Clothing - 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.
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.
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.
Temporary Pleasures, Arabella Ramsay
Rally the troops before you cut through the old Sportsgirl centre on Collins St. What's waiting for you there is a bona fide Spring fashion attack on your senses that'll leave you high and dry and lugging armfuls of bags back to the office when you said you'd just popped out for a tea break.
No one prepared us for pop-up store, Arabella Ramsay style.
Somewhere
In Sweden, you look around and everything is clean, everyone is tall, and no one is fat. Everyone votes. They know how to do everything well, yet inoffensively. So why don't all the Swedes just sit up there in Sweden and laugh knowingly at the rest of us? How is it that there are even any Swedes left in Sweden when there are so many Swedes everywhere else? Call them missionaries of betterment, if you will, imparting their swedishisms far and wide, and facilitating the Swedish meatball movement for the greater good.
The Vans store
My first Vans were an incredible pair of burgundy ‘old schools' with a white stripe and thick waffle sole. They were completely at odds with the Reebok Pumps and LA Gears of the time, but I didn't care, because I knew they were fucking cool.
Seems the world has turned a bit, or maybe I just moved out of the hellhole I grew up in, but Vans are really popular now.
Doc Cobbler
I don't know about you guys but whenever I get even the slightest whiff of some impending assignment, law exam, mildly-frustrating-thing-that-must-eventually-be-done, the first thing i'm gonna do is hit ebay and type 'Opening Ceremony' or 'Surface to Air' in the shoe search box and hit enter compulsively until I can at least squint and pretend there's a reasonably priced pair of size 9 buckle wedge boots peering out from inside my macbook.
Skinny Nelson and Friends
Finally an eco-friendly clothing line that doesn't come with obligatory bongo drums and the constant urge to roll up your hemp trousers into a big fat beige-coloured dooby.
Jacqui Alexander and Zac Midalia are the smarts behind Skinny Nelson and Friends, an Australian basics label with the environmental conscience of Al Gore and the clean lines and wearability to rival the frontrunners of Swedish-pioneered understated cool.
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