Deco Darling

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Dress: Asos Design textured polyblend

Flats: Wittner metallic leather

Bag: Forever New vinyl, suede with gold hardware

Bangle: Dinosaur Designs malachite resin

Ring: Dinosaur Designs malachite resin

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It was all yellow... well, almost, in this utterly divine lemon-hued textured polyblend wrap dress with puffy sleeves & midi-length hemline from Asos Design, worn to immerse myself in everything artistic at the traveling Art Deco exhibit (comprised entirely of works from the National Gallery of Australia) currently on display at the Ipswich Art Gallery before heading to my all-time favourite local haunt, Fourth Child, for a delicious family lunch & finishing the morning with some outdoor furniture shopping. To make the dress truly pop, I styled it up with a pair of gold metallic leather flats with ankle straps & pointy-toes from Wittner, a circular olive vinyl & suede crossbody bag with gold hardware from Forever New to carry all the essentials & finally, a matching chunky malachite resin bangle & ring from celebrated Aussie label Dinosaur Designs.

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Never can resist a quick twirl...

Sampling the Crispy Snapper with Asian Noodles & Salad, washed down with my usual "Shirley Temple" drink (ginger ale & grenadine with cherries or strawberries)

Lemon Meringue Pie for dessert

Evidently adding "mirror selfies" to the growing list of things I can't resist...

A Generous Life

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Dress: Asos Design vegan leather, silver zipper

Heels: Wittner perforated leather

Bag: French Connection suede with silver hardware

Watch: Montville Woods Gallery maple wood, silver

Hinged Bangle: Precious Stones Jewellers silver

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So excited to be finally sharing all the photographs from a morning spent immersed in the Margaret Olley: A Generous Life exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) at Southbank. The multi-faceted showcase features more than one hundred eclectic works by one of Australia's most beloved painters while celebrating her eccentric life & legacy as an artist, mentor, muse, donor & passionate collector.

For the occasion, I was inspired by Margaret's trail-blazing creativity to wear something that was, quite frankly, completely "out of the box" & different from my usual style - a fawn-coloured, vegan leather midi dress with pin-tucked bust area, puffy sleeves & silver zipper (reminiscent of Myrna Loy's wardrobe in "The Thin Man" films of the 1930s) from avant garde diffusion line, Asos Design, black perforated leather peep-toe booties from Wittner, black suede boxy handbag with oversized silver handles from French Connection to carry all the essentials, a chunky maple wood watch from Montville Woods Gallery & a silver, art-deco-inspired hinged bangle from Precious Stones Jewellers.

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Nothing like finishing the morning with a juicy burger for lunch at Brooklyn Depot...