CLOUDY BAY LOUNGE | LAUNCH | SYDNEY | LOWER CONCOURSE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

Last night, I was invited to the launch of Cloudy Bay Lounge, set in Sydney's harbourside in the Lower Concourse of the Sydney Opera House. This unique pop up lounge is a collaboration between Sydney Opera House, Opera Kitchen and Cloudy Bay wines, which offers array of beautiful food, quality wine and the perfect harbour backdrop. The Cloudy Bay Lounge will be open for a short 2 week period until 16th of October.

The range of Cloudy Bay wines are complimented with a limited edition menu designed by acclaimed food producers, chefs and sushi artists including Justin North, John Susman, Nahji Chu and Kenji Nishinakagawa.

The menu that we got to taste included the Cloudy Bay Fish Co. 's Grilled king salmon, Braised and dressed albacore tuna on croutons, Charlie & Co. Burger's Wagyu burger, Miss Chu Dumplings and Vegetarian egg omelette, balsamic caramelised onion and avocado rice paper roll and Kenji's Rainbow rolls. We also had freshly shucked Eastern Oysters and The Rock Oyster for us!

Despite the rainy weather, I stayed nice and dry and had a great time tasting all the wine and canapes.

I also had the chance to meet Miss Chu herself and you know my love for dumplings!

ERMENEGILDO ZEGNA | SYDNEY FLAGSHIP STORE LAUNCH EVENT | AUSTRALIA

As you know from my previous post, I have been working with Ermenegildo Zegna in a number of ways. One of these was helping and instrumenting the launch event of the Ermenegildo Zegna Sydney Flagship Store, including assisting, styling the models looks. It's great working with such a luxury menswear brand seeing the process of quality suits tailored to the male form. The models were great and the casted models from eMg and London Mgt Group represented the brand well. Although I was working the run of the night, the social media and twitterholic me snapped some coverage for you guys! So much so, the Official Zegna Twitter asked everyone to follow me for live updates. Crazy! haha

The event was on Thursday night and a member of Zegna and President of the company Paolo Zegna launched the store. The renowned Italian fashion house has always had a good relationship with Australia, being one of the largest buyers of Australian superfine wool. On the night, I had a chat to one of the Australian farmers who produce superfine wool, and it was fascinating to hear the process and his stories. The night before, they held their 48th Edition of the Wool Awards.

The canapes were catered by Aria Restaurant and edited by Chef Matt Moran. Each one was carefully thought through and were incredibly tasty and full of flavour. A favourite of mine was the dessert, Raspberry and Pistachio tart with gold leaf. Food is always important at events. It's definitely one thing I remember at a successful function.

I made a little BEHIND THE SCENES video with my new FlipVideo Cam (given by Sunglass Hut lunch) and also a video of Paolo Zegna giving a short speech below.
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ERMENEGILDO ZEGNA | JAMES MAGNUSSEN & GEOFF HUEGILL | FITTING STYLING DRESSING

For the past few weeks, I've been working with Ermenegildo Zegna, helping them in a number of aspects. This included their Sydney Store launch and when asked which guys to dress and invite, I suggested Olympic swimmers James Magnussen and Geoff Huegill, who I previously meeting at the Speedo show. Both of them have been receiving press, with 20 year old James known as Australia's biggest swimming star, after being the first Australian man to win gold in the 100m freestyle at the world swimming championships this year and Geoff who has also made a big come back to the pool as you all know, planning to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics. He also married longtime partner Sara Hills and will soon become a father too!

Last week, I assisted styling and dressing them for the Sydney store launch event and I think they were definitely quite impressed with the immaculate tailoring of Zegna. Great to see them out of their speedos and into a suit for a change!