Tea for Three
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Fashion doyenne Alannah Hill and celebrities Jennifer Hansen and Renee Henderson had tea last month, but this was no ordinary tea party, with the fashionable trio causing a stir as "celebrity tea-ladies" at the launch of design emporium Format. Aside from supremely stylish guests, the shindig was intended to raise money for Melbourne's Open Family charity, which supports the homeless. Alannah and Jennifer also used the occasion to have their fortune told the old fashioned way, via an in-depth perusal of their tea-leaves.
:Better late than Never
When Fashionassassin designer Alex Zabatto-Bentley decides to stage a soiree, he never does it by halves. Forced to pull out of the Sydney edition of frock fest Australian Fashion Week earlier this year for personal reasons, Zabatto-Bentley launched his much-anticipated spring/summer 2006/07 collection at swanky Kings Cross eatery Hugo's earlier this month. Awash with the requisite list of industry A-listers, the good looking guests were treated to a sumptuous feast of salami, tomato, spinach and goats cheese pizzas washed down with Campari cocktails.
:Give 'em a taste of Aussie
Aussie and Kiwi ex-pat fashionistas, together with their London converts, crawled out from behind their terraced houses to join Geoffrey Finch and his team at Australasian fashion store Antipodium's inaugural sausage sizzle last month. The event, staged outside the retailer's Convent Garden base, was held to mark the official arrival of the summer sunshine in the English capital.