EVELEIGH: Six thousand people per day attended Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week (MBFW) in April, staged for the first time in its new home at Carriageworks. A representative of the organisers told the SSH: “The relocation of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia to Carriageworks has breathed a new life and energy into the event.”
MARRICKVILLE: You’ve just landed a job interview. You’re about to have a foot in the door and you have an opportunity to impress. The problem, often, is that when you need that new interview outfit, it is also the time you can least afford it. Who hasn’t gone out and purchased a new outfit specially for a job interview, even if it meant paying with a credit card?
A cool sounding Italian name used to be the sign of a truly good coffee, but today’s discerning coffee drinkers tend to ask questions like “Is this organic” or “Is this Fairtrade?” Most of those cool Italian brands answer “no” to both questions, and they face competition from boutique coffee labels that say “yes”. According to Alex, the G Cafe owner at Lawson Square, Redfern, about 10-15 per cent of customers care if the coffee is organic, but fewer know or care about Fairtrade.
