Heart - 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.
The Arcade Project
There are only so many discordant renditions of 'Achy Breaky Heart' that even the most persevering of souls can endure. So after sharing a home for three years with the infamous, and slightly bedraggled, Ding Dong Dang karaoke parlour, innovative art space Gaffa has moved to the big end of town.
The new premises on Clarence Street in the CBD will house four galleries, Australia's largest jewellery studio, an industrial design project space and a café, spread over three levels in a 19th Century police station.
Acne
Imagine if every inch of your skin was covered in acne. Gross? Nope. Because we're talking firm, structured leather mixed with soft, delicate woolens. In heavy colours like black, brown and grey, mixed with small amounts of blue and beige. Acne (Title Case) as opposed to acne (lower case). What a dream.
Modern World Records
Sick of setting your alarm for 3am on a Thursday morning, just to be outbid by some 'I'm in a more convenient time zone than you' jerk on eBay? Us too! So, with a bit of research/luck we've found the best online record dealer this side of the Equator. Meet Craig Mitchell, he's the man behind Modern World Records.
RSPCA
I know it's terrible to say 'Shop' when we're talking about real, live animals, but unfortunately we don't have a section called 'Adopt'. Adopt is what we mean however, and we're looking at YOU.
Summer is peak breeding season for kitties and pups, and unfortunately that means thousands of unwanted and abandoned litters arriving on the RSPCA's doorstep every week.
Coledale Twilight Markets
Hand-built, home-cooked and recycled, with an ocean view to boot. Sitting just off that big windy coast road is a little market full of real hippies, jam making grannies and alluring eats.
Books, be it cooking or rock biographies, go for less than $2. Records for no more than $4 and clothing sits below $20.
Newspaper Taxi
Sometimes we find ourselves wandering into a store, with no intent to purchase, but because we want to live there. This is one of those, only buying will become necessary. Once inside, your heart will grow quite fond of everything you see. The store is full of vintage bits and pieces, textural oddities as well as some carefully handmade surprises.
Repressed Records
I'm not saying capitalism is evil. But I'd much rather shop at a store built with passion than one that's squarely aimed at making a quick buck.
Welcome to Repressed Records, where the staff enthusiastically hand-write reviews of beloved albums (on CD and vinyl), and the store is chockers with DIY zines, 7"s, books, used mags, cult DVDs, band t-shirts, and a very cool mix of punk, indie, soul, black metal, garage, psych, and "whatever is hard to find yet devastatingly brilliant".
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