Suite Life

 

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Dress: Dream Sister Jane organza, satin, tulle

Heels: Forever New suede, wood

Bag: Olga Berg via Myer vinyl

Bangles: Gift, vintage silver

Bangle: Gift, engraved wood (from New Zealand)

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The festival of art continues on the blog with this latest post, chronicling a recent trip to the River City's Cultural Precint at Southbank for a ballet performance of Tchaikovsky's festive masterpiece "The Nutcracker Suite" - always a delightful Christmas tradition with its sumptuous costumes & oft-lauded musical score - followed by a quick sojourn to take in the view from the Kurilpa Bridge & peek at the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at both GOMA & the Queensland Art Gallery, celebrating its 10th year with more than 69 thought-provoking & emotional projects of new & recent work from more than 150 individuals in 30 countries. 

After such a difficult year, it was wonderful to be able to just walk around & immerse myself in all things art & culture, swishing my way through the day wearing a stunning & voluminous blush pink organza, satin & tulle shirred & puff-sleeved midi-length smock dress from whimsical British label Sister Jane's premium diffusion line, Dream Sister Jane that left me feeling like Clara Stahlbaum herself! I styled it up with a pair of sky-high blush suede slingbacks with wooden stacked heels & buckles from Forever New for a modicum of height, carried a boxy blush vinyl handbag from Olga Berg via Myer filled with all the essentials including my mask & hand sanitizer & layered up with accessories that all have serious sentimental value - a stack of handmade silver bangles (7 in total) given to me by some dear friends & a square wooden bangle engraved with the Elvish script from the ring in "The Lord of the Rings" - One ring to rule them all; one ring to find them; one ring to bring them all & in the darkness, bind them - that someone special brought back from a recent trip to the place where Peter Jackson filmed Tolkein's immortal trilogy in New Zealand to complete the look.

Scroll down to see how it all unfolded...