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Relationship relics of bad loves

Posted: 26 May 09 | So your love affair that started out a sweeping romantic epic has turned into something more along the lines of a horror flick. |

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Things I've learned about Australian Fashion Week

Posted: 30 Apr 09 | Australian Fashion Week delegates are very fashiony. They dress like colour has been outlawed, they smoke cigarettes, they air kiss, they wear sunglasses indoors. |

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How creams get under your skin

Posted: 21 Apr 09 | Canberra Times Fashion writer Claire Low on how a simple skincare routine can soon evolve into something far more elaborate. |

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Kid culture for grown ups

Posted: 04 Mar 09 | Barbie, the 50-year-old blonde, seems to be losing the battle for the imagination and cash of young girls to a bunch of doe eyed teens in trashy outfits. |

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Geek civilisation

Posted: 17 Feb 09 | So you think you're the sort of person who doesn't get sucked into reality television shows (despite a secret weakness for Australian Idol, but that was years ago). |

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Perving on flesh and leather

Posted: 11 Feb 09 | Sure these websites are like junk food, but who doesn't love a tasty snack? |

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Taming arm candy cravings

Posted: 19 Dec 08 | What's a girl to do when her partner's eyes glaze over at talk of Rei Kawakubo's efforts with Louis Vuitton and the red jersey Bayswater Mulberry created for The Gap? |

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Makeover in Woden

Posted: 08 Dec 08 | "Stylist", the word recalls red carpet events and Hollywood starlets who need to hit the covers of the tabloids looking like Gisele, not Bjork. |

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A night of g-strings, shin pads and pink fishnets

Posted: 24 Nov 08 | The night takes an interesting turn when I see a man with hot pink fishnet stockings pulled over his head. |

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This model loves to eat

Posted: 22 Oct 08 | Claire Low reveals a few things you may not know about about the New York-based 27-year-old Australian fashion model Alyssa Sutherland. |

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How to do Hollywood glamour

Posted: 06 Oct 08 | A friend phoned with a style quandary – she had been invited to a ball with a Hollywood glamour theme and wasn’t sure what to wear. |

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Sydney's casually fashionable

Posted: 01 Oct 08 | Sydney has a certain style. I’d say it is more relaxed than Melbourne’s – in the 30 degree heat of last weekend, one in two Sydneysiders in the city centre had opted for thongs. |

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Posted: 23 Sep 08 | The capital may be growing more cosmopolitan but what's a girl to do when she's got a hankering for Vivienne Westwood, Karen Walker on sale, or the latest bauble Lindsay Lohan’s been sporting? |

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Fashion's all in the delivery

Posted: 15 Sep 08 | Sick of shopping malls, factory outlets or even internet shopping? How about this? Try buying Swedish t-shirts by subscription. |

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Where trends go to die

Posted: 08 Sep 08 | Canberra's secondhand scene is more than decent with racks often less picked through than those of bigger cities, writes Claire Low. |

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Glam teens in the capital

Posted: 04 Sep 08 | Nothing makes a 20-something feel like an underachiever faster than teenagers styling for fashion bibles and creating magazines the size of novels, writes Claire Low. |

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