Code Red-Go Red for Women

Marie Claire's editor Jackie Frank (and star of the upcoming documentary about the mag) hosted a cocktail party in her Sydney home last week to celebrate the magazine's Red Dress Campaign that has been created to raise awareness of the growing problem of heart disease in women - killing more women than breast cancer and lung cancer combined.

Erin McNaught, Jackie Frank & Lara Bingle

Along with the event, Marie Claire also shot a glamourus red-editorial for their July issue, featuring custom gowns from some of the country's best designers. Photographed by renowned fashion photographers Harold David and David Gubers, the celebrities - including Megan Gale (also this month's covergirl), Jennifer Hawkins, Miranda Otto, Ruby Rose, Sophie Lowe, Melanie Vellajo, Pia Miranda, Sonia Kruger and Stephanie Rice - showed their support for the cause by wearing gorgeous red dresses designed exclusively by Australia’s leading fashion designers, including Alex Perry, Dion Lee, Collette Dinnigan, Ellery, Willow, Lisa Ho, Michael Lo Sordo, Yeojin Bae and Ginger & Smart.


"Marie claire is very proud of our long-term association with the Heart Foundation and this important cause. We will continue to champion the cause, which takes the lives of so many women we love - our mothers, sisters and friends. Despite the fact it is the number one killer of women in Australia, it is also one of the most preventable diseases, so raising awareness and education is paramount," Jackie Frank says.

Jen Hawkins in Ellery 

Sonia Kruger in Ginger & Smart

Megan Gale in Alex Perry

Sophie Lowe in Dion Lee

The one-off red dresses will be auctioned off with all proceeds going to the Heart Foundation - they can be viewed and purchased online at Marie Claire from June 1, or join in the effort, raise awareness and support the cause by visiting The Heart Foundation

(Images courtesy of thevine.com.au and marie claire)

Lara Bingle for Oyster #91

Featured on two different covers, photographers Stephen Ward and Georges Antoni have offered their different interpretations of the much controversial 'It-girl'/model/ex WAG Lara Bingle, with a striking black and white editorial in Oyster magazine. Australia's love/hate relationship with Bingle has made her grow in the eye of the fashion beholder, and is more recognised these days for her modelling and front row appearances for the shows of Josh Goot, Dion Lee & Ellery. Styled by Imogene Barron, the shoot demonstrates both a 'Black swan'/ 'White swan' appeal of her image, capturing both a demure side with designs from Josh Goot and Chanel, and hard rock glam, with designs from Burberry and House of Fetish. I personally have no interest in the media circus surrounding her personal life.....I luv her 'look' and style, and think she has proven herself artisticly in this shoot xx

Source: Oyster Magazine, Pedestrian TV