Keyword results: Gertrude Street
LEFT
Twist a curl of hair around your finger and tell your friends that you read The Style Press all you like; European style is a lot closer than you think. LEFT is a heart-palpitatingly classy store hiding on Gertrude Street. It's been there for some time now but few would know it stocks some of the world's most exquisite labels; from Comme des Garcons - Comme des Garcons to Yohji Yamamoto's Y's: a label with enough weighty folds and laid-back elegance to turn regular humans into walking pieces of art.
Shop Bitches of Gertrude Street Garage Sale!
What:
Garage Sale hosted by the shop bitches of Gertrude Street
Where:
Outside the Builders' Arms, 211 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
When:
Sat Aug 16, 8am-12pm
How much:
Cash only!
Description:
The bitches of Gertrude Street are a powerful force. From fabric to fashions; Books to records - the ladies are bringing erroneous knick-knacks to the street for your perusal. Bitches include Rachel Moore of Nom*D, the Glitzern ladies and Jemma Sophia Burns. These ladies are in urgent need of space in their homes and so are giving up their clothing, handbags, books and magazines.
Event: Sales
Stimulus: sound the horns!
Southpaw
Gertrude Street is great. For reasons both contemporary and historical. But it's the transition that seems most interesting. Or problematic -depends on how you look at it.
Try throwing together Squizzy Taylor (Australia's best named villain), dispossessed indigenous folk (Gertrude Street was a meeting point for people stolen from their families), clumsy ‘60s social engineering and.
Cottage Industry
We know year 8 history lessons were no fun without shoebox dioramas or discovering crap in fossilised rock. But those educated brain cells were probably obliterated in the following years behind the school shed. So here's a quick refresher - make a diorama while reading this if you must...
Despite the rib-snapping corsets and ludicrous wigs men insisted on wearing, the 1850s marked many beginnings in contemporary fashion.
Octopus 7: don't show me your poetry
As I write this there's only four sleeps to go 'til Australian Idol. Yay! I'm a big fan. What I like is not the talent or the public shaming of clownish contestants. No sir. Because I'm a "sophisticated adult", what I dig is this far more subtle thing. It's that no matter how far the singers get in the competition, right up until making their album even, they seem to carry the clammy stench of the bedroom with them.
Fake Jeans from Talking About The Abstraction
In the 1800s, Levi Strauss would have had little concept of the implications of his invention. Of the jiving, the flaring, the acid-washing, the skinny legging, the denim madness that would ensue. Even less so could he, or any of us for that matter, have anticipated this new advancement. These jeans that are not jeans.
Variable Speeds – Mark McCarthy
Even though it’s been seriously abused over the years (Turner anyone?), Variable Speeds by Melbourne-based artist Mark McCarthy proves that painting is still a rich and expressive medium that, when handled correctly, can be fresh and powerful.
It’s hard to miss 150 oil-on-canvas birds opposite the commission flats on Gertrude Street.
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