Openings

 Isabella Blow : A Fashionable Life opens on Saturday at the Powerhouse Museum and we a were lucky enough to attend a preview launch. The exhibition was opened by the extraordinary fashion figure Daphne Guinness shown here in our snap chatting to Neale Whittaker of The Block reality TV show. Guinness owns the Isabella Blow collection which has outfits from Alexander McQueen, Philip Treacy, Hussein Chalayan, Julien Macdonald and more. The private collection of late fashion visionary Isabella Blow will be on display for a strictly limited exclusive season at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.

English stylist, editor and muse Isabella Blow championed British fashion, nurturing the careers of many designers in the 1990s and beyond. Isabella Blow: A Fashionable Life provides a rare chance to see over 45 of her outfits comprising clothing, hats, shoes and jewellery from more than 20 of the world’s top fashion designers, photographs from key fashion photographers and hats from Philip Treacy’s personal

New Romantic Revealed

And here he is, our New Romantic photographed at Warwick University in 1981 who is in fact the urbane, handsome man-about-town Neale Whittaker, editor of design and decor magazine Belle and a judge on the top rating TV series The Block.
Whittaker says he was 'obsessed' with singer David Sylvian of the band Japan at the time. The Shuttle feels tinged with guilt- we once participated in shameless publicity campaign to name Sylvian as the 'sexiest man on Earth", which was so successful poor David spent years trying to live down the title.
At least Neale was demonstrating excellent taste at an early age!