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Lucianne Tonti

Australia

Fashion Editor at The Saturday Paper

Contributor at The Guardian

Fashion Editor at ELLE Australia

Writer at Freelance

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

Articles

  • 1 week 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.

  • 3 weeks 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.

  • 3 weeks ago | msn.com | Lucianne Tonti

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  • 3 weeks 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.

  • 1 month 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.

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RT @SatPaper: Paris-based Tasmanian designer Max Thomas Sanderson eschews the term “collection” for its connotation that his clothes might…

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RT @earthislandjrnl: Marketed as a “natural” fabric today, rayon has long been linked to logging & pollution. Some fashion industry players…