Sport / Melbourne, VIC

‘So iconic’: The Melbourne label behind Kylie’s grand final boots

The Age Cara Waters

27 Sept 2026 14:17 AEST Summary

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From the report

Until Saturday, Kylie Minogue was best known for her gold hot pants. But when she took to the AFL Grand Final stage, it was a pair of knee-high boots that stole the show.

Intercolonial Football Match 1879 Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

Intercolonial Football Match 1879 Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

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Niral Score 8 mundaneloaded

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Sourcing 28 unattributednamed sources Mood 54.4 sorrowjoyful

6 read zero: sentiment, political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Sentiment 0 hostilefavourable Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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The Age ‘So iconic’: The Melbourne label behind Kylie’s grand final boots plain
WAtoday ‘She’s got tiny feet’: The Melbourne label behind Kylie’s grand final boots plain

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Also covered by Brisbane Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, WAtoday. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

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The Ageas they published this story	8

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The same event elsewhere

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Brisbane Times ‘So iconic’: The Melbourne label behind Kylie’s grand final boots Niral 8 political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald ‘So iconic’: The Melbourne label behind Kylie’s grand final boots Niral 8 political 0 WAtoday ‘She’s got tiny feet’: The Melbourne label behind Kylie’s grand final boots Niral 7.9 political 0