#and tomorrow there will be record temperatures of july in my area according to weather report

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i was like "oh shit, i feel like im melting today haha my body is so dramatic" and then i checked. and its. its fucking 30 degrees Celsius. t h i r t y. how am i supposed to function gddgdfgs

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Fifty years ago, the notion of Australian fashion may have been regarded as an oxymoron. This is not a critique of Australians’ capacity to be intrinsically stylish, as there is plenty of evidence to reflect the contrary.

Rather, the Australian fashion industry, historically, was based on adopting and adapting the looks that evolved internationally, predominantly from Europe. The contemporary fashion industry in Australia has really only developed an individual identity in the past 20 years.

Maggi Tabberer modelling a classic 1950s Phillipa Gowns dress in a photograph taken in Melbourne in 1958. AAP Image/Powerhouse Museum, Bruno Benini

To put this into some context is to also understand the evolution and shifts in the Australian fashion system over the past four decades.

My early memories of the Australian fashion industry in the 1970s are clustered in two key geographical locations: Flinders Lane in Melbourne and Surry Hills in Sydney. These two locales housed industrial spaces in multi-floor buildings where the heart and soul of the fashion industry thrived.

Fast track to the 2000s and the industry had dispersed. With the rising costs of inner-city locations, fashion houses moved their bases out across suburbs and designers and brands spread across Australia. Local manufacturing has now shrunk to a level of being minute or bespoke and most production now takes place in offshore factories with no connection to the local scene.

Australian model Maggi Eckardt modelling Ninette fashion in a photograph taken in Melbourne in 1968. AAP Image/Powerhouse Museum, Bruno Benini

The geographical displacement of the fashion industry and the shift in manufacturing practices has resulted in a move from an Australian large-scale manufacturing hub to the development of fashion clusters across major cities in which creative collaborations thrive and emerging designers prosper.

Australian fashion is in a unique position, with approximately 85% of its industry representation being small to medium businesses. As a cohort of enterprises, they are spread across the nation, often working in isolated pockets.

Across Australia, many smaller practitioners are flourishing, despite the efforts of mainstream media to create alarmist commentary on the industry going into a downhill slide and no future for our creative designers.

Commercial viability has been in the headlines recently, with a number of mid-sized businesses going into voluntary or forced administration. At the moment, we are working through a period of major shifts in the fashion system globally.

Models on the runway for the Christina Exie show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Sydney this year. AAP Image/Tracey Nearmy

New challenges

As more designer labels struggle (Lisa Ho, Bettina Liano and Kirrily Johnston to name a few), they often do not have the infrastructure and resources to deal with higher overheads such as increased shop rents, volatile global supply chains and shifts in purchasing patterns of major retailers.

It only needs one thing to go wrong for a business to be destroyed.

One of the key issues for many fashion labels is that they have continued to work within a system that worked ten years ago but is less successful today. Designers who rely on wholesaling are finding it increasingly difficult to survive in a world where long lead times requiring investment in production and materials are no longer offset by retailers with a fat cheque.

Retailers now commonly demand payment terms of 90 days or more (meaning the designer gets paid 90 days or more after the invoice is issued) and all the risk sits with the designer supplying the product. If merchandise doesn’t sell then, the retailer demands a discount – or worse, returns all the goods within the 90-day period.

In the case where goods may be faulty, the designers are finding it increasingly difficult to make a claim against suppliers in other countries with different trade rules and retailers equally refusing to accept the goods.

Cautious optimism

There is light at the end of the tunnel with two areas of specialisation having the capacity to strengthen businesses.

The first concept is: “keep it small, keep it special.” Emerging designers are opening engaged and experiential retail spaces, offering informed and positive service (by staff who know and love the product). These are often pop-up stores that encourage the consumer to buy now, before it disappears.

Lulamae Pop Up Shop in central Melbourne. Andrew Wuttke and Breathe Architecture.;

A second commercial proposition and an incredible growth area is the world of online retail. Online shopping has become the new norm and allows designers to be in control of their own supply chain.

Engaging websites enable smaller scale enterprises to test the retail market, react to consumer demand and offer merchandise globally, without the constraints of potentially expensive and volatile international expansion.

The online world is providing Australian designers with a fertile interface with global fashion advocates, without the constraints of trying to make it big overseas. But this does require shifting the processes and systems embedded with the fashion industry – something not easily done.

The online shop of Melbourne brand Alpha60. http://www.alpha60.com.au/

Northern exposure

There is also the sometimes-unrealistic benchmark placed on designers to expand into international markets; a difficult burden to endure.

I often get asked who are Australia’s most successful designers? The global guide for fashion success has historically been embedded in the concept that a designer needs to make it in one of “the big four”: New York, London, Paris or Milan. They also need to attract the attention of the global press.

To do this requires significant investment and often minimal return. My advice, using Australian vernacular, is to focus on your own backyard first. The shining light of global expansion is not so rosy when you are chasing creditors in foreign lands, dealing with multitudes of different customs requirements and hit with overwhelming freight bills.

The global fashion scene is shifting and we are on the brink of a new era. The assumption that Australia is a season behind is no longer relevant. In fact, the concept of a “fashion season” is an unrealistic construct altogether.

Global fashion has not followed weather patterns for years (which is why, for some obscure reason, sweaters are delivered into stores as we swelter through January and swimwear adorns shelves in July as the temperatures hit their lowest of the year and snow falls in surrounding mountains).

The concept of trans-seasonal fashion – clothing that is adaptable for many climates – has become quite the norm across the globe. This has been predominantly fuelled by the need for large scale fashion conglomerates to attract some of the lucrative share of the Middle East and Asian markets, where climates are often distinctly different to Europe and the USA.

Australian designers Nicky Zimmermann (left), Simone Zimmermann (far right) with Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales from Sydney label Romance Was Born. AAP Image/Tracey Nearmy

Australian designers benefit from this shift, as they create collections adaptable to varying temperatures – a criterion that works across Australia as it does for global market penetration.

The way we wear clothes has also changed, as we move from our air-conditioned houses to our air-conditioned cars and then to our air-conditioned offices. The need for weather-specific wear has fallen significantly and this opens opportunities to develop designs of varying weights and fibres that are adaptable to many environments.

All of this is, of course, only relevant if an Australian designer sees the need to pursue the dream of global expansion. To be an Antipodean designer in an industry that is run on Northern Hemisphere seasons is only a problem in a Northern Hemisphere-focused industry or if a designer perceives being aligned to the big four fashion cities as a priority. Many do not.

Goodbye New York, hello Melbourne

The world balance is shifting and markets are changing. “Same old, same old” – a phrase that equals devastation in the world of fashion – has been heard on the streets of Milan, London, New York and Paris recently. Not referring to specific collections but rather to the painfully exhausting Fashion Week system that grinds through each season, with the endless runway shows at enormous expense, promoting many of the same big name brands in an incessant cycle to sell more lipsticks, sunglasses and perfumes.

As proposed in the New York Times during that city’s recent Fashion Week in September this year: “New York Fashion Week officially starts tomorrow, but according to the Times, it’s already passé.

The newspaper of record spoke to a group of fashion folks and heard essentially the same message from everyone – "we’re tired and we don’t feel like doing this”.

Front-row at New York Fashion Week. EPA/Peter Foley

Fashion is an industry that prides itself on quick response, change, innovation and creativity, yet is perpetuating a cycle of boredom for many involved. The time is ripe for change as the world embraces innovative digital interfaces and newly emerging fashion cities such as Melbourne challenge the “big four” for fresh experiences and stimulating style.

An up-and-coming tier of creative cities are becoming hot spots for fashion innovation clusters. Around the globe, cities such as Amsterdam, Shanghai, Istanbul, Seoul, Berlin and Melbourne are being touted as incubators of inspiration.

In part, the evolution of an Australian fashion identity is constrained by the geographical dislocation of our country. Rather than discuss Australian fashion style, it is more pertinent to address the ethos of major cities.

Melbourne street style: relaxed, stylish and wearable. AAP Image/Julian Smith

Living in Melbourne and as an advocate for that city’s creative energy, I am most expert to address how, in this city, fashion flourishes under the auspices of what I have termed “fusion fashion”.

In fusion food, a mix of different culinary references combine to create a new palate. In fashion, the term relates to the synthesis of fashion references such as English bespoke tailoring mixed with the quirkiness of Asian style with a referential nod to Australian casualness – all blended together into a genre that Melbourne holds as uniquely its own. Fusion fashion provides for a one-of-a-kind wardrobe that is relaxed, stylish and wearable.

This style ethos is well suited to inspire global fashion advocates. It might just be what puts Antipodean fashion on the map.

by Beth Daley

Licensed from The Conversation

Written by Becky Heldmen for Schmidt Clothing.

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Andheri, Kurla, Chembur, Vikhroli and Bhandup obtain over 100 mm rainfall until 1 pm

http://tinyurl.com/y6px77nl Mumbai Rains LATEST Updates | The Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC) stated within the final 5 hours Mumbai has recorded a median rainfall of 43.23 mm within the island metropolis, 64.14 mm in jap suburbs and 78.21 mm in western suburbs. The civic physique stated the move of highway site visitors has been reported to be gradual, whereas suburban companies of the Central and Western Railways had been working not on time. Bandra has recorded the utmost rainfall of 30 mm between 10 am to 11 am on Friday. Non-public climate company SkymetWeather stated that Santa Cruz area has already acquired a “whopping” 96 mm rainfall in simply three hours. It additionally predicted that there are excessive possibilities of a 3 digit rainfall in Mumbai at the moment. Although the visibility at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Worldwide Airport has been recorded at 1500 metres, flight operations weren’t affected. Nevertheless, an airport spokesperson informed ANI that there was one diversion round 9 am. The Andheri subway is waterlogged and companies are briefly suspended for site visitors. Commuters are taking hours to journey from Andheri West to the Japanese line. Water-logging on SV Street in Bandra close to Nationwide Faculty has induced site visitors diversion. Aside from Mumbai, the Southwest Monsoon additionally made its presence felt in Gujarat. Nevertheless, no intense rainfall have been noticed thus far and the state has solely recorded scattered to reasonable rains until now. In keeping with Skymet Climate, it’s anticipated to rain in South and East Gujarat. The rains are anticipated to accentuate by tomorrow. Locations like Surat, Valsad, Bhavnagar, Baroda, Gandhinagar, and Ahmedabad will get to see the Monsoon showers for the subsequent 48 hours. After a protracted dry spell, Mumbai lastly acquired heavy downpour on Friday morning with the weather bureau predicting heavy to very heavy rainfall in remoted pockets of the monetary capital. #Mumbai receives heavy rainfall, temperature at 27 Levels Celsius. pic.twitter.com/vYxvJrchdT — ANI (@ANI) June 28, 2019 Components of Juhu, Vile Parle, Mulund and likewise neighboring areas like Thane, Titwala, Vasai and Virar acquired rains, The Times of India reported. Declaring the onset of monsoon in Mumbai, the India Meteorological Division (IMD) had earlier stated, “Southwest monsoon has additional superior into remaining components of central Arabian Sea, Konkan and Maharashtra, some components of north Arabian sea and south Gujarat and a few extra components of Madhya Pradesh.” Representational picture. AFP Although the Friday rains got here as the primary vital downpour for the reason that arrival of monsoon on 25 June, water logging was witnessed in Dharavi area and Bhoidapada Naka in Vasai (east). The latter area was marooned underneath water for over 5 days in July, 2018, with residents doing with out electrical energy for over per week, in accordance with The Times of India. On Thursday, non-public climate company SkymetWeather had tweeted a video of rains in Kharghar region of Mumbai. The town had skilled gentle showers in areas reminiscent of Santa Cruz and Andheri on Wednesday.  As per Met division’s prediction, the monsoon would acquire power with a forecast of widespread rainfall in Goa and Konkan together with Mumbai for 4 days until 29 June. “We’re observing the cloud sample in order that we will predict the doable downpour. The forecast for the subsequent 4 days, until 29 June is of widespread rainfall in Goa and Konkan together with Mumbai,” the official had stated. The Madhya Maharashtra area would obtain some showers whereas different areas could have some dry days forward, the official stated. Marathwada and Vidarbha areas shared related forecast of scattered showers until 29 June which additionally meant that the farming group in addition to consuming water provide schemes on this area must wait longer to get adequate rains to fulfill their wants. With inputs from PTI  Your information to the newest cricket World Cup tales, evaluation, reviews, opinions, stay updates and scores on https://www.firstpost.com/firstcricket/series/icc-cricket-world-cup-2019.html. 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The Daily Tulip

The Daily Tulip – News From Around The World

Wednesday 8th August 2018

Good Morning Gentle Reader….  I hope you slept well and feel refreshed to face the day, Coffee tastes good this morning as always and I poured you a cup, so enjoy, Bella my dog is relaxed after walking under a clear sky filled with stars and is sleeping at my feet as I ready to type the Daily Tulip, having read the news from around the world, I don’t quite know where to start today, So as my Mother used to say start at the beginning..

SWISS POLICE SAY DOGS SHOULD WEAR SHOES IN HEATWAVE…. Police in the Swiss city of Zurich are urging owners to buy shoes for their dogs, in order to protect their paws in the high temperatures, reports say. According to the public broadcaster SRF, the police in Zurich have launched the "Hot Dog campaign", and are educating dog owners on how they can protect their four-legged friends in the hot weather, given that the overheated pavements can be painful on their feet. A prolonged heatwave throughout Europe means that Switzerland has had one of the hottest summers since records began in 1864, with temperatures this July hovering around 30C (86F). Parts of the country have also experienced droughts, the SwissInfo news website reports. According to Zurich Police Spokesperson Michael Walker, 30 degrees can feel like 50-55 degrees on the ground, and can cause particular discomfort to canines. "When a dog walks on hot asphalt, he can burn his feet - just like a human walking barefoot," he tells SRF. The Zurich City Police are advising owners to check before taking their dogs out on walks whether the ground is too hot, by measuring the temperature with the back of their hand for five seconds. They are also advising pet owners against leaving animals in hot cars, and ensuring that they have enough drinking water.

NEW ZEALAND SHOP BATTLES IN COURT OVER WEETABIX IMPORTS…. A shop owner in New Zealand is involved in a battle of the breakfast cereals after her plans to import British favourite Weetabix ended up in court. British expat Lisa Wilson wanted to sell the wheat-based breakfast to homesick Britons in her Canterbury-based shop A Little Bit of Britain, but has come up against domestic manufacturer Sanitarium, which says the brand name is too similar to their own local brand Weet-Bix, Radio New Zealand reports. Customs officials seized a shipment of Weetabix last August after a complaint by Sanitarium. Weet-Bix is a hugely popular brand in both Australia and New Zealand complete with celebrity endorsements, and Sanitarium are keen to protect their trademark. "The issue is the potential and real threat of Weetabix coming into this market and cashing in on this great brand that Kiwis love," Sanitarium's Rob Scoines told the New Zealand Herald. Mr Scoines pointed out last August that Weet-Bix cannot be sold in the UK because of its similarity to British brand Weetabix. With the case at the High Court in Christchurch hinging on whether customers are likely to be confused by the difference between a hyphen and the letter 'a', Ms Wilson thinks that her largely expatriate customers in New Zealand know exactly what they're buying. "The Weetabix box actually has the UK price in pound sterling written on the front... and I have never had anybody asking why our Weetabix are so expensive, thinking they were New Zealand products," she says. "They know they are British Weetabix as we sell British groceries." She went on to tell the local Newshub website that she's making no attempt to pass the cereal off as Weet-Bix, and has turned down a compromise offered by Sanitarium to have the Weetabix logo covered. Ms Wilson is hoping for a swift judgment in the case, not least because last August's shipment is still being held by customs officials. Tomorrow is the last day of the hearing; however, Ms Wilson may have a bit longer to wait, with Radio NZ saying that Justice David Gendall is likely to reserve judgement.

RUSSIAN MINISTRY SPOKESWOMAN TURNS SONGWRITER…. The Russian Foreign Ministry's chief spokeswoman seems to have a burgeoning second career writing lyrics for pop songs. Maria Zakharova, despite a full-time day job as the public face of Russian diplomacy, has supplied the words to "Paid in Full", a break-up song performed by popular singer Katya Lel, Argumenty i Fakty newspaper reports. The bouncy number, which would not sound out of place on Eurovision, came about as a chance encounter between Katya Lel and Ms Zakharova, the latter coming up with the lyrics "after a sleepless night". "I paid for everything… The race is over, and you are not the only one anymore. I'm free like a wave, once again," the Russian lyrics go. It's not the first time that she's branched out into song, either. Last year she wrote "Return the Memory", a song about Syria for singer Narghiz. However, Ms Zakharova has pointed out that she's not for hire. She told the official TASS news agency: "Many people ask me to write, but I don't work to order. I need to feel, to understand - emotions come first, and then the words." Nor is she the first Russian government official to go into music. Vladimir Putin's former speechwriter Jakhan Pollieva has written lyrics for a number of songs, including the 2007 hit "A Snowstorm is Coming", while the president's advisor and one-time deputy prime minister Vladislav Surkov reportedly wrote lyrics for the now-defunct Russian rock band Agatha Christie.

CANADIAN PUDDLE SPLASH VAN DRIVER LOSES JOB…. A van driver in the Canadian city of Ottawa has been sacked after they were filmed repeatedly splashing pedestrians. Contracting company Black & McDonald said in a Facebook post that the individual concerned is "no longer employed" with them after a video of their anti-social behaviour went viral, Canadian broadcaster CBC reports. A 45 second clip, filmed on a rear-facing dashcam, shows the unidentified driver veering into the kerb on a rainy day to drench pedestrians at least three times. At the very end of the clip, the company's logo is clearly seen on the side of the vehicle. The video has been viewed over 750,000 times, and Black & McDonald subsequently made an apology for their driver's behaviour on its Facebook page. It says: "We apologise to everyone impacted by the recent incident in Ottawa of unacceptable driving by one of our van drivers... This is an isolated incident and the individual is no longer employed with Black & McDonald." A spokesperson also said the company had been co-operating with the police over the incident. According to the Ottawa Sun newspaper, the driver will not face any criminal charges, with police considering the driver's sacking being punishment enough. "We consider the file now closed," Sgt. Mark Gatien told the press. "The outcome from the employer we feel is enough of a lesson learned for him and your readers and viewers."

BEAR SCARES TRANSYLVANIA POLITICAL SUMMER CAMP…. A summer camp for young Transylvania political activists is reeling from close encounters with a bear in the mountains of northern Romania. The local members of the ethnic-Hungarian minority were looking forward to lively debates at the annual Tusnadfurdo gathering of their branch of Fidesz, the right-wing populist party that governs neighbouring Hungary, according to the Budapest Sztar Klikk news site. But the first sign that events might be taking a livelier course than usual came on Wednesday night, when a female bear entered the camp at Baile Tusnad and bit a man on the arm and clawed his leg. He is receiving treatment in a local hospital, the Romanian newspaper Adevarul reported. But when the bear reappeared in the parking lot the following evening, many of the participants "ran screaming in panic", Sztar Klikk said. The encounters have more than local implications, as Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban is due in the camp at the weekend to deliver a keynote speech about his government's policy towards Hungarian communities abroad. He used the same event to set out his vision of building an "illiberal state" back in 2014. Csaba Borboly, the head of Harghita Council, said he had asked the Romanian government to deal with the danger posed by bears in the area for some time. Environment Minister Gratiela Gavrilescu responded by authorising hunters to move the mother bear to the Zarnesti Bear Sanctuary - in particular as it appeared that her cubs had been killed in a train collision, and there was a danger that she might become more aggressive, Romania's Observator TV reports. The forests of Transylvania are home to 6,000-7,000 brown bears, and controlling the population has been a hot political issue in Romania for years.

Well Gentle Reader I hope you enjoyed our look at the news from around the world this, morning… …

Our Tulips today are the world's largest tulip carpet is seen at Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul, Turkey

A Sincere Thank You for your company and Thank You for your likes and comments I love them and always try to reply, so please keep them coming, it's always good fun, As is my custom, I will go and get myself another mug of "Colombian" Coffee and wish you a safe Wednesday 8th August 2018 from my home on the southern coast of Spain, where the blue waters of the Alboran Sea washes the coast of Africa and Europe and the smell of the night blooming Jasmine and Honeysuckle fills the air…and a crazy old guy and his dog Bella go out for a walk at 4:00 am…on the streets of Estepona…

All good stuff....But remember it’s a dangerous world we live in

Be safe out there…

Robert McAngus