Links We Love
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Our Favourite Shops, Labels and Sites
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Local Designers (shops selling their own label)
Womens High Profile
Womens Smaller Independent Designers
Mens Designers
Retailers (not their own designs, reselling other labels)
Womens’ Boutiques
Womens’ Boutiques with 3+ stores
Mens Retailers
Street/Casual Womens+Mens Retailers
Other Shops
Shoes and Accessories
Vintage
2nd Hand
Fabric
Markets
Sydney
Melbourne
Other Cities
Online
Online stores – Australia
Top 10 Online stores – Overseas
International Labels
The Haute Couture Members
The Good Stuff
Shoes
Our Favourite 10 Accessories Brands
Chains we like to visit when overseas
Fashion Sites & Blogs
Our Top 10 OS Fashion Blogs
Our Top 10 Australian Fashion Sites
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Local Designers
Womens High Profile
- Alannah Hill
- Alex Perry
- Bettina Liano
- Camilla and Marc
- Charlie Brown
- Collette Dinnigan
- Cue
- Forever New
- Hussy
- Kirrily Johnston
- Ksubi
- Leona Edmiston
- Lisa Ho
- Nicola Finetti
- Sass & Bide
- Scanlan and Theodore
- Wayne Cooper
- Wheels and Dollbaby
- Zimmerman
Womens Smaller Independent Designers
- Alice Euphemia
- Antipodium
- Dion Lee
- Friedrich Gray
- Jayson Brunsdon
- Minty Meets Munt
- Romance Was Born
- The Graduate Store Strand Arcade
- Therese Rawsthorne
- Willow
Mens Designers
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Retailers (not their own designs, reselling other labels)
Boutiques
- Alfie’s Friend Rolfe, 1/ 221 Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst, 02 9361 0220
- Capital L
- Fashion Incubator Melbourne Central
- Harlequin Market
- Incu
- Parlour X (also Shop X Bondi)
Womens Retailers with a few stores
Mens Retailers
- Aquila
- Division 2
- Carhatt Store – 20 Burton Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney (02) 9361 0144
- Circa 75
- Somedays
- Style Council
- X Cross X – 107A Macleay Street, Potts Point, Sydney (02) 9358 2266
Street/Casual Womens+Mens Retailers
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Other Stores
Shoes and Accessories Retailers
- Cosmopolitan Shoes – Shop 10, Cosmopolitan Centre, Knox St, Double Bay, (02) 9362 0510
- Gary Castles
- Glamadonna
- Mimco
- Nine West
- Oroton
- Quincy
- Zomp
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Vintage
Its hard to draw a line between some vintage and 2nd hand clothing shops. Some are clearly focussed on a vintage style and hold almost no recent styles even though they may have brand new vintage era clothes. This is our list of the better vintage stores:
- Broadway Betty – 259 Broadway, Glebe, Sydney (02) 9571 9422
- Circa Vintage Clothing
- Coco Repose
- Exclusive Vintage – 383 King St, Newtown, Sydney, (02) 9517 2283
- Luxe Boutique – Shop 20G, Sydney Central Plaza, Sydney (02) 9233 6388
- Penny Arcade
- Rokit
- Sandy Bizys
- The Vintage Clothing Shop
- Vanity Fair Markets
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2nd Hand
- Blue Spinach
- Cream on Crown – 277 Crown St, Surry Hills, Sydney (02) 9331 5228
- Di Nuovo
- Grandma Takes a Trip
- Pelle Shoes
- Zoo Emporium – 180 B Campbell St, Surry Hills, Sydney (02) 9380-5990
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Fabric
- E&M Greenfield
- Karolina York
- Tessuti
- The Fabric Store – 21 Cooper Street, Surry Hills, (02) 9211 2217
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Markets
Sydney Markets
- Balmain Market
- Bondi Markets
- Glebe Markets
- Kirribilli Markets
- Paddington Markets
- Rozelle Markets
- Surry Hills Markets
Melbourne Markets
Other Cities’ Markets
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Online Stores
Online Stores – Australian
Whilst we’ve never actually bought anything from these Australian online stores so its not any kind of endorsement, but we are trying to support local industry. Just check what their returns policy is in case the item isn’t your size or you want to return it for some other reason. I would probably also ask them how long it will be before delivery so you aren’t waiting forever if something isn’t actually in stock.
- Bowerbird Vintage
- Frockshop
- Frock You
- Glue
- Le Black Book
- My Catwalk
- Pitbill Mansion
- Queen Bee
- Royal Tag
- Storm in a D Cup
Our Top 10 Online Stores – Overseas
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International Labels
The Haute Couture Members
To earn the right to call itself a couture house and to use the term haute couture in its advertising and any other way, you must be a member of the Chambre syndicale de la haute couture (the French fashion industry’s governing body) and follow these rules:
- Design made-to-order for private clients, with one or more fittings.
- Have a workshop (atelier) in Paris that employs at least fifteen people full-time.
- Each season (i.e., twice a year), present a collection to the Paris press, comprising at least thirty-five runs/exits with outfits for both daytime wear and evening wear.
There are 11 members and 4 foreign members who inlcude:
- Adeline André
- Anne Valérie Hash
- Chanel
- Christian Dior
- Christian Lacroix
- Dominique Sirop
- Franck Sorbier
- Givenchy
- Jean Paul Gaultier
- Maurizio Galante
- Stephane Rolland
Correspondent members (foreign)
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The Good Stuff
This list could go on forever, but we will try to be restrained. Some of the international labels we like include
- Ballenciaga
- Burberry
- Chloé
- Diesel
- Dolce & Gabbana
- Donna Karan
- Gucci
- Herve Leger
- Missoni
- Miu Miu
- Moschino
- Prada
- Ralph Lauren
- Stella McCartney
- Versace
- Yves saint Laurent
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Favourite Shoes
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Our Favourite 10 Accessories Brands
- Bally
- Belstaff
- Bottega Veneta
- Fendi
- Hermès
- Longchamp
- Louis Vuitton
- Mulberry
- Salvatore Ferragamo
- Tods
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Chains we like to visit when overseas
- American Apparel
- Banana Republic
- Club Monaco
- French Connection
- H&M
- Mango
- Oasis
- Shanghai Tang
- Top Shop
- Zara
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Fashion Sites & Blogs
Our Top 10 OS Blogs
- The Sartorialist
- Go Fug Yourself
- Garance Doré
- Altamira
- Face Hunter
- Jak & Jil
- Fashion Toast
- The Coolhunter
- Street
- Who What Wear