Theft is inevitable: Buy two - 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.
Glitzern Earring Festival
For too long now we have been living in the age of the prawn. No, not the zodiac sign, but a group of women lead by queen prawn Jennifer Hawkins, so celebrated for their lithe little bodies that nobody notices their boring, far less attractive heads. It is no coincidence that the reign of the prawn and the reign of the long pendant necklace have dominated side by side for so long.
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.
Bug & Megs Felt
Bug & Megs are feltophiles. While the other kids were playing ponies, this crafty couple were tinkering with trinkets and fooling with finger puppets. But they soon grew tired of inferior acrylic "felt". They looked everywhere for an Australian supplier of real felt, but alas, none could be found.
WORTHIS bags
The bag. What if this age-old transportation device was individually hand-crafted to order, using hand-dyed and hand-woven organic fabrics? Then it becomes something more than just a bag. It is a musing upon an ancient time, when people transported precious stones and scripts, and not just their iPhones.
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.
Sonic Fabric
Do you ever wonder what happened to your trusty old cassette tapes after you binned them at first sight of a delicious silvery Compact Disc? Sonic Fabric know, because they've got them. Driven by an ethos of upcycling and repurposing - as well as maintaining cutting edge style and a good dose of experimentalism - this NY-based fashion brand take the long strands of magnetic tape out of our old cassettes and, through a process I can only deem as magic, weave them into scarves, neckties, and other modern accessories and fabric.
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