2012 MBFWA

The Sugar Editors Shop the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Australia Runway: What We Want to Buy from Ellery, Bec & Bridge + More!
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2012 MBFWA: Our Editors Shop the Fashion Week Runway

After carefully nutting out the top trends and hottest hues from Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Australia, there's only one thing left to do: put together our new season shopping lists!
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After carefully nutting out the top trends and hottest hues from Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Australia, there's only one thing left to do: put together our new season shopping lists! I quizzed the Sugar editors on which runway looks that moved them to place a pre-order, and the results are telling. There were definitely some stand-out shows from this year's fashion fest; Michael Lo Sordo, Bec & Bridge and Ellery obviously holding sway over what we want to wear come Spring/Summer 2013-13. Step inside to snoop the looks the Sugar crew will be lusting after/buying/paying off (!) in the coming months.

Manning Cartell Lisa Ho By Johny Ellery Bec & Bridge Ellery Bec & Bridge
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Top Eight Colour Trends from 2012 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Australia: Pink, Turquoise, White, Pastels, Neon + More!
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2012 MBFWA: Take the New Season Colour Wheel For a Spin!

Colour has got to be the fastest, most effective, most wearable way to get on trend.
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Colour has got to be the fastest, most effective, most wearable way to get on trend. Invest in a single item in a hot hue, and suddenly your whole ensemble gets injected with ooh-will-you-look-at-that newness. The best bit is once you know what shades are set to be big, you can buy up in shapes and style that you already adore and that flatter your figure. Genius, huh? To give you a head start on the shape shade of things to come, we've rounded up the biggest colour trends from2012 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Australia. Want more trend forecasting? Scope our ultimate runway report after familiarizing yourself with the new season colour rules.

White Out Christopher Esber Ginger & Smart Bec & Bridge Think Pink Carl Kapp Whitney EVE
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Meet the Fashion Week Front Row Street Style Winner of our Intel FabSugar Australia Winner: Elise Crossman!
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Meet Our Intel Front Row Street Style Winner from Fashion Week!

A big, fashionable Fab congrats goes out to Elise Crossman who won our Intel fashion week competition!
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A big, fashionable Fab congrats goes out to Elise Crossman who won our Intel fashion week competition! We asked for your best front row-worthy outfits, and our six well-dressed finalists certainly made it hard to pick a winner — but it was this Sydney-sider's way with two of this season's biggest trends, the animal print skinny and the ever-present peplum, that got her over the line. Elise popped by Fab H/O yesterday to take ownership of her brand spankin' new HP Ultrabook™ — Inspired by Intel, looking just as effortlessly stylish as she did in her submission snap. Hope you enjoy your prize, Elise!

Top Runway Trends from 2012 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Australia: Peplums, Neon, Prints, Pastels + more!
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2012 MBFWA: The Ultimate Runway Trend Report

Mercedes Benz Fashion Week may be done and dusted for another year, but we're still thinking about the new season trends that stalked the Spring/Summer runways.
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Mercedes Benz Fashion Week may be done and dusted for another year, but we're still thinking about the new season trends that stalked the Spring/Summer runways. From the omnipresent peplum to the only style of trouser to be seen in, photographic florals to pops of neon, this is your ultimate guide to next season's strongest looks. We might be staring down the barrel of Winter, but these warm-weather looks will be on high rotation in just a few months. Take the tour, and get ahead of the curve.

Graphic Florals Lisa Ho Sara Phillips Alice McCall Manning Cartell Michael Lo Sordo Zimmermann
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We Chat to Moda Operandi's Taylor Tomasi Hill During Fashion Week for Oroton
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Five Fab Minutes with Moda Operandi's Taylor Tomasi Hill

Not to get all weird and stalkerish, but Taylor Tomasi Hill is the kinda girl you want to be your best friend.
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Not to get all weird and stalkerish, but Taylor Tomasi Hill is the kinda girl you want to be your best friend. Friendly, down to eath, ridiculously stylish in that impossible to replicate, effortless kinda way, we were bowled over by how — well, normal — the super stylist was when we interviewed her during Fashion Week. Taylor is an industry superstar of sorts thanks to her flawless street style status (Tommy Ton is a fan), but her editorial CV proves she's more than just a front row fixture, clocking up time in the fashion departments of Teen Vogue, US Marie Claire, and now e-tailer Moda Operandi. Ms Tomasi Hill was flown in to lend her styling skills (again) to Oroton for the brand's MBFWA debut. Between ironing shirts backstage (yes — not her assistant) and posing for pics with die-hard fashion fans, we stole five minutes of the flame-haired Texan's time. We were warned that she wasn't super keen on interviews, but during our wee chat of the MCA steps Taylor was nothing but happy to chat; telling us about her about her gig at Moda, getting massages with her old boss in Bondi and why she won't be hitting the lecture circuit anytime soon. . .

How has it been working on the Oroton show? We pretty much have the same vision, in terms of the styling, so it’s been really easy.

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Top Five Wardrobe Updaters from Fashion's Week's Front Row: Shop Key Pieces from Yasmin Sewell, Jodi Gordon, Kate Waterhouse
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2012 MBFWA: Top Five Wardrobe Updaters To Steal From the Front Row

As much as we adore scoping the new season threads from the runways at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, the front row was just as perve-worthy.
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Top Five Wardrobe Updaters from Fashion's Week's Front Row: Shop Key Pieces from Yasmin Sewell, Jodi Gordon, Kate Waterhouse

As much as we adore scoping the new season threads from the runways at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, the front row was just as perve-worthy. The the 'fits sitting front row can be just as directional, and just as important for forecasting trends to come. We've taken the top five pieces from our most-stylish list and found similar, so you can invest now in the pieces that everyone else will be wearing in six months' time. Like that? We do. Get ahead of that curve.

A Graphic Floral A Two-Strap Stiletto A Peplum A Printed Pump A Wrap Skirt
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2012 MBFWA: Ponytail Styles
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2012 MBFWA: 6 New-Season Ways to Update the Classic Ponytail

Ponytails are a style staple globally but if you're struggling to think of ways to make yours look, well, more interesting and not so gym-chic, you're in luck because Fashion Week just served up six new twists on the classic style.
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Aurelio Costarella

Ponytails are a style staple globally but if you're struggling to think of ways to make yours look, well, more interesting and not so gym-chic, you're in luck because Fashion Week just served up six new twists on the classic style. From a simple, two-second trick that'll add an instant glam factor to dual-textured and two-toned styles to equestrian-esque takes on the look, you can be as adventurous or low-key as you like when it comes to refreshing an ol' classic. Take a look.

Aurelio Costarella Gary Bigeni Roopa Pemmaraju Raffles Kooey Lisa Maree
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2012 MBFWA and Met Gala Wrap-Up on PopSugar, FabSugar and BellaSugar Australia
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Sugar Shout Out: Met Gala, MBFWA Gossip, Must-Have Beauty Products & More!

A close-up look at the runway hair and makeup from MBFWA.
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2012 MBFWA Beauty Trends: Mohawks
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2012 MBFWA Trendspotting: Mohawk Styles

With punk references cited as inspiration at several shows including Ginger & Smart, Manning Cartell and Zimmermann, it made sense that as well as pops of colour, we were going to see a Mohawk or two.
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With punk references cited as inspiration at several shows including Ginger & Smart, Manning Cartell and Zimmermann, it made sense that as well as pops of colour, we were going to see a Mohawk or two. Now, traditional Mohawks may be a polarising style that’s not really suitable for the office but Fashion Week showcased some more wearable ways to take on the trend. From Zimmermann’s rag curls to Whitney Eve & We by Whitney Port’s Mohican hybrid braid, take a closer look at how the Mohawk was updated for the upcoming season.

Ginger & Smart Ginger & Smart Ginger & Smart Zimmermann Zimmermann Zimmermann Whitney Eve & We by Whitney Port
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