I enjoy clothing and all processes related to it (designing, constructing, styling) but found after spending 3 years in the fashion industry that I wasn’t as suited to it as I had imagined. I got a small taste for costume while still working within bridal wear, and this seemed more natural. It was easy for me to transfer my skills over to costume, and it’s the sort of thing that can be picked up while working if you’ve already got some kind of foundation. I find costume to be more creative in the sense that you’re using you’re knowledge to help communicate a narrative, and there’s always a lot of research to be done into the characters, period, etc… prior to sourcing. You contribute in part to telling a story which requires many different people in different departments all doing what they do and working towards the same result, and work so closely with the actors and the director in an attempt to align everyone’s visions.

It was really all unconscious. The studios and clients I started working for, always required some sort of art direction, so it evolved naturally as I learnt on the job.
    The role of art director became more exciting as I began to work on projects from their inception. This gave me the opportunity to create the ideas from the beginning from which the art direction naturally developed. This meant that the projects were conceived with a unity of idea and form.
    The rewarding part is enabling the vision to become a reality. For example, the photo shoot leads to an exhibition which in turn becomes a unique marketing event. For me, this way of telling a story has been immensely creative and

All the myths I grew up with enticed me. The music legends, the looks of people during 1976, the grandiosity of the city along with clubs like studio 54 provided an inspiration of glamour. I felt like a new pioneer again! As a matter of fact they called us euro trash.

It came naturally, I guess I had an original sense of fashion and people asked me if I was a stylist and I would say no, but then I got tired of being asked and I began to say yes. Then the jobs were coming! Even Jean Paul Goude used me as a model /stylist, as well as Fiorucci italian scouters hired me.

It’s primarily from music and things that grow around me. Nature is probably the most inspiring thing ever. It’s the most intriguing and weirdest thing you can find and see.

I don’t know. I don’t spend too much time thinking about it. I mean if anything I would say Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Elvis you know the same old.

I was studying jewelery at NMIT and had already begun to incorporate taxidermy into my work, my teacher suggested I research Memento Mori and straight away I felt a connection with the themes and aesthetic of the style.

I found when I first started talking about wanting to taxidermy - well over ten years ago, people thought I was nuts. In the last few years it has become quite fashionable and most people understand that taxidermy doesn’t necessarily mean you have to kill the animal for the piece. It can be a form of recycling - either using an animal

A little bright red plastic Kodak camera, a book of photomontages by David Hockney, the naked ladies in my Mum’s joy of photography magazines, fire painting with my grandfather on my back porch in the middle of the night, a girl up the road named Claire, another girl at school named Kate who incidentally I never actually photographed, the Italian Vogues piled up high on my Nanna’s staircase in Ascot Vale, my art teacher Tyra Hutchens, being told I should be a doctor instead, the smell of photographic fixative, and lots of other things.

I was discovered in a nightclub in Melbourne when I was 17… (Underage).
    A woman came up to me and started talking and I tried to get away from her because I thought she was asking me for I.D.

I think self-confidence is an imperative part of being a successful model. It’s so easy to fall into the trap of getting down on yourself when a client doesn’t choose you. But being able to separate yourself from the job and being confident in your ability helps prevent this. Another key aspect of being a successful model is looking after you in both body and mind.

My father. He was a photographer and taught me how to process film in our makeshift darkroom. No ventilation in a small garage in the burbs. Id spend all day in the in the middle of summer sweating and marveling over the magic in the trays with quick breaks in the above ground pool! The first time I shot, processed and printed my own photo was the beginning of what will definitely be a lifelong passion.

I’m less concerned about the garments and more concerned about directing and creating a particular mood or

People can find something unique, ethereal and fun designed from the heart. I really like to design to different aesthetics so that really anyone could come and look through a Something Else collection and find something they could wear. It’s like designing for my own multi faceted personality – one day I like to wear pretty, the next day grunge, followed by comfy oversized then into slick clean designer feel. I like to melt all of this into the designs and collections.

I have always been intrigued by the idea of transformation. I grew up watching my father work in his hair salon, transforming and creating hair styles for women who would walk in looking one way and leave not only looking different, but feeling different.
    It was in this environment that I was first exposed to the power of making people look and feel beautiful. I was attracted to the way clients would instantly feel more alive after their salon experience and wanted to be part of creating that energy. So, I started my career initially as a hairdresser and that path led me to the world of makeup artistry and fashion!
    It was while working as a hair assistant at a hair show, that I met a team of creative, editorial makeup artists