You know you’ve visited dozens of boutiques, but after a full day of shopping they can all start to look the same. You’ve seen the same trends and styles – often the same brands – over and over again. You’re exhausted and you’re uninspired, but don’t give up just yet – you just need to make one of Melbourne’s collective fashion spaces a part of your regular shopping circuit.
If you’ve never heard of collective fashion spaces, you really don’t know what you’re missing out on. Collective fashion spaces display and sell the works of a wide range of independent artists and designers.
Collective fashion spaces operate with a philosophy of promoting and encouraging emerging designers and artists, and most of the designs are made right here in Melbourne so that you can support the next generation of the Melbourne fashion scene.
But best of all, the designers and ranges are constantly changing. Much like a kind of indoor marketplace, the venues host a wide range of designers all allocated their individual spaces. Unique, inspired and ever changing, this is the perfect remedy for fashion fatigue.
Style Melbourne loves these collective fashion spaces, in and around the city:
Incube8r Gallery, 321 Smith Street Fitzroy
They say it pays to think outside the square, but at Incube8r Gallery in Fitzroy the glass cubicles are the perfect place to seek inspiring designs. The gallery showcases up to 90 different artists’ and designers’ work, most of whom are just starting out in the industry. Incube8r is a non-elitist space, meaning that any aspiring designer can rent out a space in the no-commission gallery. This means that shoppers can support emerging designers, while benefiting from one-off pieces and discovering that Next Big Thing before its time.
Design A Space, 142 Chapel St Windsor & 20 Manchester Lane Melbourne
Design A Space was launched three years ago with the aim of promoting an artistic platform for designers and artists of all forms and styles. Now with two stores, in Windsor and the CBD, Design A Space has a strong base of repeat customers, confident in finding unique and independent design pieces. The spaces are operated with a philosophy of encouraging individuality and variety, so that you’ll find a range of completely different styles and brands in their boutiques.
Fashion Incubator, Melbourne Central
Want to be one step ahead of the current trend? Fashion Incubator in Melbourne Central seeks to do just that, offering style-savvy shoppers the chance to snap up unique pieces from up-and-coming designers. The store uniquely offers customers the chance to arrange consultations for customised, made-to-measure designs from the featured designers, as well as a wide array of everything from clothes to artwork. Fashion Incubator offers additional support to aspiring designers, offering spaces for them to work, and mentoring and training programs.
Have we inspired you yet? Head to the collective fashion space nearest to you to enjoy the unique shopping experience for yourself!
You know you’ve visited dozens of boutiques, but after a full day of shopping they can all start to look the same. You’ve seen the same trends and styles – often the same brands – over and over again. You’re exhausted and you’re uninspired, but don’t give up just yet – you just need to make one of Melbourne’s collective fashion spaces a part of your regular shopping circuit.
If you’ve never heard of collective fashion spaces, you really don’t know what you’re missing out on. Collective fashion spaces display and sell the works of a wide range of independent artists and designers.
Collective fashion spaces operate with a philosophy of promoting and encouraging emerging designers and artists, and most of the designs are made right here in Melbourne so that you can support the next generation of the Melbourne fashion scene.
But best of all, the designers and ranges are constantly changing. Much like a kind of indoor marketplace, the venues host a wide range of designers all allocated their individual spaces. Unique, inspired and ever changing, this is the perfect remedy for fashion fatigue.
StyleMelbourne loves these collective fashion spaces, in and around the city:
Incube8r Gallery, 321 Smith Street Fitzroy
They say it pays to think outside the square, but at Incube8r Gallery in Fitzroy the glass cubicles are the perfect place to seek inspiring designs. The gallery showcases up to 90 different artists’ and designers’ work, most of whom are just starting out in the industry. Incube8r is a non-elitist space, meaning that any aspiring designer can rent out a space in the no-commission gallery. This means that shoppers can support emerging designers, while benefiting from one-off pieces and discovering that Next Big Thing before its time.
Design A Space, 142 Chapel St Windsor & 20 Manchester Lane Melbourne
Design A Space was launched three years ago with the aim of promoting an artistic platform for designers and artists of all forms and styles. Now with two stores, in Windsor and the CBD, Design A Space has a strong base of repeat customers, confident in finding unique and independent design pieces. The spaces are operated with a philosophy of encouraging individuality and variety, so that you’ll find a range of completely different styles and brands in their boutiques.
Fashion Incubator, Melbourne Central
Want to be one step ahead of the current trend? Fashion Incubator in Melbourne Central seeks to do just that, offering style-savvy shoppers the chance to snap up unique pieces from up-and-coming designers. The store uniquely offers customers the chance to arrange consultations for customised, made-to-measure designs from the featured designers, as well as a wide array of everything from clothes to artwork. Fashion Incubator offers additional support to aspiring designers, offering spaces for them to work, and mentoring and training programs.
Have we inspired you yet? Head to the collective fashion space nearest to you to enjoy the unique shopping experience for yourself!
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Words – Stephanie Anderson
Photograph – Stephen Clarkson
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