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2 days ago | 
theaustralian.com.au | Annie Brown
You can now listen to The Australian's articles. Give us your feedback. You can now listen to The Australian's articles. Lee Mathews likes to do her own thing. As a brand that has withstood the challenges of the fashion industry for 25 years, this is advice worth noting.
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3 weeks ago | 
scmp.com | Annie Brown
It started with a single Sophie Bille Brahe earring. The Danish designer is known for her supercool clusters and orbs of freshwater pearls in striking shapes and blooms of diamonds. Mostly, they’re sold as singular pieces. The acquisition of one such piece completely changed not only how I thought about pearls, but also made me realise that you really don’t need to wear a pair of earrings. In fact, it’s rather more fun when you don’t.
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4 weeks ago | 
scmp.com | Annie Brown
When Shawn Mendes matched his Patek Philippe to his khaki trunks, he showed that the rubber watch strap, once considered merely utilitarian, can be luxe tooYou could think of rubber-strap watches as the kind of accessory you can wear to the school run and then later at cocktail hour. After all, these days, most of us are doing it all.
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1 month ago | 
scmp.com | Annie Brown
The ‘boom boom’ fashion trend saw glittering new Rolex and Patek Philippe releases, while Cartier returned to its famous panther, and Chanel evoked Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel’s love of braidBlame the mob wife trend, or perhaps the shift from minimalism towards ‘‘boom boom‘’ fashion – coined earlier this year by trend forecaster Sean Monahan to refer to the bold and bougie fashion we’re seeing make a comeback. Either way, gold watches are back.
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1 month ago | 
scmp.com | Annie Brown
From surrealist artist Man Ray’s Lampshade earrings, worn in the 60s by French actress Catherine Deneuve, to his collaborations in the 70s with Italian jeweller Gem Montebello – and from sculptor Alexander Calder’s masterfully absurd jewellery creations, worn by the likes of Simone de Beauvoir, Georgia O’Keeffe and Peggy Guggenheim, to feminist artist Niki de Saint Phalle’s ruminations on the body with her colourful brooches – artists have long turned to jewellery as a medium for creativity...
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1 month ago | 
scmp.com | Annie Brown
Cartier was one of the first luxury houses to introduce its signature style to the world of watchmaking, and recently Tiffany & Co. signalled an intention to shift more of its focus to horologyWalking through the Palexpo in Geneva during the annual Watches and Wonders event is a veritable sensory overload. There are just so many booths, and so many watches. A visit to the Van Cleef & Arpels booth is something of a reprieve. As though you’ve wandered into a magical forest.
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2 months ago | 
scmp.com | Annie Brown
A glimpse at reasonably close range of Paul Mescal – wearer of impossibly small shorts and a man of Old Hollywood-era appeal – in a tiny gold Cartier Baignoire watch at the Sydney premiere of Gladiator II was all the proof required that the small watch trend isn’t going anywhere. Mescal, a Cartier ambassador, has certainly been doing the Lord’s work himself to immortalise the idea that small watches are indeed for everybody. Cartier Mini Tank and Panthère watches.
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2 months ago | 
scmp.com | Annie Brown
A comprehensive retrospective of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama – still working aged 96 – showing at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne until April 21, indisputably confirms Kusama’s conviction that polka dots are fabulous. Visitors inside the current Yayoi Kusama retrospective at Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria. Photo: HandoutOr to be on point, as it were, polka dots are fabulous once more.
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Feb 8, 2025 | 
scmp.com | Annie Brown
Laurent, my ski instructor – a supremely jovial man with a complexion befitting someone who has worked in the mountains of France’s Les Trois Vallées for some 25 years – wants me to relax. “Allez! Let’s go! Relax, Annie, too much energy in holding on!” he enthuses as I try – mightily – to stop being quite so tense. The thing about skiing, as with life, is that it’s much easier if you allow yourself to go with the flow.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
scmp.com | Annie Brown
If the many things to take from the spring/summer 2025 shows – including a palpable feeling that personal style is making a comeback – it’s that leather is an essential in our wardrobes. By that we mean well beyond your trusty leather jacket. Though judging by how many iterations of this “It” girl favourite were spied on the runway – from aviator styles at Saint Laurent and chic bombers at Hermès, to mustard-coloured overcoats at Prada – these are not going anywhere, either.
