Basic Circle Frames
Calling all those championing for the crowned shade-shape of the season. Eyeful US label ‘Slow and Steady Wins the Race' brings it home with Basic Circle Frames.
Suitably named after yesteryear fable ‘The Tortoise and the Hare', Slow and Steady travels at a winsome pace. Their aesthetically purified wares respond to a consumer longing for significant design without the avant-garde price tag.
Badges by Lisa Kearns
Working as a doctor, the stethoscope around your neck earns you a certain amount of respect. Even as I accidentally wander into a family bereavement room looking for a urinary catheter or glue my fingers together with tissue glue, I can console myself with the knowledge that people are thinking "She's busy.
Badges by Stitch
"I thought I was being punk'd when they said I could have a stall", responded designer Michael Pham when I asked him whether it was a pain in the ass to get a space at the Melbourne Design Market. The one-day-only event, put on by the Melbourne International Design Festival, houses stalls offering everything from jewellery, to lighting, to gadgets and Pham's badges.
Etat Libre D'Orange perfumes
Got a score to settle with your Nan? Need to deodorise your car? Why not get a bottle of Hotel Slut? Etat Libre D'Orange perfumes are either cashed-up punk like Vivienne Westwood, or try-hard punk like Richard Branson when he reminds people how he used to hang out with Malcolm McLaren.
Choose from aromas such as ‘Don't Get Me Wrong Baby, I Don't Swallow' and ‘Jasmine and Cigarette' - which receives the ThreeThousand prize for best Frenglish blurb.
Dr Bronner's Magic Soaps
Emanuel H. Bronner might have been mad as a brush, but he were surely clean. "Enjoy only two cosmetics, enough sleep and Dr Bronner's Magic Soap to clean mind-body-spirit instantly uniting One! Absolute cleanliness is Godliness! For facial packs, scalp and soothing body scrub, add dash on bath towel in sink of hot water.
Kate Sylvester Flying Hat
It may seem slightly ridiculous to even consider spending $129 on a hat with cute pom-poms... but then you think about it again... it's a Kate Sylvester hat - no it's a Kate Sylvester flying hat with pom-poms! And you're only young once, yata-yata. 8 out of 10 of us will look ridiculous in this hat, but will still be tempted for obvious reasons - how can you not love this Amelia Earhart-esque concoction?
Novel Badges
Keeping up with a dirty hipster's required reading can be dispiriting. You've gotta know your Lethem from your Eggers, classic novels from graphic novels. And while everyone's raving about the hilariously ironic promotional campaign for Chuck Palahniuk's latest effort, the last book you read was Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell.
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