The Juliet Report

Hi, thanks for visiting.

ABOUT:
Writer, illustrator, and observer of style and culture. Through drawings, notes, and visual essays, I document what we wear, what we notice, and what we carry, in our wardrobes, in our hands, and in our memories.

CURRENTLY:
Location: Melbourne, Australia

Work:
JUST FINISHED: Illustrations for Styled by Sally by Sally McKinnon, now available for preorder.
NEW Collabs: Illustrated a graphic tee for Styled by Sally and magnets for Pinky’s Store Melbourne
The book I illustrated - The Globetrotters Guide to Happiness is out now!

Reading: Slow Days, Fast Company: The world, the flesh, and L.A by Eve Babitz

SUBSCRIBE TO MY NEWSLETTER - A cultural diary in your inbox: drawings, reflections, and thoughtful style notes each week.

Interested in working together? → Explore my offerings here

Updated January 12th, 2026, from Fitzroy, Australia.

✶NOTES TO THE READER | a note on noticing✶

★ A NOTE ON SUPPORTING THE JULIET REPORT ★

THE LATEST

Recent entries from a visual diary of style, culture, and daily life.

FILM / JEANNE DIELMAN

JULIET ATE HERE | Carlitos, Collingwood

THE BOOK REPORT | Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg

SHOW SEEN | Prada Fall/Winter 26, Womenswear

SHOW SEEN | Prada Spring/Summer 26, Womenswear

FILM / SENTIMENTAL VALUE

THE BOOK REPORT | Spring Cannot Be Cancelled by Martin Gayford

JULIET ATE HERE | receipt no. 12, La Pinta, Reservoir

Aesop Hand Cream: A Study in Use

CULTURAL NOTES | If It’s Half Full, It’s Empty

THE BOOK REPORT | Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti

THE BOOK REPORT | Everyday Wonder by Sophie Howarth

WHAT I SAW IN AUGUST | Food, Fashion, and Rhythm

JULIET ATE HERE | receipt no. 11, Bar Romanée, Yarraville

Chloë Sevigny | Notes, Part 1

JULIET WAS HERE | French Impressionism at NGV

Josh Wood in Melbourne | A Letter

TEN RECEIPTS LATER | What Melbourne Dining Taught Me

JULIET ATE HERE | receipt no. 10 — Cam’s Kiosk, Abbotsford Convent

JULIET WAS HERE | Abduction, Victorian Opera

★ A NOTE ON SUPPORTING THE JULIET REPORT ★

PALETTE OBSERVED | Napier Quarter Bathroom

THE KITCHEN REPORT | Sabre Paris Cutlery

THE BEAUTY REPORT | The Lip Liner Everyone Already Owns

JULIET WAS HERE | MECCA3000 Preview

JULIET ATE HERE | receipt no. 9 — Bar Liberty

NEWSLETTER | Eight forks later, and Bar Liberty on a Sunday

WHAT I SAW IN JULY | A Month of Food, Fashion, and Small Moments

JULIET WAS HERE | Melbourne Theatre Company, Opening Night

THE WARDROBE REPORT | Bow Earrings

STYLE, NOTED

Clothes in context. Everyday choices. Style as observation.

SHOW SEEN | Prada Fall/Winter 26, Womenswear

SHOW SEEN | Prada Spring/Summer 26, Womenswear

THE WARDROBE REPORT | Bow Earrings

THE BEAUTY REPORT | the foundation switch

THE WARDROBE REPORT | the ganni bou bag (black, mini)

JULIET WAS HERE | ganni melbourne - a styling event

SHOW SEEN | a man between deadlines and daylight: observing Prada SS26

STYLE, NOTED | style permission

STYLE, NOTED | the not-black shoe

STYLE, NOTED | the mesh form observed

STYLE, NOTED | the mary knot

STYLE, NOTED | drawn to dress

STYLE, NOTED | the cyra skirt

STYLE, NOTED | the wardrobe report: intro

CULTURAL NOTES

Quiet signals from daily life, taste, mood, and meaning.

THE BOOK REPORT | Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg

THE BOOK REPORT | Spring Cannot Be Cancelled by Martin Gayford

THE BOOK REPORT | Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti

THE BOOK REPORT | Everyday Wonder by Sophie Howarth

WHAT I SAW IN AUGUST | Food, Fashion, and Rhythm

Chloë Sevigny | Notes, Part 1

JULIET WAS HERE | French Impressionism at NGV

TEN RECEIPTS LATER | What Melbourne Dining Taught Me

JULIET WAS HERE | Abduction, Victorian Opera

PALETTE OBSERVED | Napier Quarter Bathroom

THE BEAUTY REPORT | The Lip Liner Everyone Already Owns

JULIET WAS HERE | MECCA3000 Preview

WHAT I SAW IN JULY | A Month of Food, Fashion, and Small Moments

JULIET WAS HERE | Melbourne Theatre Company, Opening Night

NEWSLETTER | My latest reads, eats, and receipts

JULIET ATE HERE | receipt no. 8 — stefanino panino e vino

JULIET WAS HERE | MIFF Pre-Festival Lunch

JULIET ATE HERE | receipt no. 6 — etta melbourne, brunswick east

MECCA 3000 | A New Chapter for Bourke Street

CHAMPAGNE, IN FOCUS | A Conversation with Sally Hillman

JULIET ATE HERE | receipt no. 5 — gerald's bar, carlton

JULIET WAS HERE | ganni melbourne - a styling event

STYLE, NOTED | style permission

CULTURAL NOTES | signs with feelings

CULTURAL NOTES | matcha, lately

STYLE, NOTED | the mesh form observed

Juliet Ate Here

A visual diary of meals, rituals, and the small sensory moments that stay with me.

JULIET ATE HERE | Carlitos, Collingwood

JULIET ATE HERE | receipt no. 12, La Pinta, Reservoir

JULIET ATE HERE | receipt no. 11, Bar Romanée, Yarraville

TEN RECEIPTS LATER | What Melbourne Dining Taught Me

JULIET ATE HERE | receipt no. 10 — Cam’s Kiosk, Abbotsford Convent

JULIET ATE HERE | receipt no. 9 — Bar Liberty

JULIET ATE HERE | receipt no. 8 — stefanino panino e vino

JULIET ATE HERE | receipt no. 7 — marios, fitzroy

JULIET ATE HERE | receipt no. 6 — etta melbourne, brunswick east

JULIET ATE HERE | receipt no. 5 — gerald's bar, carlton

JULIET ATE HERE | receipt no. 1 — marmelo, melbourne

EVERYTHING FILM

Here you’ll find what I’ve been watching lately, lists of films, and anything else film related.

NOTES

FILM / JEANNE DIELMAN

FILM / SENTIMENTAL VALUE

FILM / THE BRUTALIST

Everything you need to know about MIFF 2017

This years’ festival has 356 films in 68 different languages, across multiple formats and styles...

The Juliet Report x The Blackman

Son of Saul

The film takes place over two days, in an Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II...

THE BEAUTY REPORT

NOTES

Josh Wood in Melbourne | A Letter

THE BEAUTY REPORT | The Lip Liner Everyone Already Owns

JULIET WAS HERE | MECCA3000 Preview

THE BEAUTY REPORT | the foundation switch

MECCA 3000 | A New Chapter for Bourke Street

MECCA MAIL | Mecca Max Complexion Products

Mecca Chit Chat

#MECCALAND 2.0 SYDNEY

#MECCALAND 2.0 will be held in Sydney from 17-19th May

Go-To Goss

While in Sydney last week, I met Emily, who is the Social Media and PR Executive at Go-To Skincare. We had coffee at PCP

BEAUTY NEWS: Mecca Beauty Election 2018 Winners Announced

Which beauty has been crowned Miss Mecca 2018?

BEAUTY NEWS | Mecca Max has Launched a Limited Edition Beauty Queen Palette

The ultimate Beauty Queen essential, after say, the sash or tiara…?

BEAUTY NEWS: MECCA BEAUTY ELECTION 2018

Cast your beauty ballot to have the chance to win one of these amazing prizes…

Routine | Tradition - Anna Kendrick on Fragrance

That's the thing about fragrance, memory is so attached…

MARIO BADESCU Men’s Grooming Essentials

BAZ TRIES THE MARIO BEDASCU 'MEN'S GROOMING ESSENTIALS"

13 Make-Up Sponges I am Trying Out

So, when I read that the Beauty Blender is the hero when it comes to the application of foundation, I really wanted to know more..

Karuna Brightening Face Mask

The Karuna Face Mask packaging is so fancy and so aesthetic that I would buy it just to display it in my bathroom...

TONYMOLY I'm REAL | Brightening | Lemon Mask Sheet

Lemon, the wonder fruit. There are endless uses for this oddly shaped yellow fruit. Here it makes a cameo in this TONYMOLY Korean sheet mask...

Ditching my liquid eyeliner for the By Terry Stylo Blackstar Eyeshadow Stick

Yes it's true, the by Terry Eyeshadow Stick has officially replaced the daily use of use of my...

The Perfect Foundation

Secrets Organic February Box

Tried and Tested Foundations

ART & EXHIBITIONS

Observations from galleries, museums, and cultural spaces. From French Impressionism to CJ Hendry’s hyper-real keys to Dior’s couture archive, the shows, settings, and details that stay with me.

NOTES

JULIET WAS HERE | French Impressionism at NGV

JULIET WAS HERE / LOST & FOUND by CJ Hendry

The Inaugural 2017 NGV Gala Red Carpet - Image Gallery

The House of Dior - 70 Years of Haute Couture - Image Gallery

Van Gogh Reading

The paintings will not leave your mind and you will be super curious about Vincent Van Gogh...

VAN GOGH AND THE SEASONS opens at NGV Melbourne

NGV Announce HOKUSAI Exhibition

David Hockney NGV

Announcement: NGV Triennial opening December 2017

Who’s Afraid of Colour?

The Schaller Studio x Toni Maticevski

John Olsen: The You Beaut Country

Dark Wonderland - Toni Maticevski

If you thought the exhibitions at Bendigo Art Gallery couldn't get any better...

THE BOOK report

Book Reports are not reviews, but reflections. They are my way of keeping what stays with me from each book, fragments, feelings, and ideas that feed my noticing and my work.

NOTES

THE BOOK REPORT | Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg

THE BOOK REPORT | Spring Cannot Be Cancelled by Martin Gayford

THE BOOK REPORT | Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti

THE BOOK REPORT | Everyday Wonder by Sophie Howarth

THE GLOBETROTTERS GUIDE TO HAPPINESS: ILLUSTRATED BY JULIET

5 Books In My Stack Last Week

These are all the books I interacted with last week.

KEEPING HOUSE: ILLUSTRATED BY JULIET

6 Books In My Stack This Week

…here are the books in this weeks stack and my stories about them.

The Juliet Book Report - JULY

The Juliet Book Report is a book club where we read books that cover the topics of fashion, aesthetics, and culture…

Way Of The Reaper by Nicholas Irving with Gary Brozek

Reaper is a nickname Irving earned working as a sniper for the U.S. Military serving in...

Illustration: What's the Point by Mouni Feddag

What I love the most about her drawings is the postures/poses/personalites of the characters within the scenes...

The Desserts of New York by Yasmin Newman

Yasmin Newman's new book 'The Desserts of New York - and how to eat them all' is basically a foodies ultimate dream...

The Reason You're Alive by Matthew Quick

“it’s frustrating…and so often times I find myself in isolation in the middle, not politically in the middle, I just don’t want to pick a team...

The Rules of Backyard Cricket, Jock Serong

Destination Simple by Brooke Mcalary

Book Wish List

Hetty McKinnon - Neighbourhood Cookbook

FOOD

NOTES

RECIPE | Madeleines

EVERYTHING SAM COOKED | This Week

RECIPE | Cinnamon Teacake

JULIET TRIED | Custard Apple

EVERYTHING SAM COOKED | This Week

RECIPE | Braised tofu with sour yoghurt and spinach

Bar Ampére - Burger

Agathé Patisserie - Croissant

RECIPE | Scone Appétit

Fluffy Pancakes For The Soul

Try a curated and culture-rich walking tour through the suburb of Cremorne

You’d be surprised to find out that the first hot air balloon ride in Australia took off from Cremorne...

The Best Scrambled Eggs You Will Ever Make

I have been trying out scrambled egg recipes for a while now and you would be surprised by...

La Gricia Sbagliato (Guanciale, Tomato and Chilli Spaghettoni) - Bar Di Stasio

I just want to have a bunch of recipes on hand that are delicious (most important factor)...

Secrets Organic April Box

There's honestly nothing better than when the mail arrives...

Secrets Organic February Box

'NEW' Earl Canteen Wholebowl

Gut Bacteria is the new black

Hetty McKinnon - Neighbourhood Cookbook

Watch. Read. Eat. Vegan

Veganism is more that just what you eat...

Natural Banana Protein Bars

Preparation time is minimal, all the ingredients are quite good for you...

POEPLE AND THEIR CLOTHES

An ongoing project documenting what people really wear. Each post captures people and their clothes at one particular location at one specific point in time.

NOTES