Vogue Fashion Night Out

Goose and I headed into town to join in the fun of Vogue Australia's 'Fashion Night Out'. VFNO is basically just a night of freebies and fancy people parading around encouraging you to buy things. All the shops are open until 10pm and there are loads of things going on like catwalks, free manicures, free champagne, live music, fashion advice talks, bags of free stuff etc. to encourage you to go to the different stores. Here are a few snaps from our venturing about....

Amazing flower show in the windows of David Jones

Acrobats outside Hermēs 

Goose doing the hopscotch into Hermēs

Oh hey there

Goosey and some scarves

Hermēs window man

Sleepy naked men

Sass & Bide

The only freebie in here was 'love'....

Macaroon man

Vogue globe

Free Essie manicure

Towards the end we somehow managed to sneak into some kind of exclusive party where there was a very strange swedish dj (pretending to) dj kurt of the sunroof of a car, and lots of free champagne and nibbles! I don't really know how we got in, we just kinda walked in and no one told us to leave...!? They obviously saw us and just assumed we were some famous fashionistas.... *ahem*

A waiter in VERY tight trousers

Sadly we were both too poor to actually buy anything, but it was still fun to have a look around and we're always happy to sink some free champagne!

B

Shaawppin'

Having to pack my life into 30kg of luggage which I then had to cram into just one suitcase meant that I actually didn't bring many clothes out here at all. And all of the clothes I did bring I don't actually like very much, and/or are wholly unsuitable for the weather out here at the moment. It's the Australian Winter out here at the moment and although it's not freezing, it's still a little chilly, even if it is sunny.

Cue SHOPPING TRIP(S)!

It's really difficult shopping out here at first, as you think "Oh, I just need to go grab some more shampoo and conditioner, I'll pop into Boots"... and then there is no Boots and so you panic and make a rogue decision of buying shampoo and conditioner from the nearest newsagents-type-place which has been sat on that same shelf since the 90s and turns out the be all congealed and brown inside. 

It gets easier though, and 10 days in I am beginning to know where to go for what kinda stuff and am learning all the names of places so that I can ask someone where the nearest one is.

Also, once you're past the panicked culture-shock 'baffled Brit down-under' stage, you start to notice all the amazing clothes shops out here. They even have Topshop and Zara here, so I feel right at home. All the Aussie makes are far more interesting though so I'll list a few of my favourites here (just click on the logos and it'll take you to the site) so that you can do some fun online browsing. This is also a record for me, so that I can remember which ones I liked!