While it’s the Edies, the Yves and the Escadas who will probably go down in fashion history, it’s an Enid – Enid Gilchrist to be exact – who in fact made one of the greatest contributions to Australian post-war style. When times were thrifty and there was nothing to do but to DIY, home sewers everywhere…
What are you doing this long weekend? In the sugar-coma haze which will inevitably descend, I think we’ll all be craving a bit of a freshen up, and what better way to do it than by a detox! Don’t worry, we don’t mean any sort of ‘put down the chocolate and drink only lemon water’…
I don’t know about you, but when we are talking about our lady bits I’d like to think – due to the sensitive nature of the region – we’d be extra careful about what goes in to our bodies. I’m talking about tampons. Ever heard of Toxic Shock Syndrome? Look it up – it’s a…
Maybe she’s born with it? Sure, if her mother owned a pink plastic car and was married to a man named Ken. These days you can barely walk half a block without confronting hoards of overblown, airbrushed faces staring you down from billboards, newsstands and TV screens. Kim Kardashian has a new bikini body? No…
The Easter Bunny’s coming!! – but sometimes that little Easter Bunny doesn’t always think through the full social and ethical implications of the eggs in his little basket. Luckily for him (or her?), organisations like Oxfam are here to help, reminding us that as delicious as chocolate might look and taste, the same luxury doesn’t…
Many children (and adults!) will be getting wild on sugar this weekend, but it doesn’t have to be this way. There are far nicer – and healthier – things you can treat yourself to this Easter break beyond only those engulfed in alfoil, and thanks to gorgeous new cookbook Wild Sugar we’re already getting plenty…
If you love your laptop then you’ll love this: Peppermint is now paperless! As part of the world’s largest online newsstand Zinio, you’ll be able to access each new minty issue on any compatible phone or computer anywhere in the world (no Apple-only bias here!). Issue 12 and 13 are ready to go, with online…
There was once a time when all of life’s moral advice came via the art of animation. (I think this time was around 1989, when Care Bears dominated the airwaves and all our problems could be solved via our furry friends in the clouds). Though that time has passed, there is new animated hope on…
Sugar and spice and all things nice, that’s what Fabled and True is made of. Sewn locally in Brisbane from recycled and vintage fabrics, designer Jaye Wolfe’s delicate new collection is the kind of guilt-free gorgeous that makes us all warm and fuzzy inside. Perfect for enjoying those last sunshiney moments of Autumn and backyard…
Fancy yourself a bit of a creative? Find yourself collecting old bits and bobs to one day transform into that incredible fashion creation? Well now is the time! The Australian Museum’s Fashion Less Waste competition, whose finalists were featured on the pages of Peppermint last Spring, is on again.
Over the last few years, knitter extraordinaire Loani Prior has changed the world. Not only has she transformed the humble, once-daggy tea cosy into a covetable objet d’art via her two best-selling titles, Wild Tea Cosies and Really Wild Tea Cosies (and the countless fan projects and exhibitions that have followed), but she has literally…
Where there’s a will, there’s a way… Particularly in the small Northern NSW town of Murwillumbah, where a small team of creatives are working hard to revive and regenerate the town’s struggling arts and retail scene. With some 30 shops out of only around 70 in the whole town having closed their doors recently, The…