Cocooned in Creativity: Inside Ruby Raisin with Mia Penn
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Cocooned in Creativity: Inside Ruby Raisin with Mia Penn

If you’ve ever slipped into a Ruby Raisin piece, you’ll know it’s about more than just clothes. It’s colour, comfort and care, lovingly stitched together with a deep respect for people and planet. The Sydney-based slow fashion label is the creation of Mia Penn – a maker, mother and slow-fashion advocate whose focus on thoughtful…

Do One Thing: How To Feel – And Do – Better When Life’s Being a Lot!

Do One Thing: How To Feel – And Do – Better When Life’s Being a Lot!

“Everything is broken and stupid and I’m gonna run away!” One half of my friend’s three-year-old twins tends towards (entertainingly) dramatic utterings, but her latest heartfelt wail resonated with me. Her concerns (a misplaced toy) may differ slightly from my newsfeed-induced worries (what fresh hell is happening everywhere and all at once today, then?) but…

Walking Gardens: Meet The Fashion Designer Creating Living Garments
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Walking Gardens: Meet The Fashion Designer Creating Living Garments

Ever wanted to dress in a leaf-spangled frock worthy of Queen Titania, or “mantles of green cloth, inlaid with wild flowers”, as did the Forestfolk of engraver and editor Robert Cromek’s imagination? Or perhaps you’d prefer outfits spun of flowers and foliage like little-known Aussie artist Margaret Clarke conjured up in the early 1920s! You…