Fashion - Sydney Shopping - Shop
SHOP is your guide to boutique fashion and retail in Sydney, 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.
Blubird
You know that moment when you realise you're out of your depth in a conversation? I just had one. No, we weren't discussing Deleuze or dissecting a horrible divorce, we were talking jeans.
I went in confident: "Yeah, jeans. Jeans are great! I have a few pairs actually. Wear them on my legs sometimes.
Pearl's Dream, Romance Was Born concept store
I once dreamt that I caught a shooting star, which was nice and all, but what I really want is an underwater dream. I bet they're loaded with meaning. You know, really deep. Never mind, as Romance Was Born are opening an oceanic concept store, Pearl's Dream, to follow on from their most recent collection, 'Doilies and Pearls, Oysters and Shells'.
The Grand Social Pop-up Store
I first discovered The Grand Social last summer, in desperate need of a respectable one-piece. I stumbled across this online clothing mecca via the Anna & Boy website, and I'm not going to lie - I wept a little. One stop shop doesn't begin to describe the amount of stuff to charge to your mum's credit card on there.
Carin Wester online shop
Like a cuckolded lover, I spent countless months struggling through Scandinavian fashion websites for any glimpse of Carin Wester. A little grey jumpsuit here, a cropped turtle neck knit there. Words like ‘skor' and ‘skyddsomslag' rolled forth from my tongue, I could convert the Swedish Kroner into Australian dollars whilst assembling an Olof lamp and eating the meatballs I'd gotten from the IKEA foodcourt.
The Cloakroom
Sometimes I say, "I'm glad I'm not a dude". I generally say this when some dipstick gets wedged on Funniest Home Videos or whilst doing three, possibly four things at once. I also say it when looking at menswear in Sydney, because - excluding the wonderful work of a select few - men are largely marginalised to wife beaters and flannies.
Peeps.org
Ever since I saw Liv Tyler's cashmere crop top-clad Corey in Empire Records, I've had a penchant for midriff-skimming attire. But for a long time there I felt like I was stranded alone on the wrong side of the 90s, trying to keep alive a passion that others buried with Jennifer Lopez when she became J-Lo.
Tessuti Fabrics
So you've had your eye on a Karen Walker dress, but you thought you could wait. Then you missed it. Then again at the sale. It happens. But now there's an answer. Tessuti Fabrics has a range of short-run and remnant fabrics from some of the best local and international designers, so now you can make your own.
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