Vogue Fashion’s Night Out 2012

Overview

Okay, so free shipping and a 0% chance of being talked into buying a bag you don't need because it would look so cute with those shoes is great, but shopping IRL has plenty of bonuses, too. You'll find pretty much all of them at Fashion's Night Out, which is probably the best idea to come out of Anna Wintour's brain since she decided Seth Meyers should wear a lacey Marc Jacobs dress to the CDFA awards.

Fashion's Night Out was initiated by Wintour four years ago to pump money back into the flailing retail economy, and Sydney's own edition is now bigger and better than ever. Excuses you didn't really need to buy a whole bunch of nice new things for spring include pop-up beauty bars, free champagne, complimentary nibbles, gifts-with-purchase, and photo booths, with the majority of them taking place around Westfield and the CBD.

Get a free beauty consultation and eye mask at Clinique, a hand massage at L'Occitane, head to Mulberry for an evening of prizes and Polaroids, or chill out at the pop-up Galliano bar with a tasty Ristretto cocktail. As luck would have it, this year's theme is 'Fashion Meets Music', with world-class DJs and talented classical pianists putting the remixed remixes of Carly Rae Jepsen happily to rest.