Lucianne Tonti

Australia

Fashion Editor at The Saturday Paper

Fashion Editor for The Saturday Paper, author of Sundressed: natural fibres and the future of fashion out July 5th, writer of Closet Clinic for The Guardian

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Haunted couture: dressing like a ghost has captured the zeitgeist

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Lucianne Tonti

“The look of the summer is going to be kind of haunted,” wrote fashion editor Rachel Tashjian in her newsletter, Opulent Tips, this April. Without a crystal ball – or holding a seance – she couldn’t have known Dior’s Resort 26 collection would be made up of spectral gowns and accompanied by a film featuring ghosts called Les Fantômes du Cinéma. And yet, here we are. Natalie Portman at the Dior Cruise 2026 show.
Alix Higgins and allegations of cultural appropriation

4 weeks ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Lucianne Tonti

The show notes left on each seat at Alix Higgins’s Australian Fashion Week runway in Sydney’s Carriageworks this month read: “Thank you to Ann Shoebridge for the wonderful crowns in silk, they make mefeel like I am 10 years old, which was sort of the point.”The crowns in question were colourful fabric headbands some of the models wore across their foreheads, with several feather-shaped spikes sticking up into the air.
Australian fashion week 2025: highlights - in pictures

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Alyx Gorman |Lucianne Tonti

Romance Was BornThe wafts of fake snow falling from the ceiling were far from the most extravagant flourishes at Romance Was Born’s sequin, crystal and pearl-encrusted 20th anniversary show, which closed out Australian fashion week.
inclusivity still in fashion on Australian runways

1 month ago | msn.com | Lucianne Tonti

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‘It’s about life and dance and colour’: inclusivity still in fashion on Australian runways

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Lucianne Tonti

Having been in business since 1999, fashion designer Lee Mathews is always searching for something out of the ordinary. “At 25 years it feels like you’ve seen everything and worked with everyone,” she says. For her anniversary runway at this year’s Australian fashion week (AFW) in Sydney, she decided to add friends to her usual cast of professional models. “Casting was more about how people wear the clothes,” she says. “Not how tall they are or how polished they look.
What’s up with White Fox? How ‘Hotmail viral’ marketing helped the fashion brand win over gen Z

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Lucianne Tonti

Four women standing in front of a caravan in the desert appear the first time I open the White Fox app. The cowboy hats, micro-shorts, low-slung belts and knee-high boots suggest they’re on their way to Coachella. The text reads: “Your new wardrobe just dropped,” alluding to the “hundreds of styles” the online-only Australian fast-fashion brand says it releases every week. ‘They give everyone a little bit of Fomo’ … the White Fox app during the 2025 Coachella festival.
‘A true trailblazer’: designer Perri Cutten remembered for her enduring mark on Australian fashion

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Lucianne Tonti

A few years ago, a friend lent me an ankle-length navy coat by Perri Cutten. It was the middle of the pandemic and having hastily returned to Melbourne from Paris, I had left my winter wardrobe behind. The vintage coat was one of Cutten’s signatures: 100% merino wool, double breasted with a raglan sleeve. It made me feel powerful but feminine – so much so that when my wardrobe finally arrived, I didn’t want to give it back. Perri Cutten, the brand, is owned by Austin Group today.
Dirty laundry: what really happens to your clothes when you donate them to charity?

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Lucianne Tonti

Every year, Australians donate the equivalent of 250m pairs of jeans to charity (around 200,000 tonnes of textiles) and send another 200,000 tonnes to landfill. But only a fraction of donated clothes get resold in Australia. So what happens to your old jeans when you donate them? And how can consumers play their part to minimise waste in the process? The golden rule for wardrobe cleanoutsStandards for what is resellable in Australia are high.
fashionable fun at Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show

2 months ago | msn.com | Lucianne Tonti

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In full bloom: fashionable fun at Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Lucianne Tonti

At the Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton on Friday, flowers were in the air, on display and worn by thousands of people for the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show. “We’re celebrating gardens and flowers here,” says the show’s director, Trent Cornish, who created Floral Fridays. “Wearing florals makes you just feel fun and free. Like you don’t take yourself too seriously.” Attenders were invited to wear florals in exchange for discounts at the flower market and best-dressed prizes.

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Lucianne Tonti

Articles

Haunted couture: dressing like a ghost has captured the zeitgeist

Alix Higgins and allegations of cultural appropriation

Australian fashion week 2025: highlights - in pictures

inclusivity still in fashion on Australian runways

‘It’s about life and dance and colour’: inclusivity still in fashion on Australian runways

What’s up with White Fox? How ‘Hotmail viral’ marketing helped the fashion brand win over gen Z

‘A true trailblazer’: designer Perri Cutten remembered for her enduring mark on Australian fashion

Dirty laundry: what really happens to your clothes when you donate them to charity?

fashionable fun at Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show

In full bloom: fashionable fun at Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show

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