If you are in Sydney, join us TONIGHT 6-8PM for the Me & Oli Open Night at our Pop Up shop at Gaffa! Off-the-rack goods & Made-To-Measure service are all available & it is sure to be a fun filled eve of art, fashion & drinks  ($2 at the bar) as we will be showing our work alongside a bunch of incredible photographic exhibitions opening as a part of Head On Photo Festival. Can’t Wait!
& if you’re around today, we are opened all day, drawing away… so pop in & say hello! We are only opened for a few more days!
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Less than a week to go until the Me & Oli Pop Up Shop opens during Australian Fashion Week at Gaffa*! April 30-May 5!
Not only will there be our Made-To-Measure service & off-the-rack goodies… but we will also be launching our brand new print, ‘Dollars & Cents’!!! Here is a sneak preview… can’t wait to show you in person! ♥ ♥

monday 30th april 10am-6pm
tuesday 1st may 10am-6pm
wednesday 2nd may 10am-6pm
thursday 3rd may 10am-8pm
friday 4th may 10am-6pm
saturday 5th may 11am-5pm

*GAFFA. ARCADE 1, 281 CLARENCE ST, SYDNEY

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Thanks to…
Model: Bel Sheriff
Photography: Andrew Messer
Hair & Make-Up: Belinda Goodwin
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Australian Fashion Week is just around the corner! In celebration & because we want YOU to be a part of the excitement of the week, we are thrilled to announce that we will be opening a Me & Oli POP-UP SHOP at GAFFA , an art
& design precinct in Sydney’s CBD, for the week of April 30- May 5.

There will be fashion, there will be custom fitting, there will be LIVE drawing PLUS we will be launching new styles and our NEW PRINT- so for those of you that are in Sydney or are visiting, mark the date in your diaries and keep your ears peeled for more details of what we’ll be unfolding throughout that week of fashion!

Me & Oli Pop Up Shop

Gaffa. Arcade 1/281 Clarence St, Sydney CBD

Opening Hours:
Monday April 30: 10AM-6PM
Tuesday May 1: 10AM-6PM
Wednesday May 2: 10AM-6PM
Thursday May 3: 10AM-8PM*
Friday May 4: 10AM-6PM
Saturday May 5: 11AM-5PM

*Join us for drinks & nibblies Thursday May 3: 6-8PM!

It’s funny, when we studied kangaroos for the Roomance print we created for the lovely shop Made590 we actually grew a slight fear of these furry animals.

However, when we drew this little fearsome guy for our brand new print (yes!! coming soon!!), we actually grew a love and appreciation for these frilly fellows. Oh the beauty of their ruffles! L’amour!

Thanks to our good friend Clara and the residence of ‘Flodge’ who generously opened up their inner sydney home for us, we recently hosted a Me & Oli Open Night for a small group of friends.

Champagne was flowing as were delicious finger food from our talented friends, Clara, Sab & Sam, who also happen to be brilliant cooks. This gorgeous inner city home was the perfect canvas & we have everyone in the home to thank for helping in the setup of the Open Night, including our friend Jon who helped make everything look even prettier than we imagined.

Thanks also to our ever helpful friend, Luisa Bustos, whose benevolence through all our main events floors us every time, the night was a fun filled fare full of Me & Oli goodies from custom made service to off-the-rack offers.

The Open Night was so special that we cannot wait to plan another with the aim of the next one being open to a wider audience… including ALL friends of Me & Oli!! We shall definitely keep you posted!

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From Top:
Flowers prettying up the night; Me & Oli installation featuring Made-To-Order samples; Our friend Clara being an awesome model; Clara in brand new Me & Oli dress ‘Mum’s The Word’; The gorgeous inner city home, a perfect canvas for the night

We had high expectations going in to see The Descendants & we surely were not disappointed. What a wonderful film. Filled with all those moments that are funny, heartwarming, sad and, well, funny this film has an original story (this trailer pretty much tells you the premise of it) but it is not just the story but the characters, the relationships (& how these develop over the course of the film) & the perfectly cast crew that make this film a strong & memorable one. George Clooney is fantastic in it. As is Shailene Woodley who perfectly plays his eldest daughter. As is that guy from the first Scream (Matthew Lillard). As is pretty much everyone else in the film… and the incredible Hawaiian setting. Alexander Payne, love it, you’ve done good. Four and a half stars.

Well, wasn’t it a delight stumbling across this little tid bit!

Did you know that back in the 1940′s when there was the war & a shortage in stockings, ladies had the option of getting their ‘stockings’ painted on- with a ‘seam line’ down the back of the calf to boot? No? Neither did we! Say good bye to ladders!

Visually arresting with laugh-out-loud moments, Submarine, the directorial debut for Richard Ayoade is an absolute gem of a film.

Craig Roberts is perfect as Oliver Tate who falls in love with a classmate and also sets out to fix his mum and dad’s marriage. Each character is perfectly cast & forms a fine ensemble to tell this common story of adolescent love, problems & worries in the most engaging, funny and refreshing way.

Off beat, wry and fun (with a gorgeous performance from Noah Taylor as Dad) this visually sublime film hit a great note in the tone & we absolutely loved it. Four and a half stars.

not that we’re advocating smoking (& especially not for kids!) but this is pretty cool…

‘Smoking Kids’ Frieke Janssens

Found via Black Harbour

Whether through his directing, acting, screen writing, producing or all of the above, George Clooney always has the ability to bring to, & tell, us a political story in laymans term. Well, put them into more decipherable terms for the not-so-politically-minded like us anyway. Take Syriana (written & directed by Stephen Gaghan) for instance. Executively produced & acted in by George Clooney, this incredible geopolitical thriller still easily sits in our top 5 films of all time.

The Ides of March may not be positioned here but it is still a pretty damn great film.
If you didn’t know, George Clooney directed it, produced it, acted in it & hell, co-wrote the screenplay too (based on a play called Farragut North).

It is set in the ‘crucial’ Ohio in the lead up to the American Presidential election. As each character, ‘married to the campaign’, works towards this top job- anything goes, including ideals. As the campaigning goes on through the movie, we witness increasing pressure on all characters &, slowly revealed are, the dodgy dealings and betrayal that, sadly, seems to be a normal part of politics. Oh yay, thanks George Clooney for reminding us of this. No, just kidding, we loved this intense political thriller (& we know from Drive that the Dish- oops, I mean Ryan Gosling- does ‘intense’ well!) and we give it four and a half stars (the extra half comes from the mere fact that George Clooney & the all star cast turned something political which is, for us, as dull as Brussels sprouts into something incredible).

Inspired by the National Photographic Portrait Prize we came across on our web wanderings the other day, we thought we would visit Art Gallery NSW where they happened to be showing over 45 photographic portraits from their collection in ‘Whats In A Face’, an exhibition that chronologically displays portraits taken from the late 19th Century through to 1900′s and to contemporary portraits. The exhibition focuses on the different practices between then through to now.

Then (late 19th Century) being about expressing ‘something of a person’s character, defining not only their individuality but also their social status’.

The In-Between (1900′s) being more about going ‘beyond portraiture of likeness’, experimenting with form, composition & technique so that the face and the person becomes an ‘allegory, a mood or simply an object’.

& the Now (now) bringing the subject back into the ‘socio-political’ sphere (we think it is a mix of this & those aforementioned practices of the past).

We wonder, as the line blurs between mediums of art (fashion, photography, illustration, video) what the Next holds.

(from top & chronologically) we have listed our highlights from the exhibition

‘Guadalupe de Rivera, Mexico’ 1924 by Edward Weston

‘Only to taste the warmth, the light, the wind’ 1939, Olive Cotton (one of our all time favourites)

‘The Movie Star: David Gulpilil On Bondi Beach’ 1985 by Tracey Moffatt

‘Shenae and Jade’ 2005 by Petrina Hicks

‘The Waiting Girl’, 2006 by Loretta Lux

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Sorry for the quietness. The hectic nature of the end of the year plummeted upon us & we unintentionally spared no time for some of the things we love doing. But slowly we resurface. We hope you all had a beautiful Christmas & have had a wonderful start to the New Year (& your resolutions, if any!)

Our New Years day comprised of a little breaking of (a little eating of processed foods) & a little playing with (more outdoors) our NY resolutions.
Balance is good though cos all in all it was a relaxing mix of noodles, pool & film on our projector.

Not really ones for period dramas we were surprised to absolutely love the film Jane Eyre. & as our favourite pastime is (film stalking)/ reading everything about any film after we watch it, we discovered that young Mia Wasikowska who portrays Jane Eyre has a bit of an eye for photography. Apparently she had a small pocket sewn into her costume on the set of the film perfect for tucking away a digital camera which she used to capture shots between takes. Above is a portrait she took of director Cary Fukunaga & co-star Jamie Bell which actually was selected as a finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2011*. We loved her before, now we love this talented lady even more!

*Listed also are some of our favourites from the competition (from top)

‘Jess, Danny & Mia’
by Marzena Wasikowska (Mia’s mum- what a talented bunch)

‘Bruno & Batman’
Andrew Cowen