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VOLUME 6
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The colder it gets, the closer we are to design season. But there's no need to freeze, because this issue is all about being inside. Read on for buildings inside other buildings, a burger joint inside a fashion studio, and vintage furniture inside a barber shop. Not to mention a prize you'll want to put your stuff inside.
Meanwhile, don't forget to poke your nose around the Lost & Found Hotel Room. Back for a second year, it's full of Melbourne-made products, publications, music and art – and Lost & Found subscribers have the chance to stay there for free! We are for real. Apply here.
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GUEST EDITOR
STEPHANIE DOWNEY
This issue our guest editor is Dress Up designer Stephanie Downey. From one collection to the next, Stephanie makes subtle and beautiful clothing that can lady-fy even the most reluctant of fashionistas. Right now she's working on next year's winter collection and seeing as much of the MIFF program as possible. She's even making her own short film – in collaboration with local directing duo KROZM – to launch Dress Up AW12 in September. Watch this space, because it soon will have Stephanie's new website and online store in it. |
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ARTS
NATHAN COLEY AND STATE OF DESIGN
What happens when you cross art and architecture? Okay, Gaudi for one. But Nathan Coley is on the list too. The Turner Prize-nominated Scottish artist loves to examine the absurdity in our built environment and (despite his lampooning of 'architect speak' in a video work narrated by Cate Blanchett) Coley's Appearances exhibition at ACCA is part of this year's State of Design festival program. Check out the in-gallery events including a Pecha Kucha night, a live broadcast of 'The Architects' radio show – and a screening evening celebrating type design in credit sequences throughout film history.
ACCA, 111 STURT ST,
SOUTHBANK.
TEL: 03 9697 9999.
STATE OF DESIGN RUNS CITYWIDE,
20–31 JULY.
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| Nathan Coley: Appearances (ACCA, installation view, photo by Andrew Curtis) |
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STEPHANIE DOWNEY |
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| Currently on display at Craft Victoria is the beautiful Windowgarden installation by the ever-extraordinary BLESS, one of my favourite conceptual design/fashion brands, alongside another installation called Solidarity Thing by Antuong Nguyen and the talented Pageant designers. Recently I loved Martin Bell's new work at the launch for new underground mag Higher Arc. I have unconditional love for ACCA – I have fond memories of seeing amazing work by the likes of Gillian Wearing, Rosslynd Piggott, Sophie Calle and Nan Goldin. |
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DESIGN
MIFF
As the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) turns sixty this year, they're taking the opportunity to look back and reflect. Showing at ACMI as part of State of Design, the exhibition MIFF 60 features an incredible fifty-nine years' worth of festival programs from the MIFF archives – like a flipbook of every dominant post-war design trend ever. But this year's festival isn't all about looking back – with films such as Japanese love epic Norwegian Wood, voyeurism doco Shut Up Little Man!, and the Australian premier of Spike Jonze's Scenes from the Suburbs on the program, there's plenty to look forward to as well.
20 JULY – 7 AUGUST, CITYWIDE. |
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| Image courtesy of MIFF |
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STEPHANIE DOWNEY |
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RETAIL
HERR BLICK
A session in the chair at Herr Blick's new parquet-floored barber studio – above the old Victor Horsley Chambers on Collins Street – is basically 60 minutes of indulgence. A craftsman of the follicle, Steven Blick runs a single-scissor, appointment-only, no-nonsense traditional barber service – for ladies as well as gents. But you don't have to stop at a chop. The new Blick salon is also a place to buy furniture by Grandfather's Axe, vintage posters courtesy of Galerie Montmartre, and curios and ephemera from Wunderkammer.
SUITE 13, LEVEL 1,
12 COLLINS STREET,
MELBOURNE.
TEL: 03 9005 4612. |
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| Image courtesy of Herr Blick |
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| Edgeley is a tiny, exclusive dress shop offering spectacular hats and beautifully tailored clothing, designed and made behind a gauzy curtain by the adorable Alice – seamstress extraordinaire. Alice sews some of my samples and does a perfect job. Dagmar Roussett has a colourful collection of unique knitwear, prints and beautiful jewellery, as well as a series of night-time French classes I really want to attend. Alice Euphemia has an impressive range of locally designed, exclusively Australian made labels (including Dress Up!) |
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CAFES AND RESTAURANTS
The Social Studio, a growing refugee community education centre and fashion design hub, has recently uprooted its in-house cafe and moved it next door. The new space is called The Cutting Table, and you can cut your breakfast or lunch there six days a week! Following the loose theme of 'African burger joint', chef Enza and her team specialize in beef, fish, chicken and vegie burgers – served with home-style African potatoes. After a cup of fair trade coffee you can pop next door and browse the new Social Studio collection – also made on the premises.
128 SMITH STREET,
COLLINGWOOD.
TEL: 03 9417 2143. |
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| Photo by Max Olijnyk. |
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STEPHANIE DOWNEY |
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| A new crop of establishments has reaffirmed my loyalty to North Melbourne. Beatrix is a tiny cafe offering great coffee, delicious food and a cabinet of irresistible home-made pastries and cakes. Drink Bulgarian wine and listen to records in the cosy dark wood bar at The Crimean, a restaurant taking inspiration from the Eastern European cuisine surrounding the Black Sea. I'm excited to have record store/cafe Wooly Bully now open on my street. |
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EIGHT OF THE BEST
NEW BOUTIQUES
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I love Collingwood's Japanese Bath House. Soak in the deep steaming tub, then indulge in a shiatsu massage or sit quietly on cushions and drink tea or miso. In the midst of winter, I love rugging up and walking through the fog and ferns of the Dandenong Ranges National Park, stopping for Devonshire tea in Olinda on the way home. When there's a blockbuster you need to see, load up your car with blankets and pillows and head out to the Coburg Drive In. |
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WIN
POP CRAFT TOTE BAG
Right next door to Harvest Workroom, Pop Craft is a pop-up shop specialising in high-quality Australian and Japanese yarn and hand-made clothes and accessories from local designers. They're doing all sorts of workshops as part of the State of Design Festival, including 'Make a Mini Teepee' with Leila Sanderson and 'Weaving Fabric' with Maryann Talia Pau. We have one limited-edition hand-screen-printed tote to give away! To enter, tell us what you would tote around in it. Email us (use the link, don't reply) including your answer in the subject line by 5pm, Monday 16 July. |
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| Image courtesy of Pop Craft |
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