There is definitely an art to a perfect picnic. The beauty of enjoing a day off, the shameless laziness, idleness, the simple happiness the fabric of the checked picnic-blanket and sandwich squares. Eating with your hands, let your mind play with the clouds, feeling the wind on your skin bold colors remind us of tasting the fresh air, feeling…
Romantic yet not overtly girly, poetic without being pretentious, the inspiration for the second editorial instalment for OF By Amanda Shadforth was inspired by the nostalgic image of the Portuguese Woman. When I sat down with my team earlier in the year with an idea to photograph a series of muses for my new venture,…
In August 2011, I nervously created my very first post on www.oraclefox.com. I was working from my tiny Art Gallery in Queensland… picture a desk out the back of the gallery positioned against a wall covered in pictures from floor to ceiling, torn out of old magazine and art journals. The ‘Wall Of Inspiration’ which…
I’ve had a long love affair with Prada. It may be symbolic but my very first pair of luxury shoes were a pair of Prada ankle boots. Black with a block heel and an open toe with a small neatly folded very cool bow across the toes, a combination of tough and edgy grown-up sophistication with just a…
The Oracle Fox Journal girl for this addition has taken a voyage to Tokyo. It’s been a long time coming that I’ve wanted to work with the beautiful Dutch/Australian face of Marthe Wiggers. Marthe and I met briefly backstage last year during Australian Fashion Week, amongst the chaos of hair spray, backstage photographers and a sea of worker…
I know that after you read this that you’re going to thank me..but wait let me tell you why! So no, I’m not a narcissist, just quietly confident in my somewhat slightly colloquial opinion that you don’t spend enough time in your boyfriend’s closet. Just think about it, it’s not breaking news that men often get…
After a morning of Parisian AW 2015 shows and a lunch date with a 1st arrondissement post office searching for lost garment samples, I was lucky enough to spend my twighlight hours with this babe, soaking up that later afternoon French sunlight. So meet Smith Vanders, long limbed, funny and charmingly self deprecating.. my kind of girl. There’s a…
There’s this thing about the 70’s that you can’t deny, it just keeps coming back and you know what they say .. you can’t keep a good man down. With an influx of designers this season travelling back to the Seventies the Parisian runways were scattered with soft suede skirts, kick flare trousers and belted jackets as…
Somewhere between New York and Paris I met a girl with a fierce set of eyes and the kind of style that you envy, not because she necessarily has the best wardrobe you’ve ever seen but just in the way she put it together. You know that girl I’m sure.. she doesn’t always brush her…
It’s been a long time coming and I’m so excited to share with you that the love child of Oracle Fox, the ORACLE FOX JOURAL, is now live! For some time I’ve wanted to put together a site that sits within Oracle Fox, purely as a curation of exclusive editorial content from some of our favourite photographers,…
I’m guilty and I know it. It’s been a while since I’ve put together a shoot for you my beautiful friends, and thanks to your feedback I know that you’ve been anticipating something special. With all of the collaborations and travel in recent months I thought it was time for some creative output and to get…
The Oxford Dictionary describes the term “With stars in ones eyes” as one who is excited and hopeful for the future, to be dazzled with romance and possibilities. Mr Oxford knows a thing or two about definitions and so one could say, does one of our ‘go to’ online favourites Nasty Gal. Starry eyed isn’t something…
