Jane Eyre

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Dress: Anthea Crawford guipure lace, satin

Sandals: Jo Mercer leather with chrome buckles

Bag: French Connection vinyl with chrome hardware

Scarf: Gift, tie dye silk (from Salamanca Markets)

Bangles: Autograph Fashion chrome

Ring: Inkuku Fair Trade onyx

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"I am no bird & no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."

Finally sharing all the pictures of an outfit that I styled up to attend a recent performance of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre at the Queensland Performing Arts Complex (QPAC). Despite being written in 1847, the gothic masterpiece depicting the life & passionate romance of spirited & courageous orphan-turned-governess Jane & the brilliant yet brooding Rochester at the foreboding Thornfield Hall remains both searingly relevant & bitingly pertinent for today's audience, dealing with issues of feminism & gender, love & lust, freedom & entrapment, traditionalism versus modernity, as well as the abuse of power within the religious & wider community. This particular iteration - a spectacular rendition faithfully retold yet fiercely original, as expected of the nationally-recognised Shake & Stir Theatre Company - was nothing short of a revelation & in my opinion, certainly did justice to Bronte's original work, interestingly enough first published under the "masculine" nom de plume of Currer Bell.

With all that in mind, I donned a more streamlined silhouette than usual in the form of a vibrant green floral guipure lace shift dress with black satin lining from celebrated Australian designer Anthea Crawford, a pair of black leather heeled sandals with chrome buckles from Jo Mercer, a black vinyl barrel handbag with chrome hardware from French Connection with divine green & blue tie dyed silk scarf (gifted to me by a dear friend who saw it at the Salamanca Markets & thought I would love it) wrapped around the handles for a pop of brightness, a pair of chunky woven chrome bangles from Autograph Fashion & finally, a square cocktail ring made from faceted black onyx that I picked up many years ago now from a store called Inkuku Fair Trade.

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