Kuwaii
What:
Kuwaii
Where:
Cat's Meow, Shop 9, Degraves St Subway
Pussycat Black, 3 Edward St, Brunswick
See long list here
Contact:
kristy@kuwaii.com.au
As Roisin Murphy has saucily demonstrated, art-as-fashion can be fetchingly cast into everyday life - a dress that necessitates built-in scaffolding, for instance, could be a handy stabiliser for a night on the tiles. However, when you're just nipping out for a quart of tonic or returning your library books, a hat with its own solar system or a dress you could serve three tiers of high tea upon are - frankly - a touch prohibitive and may attract more attention than a girl cares for at 10am.
Mercifully, there is newish Melbourne label Kuwaii who, if they do say so themselves (and they do), are "super spunky while being madly practical". Cue astringent dresses that climb intricately up the back and knot at the creamiest patch of neck, but sweep neatly across one's bottom for unfettered bike riding. Or grandprix-meets-new-rave tights that make climbing out of an cab a flashbulb-worthy but still demurely proper enterprise. Or beautifully cut coats that hug the shoulders like art deco architecture hugs the banks for the River Alster, but boast slouchy pockets you can ball your fists deep into with an insouciant "What?". You'll feel so fierce scaffolding will be entirely unnecessary.
Product: Fashion
Theft: Theft is likely
Keywords: melbourne label
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