Self taught in pattern cutting and tailoring, London-based designer Rachel Freire has never studied fashion. Her influences stem from her love of historical costume combined with futuristic imagery. Behind the dramatic silhouettes and decadent embellishments, the pieces are designed to be wearable, durable, feminine and flattering. Freire and her team also undertake specialist commissioned projects ranging from bespoke couture pieces to entire show creation.

Obsessed.
Selena and I are going to win a three legged race in them at RAFW next year.

It’ll happen.

Hybria Leather Wedges from Acne.

This chunky, geometric, mirrored cocktail ring embodies everything I am loving right now in art, fashion and design. From the lovely people behind Sterling Shadows, their beautiful range of genuine sterling silver jewellery are hand-chosen for their versatility, all classic in design but contemporary in style.

To celebrate the launch of Sterling Shadows‘ brand new eBay store, I have one Mirrored Boulder Ring worth $39 in size P (US 8/ EU57) to give away! This ring is hollow and cannot be re-sized, but this common size will fit most adult women on at least one of their fingers.

To enter, leave a comment below with your name, a valid e-mail address so I can contact you if you win. The competition is open to entrants WORLDWIDE and will end at midnight on Sunday, August 29th. The winner will be notified on Monday, August 30th.

For more ways to win genuine sterling silver jewellery, follow Sterling Shadows on twitter where they do regular jewellery giveaways exclusively for followers! Good luck.

Black Nail Polish: Liquid Leather by China Glaze
Mirrored Boulder Ring: Sterling Shadows

In case you weren’t aware… I’m rabidly stalking amazing wedges that I inevitably can’t afford.
These ridiculous Giuseppe Zanotti wedge booties are making my heart beat at a dangerously fast pace.

Dial 00 and when I say… dial 0 again.

With a platform of 18cm these stunning wedge booties by Elliot Ward-Fear would take me to over 6ft tall.
If I had a spare $600 I’d buy a pair just to put on display under a crystal dome.

The super limited release is available only in size 39, 40, and 41.
Shoot Matt an e-mail to secure your pair.

On a scale of 1 – 10;
1 being I don’t really need a sheepskin jacket going into spring…
10 being I definitely DO NOT need a sheepskin jacket going into spring…
I’ve got to give this jacket a full 10.

Not that a 10 would stop me.
More like the $1300AU price-tag.

I could get a Rick Owens for that so come on, All Saints.
Fucking nice jacket though.

All Saints Nala Sheepskin Jacket.

After falling in love with their new look book (shot by one of my favourite local photographers, Zac Steinic), I caught up with androgynous Melbourne-based jewellery label Does Not Equal to learn more about their third collection, Cruce Signati.

What got you into jewellery design? Jewellery design came about fairly organically after a history of working and studying design for a number of years. We were always more interested in what was available for guys, and felt that there weren’t enough options for men’s jewellery in Australia so we started putting our focus into creating an Australian made masculine jewellery label.

Tell us about your design process. For us, the process is really disjointed and sporadic in comparison to how most people would imagine. We don’t really sit down and force it, or have a methodical way of creating a collection. It’s something we have found needs to happen unprovoked. Generally there will be something overwhelmingly inspirational to us at a certain point, and within that we’ll find a source for what will carry the collection. Where, how or when that inspiration hits is a complete unknown. The current collection was a lightening bolt idea while in a meeting – and it made us rush back to the studio for 8 hours straight to get it all onto paper. I think that when it happens like that, you can be more sure of the concept and not have doubts or concerns about whether it will work.

What is the narrative behind your new collection, Cruce Signati? Cruce Signati is a latin term which literally means ‘marked with a cross’. Our inspiration came from the Punk scene during the 70′s and 80′s who were drawn to the idealism of organised religion and in their desire to destroy authoritarian ideologies they made the cross theirs, turning it into a rebellious symbol of youth, and cultural revolt.
We wanted to design a collection based around the cross, but without it having any religious attachments, so we were inspired by the Punk rebellion and wanted to pay homage to it through this release.

Recommend one book/film/album that is inspiring you right now. Not a book, but Industrie magazine from the UK is the most incredible publication we’ve come across in a long time. We’d recommend it a thousand times over.

What is next for Does Not Equal? If only we knew!! We’re currently in talks with an exciting International store about DNE popping up on a larger scale overseas, and we are also making plans to broaden our range outside of jewellery. But that’s all we can say right now!

Visit the Does Not Equal official website or check out their tumblr.

Melbourne-based jewellery designer Estelle Dévé‘s third collection A Fall To Earth subscribes to a kind of space opera; a retro-celestial archetype imagined by science fiction visionaries of Seventies music and film.

Reminiscent of pieces fallen from space shuttles disengaging from the heavens, A Fall To Earth blends leather, crystallized water and silver-plated pewter to compose a penetrating, chilly architecture. This haunting sanctuary of crystal and rock formations echoes the exotics of a lonely Arctic tundra- but secretly alludes to a distant, intergalactic odyssey.

Selected pieces from A Fall To Earth are now available on Alegorie. Use code 30for30 to save 30% on everything* on Alegorie until September 5th.

*Does not include products classed as special orders or pre-orders.

Persephone’s Jewel Part ii Ring
by Bloodmilk

I know I’ve been posting a lot of boots lately, but these… these are like my holy grail.
I could have sworn they were LD Tuttle, but now I can’t find them online.

Did they sell out? I couldn’t afford them anyway.
But the thought that I might have missed out makes me sick.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.