Melbourne Shopping - Shop
SHOP is your guide to boutique fashion and retail in Melbourne, featuring pop-up shops and other places that are so hard to find that Google doesn't even know about them yet. SHOP attempts to open your minds, hearts and wallets to the plethora of things that you can probably live without but in actuality don't want to. Clothes, jewellery, books, bikes, bags, shoes, bags that look like shoes - SHOP gives new meaning to the superficial - wait, we're confused.
FAT presents complex geometries in a Mongolian yurt
The ultimate in portable existence, the Mongolian yurt is both a timelessly beautiful latticed wood and felt structure, and a practical shelter that can be fully dismantled onto camel or yak-back for ease of nomadic wanderings.
With a shortage of camels and yaks in Melbourne, FAT will likely transport components of their handsomely-designed yurt by two and four-wheeled means in a small nomadic migration of their very own, settling at the Old Melbourne Gaol compound for the duration of LMFF only.
The new Sunshine & Grease
Local doyen of all things obscure Pat O'Brien is the brains (and body) behind Sunshine & Grease - always ready with a tidbit of information about your favourite artist, the skinny on the best shows and the inside word on releases you didn't know you needed.
Originally housed in the CBD's Bus Gallery, this treasure chest of new and second-hand records, books and films has found an all together more fitting home in Clifton Hill.
Fowlers Flowers
You want to buy some flowers, but you're also hungry. You decide to keep it interesting and set yourself a challenge. The florist must have both an anagram in its name, and it must also be a short tongue twister. You think long and hard about this challenge you've set yourself and realise that you need to stop setting yourself challenges that involve wordplay, flora and your stomach.
Skin and Threads Melbourne store
Fashion can be painful. Heels that hurt your feet, handbags that hurt your back. Oh, and skinny jeans can apparently cause nerve damage and impotence. Meanwhile, miniskirts and boob-tubes can result in revealing moments that harm one's pride - and isn't emotional damage the biggest ouch of all?
Penelope Forsyth and Emma Gathercole (the ladies behind Skin and Threads) understand these dilemmas.
BRUCE Buy Sell Trade
Today, my dear mother took me to an op shop. Not any op shop, but the greatest op shop in the world. At the beginning I was hesitant, to say the least. I hadn't the energy to scrounge around some damp-smelling hovel desperately searching for a non-moth-bitten jumper or a non-cigarette-burnt skirt.
As we pulled up to the quaint shopping strip of Queens Parade, a clean, neat window display welcomed me.
Claire Incorruptible
Perky perky sales shop staff really do suck the big one. I could do without the ones that turn their noses up at me, but even worse are the ones that get all up in ya grill with their prying questions: Where'd you get your shoes from? What you up to this weekend? Have you got the day off today? Where do you work? What size are you? Want to try it on? Ahh leave me alone.
Herr Blick
"This is not a fucking zen garden." It's a place for cutting hair. Steven Blick likes cutting hair. He's been doing it for 22 years. In fact, his youthful looks would have you believe he was trimming straight from the womb.
But no, 22 years ago a 15 year-old Irish man held the hair scissors in his hand for the first time, learning the craft of precision cutting from an old hair master in Belfast.
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