When the publicist for the Alliance Française French Film Festival emailed to ask whether I would like to attend the special screening of Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky at the National Film and Sound archive I immediately accepted the invitation. The film is rumoured to start where Coco Avant Chanel (with Audrey Tautou) finished and has a much stronger focus on Coco as a business woman and on the development of the Chanel empire. How terribly appropriate.

The movie is concluded with a Q&A session with Jan Kounen, the director of the film. If you would like to attend this amazing event booking details are below. If you live in Canberra and are free on Wednesday night then get moving. Events like this are far too good to miss…

Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky + Q&A with Jan Kounen

Arc Cinema, National Film and Sound Archive, McCoy Circuit, ACTON

Wednesday March 31, 6.30pm

Information and tickets phone Arc Cinema on 6248 2000

If you see me there please come and say hello! I always love a gossip with a fellow fashionista…

Love Lady Smaggle

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Lady loves…

* Drinking red wine with my crew every Wednesday. It’s the perfect mid-week power celebration to get me through to the weekend.

* Road trips with Mr Smaggle. It’s a long drive from Melbourne to Canberra but with Mr Smaggle it’s a 7 hour epic date with talking, music, snacks and coffee. Divine.

* Writing fashion wish lists – nude ballet flats, Metalicus maxi dresses, black high heeled clogs, floor length cardigans…

* Working with Browny again. She made me the best salad and a totally perfect coffee. She just gets that food is the winning currency for buying my affection. Note to all…

* One of my special needs students who thinks my name is ‘Garlic’. FYI – my name is Carly.

* Early morning gym classes. I drag myself there, zombie like, at 6am and by the time I’m done it’s like it never happened. The way all exercise should be.

* Pumpkin pie. I was being a total princess about trying it because we all know I’m not good at mixing sweet and savoury. It was, without a doubt, one of the most perfect desserts Roomy Smaggle has ever put before me. She covered it with ginger whipped cream too… the bitch.

* Plants vs Zombies*. It’s a game application on my iPhone. I’m actually very embarrassed but I’m completely addicted. Thankfully I finished the game yesterday so now I can resume a functioning life but for THREE DAYS I spent every spare second hoping to get fired or kicked out of school so I could shoot me some zombies. I’m very glad that it’s over now.

* Being busy.
 

Lady loathes…

* Burning myself with my jewellers torch. My poor thumb.

* Leaving my juicer in Melbourne alone for two weeks. I hope she’ll be okay.

* People who are rude to you for following the rules of your workplace.

* Mega milk explosions in my bag. So embarrassing.

What about you bunny? Anything to share?

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx

PS – For those of you that have played PvsZ how often do you now walk past random gardens and think ’Man those Zombies would be SCA-REWED with all those sunflowers! And that row of pumpkins? Beautiful defense line.’ I need help.

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Recently I’ve only been looking half way decent if I have plans in the evenings. Then I ditch my apron, safety googles and boots and get a lil’ girly…

* Dress from Tree of Life

* Tights from Coles (FYI they are selling 120 deniers at Coles in Brunswick West… get in quick before I buy them all!)

* Shoes Doc Martens from DFO in Melbourne

* Ring Smaggle Made

* Earrings by Bouvier

* Pashmina from Country Road

Tonight I’m off for dumplings with my ladies then Scrabble with my men. Oh yes.

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx

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This evening the delicious Grant from Ink and Leather met me in my fair Melbourne city for a dinner, drinks and Yen Fashion Show extravaganza. More info on the show tomorrow… this is what I wore.

* Dress from a friend
* Top from Tree of Life
* Shoes from Nine West with Smaggle made shoe clips
* Hair piece from Equip
* Ring Smaggle made

It was a fab night hanging with the fash pack. I said a quick hello to gorgeous Alicia from Sea of Ghosts and her met her stunning friend who has a blog that I can’t remember the name of. I’ll find it and share it. Yes I will.

All in all I finished the evening slightly disappointed in the street fashions – your two options for fashion week attire are a black shorts/white shirt/nude heel combo or a non-descript LBD with some sort of chunky boot or heel.
The winner of the eveing was Jack London men’s wear… but more on that tomorrow.

Love Lady Smaggle

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Due to the crazy awesome response from the last Can I Get a Consensus? I’ve decided to make this a permanent feature.

This weeks question is – If you go to a restaurant and the food you order is inedible, is it acceptable to refuse it? What are your options? I had a truly revolting eggs benedict last weekend that was 90% hollandaise but being hideously hungover, starving and lost in the CBD of Sydney (everywhere else was closed) I had little choice but to scrape off the offending sauce and hold my nose as I devoured the remaining soggy eggs and toast. The coffee was appalling. Mr Smaggle’s breakfast was even worse with vinegar flavoured eggs floating in water and slimey spinach. The waitress asked us how everything was and I replied that it was bad. Really, really bad. She just kind of laughed and said ‘Oh. Yeah.’

Obviously we had already eaten the food and therefore felt we should pay for it but if we hadn’t eaten it would we have been entitled to leave without paying? What’s the protocol? Can you request that they make it again? Would you trust a restaurant to re-cook your food after you complained about it? Are there any restaurant owners out there who can shed some light on this issue?

What do you think?

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx

P.S This argument is not about fussy eaters. I was so hung over I would have eaten shit on toast. Which, ironically, is pretty close to what I got. The point is the food has to have something obviously wrong with it. Consumer tastes are irrevalent. If you order food and you don’t like it when it arrives, tough.

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Lady loves…

* Having Mr Smaggle around. It makes my days so much nicer.

* Winning a study grant. I’ve applied two years in a row and this was my year. It’s just enough to set myself up with a torch and a drill. I’ll be a real life jeweller. Flipping sweet.

* Having a busy week planned – Under Belly Night, a delicious Melbourne Fashion Week date with Ink and Leather and a cheeky weekend away with Mr Smaggle. Bliss face.

* Experimenting at school. I’m doing a project using a technique called granulation where by you fuse small balls of silver onto sheet metal. I just got to melt the crap out of silver all day. You have no idea how satisfying it is. When silver reaches melting point it flashes bright metallic like mercury. Or the Terminator when he is transitioning.

* The new release of Body Step. Chock full of Michael Jackson songs and the ‘party’ track was almost like a tap routine. It made me want to get out my tap shoes and knock out a couple of time steps.

* Reading books about Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS – Polygamist Mormans from Utah) and members who have escaped from the oppresive community. The book I’m currently reading is called ‘Escape’ by Caroline Jessop and when she left the FLDS with her eight children, her first job on the outside was sewing traditional long underwear for costumes for Big Love which, if you’re a long time Smaggle reader you’ll know is my favourite show. I love weird little connections like that.

* Prawn salads. My new favourite.

Lady Loathes…

* The internet. It’s the only service that you have to pay for regardless of whether or not it works. Think about it. If your internet cuts out what do you do? Call the company. Wait a while. There’s no refunds, no apologies. Imagine if you went to see a masseuse and half way through he stops because he doesn’t feel like doing it anymore. Would you be expected to pay for the full hour? No. So why this weird customer service exemption for the old world wide web? It’s mental.

* On the same note, I also loathe my crappy internet in Melbourne. It takes a stupid amount of time to upload pictures and I end up slamming my laptop closed and cursing before it finishes. Lets hope this post makes it through.

* Again… not being able to wear pretty clothes because of my daily brushes with acid/vomit. Hence the lame amount of daily style shots.

What about you little one? Anything to share?

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx

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Lady loves…

* Asking a five year old how old she thinks I am and having her reply ‘Well… you’d have to be AT LEAST fourteen.’ Word to the wise… I’m getting pretty close to twice that. Golden.

* Easter egg foil. I always have.

* Spending the weekend with the extended Smaggle clan and getting all silly with my cousins.

* Being given three gorgeous dresses by a similarly sized friend. Bonza!

* Soup. I’m a fundamentally lazy person and not chewing is rather pleasurable.

* Words with Friends. It’s an iPhone application that Roomy Smaggle made me get that’s based on a popular board game where the players are given 7 letter tiles and have to arrange them to form words on a board. It’s heavily copyrighted hence why it’s called Words with Friends. We are hoping the afore hinted at game developers won’t shut it down like Scrabulous on Facebook. I’m really not sure I could cope.

* Having bought a magazine three days ago and not having had the time to read it. It’s 7.55pm and as soon as I post this I’m heading to bed.

* My super gorgeous talented Roomy Smaggle’s new website. Look at it. Covet the prettiness. I own a Wheelie Bin Necklace, Propeller Earrings, a Jelly Baby Necklace and Mr Smaggle has a Telegraph Pole brooch. She’s so urban and gritty. Grrrr!

* My delicious Mr Smaggle’s Yoink being in The New York Times online today. I’m being crushed by all the talent surrounding me.

* Hearing that people ’save’ my site for their lunch break or as their treat for cleaning the house. I got some gorgeous emails this week and I’m so blushy. It’s like I’m Postsecret!*

Lady loathes…

* Coming home after being away for five days and finding that my ginger has gone all furry. I’m very into my vegetable juice and it was with tightly pursed lips that I drank it sans ginger in the wee small hours of this morning. I feel like the health benefits were halfed.

* DVDs. They scratch and skip ALL THE TIME. I want my bloody VHS back!

* This general feeling of average that’s going around. It’s not just me, it’s like there’s something in the water that’s making life just a teeny bit irritating right now. Is anyone else feeling that? Nothing major just a little sigh inducing you know?

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx

* With way less purpose and way less readers.

P.S The response to Can I get a Consensus? was HUGE! Thank you! If you have a question you’d like a consensus on please email me at lady(at)smagglestyle.com.

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Spent the day in the workshop – this is pretty typical ‘at the jeweller’s bench’ attire…

* Skirt from SES about ten years ago

* Tights from Coles

* Top thrifted

* Scarf from Sportsgirl

* Cardigan from Stock Jeans

* Clogs from Funkis (I LOVE these… OH&S approved. Hells yeah.)

I’m off to Underbelly Night! Although we are actually watching So You Think You Can Dance…

And a massive thank you to everyone who commented on the new Smaggle segment Can I Get a Consensus? yesterday! I think it’s a keeper!

Love Lady Smaggle

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I know you’re all incontinent with excitement. There’s a brand new segment here on Smaggle called ‘Can I get a consensus?’ where I’ll ask a fairly broad question and get a majority opinion. I feel that this may well curb some douche like behaviour on all of our parts as well as encouraging a lil’ thing I like to call logic which I believe is better than puppies. Here goes…

Last week I was at the gym on the stepper and I’m a real set-the-machine-to-interval-for-forty-minutes-and-knock-over-five-hundred-calories-while-reading-Vogue kind a gal and I was there at peak hour when the twenty minute rule applies. There are three steppers at my gym and I have never, ever seen anyone using any of them, I like to think it’s because I have the brut strength and graceful agility of a Charlie’s Angel and no one else stacks up… but… whatevs. I used the stepper for my usual forty minutes and when I went to clean the machine there was a woman standing next to it waiting for me to finish, presumably so she could use it next. She gave me the FILTHIEST death stare, despite the fact that there were two other available steppers for the whole forty minutes that I was occupying mine.

My question is… does the twenty minute rule apply while there are other machines available? Should I have stopped my workout at twenty minutes then resumed it on another stepper? Or stopped it completely and used the treadmill? Should I compromise the enjoyment of my workout for a rule that should only be applicable if all machines are occupied? Am I being selfish? Or logical?

Feel free to add any similar stories or to agree/disagree. This is what the whole segment is about! And email me at lady(at)smagglestyle.com if you have a question that you would like to have featured.

I can’t wait to hear your opinion!

Love Lady Smaggle

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I’ve heard mixed reviews about my dear Whitney Housten and her Australian tour but the concert couldn’t be anywhere near as bad as the day I’ve had. I’m off to the concert to sing my blues away!

* Dress from Maxine’s on Brunswick St
* Tights from Coles (they are currently selling 120 denier! Get in quick before winter!)
* Vivienne Westwood for Melissa shoes
* Ring Smaggle Made
* Necklace from Roomy Smaggle
* Thrifted obi belt

Have a great night!

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx

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