Fashion - Goods - Cool Items and Interesting Stuff
GOODS has two meanings. Firstly, it is our guide to innovative objects from Melbourne and around the world, and secondly, GOODS can't be bad. A resource for gift buyers, home-makers, scene-stealers, trend-watchers and possibly even shoplifters, GOODS isn't about making your credit card cry, it's about setting your standards high.
Ballet V Alpha60 limited-edition T-shirt
Coco Chanel, Alexander McQueen, Toni Maticevski, Christian Dior and Kit Willow. Maverick designers have long sung duets with ballet. And the latest designers to catch pointe shoe fever are Alpha60, who teamed up with The Australian Ballet to stitch something up.
The product of this union is a typical Alpha60 monochromatic image printed onto a loose-fitting, unisex tee.
Birthday Suit
The Emperor got around in his birthday suit when two sneaky weavers promised him the finest suit of clothes from a fabric invisible to anyone who was an incompetent ninny. Ninny he was - not because he couldn't see the fabric, but because he trusted a pair of mimes. Mimes are creepy, everyone knows that.
Karla Spetic
Lollies that fizz on your tongue, naïve children's watercolours, farmyards viewed from afar and the aroma of warm butter ... the dresses, hard-tailored pieces, mouthwatering swimsuits and wispy tanks of Karla Spetic's designs call to mind a hardy femininity, a history tempered by freshness.
Born in the fairytale-like city of Dubrovnik on the coast of Croatia, Spetic moved to Australia in 1993 and after graduating from the East Sydney Fashion Design Studio launched her label in 2006.
Handsom
A few years back my lovely grandmother gave me some spending money as a birthday gift. Being the narcissistic young man that I was, I rushed out and treated myself to an exorbitantly priced moss green blazer, complete with asymmetrical seams and tattered hems. I though I was the bomb shizzle. My grandmother, however, did not share this enthusiasm.
ffiXXed SS10, Unseen Utopias
ffiXXed is a collaborative art and design project that recognises the need for sustainable creative practices, delving beyond pure aesthetic to create readymade fashion products that are a pragmatic response to living arrangements. Helmed by ex-pat Australians and Internetwork contributors Kain Picken and Fiona Lau, ffiXXed is created between studios in Berlin, New York, and Hong Kong, essentially maintaining a roaming headquarters responsive to global influences.
Melissa Numa & Love Foxx shoes
Have you ever loved and lost? How about loved a baby rat and then killed it by rolling on it in your sleep? Well if you haven't, you probably don't know the bond formed when feeding his tiny mouth with an eyedropper, or the quiet tenderness of the moment when you rub his privates with a tissue to help him wee.
PAM Holiday Season 2009 Collaboration Tees
Just as I was sitting down to tell you all about this awesome collaboration between designers PAM and artist Mark Borthwick, a dude broke into my house - or my back landing - whatever, it was scary. What did this piss-fucker steal? Nothing. Because I donned a Donkey Dove Tee and and frightened him off.
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