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With wintry weather here at last, it’s time to make sure your bedroom feels berry cosy. Styled for Fenton & Fenton’s Apres Club collection, this welcoming space draws you in with a cocooning combination of warm earthy browns and deep berry-toned hues like raspberry and magenta. As shares in , pairing berry and earth brings a calming feeling of grounded elegance, yet it still has a modern feel. Find out how you can achieve a similar look in your own bedroom with colour, bedding and intentional pieces in Sunday’s .
📸: Dave Kulesza

“Watch out for the birds.” It’s a caution Perth residents are conditioned to. We know to cast our eyes down during magpie season, keep Chu croissants close to our mouths in fear of the greedy Hyde Park kookaburras, and learn the seagull shuffle at a young age to protect our fish and chips at all costs. Eating outside comes with conditions in however, as food reviewer Jade Jurewicz finds this week, the riverside location of on the foreshore makes it all worth it. Read the full , including whether any feathery friends made an appearance, in this weekend’s .

Perfect form is vital in ; the precision of a pose, the elegance of movement, is all central to the beauty that unfolds onstage. But for principal dancer and photographer .osma, it is the moments of imperfection and raw humanity behind that perfection that he seeks to capture. Osma has been documenting himself and his fellow dancers, including for his Uncovered exhibition, at in Claremont June 4-13. And while those latest images are still top-secret, Osma shares glimpses into his body of work with in this weekend’s . Osma talks about overcoming body image struggles, growing into his confidence and building enough trust with his subjects that they allow themselves to let go on camera. “There is that trust in dance that is already very intimate,” he says. “But it still took time to talk about the image, talk about the work, talk about the purpose behind the work”. But once the dancers forgot about how they looked and became emotionally present within the frame, “this is when it got beautiful”. Read the full story in STM.
📸: Juan Carlos Osma

After two decades as one of Perth’s top stylists, has learned to expect the unexpected at Australian Fashion Week: hundreds of live rats at a show, a runway inside the drained Icebergs pool, little-known models who went on to be global names. This year, as she attended as Claremont Quarter’s new fashion director and reporter for , she shares her behind-the-scenes diary – full of backstage glimpses, unexpected moments and the Perth connections who helped make a success. West Australians were everywhere, both on the catwalk and off: from Ken Leung, creative director of the Carla Zampatti show, to star hairdresser Pauline McCabe and a show from Perth expat Breeanna Smith’s L'IDÉE WOMAN label featuring some of WA’s most well-known models, Gemma Ward, Jessica Gomes and Billie-Jean Hamlet. Read the full story in STM.

Photography: Franz Bato