Melissa Ogier
The Garb Wire is a style conservatory… filled with observations of music and fashion victories on the streets of the world. It’s things we covet, design & the arts. Time spent in the fashion, music and advertising industries has allowed Mel Ogier to rub shoulders with the cutting edge of style. She measures success not by the cracking pace of others, but the slow burn of imagination, music, knowledge, and travel.
V&A acquires one of British comedian Tommy Cooper’s iconic fezzes
Over the English summer, Victoria and Albert museum acquired the extensive Tommy Cooper Collection, an archive celebrating the life of a much loved British comedian. And, now the museum has been gifted one of the Cooper’s iconic fezzes by former advertising executive, Hans van Rijs, who was given the hat by Cooper in 1984 when they met […]
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Style for Christmas: She’s So Unusual
The Garb Wire’s themed ‘gift guide’ reflects who we are, crazed style obsessives who swing well to the left of the ordinary. For inspiration this year I selected album titles from Rolling Stone Magazine’s Top 500 Albums of all Time list published in 2012. The first edit, She’s So Unusual, is the name of Cyndi Lauper‘s debut album of […]
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Documentary Lovers Rejoice, DocPlay has launched in Australia & New Zealand
A dedicated streaming hub for the world’s best documentaries has opened up to audiences in Australia and New Zealand. Featuring over 130 documentary films, with heaps more to be added, DocPlay is a VOD (video on demand) service available on several devices, in the home and on the go. DocPlay will bring audiences the best documentaries across Art & Culture, […]
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