Rachel Finch

L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival kicked off proceedings yesterday, and it looks like a frockin' good time was had by all! Bella will be our girl on the ground for the next two days, and we can't wait to see her front row reports. The LMFF peeps started things with a bang with the Fashion Full Stop: Decades of Australian Fashion and Music show, which showcased fabulous swimwear, bridal designs as well as a retrospective runway show of some of our local designer heroes. Speaking of, Akira Isogawa, Alex Perry and Joe Saba showed their support as did f'row regulars Megan Gale and Rachael Finch. We'll be keeping you in the loop with more LMFF news, but in the meantime get amongst the action by clicking right this way.

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It may have been raining (nay, pouring) on Saturday, but Flemington' s AAMI Derby Day still showed us some serious race day glamour. We're muchos impressed with the spot-on racewear we spied, depite the stylish set having to do battle with the elements. Looks like most race goers followed our race wear tips, and donned the traditional black and white dress code, including Sophie Monk, Mel B, Kelly Osbourne, Megan Gale and Jennifer Hawkins. Fab favourites? Methinks it's a photo finish between Rachel Finch's Nicola Finetti brocade dress and Megan Gale's jaw dropping Herve Leger number. Both lasses nailed the ladylike look, no questions about it! Question is, whose look will whet your appetite for Tuesday's Melbourne Cup? Click through the gallery to get some more track-side inspiration.

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The dreaded croquembouche is baaaaack (cue dramatic chipmunk clip)! Kirk Pengilly, Eamon Sullivan, Rachael Finch and Alex Lloyd had to recreate pastry chef Adriano Zumbo’s tower of profiteroles topped with sugar butterflies. But this wasn’t your ordinary croquembouche. To make matters worse, there were chocolate profiteroles forming a swirl through the cake, as well as the usual kind filled with vanilla crème pastisserie. D’oh!

The contestants had three and a half hours to create their masterpieces. The profiterole’s were all over the shop and Alex burnt his fingers while dipping his in the hot toffee and had to leave the kitchen. His fingers were covered with bandages by end of the challenge but he decided to hang in there. Rachael continues to impress us and nailed the challenge. Eamon did a decent job and Kirk propped up his leaning tower by sticking in some extra profiteroles and didn’t have time to make his sugar butterfly, telling the judges it had “flown away.” Ha. Meanwhile, Alex’s creation was just a heap of hot mess. Predictably, Alex was sent home and the final three face off tonight for the Celebrity MasterChef title.