clothing and fashion
HOT: Melbourne Op Shop Tours, Inner West, Williamstown to Footscray
Fashionistas know that the surest way to score a one-of-a-kind outfit is to scour old shops and vintage stores. Melbourne Op Shop Tours helps you take up the op shop challenge by running small group (max 10 people) tours through various areas of Melbourne. What makes it different from other op shop tours is that [...]
HOT: Melbourne Design Market, Federation Square carpark, Melbourne
One of my favourite entries in Melbourne’s design market calendar is the twice-yearly Melbourne Design Market held in the unprepossessing carpark of Federation Square. While some of the stalls remain the same every time, I still like to go because there’s always something new to see and buy. Here are some of the stalls that [...]
HOT: Blackbird Summer Market, The Workers Club, corner of Brunswick St and Gertrude St, Fitzroy
For a while now Sydney has been running pub markets and now the trend is catching on in Melbourne. It’s a great idea – pubs are usually dead spaces during the day, so why not run up a few stalls inside and encourage people to shop, chat, have a beer and eat some pub grub. [...]
HOT: A Very Eco Christmas, insert name here, Shop 5, Georges on Collins, 195 Collins St, Melbourne
This year, instead of wishing for a White Christmas, how about making it a Green Christmas? For one night only, online fashion retailer Eco Fashionista, jewellery designer Joolz and designer and speaker PK Walker collaborated on a fashion event ‘A Very Eco Christmas‘ in the pop-up store <insert name here>. Joining them were current residents [...]
HOT: Blondes to Brunettes + RMIT Fashion Friendship launch, 479 High St, Prahran
As a commercial lawyer, it was relatively easy for me to follow the conveyor belt from law school to summer clerkships to a full-time job in a law firm. I don’t imagine the transition for the creative industries is as easy (unless you’re very lucky) – it can be a relentless and sometimes dispiriting slog [...]
HOT: Marche Rouge Christmas Shopping Event, Salon 205, Level 2, Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston St, Melbourne
With Christmas only 22 days away, Melbourne is ramping up to a frenetic hive of shopping activity. With sales and markets sprouting up almost daily, it’s getting difficult for me to keep up! One of the most aesthetically pleasing shopping experiences that I’ve attended recently has been Marche Rouge, a small pop-up market in the [...]
HOT: Lady Melbourne party for Peppermint Magazine, Shop 5, Georges on Collins, 162-168 Collins St, Melbourne
It’s not every day that you have the chance to meet a member of royalty. So I was delighted to accompany Alex (Eco Fashionista) and her sister to a very special occasion – an afternoon tea party hosted by renowned fashion blogger, Lady Melbourne (aka Phoebe Montague). The celebration: Lady Melbourne’s debut as the covergirl [...]
HOT: Thread Den Market, Lithuanian Club, 44 Errol St, North Melbourne
I LOVE markets. I will even travel across town for an hour on public transport on a Sunday morning to get to a market if it’s being organised by the lovely ladies of Thread Den. I’ve written about sewing lounge Thread Den before, and they’ve now have expanded their little empire to encompass an occasional [...]
HOT Alert: Week of 23 November 2009
This coming week is filled with travel, rock, films, shopping, food and parties! Tony Wheeler, the co-founder of Lonely Planet, is speaking at The Hive at The Order of Melbourne on Tuesday 24 November. Read my review of a previous The Hive event here; The Rockwiz Christmas special is coming to The Palais, St Kilda, on [...]
HOT: MTC Garage Sale, 129 Ferrars St, Southbank
I’m an early-bird but there’s not many events that would have me bounding out of bed, grabbing a stupendous strawberry, white chocolate and coconut muffin from Proud Mary and lining up with hundreds of other people at 8:45am at Southbank. But this was one very special garage sale. The Melbourne Theatre Company were moving, and [...]
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