In town for Fashion Week, this happy couple are back in Melbourne after a stint in Sydney and leave the country on Wednesday. See their blogs for a path of photos. And check out Garance and I below.

Sorry about the bad quality iPhone pic. I work in a photography studio and I don’t have a camera. It’s probably because whenever I get one I lose or break it. Hayley Hughes kindly snapped a photos of Scott and I, which she said she would shoot through. Thanks chick.

Bec Lutz (nee Parenthoin) studied fashion. Designed for some Melbourne crew. Started her own label. Then thought . . . ‘WTF? Why are all these boutiques picking ho-hum-commercial-pieces instead of my ooh-la-la-creative-ones? Where’s the fun in that? ‘. So instead of whining about it. She did something about it. Et Voila. Design A Space was born.

It’s kinda like a gallery. But for clothes. The designers that ‘show their work’ their are given the the creative freedom to curate a designated space. It’s up to them as to how much they charge, how often they restock and what they hang.

So. I asked Bec, WHAT’S ON?

What’s on your coat hanger for Sat night?
Kylie Hawkes tailored vest with leggings!

What’s on your mind?
The weather – is it already winter?

What’s on the top of your love list?
Shoes . . . I am obsessed with boots!

What’s on your playlist?
Kings of Leon . . . after their concert the other Friday I am truly obsessed.

What’s on your must have list at the mo?
A new pair of vintage boots.

What’s on your shelves?
What isn’t . . . they are packed full of colour, creativeness and fun.

What’s on your toast?
Honey . . . always honey

What’s on your wall?
Carla Fletcher. . . stunning exhibitions currently being featured in our chapel st store.

What’s on your bedside table?
Chrome Kartel lamp.

What’s on you right now!?
Its freezing . . . hooded leather jacket.

Bec and her DIVINE partner Chris opened the Chapel Street store in September 06 and the City store (Manchester Lane) in September 07. Currently housing an eclectic mixture of womenswear, menswear, accessories, jewellery and artwork, Design A Space provides an artistic retail platform for designers to showcase their entire range in any creative form.

If you’re keen to define a space at Design A Space just pop in to one of the stores and fill out a form.

The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957 (organised by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London) is showing exclusively in Victoria at the Bendigo Art Gallery.

The exhibit includes over 100 dresses alongside photographs and original film exploring the most glamourous and remarkable decades in fashion history.

Sex in the City fan? Find out where the ballerina skirt originally stemmed from. Head up and learn about how Dior’s ‘New Look’ designs signaled the return to luxury after wartime austerity.

The exhibition closes on the 22 of March. Open 10am – 5pm Daily. 42 View Street, Bendigo.

Start at Lady. Try on some of co-owners Skye-Leigh Vallve’s and Project Runway star Petrova Hammond’s whimsical dresses, along with some Mink PInk and My Pet Square. Purchase. Step outside.

Now walk and towards the light to Miss Lau. Another Melbourne made woman who stocks, along with her own label, Australian labels like Strange Strange, Fujinella and NZ’s Sabatini (all class).

Decide. Purchase. Step outside across the road for a well deserved crepe at Roule Galette. Ahhh. Yum. You’ll have to skip all your other meals cos you won’t be fitting into your dresses after that baby.

You end up squeezing two weekends worth of partying into one and the five days work into four. Tis not good for the health. Especially when the long weekend is a celebration of ones patriotism. And particularly if you screamed at the The Black Kids, jumped up and down to The Prodigy and swayed to Neil Young at the Big Day Out.

It doesn’t make for a pleasant Tuesday. But it does make for some great photos and fricken hilaaaarious memories.

There were some serious outfits kickin about the dust around Flemington but given the temperature I thought the most important accessory of the day was a hat. And no. You with the mullet wig, that doesn’t count as a hat. Although it does provide some shade.

Here are some of the pearlers that caught my eye.

I’ll be back next week with a bevvie of man-gifts, finds and favourites.

In the mean time you can purchase one of these divine ‘Gone Shopping’ signs here.

Over and out.

Drinking from jam jars reminds me of scholling cocktails at Cocomangas in Byron Bay. A right of passage.

Yesterday, instead of cocktails, I was sipping fresh peppermint tea picked from the herb gardens growing on the walls of the sustainable restaurant. Temporarily perched on the Acmi Side of Fed Square ‘The Green House by Joost’ is built from recycled and recyclable material.

Joost takes spreading the plight of the planet to the next level by creating an educational environmental experience in the I’ve-got-to-get-to-work-my-life-is-so-busy-city-slicker-what-does-country-air-smell-like contrast of Melbourne’s CBD.



Head in and enjoy a jam jar latte. Or, if you plan to go after 4pm, for cheeky bevvie from a melted down wine or stubby bottle, make sure you sign up as a member so you can get in, or just go to your nearest hipster store and pick up a bunch of tickets. It folds up on Jan 29.

We sipped on Gin Martinis, held bags we would never own, drooled over jewels and bookmarked our engagement rings. Diamonds that blind. Lovely.

I got a few pics but my camera didn’t do the outfits justice under the bold lights of the store. Snappety Snap.

My buddy and I were a bit disappointed that our goody bags didn’t contain one of their new cuffs or a pair of sunnies that we’d been eyeing off all night. We only got perfume.

Oh, it’s a hard life.