Styling Sydney Style...

Traveling for work has always been part of my career(How awful I hear you say!) and indeed a favourite part of the job, from Milan to New York to Hamburg to LA I have been very lucky to mix business with pleasure so I thought a recent 'working' trip to Sydney should be chronicled in this blog!
The original plan was to style a big editorial shoot for a magazine in Sydney, unfortunately at the last minute this was cancelled and so I decided to 'take' it to Sydney anyway and asked my agent and publicist to organise a few meetings and I called a few contacts, so a fun filled and more importantly productive week in Sydney ensured!!!
Many of my close friends live in the 'Sunny' city and I was picked up from the airport by my heaven friend Helen Clemens, who is one of the very few amazing female directors of video clips and television commercials, she directed and I styled the memorable 'Sneaky Sound System' clip 'I Love It' and has directed many other bands and artists, Eskimo Joe, Josh Pyke, and Kasey Chambers to name a few, by the way she is also close friends with Natalie Imbruglia but that is by the by! So after a quick stop at Helen's office to brainstorm about a prospective client(and check out all of her awards) we went straight into a meeting with a celebrity for an upcoming video clip, unfortunately I can't tell you until the clip is out but you'll be the first to know when it does!
Helen's Golden Guitar award and one of her Gold Records
Helen and I seemed to have had ESP when co-ordinating our outfits in different cities, after she picked me up! Showing off my new vintage purchase(as in first pic) early 80's Charles Jourdan document case. After our meeting Helen and I dropped into my fantastic friend Nigel Stanislaus's home where I would be staying. Nigel is the Maybelline Make up Artist of Australia and is one of the busiest and most sought after make up artists in Australia, we work together on many different jobs over many years and both continue to inspire each others creativity. We also continue to have the most fun in our work and private lives and share an agent in Melbourne who we both adore! So lucky to have such talented and fun friends.
The very sought after Nigel Stanislaus!

So part of the reason for coming to Sydney was to attend the 'Barbie does Mimco' party at the Mimco Sydney store and I would be accompanied by Nigel, Veronica Moore(my agent), Dean Drieberg(my publicist), Andrea Le Seuer(my producer) and photographer Christian Blanchard along with his girlfriend Australia's Next Top Model star and international supermodel Alice Burdeu (who just happen to be Sydney and Melbourne's 'Hot' couple at the moment!)
The party was a very pink affair, as you can imagine, and many of Sydney's fashion set were there and all of my agency, 'Miss Bossy Boots' attendees had a fantastic time enjoying the Champagne and cup cakes! Of course the latest Mimco campaign was a Miss Bossy Boots production photographed by Christian Blanchard and make up by Nigel Stanislaus!

My Agent Veronica Moore sitting with the gorgeous Alice Burdeu and my publicist Dean Drieberg
Barbie loves Mimco!
Mimco
Loving this 50's Barbie
'Camp Ken' AKA Christian Blanchard of 'that' HOT couple!
Myself and my great friend and host Nigel Stanislaus enjoying just a tiny amount of Champers!
Nigel and I both appeared on the TV show 'Australia's Next Top Model' (you can check it out on YouTube, ANTM Cycle 5 Episode 5 and Nigel ANTM Cycle 5 Episode 3) and after the Mimco party saw a poster of one of the most controversial contestants Cassie Van Den Dungen which of course promted an impromptu photo shoot just for old times sake! So a great night was had by all and ended up at the Miss Bossy Boots penthouse for drinks well into the night!
Dean Drieberg my publicist had organized a lunch meeting with his good friend rising actress Gracie Otto who I had met at the David Jones Marquee during Caulfield Cup in Melbourne and we discussed working together, Gracie has an upcoming TV series and many other projects in her future, I look forward to seeing more of her, Christian Blanchard also joined us as pictured.
A Pink Opera House
I've always said that style has nothing to do with money and was happily suprised to see that Londons Top Shop has been brought to the upstairs of Paddington's Incu store, a great white space showcasing a selection of Top Shops mens and womenswear and I left the store with quite a few bags!
My friend Helen took me for a great outing around the harbour on a perfect Sydney Spring day and as we were walking we ran into Deborah Hutton filming her Qantas inflight ads, I have to say that I heard her well spoken voice before seeing her!
A visit to Sydney for me wouldn't be complete without seeing my dear friend(I've known her for 20 years!) and now Grazia Magazine Fashion Director Glynis Traill Nash, a little secret that not many people know is that Glynis is not only a well known and loved Fashion Director she also is an amazing singer! It was great to hear all her news as well as a few secrets about the new job, sshhhh!
Sunglasses are always a must in Sydney!