The NGV Winter series began last night with all the glitz and glamour of 1930′s Art Deco.

A 19 piece swing band, flapper girls and an assortment of dead animals draped around beautiful necks. It was enough to make you wonder where did we go wrong? I think every person at the NGV last night would have loved to hail back to such an age of sheer hedonism. Perhaps we have such a romantic notion of that era that we overlook the harsh realities of aeroplanes without jet engines, women’s rights unheard of and the only recent invention of penicillin. Nevertheless I think every girl dreams of Cartier, swing bands and being driven in a car that you rarely see outside of black and white films.

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It’s not just leaving the lights and computers on (P.S, all coffee cups at Igloo are recycled)

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