Welcome to Pineapple Style, a design and style blog celebrating Queensland's unique, fun, colourful, comfortable style. This blog is unique because the fashion articles will feature all ages fashion and celebrate Queensland architecture and design. In our first post,...
Brisbane is a city built of timber and tin which means hunting for ghost signs (old hand-painted advertising signs) requires patience. Frequently ghost signs were painted with lead paint on the brick walls of buildings. This added to their longevity and explains their...
The Australian Wearable Art Festival (AWAF), staged on the Sunshine Coast 8-9 August, showed how clever designers can use recycled materials to create stunning garments that tell a story and excite the eye. Now in its fifth year, AWAF is unique in the Australian...
The Australian Institute of Architects has announced a brewery in Eumundi as the winner of the Building of the Year Award in the 2025 Sunshine Coast Regional Architecture Awards. Matso’s Sunshine Coast Brewery was designed by Five Mile Radius and Knight Wilson...
While Noosa is known for it's "lifestyles of the rich and famous" style, if you look closely, there are some vintage fans hanging out on Hastings St. ...
Cairns Indigenous Arts Fair (CIAF) has announced two emerging indigenous designers as recipients of the BLOOM fashion and textile accelerator programs. Designer Lynelle Flinders of Sown in Time and weaver/textile artist Desert-Rain Magpie of Magpie Dreaming will...
Some call 26 January Australia Day, some call it Invasion Day. This year, The Pineapple marks the day by featuring a strong, beautiful First Nations woman from Queensland: Jannali Shorey. Jannali is a proud First Nations woman living, studying and working on the...
Gympie's diverse, beautiful young people are in the international spotlight for the second time this year, this time in French beauty and fashion magazine Malvie. Fashion designer Cindy Vogels, of fashion brand Racy and Lucky and photographer Brea Martin collaborated...
The south east Queensland town of Gympie has a reputation for gold mining, country music and for a culture that is not always inclusive. And although it’s the home town of designer to the stars, Cindy Vogels, Gympie’s not known for glamour or fashion. That may be...
