Melbourne Design Market
Just when you thought they couldn't cram more than 16,000 people into Fed Square's underground carpark, they're shooting for 17,000 this Sunday. The Melbourne Design Market is basically the Glastonbury of the independent design shopping world.
Sure, there were a lot of baby products there last time, but, you know, people have babies.
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.
Five Boroughs
The five boroughs are used to describe the distinct areas of New York City to avoid confusing it as one large whole of geographical space. It is also a little store in East Brunswick with some big principles: to stock goods that are high in quality, low run, handmade and look pretty on a shelf.
To fit in with these rules, they stock goods such as a replicated ceramic version of the iconic New York coffee cups (pictured).
A Cloth-Covered Button
Shops will open. Dressing room doors will open. And when you weaken at the knees over a piece featured in the "must-have" pages of your glossy, your wallet will no doubt open, too. This week in SHOP we invite you to open the humbly matte pages of a new magazine.
She's not like Vogue who, bloated with 727 pages of advertising, flaunts her next-season flocked Chloes.
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