The eagle has landed, and it’s wearing shiny pants. Last Friday, American Apparel opened its Sydney doors, unleashing layer upon layer of evocative cotton, lycra and hoodie.
American Apparel has built a reputation as the ultimate ‘no brand’ brand. Quashing the traditional American logofied tee while subversively celebrating the traditional American trailer park.
**The new store brings AA’s previously cyber-centric range of tees, seal legs, socks and ‘ambiguously ethnic looking’ flashers offline. Draped over two levels in Darlinghurst, Gaff to gutter never looked this good.
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Amy Kaehne AW 2012, ‘Just Kids’ ...NZ-born, Sydney-based Amy Kaehne‘s AW collection is inspired by the dreaming bohemes, the scheming starlets and Patti-esque poets of New...
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Andéol, Vedas MayaThe scarves of Andéol bear names bordering on triptical brainforest – and being a magic-pen toting child of Byron, I love that. Aditi Atomic....
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Gorman Autumn/Winter 2012If you have been on the book or blogs today, no doubt you’ve noticed women bejazzing their patterned leggings at the sight of Gorman’s...
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Bread and Circus Wholefoods Canteen...The people behind Bread and Circus like adjectives. On a menu built around utter respect for the vegetable, Bullet chilli is ‘brave’,...
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Erin LightfootA love of tangible objects drove Erin from her background in web and graphic design into the arms of jewellery, textiles, and print – and...
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Stolen Girlfriends Club, ‘Here...It’s no surprise that Stolen Girlfriends Club have nailed it yet again with their AW12 ‘Here Lies The Bones’ collection. Derek...