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First it was Gisele and Vogue Paris, and now L’Officiel Netherlands follows suit with Saskia de Brauw making the derriere the modern muse.

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Sometimes there’s naught to be said for a shoot other than that it takes a selection of the season’s most striking looks, and presents them in a singularly striking way. This is one of them. Photographed by Daniele Rossi with styling by Lorenzo Posocco, it uses no fancy settings or backdrops and yet breathes new life into many of the things we’ve seen dozens of times before: like Prada’s 50s bodysuit or Miu Miu’s whimsical prints, a crop top and hotpant ensemble, an exotic foray into Hermes silk. The best though are elegant looks – Jil Sander and Dior – grunged up with flat black combat boots.

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What would you suggest to someone starting a new fashion label, given the hardships currently facing both the industry and economy? Perhaps you’d suggest they be clever, careful and innovative. See if they can explore a page of the fashion books, one that everyone is acquainted with, but that has so far been left uncomprehended.

When Sydney designers, Beth and Tess Macgraw, imagined a high-fashion label on the terrace of their SoHo apartment in Manhattan, the aforementioned concerns hovered over their dream.

However, two years later, this New York dream became a tangible reality, when the sisters designed their first collection and saw eponymous ‘macgraw’ come to life.

Fashion labels are created everyday, however. So the question is, what makes macgraw different? What makes them worthy of your wardrobe? For a start they offer up a model for Australia’s fashion industry to save itself, designing and making their clothes in the country (something that is sadly rare). Equally as important, though, they offer up an inimitable and aesthetically sharp collection sure to make them an international hit.

Firmly in love with their first collection, Fashionising.com sat down with the label’s two designers and asked them to lead us into the world of ‘macgraw’.

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The freedom to express oneself is often cited as one of the very foundations of personal style. And modern society pretty much lets you do just that, save for the odd offensive t-shirt. But it wasn’t always the case. Not only would today’s freedoms have once seen you arrested, but what is now so conservative that it’s considered foppish caused women to faint.

We’re talking of a mere hat.

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It’s often suggested that Victoria’s Secret are one of the few fashion companies with the ability to ‘make’ a model. If that be true, then there’s another fashion company whose power of influence needs to be acknowledged: Burberry. Having brought her to many a person’s attention, there’s no doubt that Burberry have made a name out of Cara Delevingne. And her smouldering looks certainly have done her no harm.

Undoubtedly the ‘it’ model of the moment, Cara has secured herself not one, but two covers on a wet styled summer 2012 edition of Tush magazine.

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There’s a problem facing autumn / fall and 2013′s fashions, at least there is to my mind. Take a look at the closing collections of this year and the opening collections of the next one and you’ll see one theme dominate: androgynous fashion. While you can follow that link for further insight, what’s ahead is not the sapphic and questionable-gender androgyny of year’s past, but instead a softer fusion between men’s and womenswear. Soft, but still not feminine. Soft, but still not androgyny of Helmut Newton appeal. This change of the silhouette but not of the gender should come as no surprise to those who have followed spring’s fashions – loose tailoring has transitioned to women’s fashion this season.

But do we actually like it?

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It’s one of many ‘numbers’ you never want to share with the world. Age. Lovers. Shoes. It’s considered socially unacceptable to discuss many such numbers, and the latter in is included amongst them as a girl can never have enough shoes in her closet by to publicise a number is to appear gauche.

Each season, we see styles change, heels evolve and the colour palette go wild. However, this summer, the perfect ‘in fashion’ shoes are not defined by the length of the heel or the type of shoe, but more about how each pair is fabricated and embellished.

Shoes that are making a girl’s heart pump this season are already buzzing on the windowsills of various stores. But we’ve taken the stress off your next laborious shoe-shopping trip by narrowing down eight shoe styles that are a creating a name for themselves this spring / summer 2012.

If you’re a woman, you have no reasons to not continue reading after the jump. Chances are, you’ll love us a fraction more by the time you reach the bottom of this post.

Article continues. To read it in full visit ‘8 styles of shoes to make a statement out of summer‘ at Fashionising.com