toorak

Trouble In Toorak: Lillian Frank Is Involved In Some Kind Of Follicle Related Drama

11:32AM Jess McGuire | Gracious, it’s all happening in Toorak these days, isn’t it? Hot on the thrilling news of Pixie Skase’s return to the ritzy Melbourne suburb, it now seems as though The ‘Rak is providing even more excitement for those of us with no lives! (Former?) Herald Sun gossip columnist, renown philanthropist, and hair renovating socialite Lillian Frank is making waves – and I don’t just mean those of the ‘blow’ variety! HAHAHA ETC – with news she’s leaving the hairdressing business she’s put her name to for the last 40 years… and opening up shop around the corner! Check out this madness! Socialite Lillian Frank has been ousted from the hairdressing business she built up over more than 40 years — Lillian Frank the Hairstylist — and will start a job at a rival salon around the corner on Saturday. Frank sold her iconic business three years ago to one of her young workers, Yili Karadavut, on the condition it keep her name on the shop front and she be allowed to continue cutting hair for her favourite clients three days a week. This seems to me to be a reasonable request, but then I don’t know anything about the ins and outs of the coiffure business. Obviously things didn’t work out, because Lillian has chosen to leave the salon which still bears her name and moved to the nearby establishment Mal Bradley Hair. Says Lillian: More »

Pixie Skase Has Returned To Toorak Village

9:59AM Jess McGuire | In what the Herald Sun have deemed the news story of the day (judging from Pixie’s face splashed over the front cover of the paper), the wife of late disgraced businessman Chistopher Skase has returned to Melbourne after a 17 year exile. Mrs Skase, 67, says the time is right to settle back in Toorak after years of luxurious exile. “I am so excited to come back home,” she said during a Christmas visit to catch up with family ahead of a permanent move in February What’s Pixie been up to? Oh, exciting things! Like walking through Toorak! More »