👋 Hi lovely Vanessa, please introduce yourself!
Hi, I’m Vanessa, a proud Melbournite, former lawyer, mother of three boys slash shenanigators and blogger at styleandshenanigans.com (aka @styleandshenanigans) who loves fashion, travel, reading, food and entertaining.
👗 How would you describe your personal style? Do you have a favourite silhouette or colour to wear?
My personal style is full of colour and prints and I especially love wearing locally designed fashion and accessories. I especially love wearing pink/orange together and floaty frocks in summer 🌺
📺 What are you currently watching?
I’m currently watching Frayed (iView), Yellowstone (Stan) and The Shrink Next Door (Apple TV).
🍷 Name 3 interesting people you’d love to have dinner with & why?
I’d love to eat dinner with three Australian women I admire very much: Helen Garner, Annabel Crabb and Grace Tame.
✈️ What destination is at the top of your travel bucket list, when we can start travelling again?
I would love to visit New Zealand, Canada, Japan or the Greek Islands.
❤️ Your favourite Wolf +Mishka piece?
I love my checkerboard dress – it’s the perfect transeasonal dress for Melbourne. The canivalé tunic top is a fun piece for summer too ☀️
What are your top 5 reading recommendations for a great Summer read?
📕 1. The Paper Palace by Miranda Heller: a page-turning, contemporary fiction book set in the Hamptons about a woman torn between her childhood sweetheart and established marriage. The perfect holiday read.
📕 2. Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason: the best Australian novel I’ve read this year. Wonderful characters, brilliant writing and surprisingly funny at times given the themes of family dysfunction and mental illness.
📕 3. My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout: a short but powerfully moving book about a young mother convalescing in hospital and her estranged mother who comes to visit her for five days.
📕 4. City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert: a wonderful, rollicking ride of life as a showgirl in New York City in the 1940s.
📕 5. Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld: this incredible piece of fiction explores what might have been Hillary’s life if she hadn’t married Bill Clinton. My favourite book last year