Tluxe Blog

Hello and happy Monday! Today we’d like to introduce you to Josefin, our multi-tasking graphic designer who landed in Sydney a little over four years ago from Sweden. Josefin is not only a dab hand at Photoshop but also loves knitting and thinking up different ways to wear her favourite Tluxe pieces, which this week is a sparkly Claridges top and a pair of super soft navy Parco di Principi trousers.  

Work

Rest

 Play

For work Josefin plays down the Claridges sequins with a Burberry trench and pair of camel ankle boots. For a casual weekend get-together a cosy Kate Sylvester jacket and a knitted colour block scarf - colour block being our top tip for updating any outfit this winter. And for after dark, a silk kimono bought all the way from Tokyo is given a bit of wow with a pair of gold wedges and some gold accessories. Et voila! One outfit for work, rest and play!

To share the joy of Josefine’s styling expertise we’re offering 50% off the look (that’s the Claridges top and Parco di Principi trousers together) – to everyone! Enjoy.

We’ve been busy here at Tluxe putting production together for our new spring/summer collection but not so busy that we can’t find the time to do a little cultural research.

In a warm up to Sydney’s Biennale, which starts next week, our very own Suzie Q, production manager extraordinaire, took a weekend off recently to visit the Museum of Old and New Art down in Tasmania.

You can see Suzie pictured above sporting a Tluxe California top, a Plaza cardigan and a pair of Perfect leggings along with a rather nice Marni handbag that she assures us is just out of shot. And yes, that’s Suzie on top of Mount Wellington near Hobart, showing just how versatile the Tluxe Plaza cardigan can be. “I was in fact, above the clouds,” says Suz.

And the results of her cultural foray? “MONA makes for a fine weekend away. The white library (pictured above) was a definite favourite. There’s something very appealing about the simplicity of it.” Yes, she may be a little biased, but we love that Suzie is living the Tluxe philosophy of simple, understated style. Go girl.

The Tluxe tux and YSL's Le Smoking look.

This week, we’re watching Anna Wintour’s Obama campaign and perusing Karl Lagerfeld’s new book, Little Black Jacket while wearing our tuxedo-inspired Chelsea shirt. As the great Karl himself says, “Who can live without black clothes?". Personally we find the Chelsea a great way to add a little tux lux to a relaxed, casual look without resorting to the full tailored number a la YSL’s original Le Smoking (pictured above). We’ve styled it with our Raffles trousers but you can team yours with a pair of high waist, wide-leg pants for a touch of Bianca Jagger, or add dark skinny jeans, heels and a blazer in white or a contrast colour for a little hot, new, now.

This week, to take our minds off the first few days of a very grey Sydney winter, we’re thinking of all things sparkly and listening to Sébastien Tellier’s La Ritournelle:

We're also watching seriously bad 1970s TV broadcasts of the Queen’s last jubilee (oh how things have changed), while mostly wearing our ever so slightly 70s-inspired Le Crillion wool and silk poncho (pictured above).

We suggest layering yours over our super soft stretch wool fleece, a pair of Tluxe Perfect leggings, and for sheer, sparkle-like-a-diamond-jubilee cheer, throwing on a pair of shiny shoes, like these fab brogues (pictured above) from Simone Rocha. 

If you do one thing this week make sure you get down to the MCA in Sydney to see Christian Marclay's mind-blowing film, The Clock, which has its final showing on Sunday (June 3). We popped in one lunch hour and found ourselves completely drawn in by it's slightly addicitve nature. Edits from movies new and old have been spliced together in a 24 hour epic that's synched to show the exact time of day that you're watching the film. 

On our visit film stars were sitting down to eat lunch, clocks in town squares were ringing out 12 noon, and as we were leaving, Steve McQueen glanced down at his wrist watch, which read 12.25, as did our own. As we said, it's slightly mind-blowing stuff. And, this Thursday it plays for the full 24 hours so you can drop in and see what happens after dark. Genius.