McCall Me Sometime

I love Australia heaps and heaps.

I've recently subscribed to a little fashion e-Zine from Oz called The White Book, which was a fantastic idea.

Australian style -- from what I can tell and from I love -- is kinda casual, kinda edgy and a whole lot downtown. You'd sooner see Aussie labels on a downtown girl rather than an uptown girl -- and probably with vintage sunglasses to match.

Alice McCall is fast becoming one of my top five designers from Down Under, climbing the style ranks to join fellow Aussies fashion-heads Josh Goot and Sass & Bide (with whom she helped in their London Fashion Week 2003 and New York Fashion Week 2004) on my list. After McCall spent a decade in London being a stylist, working for MTV and being hunted down by Buddhist Punk to design their 2002 collection, the one-of-a-kind tops she made in her spare time found their way into London shops and were consequently bought by UK style-makers like Kate Moss and uber-stylist Katie England.

This label is all the more reason I'm so glad to be a downtown girl now.






















I'm Lovin' it: How gorgeous actress Kerry Washington looks in this frothy gold YSL mini dress. Did you know that she was once engaged to the guy who played both the kid in "Big" with Tom Hanks and the music video jerk in Jessica Alba's "Honey"? Yeah, he was so not cute enough for her at all.






I'm Over it: Six words -- Ikea. Dresser. Not. Finished. Yet. Arrrrgh.


Artist of the Day: Roisin Murphy, an electronica singer from the UK and formerly one-half (and lead chanteuse) of the duo Moloko. She's collaborated with Handsome Boy Modelling School, and now has a rockin' solo career that's made her a pretty darn big star on the music scene, thanks in big part to her track "Ruby Blue" making the Grey's Anatomy soundtrack. Even the music world is obsessed with Grey's, which is pretty much this generation's ER...





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