A few of my favourite things

Melbourne fashion designer Amy McLellan, founder of the Ammo label, has run her clothing business for 10 years. Ammo is known for its asymmetrical and geometric lines and contemporary feminine style. Ms McLellan credits her late grandmother with igniting her passion for fashion.

Beyond blockbusters, gallery focuses on its own

HIS next exhibition may be the blockbuster Masterpieces from Paris but the newly reappointed director of the National Gallery of Australia, Ron Radford, plans to increase the focus on its own $3.8 billion collection.

Funny thing about this comedy winner

SOMETHING is rotten in the state of Emmy. Even as Australia celebrated one win from four nominations €“ Toni Collette in the outstanding actress category for her portrayal of Tara Gregson, a housewife with dissociative identity disorder €“ something was not entirely right with the picture.

Making scents of Dali's surrealist sensibility brings rewards

THE pot at the end of the rainbow at any art blockbuster is the museum shop, though it sounds far less crass if you call it "cultural merchandising".

A Glittering Achievement

Quiet time in the library helped a creative type dream up a thriving jewellery business, writes Kristie Kellahan.

Valuable Opportunity

MORE than 500 pieces of jewellery plus electrical equipment stolen from across Newcastle is waiting to be returned to its rightful owners.

A Good Business Can Minimise Risk

AS a co-founder of the Kleins costume jewellery chain, Mr Terry Campbell says the franchising code is a ``big step in the right direction", one that should help improve standards across the industry. It should, he says, clearly mark the differences between committed franchisors and those wh

Couturiere Loses Battle

After a long battle with cancer, the prominent Sydney couturiere, Lorraine St Clair, has died. During the booming 1980s, St Clair sold dresses to clients like Susan Renouf for anything up to $3,500 and also held the Australian licence to sell costume jewellery made by the US-based 1928 Jewe