Credits Photography: Tony Oliver / Facebook Assistant: Colin Pilliner Model, MUA: Iris Tiu / Facebook
Fear or Loathing
Month: November 2017
Leiden Podcast – Episode 4: Relationships and Alcohol
Welcome to Leiden Podcast a fortnightly podcast discussing all our favourite things: fashion, beauty, health and fitness. But we don’t stop there, we also interview amazing people, talk about relationships, books, pop culture, money and sex. In our fourth episode Leiden editor Emma Batchelor chats with Leiden gal Miriam Walsh about all the incredibly interesting things they have been doing, sex and relationships and alcohol. Leiden Podcast and it’s catchy jingle are produced by the greatest guy around Roshan Fernandez. Our artwork features an illustration of the ‘Leiden girl’ by Johanna Dziadkiewicz. Links Alone: A Love Story Podcast… Continue Reading
Six Tips For Being a Strategic Leader
Through Leiden I have found myself leading a team of incredible people. Each of our team members have different needs and work preferences, and work across a wide variety of roles in varied locations around the country. Although I have developed management and leadership experience in my various day jobs, nothing really prepared me for the skills required to lead a large, flexible team all while growing a publication and hopefully a business from scratch. It can be difficult to become an effective leader – it takes a lot of work even if it comes naturally to you. With… Continue Reading
Radiance
Credits Photographer: CalebWilliams / www.calebwilliams.com.au / Facebook / @caleb3200 Model: Archana Milani-Roha MUA: Felicity McLachlan / www.felicitymclachlan.com.au / Facebook/ @felicitymclachlan_mua
A Masterclass in Decoding Colour with Lucy Feagins
In the bustling thoroughfare of the new Life By Design precinct of the Monaro Mall upstairs in the Canberra Centre — surrounded by everything home and design — we were treated to a masterclass on decoding colour. Lucy Feagins, editor and founder of The Design Files, Australia’s most popular design blog, generously shared her thoughts on this complex subject — helping us to understand some simple concepts. (Would you believe The Design Files was around before Instagram, and will turn ten in January 2018?!) Lucy’s views on lifestyle and wellness include being purposeful, considered and thoughtful; surrounding yourself with… Continue Reading
Fashionably Numb – Changing the Way we Think About Fashion
For most of us, clothes are fun. As well as protecting us from the elements, they offer a mechanism for self-expression, an opportunity to try on different personas. We enjoy the thrill of the chase, constantly seeking the buzz that finding the perfect hard to find item produces. And then, once that thrill wears off, we do it all again. We want more, more, more and more often. The fashion industry is one of the most polluting industries in the world. Many of the people who work to produce the clothes we wear don’t earn a living wage and… Continue Reading
Design with Dana Tomic Hughes
Design is everywhere. From the houses that we live in to the roads that we drive on to the cars that we drive on them in. With design pervading every aspect of our lives it’s no wonder that an annual festival celebrating design and designers is Canberra’s fastest growing festival. Someone who deeply appreciates design in all its glory is Dana Tomic Hughes a self-diagnosed design tragic and founder and editor of online design publication Yellowtrace. And that’s not all: she is an interior designer, design curator adviser and keynote speaker to boot. We asked interior designer, friend of… Continue Reading
Flesh and Bone
Credits Photography: Jenelle Ferry / Facebook / Instagram @___jenellee Assistants: Amy Elton / Instagram @akelton_ Anita Entriken / Instagram @anita_c_entriken Tonya Costa Dancers: Aruna Anderson / Instagram @aruna_anderson Clara MJ C / Instagram @ms_c_biscuit Elizabeth Fellows / Facebook Lydia Caisley Harland / Instagram @lydia.caisley Katherine Harper / Facebook Steph Sailer / Facebook