Lingerie and sleepwear label Hopeless Hotel now has an online store. Shop to your heart’s content by clicking here.
Passion Victims presents Desire an exhibition featuring 18 photographers and their differing interpretations of the theme of desire. The focus is on fashion as a different Australian designer features in each piece. The exhibition is open from the [...]
Welcome to Alphaville…Sportsgirl! Melbourne label Alpha60 have collaborated with Sportsgirl for a capsule collection of nine pieces. Designers Alex and Georgie Cleary, have taken the late eccentric Marchesa Luisa Casati as their muse (as did Sweden’s Acne recently) to produce a gothic collection in velour offset by jewel prints. The Marchesa was an Italian [...]
Maurie & Eve are holding a clearance sale in Melbourne for the first time. Up to 85% off everything for two days only. Find it at Suite 6/1 Yarra Street in Richmond this evening from 5pm ’til 9pm and tomorrow from 9.30am ’til 5pm.
Model Jessica Hart chats with FTV about her new label Neon Hart and [...]
The nominations for the Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival 2010 Designer Award (presented by Woolmark) were released recently. The nominees are Dion Lee, Gail Sorronda, Gary Bigeni, Konstantina Mittas, Therese Rawsthorne and Melbourne’s own Lui Hon and Dhini. Designers in their first five years of business have the chance to win $10,000, a trip to [...]
There are so many delicious bargains to be had at the moment and they will continue well into 2010. I thought I’d share a select few that I think are really worth a look. Just remember that if a piece is not well made or you don’t feel fabulous in it, it is not really a bargain [...]
Kit Willow will open her latest boutique on the ground floor of Melbourne’s GPO this Thursday 17th December. The store will feature rotating art exhibitions (the first being by illustrator Tania Mason and Clemens Krauss) as well as typically gorgeous Willow pieces from her latest Eternal Phi.
Rising stars in the local textiles, clothing and footwear [...]
Acne Studios opened their first flagship boutique in Melbourne recently. The retail space, a contrast between clean Scandinavian minimalism and earthy woods, was designed by Acne’s own architect Andreas Fornell. The guest of honour, Australian designer Michelle Jank, sported the Generic Girl Splash jeans (that I covet so) and one of her own trademark hefty, bejewelled neck-pieces. [...]
Alexi Freeman opens his first ever boutique for a limited time only at Melbourne’s GPO (corner of Bourke and Elizabeth streets in the city) next Tuesday 8th December at 10am. The pop-up shop will remain open through January 2010 and is on level 1 (take the elevator, near Zimmermann).
The boutique will house the designer’s much-loved [...]
Paper queen Cristina Re now offers high tea, crafty workshops called the Papercraft Academy in her flagship Collingwood store ‘Where a Girl Goes’. Good for crafty types or making your own invites or cards for big events. Call to book your group.
Drink Me Alice designer jewellery has a shiny new website to check out and [...]
Louis Vuitton opened on the ground floor at Chadstone this week, as part of the centre’s revamp, among a dozen other high-end luxury labels. Special guest the brilliant actor Toni Collette, who looked sleek in a black LV floor-length gown with golden tresses, cut the ribbon to launch the boutique. Joining Toni to mark the [...]