fashion
Events
Melbourne Design Week 2026: The Review
With a plethora of talks, installations, exhibitions and happenings responding to this year’s theme (Design The World You Want), the eleven-day festival was the largest to date and arguably the most accomplished since inception.
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Rag trade warehouse meets mid-century at AP Design House’s Henne store
Recalling the warehouses of yesteryear and reflecting the label’s own sense of restraint, Henne’s new retail outlet is turning heads in Melbourne.
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“A framework for continual transformation”: Studio Edwards creates retail apparatus with LOWF
Melbourne-based Studio Edwards has designed Shift+Space, a modular system under the banner of ‘adaptive retail architecture’. Ben Edwards tells us more.
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Rattan Reimagined: Enter Projects Asia for Massimo Dutti
Crafting form and creating function with rattan, Patrick Keane and Enter Projects Asia’s latest project is proving to be a draw card for shoppers at the dynamic fashion house Massimo Dutti.
Events
Behind the Brand with Kvadrat Senior VP, Njusja de Gier
As Kvadrat announces its full independence, Njusja de Gier shares some insight on her fascinating and rather unorthodox career path.
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There is NO SUCH THING as ordinary retail
Mountain Soil reimagines retail as an immersive, context-driven experience.
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Once upon a time in Rosebery
Notable for its adaptive reuse and retail presence, Rosebery Engine Yards is a landmark mixed-use project in Sydney’s inner south.
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Mining joy, transcending time at Le Sélect
ATMOSPHERE Architects use light and space to create the optimum opportunity for shopping and retail therapy. Time suspends and the imagination comes alive at Le Sélect.
Ideas
“No longer business as usual”: A periscopic view of our cities’ futures
INDESIGN Magazine’s 90th edition, The ‘City Futures’ Issue, is almost here! We speak with Tim Williams, cities practice lead at Grimshaw about the complex tensions our cities face in this post-pandemic, climate-critical era of globalised living.
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This fashion boutique in China offers an ancient museum-like experience with stone walls
ATMOSPHERE Architects has completed a retail project in Chengdu, China that both captures the imagination and creates another world for customers. This interior is not only the place to explore the very best fashion but it also showcases design that astounds and delights.
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Industry consortium sponsors First Nations runway at Melbourne’s fashion festival
Fashion festival season is almost upon us and this year a consortium of design, property and construction firms is putting its support behind First Nations designers on the Urban Oasis Runway at PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival.
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Aesthetically gritty, undeniably hip: The Strand Hotel with George Gorrow
A collaborative design project has delivered an elegantly layered hotel in Sydney. Take a tour with Public Design Group and George Gorrow of Ksubi.
Events
Lose yourself inside a labyrinth of high fashion and immersive design
Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum hosts the latest Gucci Garden iteration. It’s an immersive experience bringing together fashion, design, psychology and pop culture in a multisensory walk-through exhibition.
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Brahman Perera designs Henne’s ‘Her Space’
In an era of impersonal online experiences, ‘Her Space’ by Henne on Prahran’s Greville Street is quietly bucking the trend. Annie Reid speaks with designer Brahman Perera.
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HAVN takes its cues from modern Scandi and Japanese influences
For a brand that prides itself on originality and authenticity, this space made perfect sense for HAVN’s new home on Gertrude Street in Melbourne.
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Joost Bakker – “You don’t need a grand idea to change the world”
Joost Bakker gives the fashion industry his green thumbs up with outdoor lifestyle brand, Kathmandu.
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P Johnson Tailors brings casual Australiana to downtown New York
Designing for her husband meant that Tamsin Johnson had license to nudge ideas a little harder in the fashion designer’s recently opened new New York location.
News
Rei Kawakubo’s Offbeat Beauty at Collecting Comme
The latest exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) inspired by Rei Kawakubo and her vision for fashion will blow you away.
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Celebrating 20 years of Farage fashion
Farage, one of Australia’s most respected and celebrated fashion brands, celebrated their 20th anniversary at a stylish and intimate dinner held in the private dining room of Pendolino.
Ideas
Is AI The Future Of Offline Fashion Retail?
Alibaba’s FashionAI system was showcased at a concept store in Hong Kong, with AI making personalised mix-and-match recommendations in response to items chosen in the physical store.
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What does IKEA’s string of collaborations mean for the design industry?
As ever, the design giant’s movements reflect the industry pulse. So, what does its recent string of fashion collaborations tell us about the future?
Ideas
The (un-)dialogue between architecture and fashion
The latest initiative from the Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas is out to prove that the relationship between architecture and fashion isn’t as oblique as we think it is.
Events
COS x Snarkitecture in Korea
Fashion brand COS and New York-based architecture studio Snarkitecture presents their third collaboration: Loop, an installation open to the public at the Gana Art Center in Seoul, South Korea.
Misc
Nendo’s Objectextile for Jil Sander
Fashion meets photography in Nendo’s Objectextile collection for German fashion label Jill Sander. And the results are quite remarkable.
Articles
“Turn to the left … FASHION&”
This season’s hottest look has just hit the market. It’s not flooring, it’s fashion … daahling.
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Shoe Universe For Seoul’s Largest Department Store
Located within department store Shinsegae in Gangnam, the Shoe Salon by Jeffrey Hutchison & Associates (JHA) draws inspiration from nature and the galaxy to create an engaging shoe-shopping experience.
VIC
The Heritage of Seed in a Monochromatic Design
Seed’s new store in Melbourne Emporium, by Mim Design, is bold and charming. It captures the heritage of the Australian retailer and celebrates its iconic style in a visually intriguing way.