Romance Was Born 'Happy Campers' AW 12

A love of kitsch Australiana, crafty construction and fine tailoring help Australia’s sentimental favourites Romance Was Born to turn the dreaded cultural cringe on its head. 

These New Romantics are the loveable design duo Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales, their unquashable enthusiasm and sheer love for what they make and do is contagious. This passion permeates their designs and is vital to the garments construction, combining seamlessly with their technical pattern-making wizardry. 

Resulting in clothes that are more than just the sum of their parts, they create a clothing experience. Romance Was Born collections are irreverent and fun loving, fabric and colour combinations are what inspire their playful outfits where sparkle, texture and bold prints jostle together in a harmonious jamboree of style. Romance Was Born is much loved for their original larrikin spirit, poking a cheeky tongue at convention. 

Their lavish aesthetic often includes a pastiche of craft work like appliqué, tie-dying or crochet, these are the fabulous hand detailed features that set their label apart from the flippant trends of the fashion madding crowd.

Luke and Anna met studying fashion at East Sydney Technical College, a few fun-filled party nights later and the creative pair became the best of friends, a dream of starting a label together was formed – and so Romance Was Born. Here are some of my personal favourites from their Happy Campers AW12 Collection.

To quote an incredibly smart man by the name of Ron Burgundy:

"Don't act like you're not impressed".

Subway DC stock pieces from this collection, to BUY & SEE more head to the 

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Scar tissue that I wish you saw

I finished reading Scar Tissue about a week ago now and I’m surprised it has taken me this long to write about it. I’m going to have to audit myself because I could go on & on about this autobiography. This book is guts and balls. Anthony’s candidness invites readers into his psyche to uncover with him the trials and tribulations which lead him to his drug addiction. The book makes you fall in and out of love with Kiedis like so many of his girlfriends. My favourite parts of the book was when Anthony would relate his songs to the events that take place in his life. Before this book I wasn’t the biggest RHCP fan, I’m more of a seasonal fan, I seem to drift in and out of their music, but I’ll tell you what I have never played my chili peppers album more now then I have since when I bought it (I think I was about 13). I also got to see the poet in Kiedis & I think I melted when in the song ‘Scar Tissue’ he says

“Fallin’ all over myself

to lick your heart and taste your health ‘cause”