Theft is a risk - Goods - Cool Items and Interesting Stuff
GOODS has two meanings. Firstly, it is our guide to innovative objects from Brisbane and around the world, and secondly, GOODS can't be bad. A resource for gift buyers, home-makers, scene-stealers, trend-watchers and possibly even shoplifters, GOODS isn't about making your credit card cry, it's about setting your standards high.
R.M. Williams Boots
Reginald Murray Williams would surely be chuffed to see his bespoke riding boots taking to the streets. Fenella Peacock (Ant!pod!um) introduced us to that special combination of ruggedness and femininity that can be achieved with frilly skirts and blundies. Well people took stock of Ant!pod!um, and stockman boots are stomping through trendy laneways.
ffiXXed SS10, Unseen Utopias
ffiXXed is a collaborative art and design project that recognises the need for sustainable creative practices, delving beyond pure aesthetic to create readymade fashion products that are a pragmatic response to living arrangements. Helmed by ex-pat Australians and Internetwork contributors Kain Picken and Fiona Lau, ffiXXed is created between studios in Berlin, New York, and Hong Kong, essentially maintaining a roaming headquarters responsive to global influences.
Make A Plate
As it's likely you experimented with melamine Make A Plates like me at age five. Take your mind back, way back. It went a little something like this: Take your circular paper sheet; consider the potential opus; doodle with the provided pens until you're pleased as spiked punch; enshrine your illustrated vision by baking it; realise you've forgotten your mum in your family portrait; eat off it for 10 years.
Mathematical Quilts
The maths pleb may think maths is all about abacuses and number crunching and imaginary pie. The fact is, it's all this and so much more. Meet Elaine Krajenke Ellison. She's a retired high school teacher who also enjoys quilting.
Perhaps you don't think maths has much to do with quilts, but you don't have a BA in Mathematics from Michigan State, do you? Elaine's love of maths inspires the patterns.
Flat Pets
I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, 'that's not a pet, that's a piece of cardboard'. And yes, it is true, but before you scoff too hard, let me tell you a little something about pets.
I had a real cat once. He was pretty good. Went by the name of Charles, had a lustrous black coat and a scratch that meant business.
Tom Gunn
Tom Gunn is a shoe label that has the ability to make your feet look good. Yep, even yours. Don't be ashamed, no one's feet are that great. But with the help of sculpted leather, jewel tones and a sexy arch, the attractiveness of your feet could increase dramatically.
Designed by local Brisbane ladies Gabrielle Thompson and Shannon Gunn, Tom Gunn shoes are made in Italy from beautiful leather and snakeskin, bringing contrasting textures and strong silhouettes to your itty-bitty tootsies.
Vintage Lover Online
‘Howling Hearts' is the latest addition to the ever growing Vintage Lover Empire. Sure, online vintage stores are a dime a dozen, but then there are those that do it justice...
Rather than throwing pieces of clothing up on eBay all higgledy-piggledy, crushed and strewn on a coat hanger, the talented Jaharn Giles, brains and beauty behind Vintage Lover Online shows how it's done.
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