Adrian Fernand | 496 posts
Adrian Fernand is an Australian writer born in Melbourne.
He has spent close to a decade in the communications and event management industries; working as an event manager for leading luxury goods brand, Louis Vuitton and as director of a marketing, events and online strategy consultancy. He has in excess of 90 pairs of shoes.
→ January 27, 2012
Short and sweet, here are the pressing issues (well, some of them) for your Agony Uncle this week. Oh, and if you like these shorts, you can buy them here from ASOS. Can I wear my shirt untucked with a tie for a presentation? Mo, Twitter Untucked shirts are fine when in informal settings, however, when giving [...]
→ January 25, 2012
It’s the day when sales of booze and soda bulbs in regional centres spike (although we cannot attest to whether they’re being used in the creation of pavlovas); and that’s just the feral folk making their way to the Rainbow Serpent Festival. Australia Day: the celebration of our nation’s European heritage and for most, a [...]
→ January 24, 2012
In an age of digital gift giving, sending an electronic gift has the ability to feel intangible and impersonal—kinda of like a visit to the proctologist without the aid of at least a water-based lubricant. An email or a gift voucher code just doesn’t have the same cachet or mystique of a gift-wrapped box topped [...]
→ January 20, 2012
Short and sweet, here are the pressing issues (well, some of them) for your Agony Uncle this week. Oh, and if you like these shorts, you can buy them here from ASOS. How can I cross dress without people knowing? Kyle, Twitter Use a brand new razor, dress for your body shape and leave the [...]
→ January 19, 2012
While Men’s Fashion Week might have come to a close in Milan and moved onto French soil, the Italian fashion capital will always be in style. And that’s before the Armani Hotel opened. Recently the winner of Best Branding in the 2012 Wallpaper* Design Awards, it’s the mega-brand’s second foray into luxury accommodation, following the success of [...]
→ January 18, 2012
There once was a time when portable storage was quite the opposite of what it claimed to be—portable. If you were born pre-1992 (and if you weren’t, welcome) you might recall the first and—at the time—revolutionary Zip disk. It was like a 3¼-inch disk and a 5½-inch floppy had a baby and then bought it a [...]
→ January 18, 2012
Anyone familiar with the 1992-1993′s The Late Show would know the loveable unlovable Bargearse; the overdubbed and corpulent cop who knows takeaway food and toilet humour better than any other. They would also know that his beverage of choice is a breakfast beer, followed closely by his evening tipple: the beer daiquiri. I’ve attempted to replicate the beer daiquiri on [...]
→ January 17, 2012
The most civilised of summer sports is croquet, which, incidentally, is yet to be desecrated by hipsters then bogans respectively for sheer impracticality of carting metal hoops around on a fixie and planting them into the halfpipe at a local skate park. That and the lack of cheap and subsidised beer à la a bowls [...]
→ January 16, 2012
In the hat world, the fedora has become quite the pariah. Historically, considered elegant headwear favoured by the likes of Humphrey Bogart, overuse by the wrong kind of people has seen its demise: pimps and hookers. Go on—look in the ‘Escort’ section of the Yellow Pages. Guaranteed there’ll be a trampy-looking woman wearing a provocatively placed fedora, possibly holding the [...]
→ January 16, 2012
It’s no secret that at I Do Believe I Came with a Hat we love a good red carpet, and nor do we hide that we love to ridicule those worthy. The Golden Globes aren’t an exception and this year we’re joined by a friend who has a love for fashion and the blunders that can [...]