<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880875345602942504</id><updated>2011-11-28T12:03:25.712+11:00</updated><title type='text'>newsgal.</title><subtitle type='html'>entertain enlighten inspire</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newsgal.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/880875345602942504/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newsgal.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Who is newsgal?</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880875345602942504.post-2697639553420597541</id><published>2010-05-10T14:25:00.073+10:00</published><updated>2010-05-10T16:34:21.462+10:00</updated><title type='text'>RAFW Day 2: Spring Summer 2010</title><summary type='text'> In an age of perpetual fashion innovation, it takes a fair shebang of distinctive design, ingenuity and a consensual buzz to rouse the admiration and subsequent approval of the merciless ‘who’s who’ of Australia’s seasoned fashion set.
With the likes of labels Zimmerman, Nicola Finetti, Flannel, Camilla and Marc, Sabatini White, Ellery and Little Joe Woman commanding the Quay’s spotlight for the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/880875345602942504/posts/default/2697639553420597541'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/880875345602942504/posts/default/2697639553420597541'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newsgal.blogspot.com/2010/05/rafw-day-2-spring-summer-2010.html' title='RAFW Day 2: Spring Summer 2010'/><author><name>Who is newsgal?</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KOvOKEfpOWM/S-eOw082v_I/AAAAAAAAAHY/J6P5PrkUH3Q/s72-c/rafw25.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880875345602942504.post-5356998583420230269</id><published>2010-05-10T00:15:00.038+10:00</published><updated>2010-05-10T14:19:31.861+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Rosemount Australian Fashion Week - Spring Summer 2010</title><summary type='text'>A celebration in innovation


If, according to Sydney’s fashionista industy insiders, Australian Fashion Week is synonymous with pushing beyond standards and expectations, then today’s launch further reiterated this rhetoric, setting a grand-scaled precedent for the week long gala event.

Stationed amongst the quintessentially patriotic backdrop of Circular Quay, the exclusive five day, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/880875345602942504/posts/default/5356998583420230269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/880875345602942504/posts/default/5356998583420230269'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newsgal.blogspot.com/2010/05/rosemount-australian-fashion-week.html' title='Rosemount Australian Fashion Week - Spring Summer 2010'/><author><name>Who is newsgal?</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KOvOKEfpOWM/S-bUA4ShfNI/AAAAAAAAAEw/zmMYXOErAjg/s72-c/rafw13.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880875345602942504.post-7389459045168988319</id><published>2010-04-28T04:34:00.002+10:00</published><updated>2010-04-28T04:45:50.840+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Children's Cancer Institute Charity Auction / Ferarri Maserati Ball at The Ivy</title><summary type='text'>La Dolce Vita – The Sweet Life.

In an evening of old time glamour and schmaltzy decadence, more than 400 of Sydney’s glitterati and elite social set waltzed around The Ivy's Grand Ballroom for a night of fine fashion, food and fundraising.

Sponsored by Maserati and Ferrari, guests were greeted on the red carpet with a dazzling white two door Maserati sports, before feasting their eyes on a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/880875345602942504/posts/default/7389459045168988319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/880875345602942504/posts/default/7389459045168988319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newsgal.blogspot.com/2010/04/childrens-cancer-institute-charity.html' title='Children&apos;s Cancer Institute Charity Auction / Ferarri Maserati Ball at The Ivy'/><author><name>Who is newsgal?</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880875345602942504.post-4769083347053103230</id><published>2010-04-28T03:16:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2010-04-28T03:16:34.514+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Craig Swan Reverse Mortgages ASIC Superannuation</title><summary type='text'></summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/880875345602942504/posts/default/4769083347053103230'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/880875345602942504/posts/default/4769083347053103230'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newsgal.blogspot.com/2010/04/craig-swan-reverse-mortgages-asic.html' title='Craig Swan Reverse Mortgages ASIC Superannuation'/><author><name>Who is newsgal?</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880875345602942504.post-3543353110263051175</id><published>2008-08-10T22:42:00.010+10:00</published><updated>2010-05-10T19:10:07.504+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Ooh La La for that Elusive Trifecta</title><summary type='text'>Barbara Walters' interview with former supermodel and France's new First Lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, as portrayed on a recent 60 Minutes episode, struck a couple of chords with me.


Tackling the complexities and nuances of dating in a candid discussion with a good friend visiting from Canberra on the weekend, we revelled in anecdotes of former, current, and potential future consorts and the deal </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/880875345602942504/posts/default/3543353110263051175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/880875345602942504/posts/default/3543353110263051175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newsgal.blogspot.com/2008/08/ooh-la-la-is-it-elusive-trifecta.html' title='Ooh La La for that Elusive Trifecta'/><author><name>Who is newsgal?</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KOvOKEfpOWM/SJ8OzbfzEkI/AAAAAAAAAB4/EBEuGbTjqSU/s72-c/carla2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880875345602942504.post-2882340182797417831</id><published>2008-08-04T12:31:00.004+10:00</published><updated>2010-05-10T19:17:30.051+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Dying For Beauty?</title><summary type='text'>
One of my earliest childhood make up memories (sans applying mum's silver liquid eyeliner and range of lipsticks to recreate Paul Stanley's Starchild and Ace Frehley's Spaceman Kiss characters during the early eighties), was around the age of twelve; as mum applied a dab of the powder puff to my face "to quell the shine" before bidding me farewell to another day at school. 
  Unbeknownst to me </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/880875345602942504/posts/default/2882340182797417831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/880875345602942504/posts/default/2882340182797417831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newsgal.blogspot.com/2008/08/dying-for-beauty.html' title='Dying For Beauty?'/><author><name>Who is newsgal?</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_KOvOKEfpOWM/SJcva95eXVI/AAAAAAAAABg/O38sIvgrYyc/s72-c/make+up.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880875345602942504.post-6970957000918970976</id><published>2008-08-01T14:11:00.005+10:00</published><updated>2010-05-10T19:22:34.605+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Verbal Bullets - The New Russian Roulette</title><summary type='text'>
While walking to my local shops a couple of days ago wearing a dowdy sweatshirt, track pants and ugg boots, I encountered a familiar sound. As I passed the block of apartments next to my own building, sure enough, the group of around five males in their early to mid twenties who live in the ground floor apartment, sat perched outside; smoking cigarettes, swigging back on their long necks, and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/880875345602942504/posts/default/6970957000918970976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/880875345602942504/posts/default/6970957000918970976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newsgal.blogspot.com/2008/07/verbal-bullets-new-russian-roulette.html' title='Verbal Bullets - The New Russian Roulette'/><author><name>Who is newsgal?</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KOvOKEfpOWM/SJKlQ0Smr4I/AAAAAAAAABY/CUXmuhfjWSo/s72-c/Words.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880875345602942504.post-3305807776524599200</id><published>2008-07-31T11:19:00.003+10:00</published><updated>2010-05-10T19:43:25.125+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Demise of the Iconic Millennium Woman</title><summary type='text'>
 

While society has come a long way in the past thirty years in overcoming the gender barriers and stereotypes of women, press relating to the media scrum at Sydney airport for the imminent arrival of a string of international female celebrities for the last MTV music awards, has got me thinking; the battle is not only far from over, but has perhaps become a whole new terrain. 

Celebrities are</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/880875345602942504/posts/default/3305807776524599200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/880875345602942504/posts/default/3305807776524599200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newsgal.blogspot.com/2008/07/demise-of-iconic-millennium-woman.html' title='Demise of the Iconic Millennium Woman'/><author><name>Who is newsgal?</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_KOvOKEfpOWM/SJGJtjvZYyI/AAAAAAAAAA4/kXNkD2lU3fo/s72-c/Nicole+Richie+Sydney.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry></feed>
