mads, thanks for bringing a little moment of happiness. That's all right. I can't recommend it enough, obviously. Clearly.

6:19Is that your swap for today? or can we skip you? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, okay, you want to go? You know, there's more to go. There's a build. Go first. Are we going to talk about what we're talking about on today's episode first? Yeah, yeah, sure. You want me to do that? Well, I'm looking at you going, yeah, well, while you're here. I feel like I've spoken a lot. Today we have a trend report directly from our boots on the ground journalism from none other than Naima and Anika who attended Australian Fashion Week. We were the media partner. We were. Small little clap for the team there. That's very much small little clap from my team, Emma and G, because they spearheaded a lot of that.

6:52Whoop, whoop, razor proof. And Esther and Socials, who's executed so much good stuff. So much good stuff coming out of the stylish team. Well done. Well done, stylish team. Honestly, I'm so excited for this. We've got some little sound bites to hear. We haven't heard them yet, so I'm quite excited. Then we're going to talk about celebrity partnerships, and there is one that is on my mind, Sabrina Carpenter. A bit of recency bias there, Mads. Maybe a little bit. So fair, though. She's everywhere. Everywhere. And she deserves to be right now. But first, we'll get into the swap. I will save mine for last because I was naughty and brought a bonus swap.

7:25Well, you do that every week. We all do that every week. It was more that you said it so emphatically with so much passion that it was justified. Yeah. Thank you for giving me this whole pass. Yeah. Okay, Jo, you can go first. Okay. Mine is for the girlies that travel a lot or create content or just need better bathroom lighting. you're going to hit all three of these with this particular product which I purchased last week and these are the full loom lights now these are like a strip light with a what do you call it a suction cup on the back so there's like two kind of like our sticky phones yes yes but it's a light and so I bought two of them because I'm about to move house and I'm not going to have my usual lighting set up for filming content in my bathroom which is very precise it's in like my cupboard and everything.

8:11So I needed something that was going to stick to the mirror and I'm not going to have a lot of storage, which is in the bathroom, which is going to be a little bit problematic, but we'll deal with that. Anyway, I bought these full loom lights and they have like a temperature setting. They have, you can like turn up the intensity of the light as well. And if you need something that you can take traveling, there's no cords. It's just rechargeable. You just stick them to the mirror and you've got perfect lighting. Watch your fucking back, James Charles. I was thinking I would sell that light on Amazon.

8:37I'd rather if you didn't refer to me as James Charles right now. Bye, sister. That's what Jo is saying to you right now. I'm like, absolutely not. Sorry, Jo. I'm going to go with the Alex Zell comparison. That's really true. I don't know. YouTube back. Rae, what's yours? Okay. Mine sounds random, but bear with me. I was traveling last week. I was staying in a hotel. I'm notorious for sleeping terribly when I'm in a hotel. Like I have to make a lot of little changes to my sleep routine. I have to have the shades down, but only so there's like a slither of light because I do like natural light when I wake up.

9:08And I find in hotels, you can almost, it can be too dark. And then I wake up feeling really discombobulated and like, where am I? Yeah. I also take ages to get to sleep. So in the hotel, I stayed at the Eve in Sydney and they had this Akari deep sleep tonic. It is so good. And it's like straight from the sachet, shove it in your mouth. I think you're actually supposed to put it in water, but I just sucked it out. Wait, has it? Oh, okay. I think Arnica swapped this in. She has. It's a bloody unreal. Yeah. Rhi had told me all about it. and so I was like so excited to have the wine down service at the eve to try this.

9:42It's unbelievable. So good. It tastes a little strange. Like I don't know. What was the flavour of it? You and I were going through the ingredients and it was almost like a – It has like a – It's like a lavender sort of taste to it but it's a bit licorice-y. Okay. I can't remember exactly. It won't come to me but when it does later in the shower randomly I'll be like, that's annoying. But I use them back to back each night so much so the third night they gave me two because they were like, clearly this girl loves this. So I got two and I'm stoked. I've also just ordered a pack as well for when I'm traveling overseas because I'm going in like three weeks.

10:13So I'm set. I'm obsessed with them. Okay. Yeah, great. Way to sell you into a product while you're staying there. Great strategy because you're trialing that sampling element with that and you're like, oh, okay, now I'm sold. 100 % agree on that. I think that is just like sampling 101. Also, I really like their hand wash and lotion. I have that in my bathroom. I have that in my bathroom as well. My mother-in-law bought it for us for Christmas. If you don't like coriander though, you will not like it because the coriander smell is like quite potent. Are people still on the I hate coriander thing?

10:40Yes, unfortunately, my own husband. I feel like people are really, really passionate about coriander. Yeah. Yes, I'm passionate for coriander. Me too. I don't mind it. All right, next we're going to be diving into our Fashion Week trend report, but that's right after a word from today's sponsor. Did you want my swap? Oh, sorry. Oh, my God. No, you're an EA one. Sorry. Cut that. I don't think cut that. I didn't keep that in. What's a swap, Mads? Off-campus playlist is so good. I'm gonna say it's better than the summer I term pretty. I think because they had Taylor, we thought it was great. The budget was not held back on this playlist.

11:18Can you give me a little teaser? Like who's headlining this playlist? Okay, so we have got everything from like Suki Waterhouse to like G Flip to Elton John to ACDC. Wow. Okay. So there are some like really good ACD bangers that like I listen to to get jazzed up jacked up so like when dancing with myself the bitch is back by elton john is like arguably the best song if you're having a shit morning to just put on and like switch the bitch honestly i've had it on repeat it's diverse it's great it's fun lady gaga's in there jenny's in there like i'm just it's a diverse mix and it scratches all the right parts so if maybe a gaping hole is left in your spirit because the series is over or you'll be watching it again chuck the playlist on i'm really gonna need to carve out some time to binge this series find your pocket of happiness and get your fondue out i certainly will and next we'll be diving into our fashion week trend report but that's right after a word from today's sponsor we are well and truly entering winter here in australia but the drop in temperature is not the only telling sign winter for us means our coats are on high rotation we're spending a lot more time curled up on the couch or hosting friends at home.

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12:59When it comes to trying something new this winter, Dan Murphy's is the place to go. Remember to choose to drink wise and thank you so much to Dan Murphy's for making this episode of Stylish possible. So boots on the ground, as you said Mads at Fashion Week, Naima and Annika were our go-to correspondents. I mean Annika, shout out to her. I saw her during the week and she was doing everything and being everywhere. And also shout out to James. The perfect dynamic and the most like, they're just incredible as a couple. And they had baby Poppy. They're like the way that they were just working so that Annika could do it all was amazing.

13:33So I tip my hat to both of them. And Rae, you were there. I mean, you looked great as well. I think we should give you a little shout out. Look after look after look. It was the eyeliner. It's always the eyeliner. It's always the eyeliner. I didn't say it, but what did the whole table say in unison? eyeliner. Ree, you were there when Annika and Naima were lucky enough to interview Bianca Spender. I'd love to just like hear a little bit about that because we weren't lucky enough to be there. First and foremost, both of them did an amazing job at interviewing. We were a bit thrown off because we were actually rained out.

14:05So we were supposed to have the experience live on the lawn. So that was a little bit stressful because the weather in Sydney, classic every single time I go to Sydney, we got rained out. So we had to relocate so fine. The girl was like cool as a cucumber, took it in their stride, just engaged so well with Bianca and the dynamic was amazing. She is an amazing storyteller. She gave really thoughtful answers, really lent into the storytelling. She shared a lot of her inspiration and was really open and engaging with the crowd. So that was the brief summary of the chat with Bianca Spender. But what I do want to get into is Naima has some really good insights into the street style, because even I noticed this compared to previous years, is that everyone turned up to serve a look, not just influencers.

14:44I'm talking everyone. Like there was such an eclectic mix. I'm really keen to hear what Nymer has to say. It was really interesting seeing a few of Annika's predictions from the last episode really be translated into the street style. But I thought everyone had like a really personal approach to how they incorporated the trends into their outfits, which was so fun and interesting to see. What caught my eye? I loved the fun accessories. I saw a lot of sheiling. I saw a lot of fur. I saw a lot of fringing and we kind of saw that come across in like really fun jackets. So big trench coats with, you know, sheiling collars.

15:20We saw big sheiling bags and then you saw a lot of fringing across that jacket and bag category as well. Suede and leather materials. I saw a lot of fun tights. So red, blue, tartan check. I saw tights on everyone. It looked so good with like more of a monochrome outfit with a pop of colour. It just like instantly I felt like stopped me in my path. Okay, so Annika's a clairvoyant. Are we surprised? Because that's literally everything she said in the previous episode. So good to have Annika. How good having someone in the industry. It's crazy. It's like she's so on the pulse. I feel like I saw so much of this, lots of the bags in particular, which I know we've spoken about integrating colour and little pops during winter, I feel like I saw so much of that coming through in the street style pics that I saw from the comfort of my couch at home.

16:11I saw a lot of pop of colour, especially in shoes. I really tried to lean into that as well, taking my own advice for this winter period. But it was also the sequins for me, both on the runway and also in the street style. People are really embracing sequins. It adds a really nice femininity to it. I really like it. Yeah. I think it might have been Nima said something to me about six months ago, like, oh, you're such a sequins girl. And I was like, me? No. And then I was like, wait, I do love a sequin. I always find your sequins on the ground when we're out at events. I'm like, hey, you dropped one.

16:44Where is she? Yeah, literally. Follow the yellow brick road. There was also a bit of a pan style we saw everywhere. I saw a lot of capris. I know Annika predicted that too, but I saw a lot in that kind of like black lycra exercise style back with heels and cool leather bombers. I really love that silhouette that I saw everywhere. It was kind of that like nice little juxtaposition. Speaking of bombers, I saw a lot of leather bombers everywhere. But what was fun about this year is that we saw it in lots of colours, not just black. So I saw a lot of reds, deep greens, dark blues. I love that like injection of colour with something that is quite like trusty jacket shape that we've seen quite a lot already this year.

17:27The capris everywhere. I don't know if I can do a capri, but I love it on other people. I saw two creators the other day at the same event. They're both wearing the Glassons capri pants in a different color and they both looked phenomenal in them. But then I was like, how would that look on me? I don't know. I don't know that I can do it, but I like two people that I've seen it on and adore it is Jackie Alexander and Adele Petropolis. Yes, Adele. I literally saw her wearing the pants. Perfect. I mean, Hayley Bieber's been wearing them for like a solid year. I feel like this has like been in her wardrobe DNA and we're seeing it come through, but I like it when it's done with like an oversized bomber or something so that it doesn't feel like, I don't know, the contrast of shapes.

18:07Yeah. Tight and a bit loose. Do you think you could do a capri wreath? Unfortunately, I don't. It's not that I don't think I could do them. I just, I'm like more of a barrel leg pant kind of girl. Like if I was to do a crop sort of style, I would opt for that barrel leg or I'd go like a wide leg or honestly, I'm a low rise girly. I see myself getting more into the skinny jean trend than anything else, to be honest. If that was to come back. Wow. That is a wild turn. I mean, Annika did say while we're in Sydney that the skinny jean is back. She did. So yeah, I could see myself embracing that more than the capri.

18:37I want to just come back to Nima's point around people wearing tights. I was lucky enough to attend the Nagnata show and a few creators who were there and also people in the industry were styled. I wasn't styled by Nagnata. But I was really curious to see how they were going to nail those looks because Nagnata, if you don't know, it's an active wear brand, but they really specialize in creating all of their products with natural fibers and they use majority wool. So when I arrived, I was pleasantly surprised to see a lot of the girls really embracing their styles in a way that actually looked like you could wear it out.

19:09And the way that they were able to dress up these outfits and make their active wear look like it was like ready to wear was really inspiring. And I, hand on heart, would have assumed coming into that, I was like, oh, how are you going to do that? Like that just feels a little bit like it's forced but it wasn't all the girls out the front they looked amazing so this is creators or people this is creators who were attending so they were obviously styled and wearing the nagnata pieces but they were also wearing them with their own wardrobe so i think the intersection of being able to you know wear pieces from the collection but then also bring their own personal style into it it was really really cool yeah they do really cool stuff i love love nagnata so there is a melbourne personality i guess i'd call her a personality her name's Shirin Pulitano.

19:52And if there were like five wardrobes I could get into Melbourne, I would probably want to get into hers. She did like this really cool waxy, almost like mustard open trench coat that she had like quite undone with this incredible pointe shoe, which we know how I feel about a pointe after we had our square toe. And I absolutely loved that look. I was actually really into a lot of the Vogue team's outfits. I was really following along their social series, how they were capturing shows. I just thought they all looked really cool. Obviously, they would have been working a lot on site. So there was an element of practicality in a lot of their outfits as well, which I really respected, given that they're industry people.

20:30It was less about dressing up for the cameras and more about dressing up to show up and do their job. But they looked cool. Gladys looked unreal. Unreal. Can I just give an honourable mention to someone that didn't mean to attend Fashion Week, but did attend Fashion Week? My king. Okay, so for those that didn't see it, there was a man that walked onto, I don't know what beach was it? It was Commons. It was Tamarama, which is in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. Yeah. So the fashion label Commons chose to hold their fashion show on the beach at Tamarama. Tamarama beach. And this guy, it's literally in the middle of a fashion show.

21:08And he's like, you know what? I don't care that it's the middle of the runway. I'm going to also use these stairs. Do you know what? Fair game because it is a public space. Yes. So it was, I kind of understood where he was coming from. And then the best part was, I saw a video posted by Violet Grace on TikTok and she's filming him like stretching in the water and it's got the overlay of that song. I'm fucking crazy. And I was like losing it. It was so funny. I actually loved nothing as much as all the people who were there kind of just lent into taking footage of him. Maggie's out also had a video and was like my point of view.

21:39And I was like, I just love that. Like the TikTok phenomenon just kept building. Like what a king. I think everyone saw an opportunity and they were like, oh, this will be good on TikTok. And Common's got a lot of earned media out of that. So they'll be very, very happy. Although they weren't talking about the show, but coverage is coverage. I think at the time they would have been like, oh my God, what is going on? But then as they started to see it blow up, they would be like, actually, this is probably good. Yeah. Perfect moment to lean in. Speaking of shows, who did we love? Look, I have a very soft spot in my heart for Tony Namatachevsky.

22:09I think he's just done the most incredible job making really beautiful sculptural pieces over the years. He hasn't shown at Australian Fashion Week for years and I thought his show was spectacular. Another designer, Mariam Sadiq, she had the most insane black strapless dress and it was almost like, it was like if tinsel and fringing had a baby and she did this beautiful like neck piece that matched it as well. That dress was insane. I don't know where I'm wearing it, but I need it and I then will find the occasion to wear it. I believe in that. I was really pleased to see as well, like such a big turnout for Australian Fashion Week because it was looking like we weren't going to have a fashion week.

22:52Like was that 12 months ago now? Gosh, I think the last update we gave on that was earlier this year when it was announced that the Australian Fashion Council was technically like saving the day when it came to, you know, hosting and like putting the funding behind the actual event itself. And in this economy, it's lucky that that actually happened and that this event was still able to go ahead and we're able to celebrate the local designers that we do have in Australia, which are phenomenal. One thing I do want to talk about, and I did see this at a few shows. Again, I only attended Nagnata, but I did follow up with a lot of the press and coverage of all of them.

23:24I will say I was quite disappointed with the lack of body diversity across the runways. There is a long way to go. Despite incremental growth, and I will say that I would say the age diversity and also the ethnicity diversity at the shows that I, at Nagnata, was very good. And more broadly speaking, from what I saw in press releases and images that followed. But yeah, there's still definitely work to do. Okay, next we are discussing how celebrities use partnerships with designers to shape their image, but that's right after a word from today's sponsor. If you get overwhelmed at the thought of planning cocktails for your next dinner party, or even choosing a bottle of red wine for your weekend on the couch.