Esmé Duggan, Author at Albert Review https://albertreview.com.au/author/esme-duggan/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:48:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://albertreview.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/cropped-favi-2-32x32.jpg Esmé Duggan, Author at Albert Review https://albertreview.com.au/author/esme-duggan/ 32 32 On Thread: Fashion News To Know In May 2026 https://albertreview.com.au/style/fashion-news-may-2026/ Mon, 11 May 2026 13:09:59 +0000 https://albertreview.com.au/?p=47184 Style may be eternal, but the fashion industry is ever-changing. To help you stay across what’s new and noteworthy, we’re back with the May 2026 edition of On Thread, our monthly fashion news series. Here, we compile all the important fashion industry moves, collections, and collaborations you need to know about and distil them into an easy-to-read, scrollable format. This month, our fashion news takes on a more local tone, with Australian Fashion Week taking place in the Museum of […]

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]]> On Thread: Fashion News To Know In April 2026 https://albertreview.com.au/style/fashion-news-april-2026/ Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:15:48 +0000 https://albertreview.com.au/?p=46782 The Devil Wears Prada 2 is making its long awaited debut later this month and while we’re waiting with bated breath (the media run up to the premiere has moved at a truly glacial pace), the IRL fashion industry continues to keep things interesting. We’re back with On Thread, our monthly fashion news series distilling all the important fashion industry moves, collections, and collaborations you need to know about into bite-sized form. Yum. Here’s all the fashion news to know […]

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]]> On Thread: Fashion News To Know In March 2026 https://albertreview.com.au/style/fashion-news-march-2026/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:06:59 +0000 https://albertreview.com.au/?p=46368 We’re back with On Thread, our monthly fashion news series detailing all the important fashion industry moves, collections, and collaborations you need to know about. From under-the-radar fashion moments to the never-ending cycle of creative director developments, you’ll find all the fashion news worth knowing about in March 2026 right here. March 2026 fashion news Welcome back to the March 2026 edition of On Thread. Here, you’ll find all the fashion news, new releases, and collabs worth knowing about in March […]

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]]> Bouke De Vries Turns Dries Van Noten’s Soie Malaquais Into Sculptural Works Of Art https://albertreview.com.au/design/art/dries-van-notens-bouke-de-vries-soie-malaquais-ceramic/ Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:42:16 +0000 https://albertreview.com.au/?p=46470 Created in partnership with perfumer Marie Salamagne, who “fell in love with Dries’ silk dresses in his Quai Malaquais boutique,” Soie Malaquais is a fragrance inspired by lush texture and materiality. “The texture was so fluid it merged with the skin, which gave me the idea for a silky, enveloping perfume, a mix of chestnut with sensual vanilla,” explained Salamagne. One of the ten fragrances Dries van Noten’s eponymous fragrance brand debuted with upon launch in 2022, Soie Malaquais stands […]

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]]> On Thread: Fashion News To Know In February 2026 https://albertreview.com.au/style/fashion-news-february-2026/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:09:35 +0000 https://albertreview.com.au/?p=46037 Welcome back to On Thread, our monthly fashion news series detailing all the important fashion industry moves, collections, and collaborations you need to know about. True to form, the shortest month of the year brings with it fresh collaborations, brand ambassador appointments, AND (!!!) new developments in the creative director stakes. Naturally, we’re back with all the February 2026 fashion news you need to know, from the new creative director at a certain Italian luxury fashion house to the introduction of […]

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]]> AR Beauty Beat, February 2026: Best Beauty & Grooming Releases https://albertreview.com.au/beauty-grooming/ar-beauty-beat-february-2026/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 03:02:22 +0000 https://albertreview.com.au/?p=46292 Welcome back to the AR Beauty Beat. It might be the shortest month of the year, but February 2026 is in no shortage of covetable beauty releases and news. It’s unlikely you’d have missed the headline news—Hailey Bieber’s Rhode has launched in Mecca, with the Australian and New Zealand exclusive ‘Cloudberry’ Peptide Lip Tint promptly selling out—but there are other releases that are equally (if not more!) worth hearing about. Think: Biossance’s new high-tech moisturiser and The Ordinary delivering the closest […]

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]]> The 10 Best Dress Watches For Women, For Every Budget https://albertreview.com.au/watches/dress-watches-women/ Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:15:19 +0000 https://albertreview.com.au/?p=45979 Dress watches are a peculiar category. There was once a time when the majority of watches produced—excepting field and military watches—were, by default, dress watches. And, the first ones were made for women. Although pocket watches were popular, the first wristwatch was commissioned from Breguet by Caroline Bonaparte, the Queen of Naples, in 1810, followed by a commission from Patek Philippe by Countess Koscowicz of Hungary in 1868. Caroline Bonaparte’s commission was a quarter repeater (a complication that chimes the […]

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]]> James Turrell Installs His Most Monumental Skyspace In Denmark’s ARoS Aarhus Art Museum https://albertreview.com.au/design/art/james-turrell-skyspace-aros-denmark/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:23:41 +0000 https://albertreview.com.au/?p=46058 If there’s one contemporary artist whose work has the ability to transcend class and creed, it’s James Turrell. One of the pioneers of the Californian Light and Space movement during the 1960s, the American artist began his ongoing Skyspace series the following decade. The seminal concept sees enclosed built spaces punctuated with an aperture in the sky or a window in the wall, which allows visitors to view the sky outside. The natural light is typically manipulated with artificial light, […]

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]]> On Thread: Fashion News To Know In January 2026 https://albertreview.com.au/style/fashion-news-january-2026/ Sun, 01 Feb 2026 06:56:39 +0000 https://albertreview.com.au/?p=45447 Buongiorno! Welcome back to On Thread, our monthly fashion news series detailing all the important fashion industry moves, collections, and collaborations you need to know about. In the fashion world, 2025 was the year of creative director upheaval — highlights include Jonathan Anderson moving from Loewe to Dior, Pierpaolo Piccioli debuting at Balenciaga, Matthieu Blazy debuting at Chanel, Dario Vitale succeeding Donatella Versace at Versace for a total of one (1!!) show before departing (the role at Versace remains unfilled […]

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]]> On Thread: Fashion News To Know In December 2025 https://albertreview.com.au/style/fashion-news-december-2025/ Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:34:09 +0000 https://albertreview.com.au/?p=44754 The year might be drawing to a close, but the fashion industry isn’t about to go down without a new collection — or ten. From holiday campaigns and collabs to collection drops and store openings, our monthly fashion news series On Thread distills the latest and greatest fashion industry news into a bite-sized format. A fashion canape, if you will. December 2025 fashion news Welcome back to On Thread. Here, you’ll find all the fashion news worth knowing in December […]

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