Grazia magazine's most stylish staffers spill all about their personal style, key high fashion and high-street buys of the season and what makes their wardrobe tick.

Working for a fashion magazine is all about looking bang on-trend every single day at the office, right? Maybe just a little bit…

Kellie Hush, editor
The dress has been my best friend for a while. We became really close after my first daughter was born when my dressing time was totally diminished. Imagine trying to work a skirt, shirt, waistcoat, belt, jewels and jacket while a toddler tantrum is happening at your feet. Miu Miu, Collette Dinnigan, Marc Jacobs, Willow, Josh Goot, Lisa Ho, Romance Was Born and Gucci all hang side-by-side in my wardrobe. I own quite a few LBDs but I would have to say I love block colour and prints equally. In winter I add opaques, ankle boots and a Burberry trench and for summer I'll update a favourite frock with a new shoe.

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Noelle Faulkner, beauty editor
I've been told I have a distinct style — easy, loose and pretty minimal. I've learnt to shop this way as even though I'd love to say I'm a great planner; it's usually a case of whatever is clean and easily thrown on.

Music is always the inspiration — this season I happened to be listening to a lot of PJ Harvey and unwittingly stocked up in stompy biker boots. It's a bit of a worry — what if I start digging Gaga?

Isabel Marant, Celine, Theyskens Theory, Dries Van Noten, 3.1 Phillip Lim and Alexander Wang are all on dream closet checklist. I am worried for my credit card once the Stella McCartney and No.21 by Alessando Dell'Aqua resort drops.

Roxy Holder, picture director
It's not a coincidence that my style inspiration comes from the pages of Grazia! As I approve pages to go to print I'm always lusting after something I see. Often I'll work out ways to reinvite my wardrobe if it's a non-pay week! or I'll go to store and grab straight away. I start at 7am most days so I try to plan my outfit the night before. I love dresses and feeling feminine so I usually rely on a bold red lip to get me through when jeans feel like the only option. I usually wear my hair up so I back comb a ponytail and then wrap it into a bird's nest bun — it takes literally one minute.

Clare Maclean, fashion features editor
In an ideal world my entire wardrobe would be made up of Margiela, Yeojin Bae, Lover, COS and Jil Sander. But as that's financially impossible, an investment blazer and awesome pair of jeans works for me too. Either way it's all about finding something I'm emotionally attached too — I'm not just going to buy a pair of pants because my butt looks good in them (although that helps), I also have to think they are the most beautiful trousers I've ever seen. Needless to say I don't have a huge wardrobe, but I love everything in there.

Ana Almeida, Grazia.com.au producer
Having sustained myself on a monochrome palette of mostly white, grey, black and my all-time favourite, navy for years (yes, I am a child of the '90s — think CK One more than grunge) I am finding myself more and more drawn to wearing colour, and dare I say it, garish prints. While I'm going bananas for Prada and the girly whimsy of Isabel Marant and Lover, I'm still losing it for the clean but refined lines of Dion Lee, Alexander Wang and Givenchy. Inspiration comes from fabulous yet unfussy style icons — oh to be in Carine Roitfeld's Alaia heels or Alexa's flat Valentino Mary-Janes. My trade being online, I like to stalk my shopping prey on the internet, observing it from all angles before going in for the kill!

Emma Read, market editor
Inspiration for me is always a complete mash-up between my favourite shows of the season and my long loved style icons — think Jil Sander or Dries Van Noten mixed in with a bit of Keith Richards or Bowie. Music influences my fashion choices immensely; late '60s/early '70s is my favourite era so I find I'm always subconsciously drawn to anything that evokes the big ol' hippie that I am.

My favourite designers internationally would have to be Jil Sander, Dries Van Noten, Proenza Schouler, Isabel Marant and Miu Miu — purely in terms of wearability and versatility for me. Locally I love Josh Goot, Jac + Jack and bassike; I'd wear everything with a white t-shirt if I could.

My shopping/dressing habits all depend on my mood — one of my main rules of thumb personally is I always like to look a little masculine. Most of my style inspirations are men — as mentioned earlier, but Mick Jagger and James Dean come to mind too — I'll wear my hot pink Jil Sander skirt with a white rolled sleeve t-shirt and a black leather jacket, for example. I always like to look a little scruffy; even when I dress up I like to have some sort of casual element within my outfit to bring it down a notch.

Monique Santos, accessories editor
I guess I am one of those people whose personal style can change from day to day depending on my mood, I feel like my best outfits come together with thought and pre planning but then again some have come from hours of indecision and a final change made five minutes prior to exiting the house.

I do have my favourites … I love a skirt (short, skater style is usually my preference), love a crisp white tee and jeans, leopard print anything, and am a huge believer that a blazer and a good pair of heels can pull pretty much any look together and I don't really wear pants often but if I do it's a boyfriend jean, cropped leather kind of situation.

I love to feel comfortable and look relaxed while still looking feminine and put together, I think I draw most of my inspiration from what my favourite international designers are doing at the time. Givenchy, Stella McCartney and Celine always give me the fresh burst of ideas that I need every season.

Although I look to my favourite international designers for inspiration for the season it is the local Australian designers that I wear. I mix that in with a bit of vintage and sometimes high street when I need a quick fix. My wardrobe is mostly full of Josh Goot, Therese Rawsthorne, Lover and too much Bassike (not you can ever have too many white t-shirts). Zara has now filled that high-street gap that I need to fill every now and then and the rest I owe to the great little vintage finds.

Image: Runway inspiration from Jil Sander A/W 11-12, Lover A//W 11-12, Celine S/S 11, Isabel Marant S/S 11 (left to right)

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