The Harsh Light of Day

Check Your Mailbox: The battle for the spring/summer dominance begins in earnest this week with flashy launches for both Meggie G (Tuesday and also Meggie's B'Day - Happy Birthday from Harsh Light!), and the J-Hawk (Wednesday) - if you're not on that guest list call your agent pronto tonto (if you don't have one, you shouldn't be on the list.) Also ask about your invite to Home Beautiful's Product of the Year (drive a van and try and lift some stuff!); Rosie's Juice launch (yep, we're now launching juices); Motorola ARIA Handset launch (feel free to send one my way); Give Cancer a Red Card Ball (nothing funny to say, a great cause and hopefully they raise lots of money); World premiere of the movie Rogue (hello Michael Vartan, my Spring time crush); Blush Diamond Ball (another excellent charity fundraiser).

Longlead Mailbox: Start making Melbourne friends people, racing season is not far away and with a limited capacity, come last week in October, tixs will be rarer than really rare stuff! Also, Harsh Light is still open for sponsorships for Racing Week. Myer, Emirates, Andrew McManus, Motorola happy to blog about your guests and your guests only for two tixs to marquee?

Amy Erbacher

Amy has been a bit of fashion hit and miss in the past. For a girl with so much to work with, she’ll often test my patience and work against those tools. Here however, I’m oddly enjoying this outfit. Sure, the jeans and bunching a little unattractively around her nether region. And yes, she does look like she’s about to compete in a game of hop, skip jump but the brown shirt, with it’s gold coin necklace is different and a little striking and I particularly appreciate her Reese style fringe.

Belinda Matheson

For reasons unknown to myself, I just can’t seem to be pleased about this dress. It seems a little cheap with its pleather flower thingie. And it’s probably not even pleather but something about the outfit just bugs me. Maybe the heavy pumps, when a strappy would have been better? Even the head tilt is annoying me a little, and really I have no reason to be annoyed. Sorry Belinda, maybe you’re coping my non-window Qantas service seat anger right now.

Candice Falzon

Firstly, I’d love to get Candice to stand front on for the camera, and not like she’s in the queue for some nightclub and just happened to be snapped. Anyway, I actually think she looks kinda rocking. Little disco but it’s cool. She’s definitely got the legs to carry it off and overall tan does seem oddly natural. I feel a little out of my depth. I’m in a world were Candice is looking good – what ever shall I do?

Jennifer Hawkins

And the battle begins! Stage 1 in the J-Hawk v Meggie G retailer face off, sees Jen looking okay but no where near her match winning best. The dress is fine and of course great set of pins but there’s that Trump wooing x-factor missing here. In this shot, she’s just a pretty girl in a dress. Still, one must pace oneself in the campaign and it's early days yet. There’s still plenty of time.

Katherine Keating

If the theme of the White Tie dinner was a underwater Disney Princess slash Chinese dinner plate pattern, then Kath Keating has hands down secured herself the meat tray winning prize. If, like I suspect, this is her attempt at show stopping glamour; she’s succeeded – in making me want to stop the show – RIGHT NOW!

Lizzy Lovett

Wow, Liz this bordering on Britney Spears style of misjudgement. Yes, you’ve got a fairly nice pair of legs, but stretching a satin top across them isn’t going to make us beguiled. The terribly unflattering way that purple satin is straining across her probably, very normal sized hips, is very much like the completely off the rails pop diva. And Lizzy, when you’re being compared to Brit Brit – I’d take a second look in the mirror.

Megan Gale

And in the David Jones corner, weighing in with a previous hot Italian boyfriend and followed up with the funny it boy, is Megan Gale. The first round points go to Meggie, who looks summery and fresh and very girl next door with her normal weight size and dazzling smile and flouncy hair. While the shoes are not my preference, the overall spring/summerness of the ensemble means I’ll be popping into DJ’s to check out the range. Mission therefore accomplished.

Nicole Kidman

I equally enjoy and equally loathe this outfit. I quite like Nic’s hair, the fringe goes a long way to covering up the plasticine face and the silver colour bodice is very striking, as is the gold chains she’s paired with the outfit. Why then she or the stylist felt the need to teeppee toilet paper her lower half, is anybodies guess. As is her decision to ballet flats her way through the evening. Nic, Keith’s not in town, live a little. Even you yourself said, that part of the joy in separating from Tommy C was the ability to wear heels again!

Prassana Mamillal

I think we’ve found Tali Jatali’s long lost cousin. I think the drink in hand is maybe a visual excuse. Like, ‘see, I’m drunk, I had some pre-drinks before I came, and then stupidly got dressed afterwards and really, in my drunken state, I thought tattered trailer park denim shorts with stockings, three layers of socks and shoes from the local production of Sunset Blvd would be okay.’ Well, sweetie, maybe if you were carrying a bottle of Jack Daniels, and a shot glass of vodka and cask of wine and we might believe you’re drunk enough to dress like that.

Sam Brett

Ahh Sam, thorn in my side, needle in my haystack. How proud Jackie Collins would be to see that she has a youthful protégé. The volume induced hair and OTT jewels are totally Jackie. As is the pleather white bag which you seem inexplicably to be able to hold properly. I do feel sorry for Sam though, because clearly finances are tight. Why else would she only pay for the top half body fake tan?

Also, a sidenote, for those of you who despise one Sam Brett, like so many people I know do, this site is a must see - http://samandthecitysucks.blogspot.com/ A bastion of Sam Brett hate and watch dog of her awful mangling of romantic myths and clichés and superiority, this site is the required anti-Sam reading.

Tali Jalati

Tali is just an indescribable mess really, and I’m still at loss as to what she does. Apparently fashion design but for who and what label and how she even makes a profit is beyond me. Here, we have a combination of biker land and afternoon scones with the ladies. Amazingly that doesn’t seem to work …I know, it shocks me too, how can that combo not work!!