Category: Australian Fashion
Sylvia Riley Design
‘We start with white fabric…’Sylvia Riley Designs started with a desire to make beautiful and elegant clothing using hand dyed fabric, sustainably.Sylvia Riley is a master dyer and painter, specialising in resist dyeing techniques (Shibori, batik, silk painting), mordant printing and natural dyeing. A few years ago, faced with a growing pile of hand dyed…
Lucinda Babi
Lucinda Babi is a label creating modern ethical clothing on a made-to-order basis, based in Melbourne/Naarm, Australia. I founded the label in 2018 after completing a Fashion Honours degree, and have been hand-crafting pieces from my Collingwood studio since then.Originally from the UK, but now settled in Australia, I fuse inspiration from historic British references…
Tara Whalley
Tara Whalley established her self-titled fashion brand in 2015, after returning to Australia after a year of working with war-affected Mayan weavers. It was this time in Guatemala that formed Tara’s painting practice- translating experience into artwork for fabric print and a clear direction for the basis of her fashion signature style. Her collections are…
Isobel Badin
Isobel Badin is a celebration of the arts, nature and freedom. It’s a look into our inner artist and an expression of our most authentic selves.All pieces are designed and sustainably made in Australia from organic fabrications. Their first collection Flower Power celebrates the wild and the free. It’s a patch of daisies, roses in…
Budgy Smuggler
Budgy Smuggler is family owned and run by a few 20 something year olds (and a few guys who are now in their 30’s) who aspire to never have a traditional desk job.All budgy smugglers are 100% Australian made in our factory in Sydney with the best quality fabrics. We understand when it comes to…
Harriet Jane
I grew up on a beautiful coastal Tasmanian farm and moved to Byron Bay 25 years ago. A decade was spent curating a store in Byron, using some local production, supporting other local designers and manufacturing in Bali. After taking a break I had new inspiration, to combine my love of nature, photography and fashion.The…
Zipei
Founded in 2019, ZIPEI’s narrative started from “Home”, where the majority of the time was spent in her home studio due to the Covid lockdown. The design poetically interprets fragments of everyday life: a corner of a rustic concrete wall, a breeze through translucent blinds, the touch of soft bed sheets… These unnoticed moments of…
Wool2Yarn
At Wool2Yarn, we are proudly an Australian business specialising in natural fibres, especially Alpaca. We started this adventure as Alpaca farmers in the late 90’s and grew our herd to over 150 strong.We offer a truly local, Australian made product, grown and made on the Mornington Peninsula.We have taken our Farm to Yarn movement to…
Wendy Voon Knits
Wendy Voon knitwear combines contemporary design with elegant forms, sensuous textures and the finest yarns. Each piece is soft, luxurious and highly wearable.Wendy Voon is the owner and designer of WENDY VOON, a Melbourne-based, Australian contemporary knitwear label, established in 2005.Wendy works on domestic knitting machines and with a local Melbourne knitting mill.‘Sculptural’ and ‘architectural’…
Waverley Mills
For 150 years, we have been crafting Australia’s finest textiles at our historic weaving mill situated on the idyllic banks of Distillery Creek in Launceston. We are the last mill of our kind in Australia and are proud to spin, weave and finish each blanket, throw and scarf here onsite in Tasmania.In 1874, Scotsman Peter…
Tilda Cole
Tilda Cole is a Naarm / Melbourne based artist and jewellery designer. Upon creating her namesake brand Tilda in 2016 she has since completed her BA in Fine Art exploring sculptural practices instilled in her by her father who worked as a bronze sculptor.In addition to her namesake label Tilda has worked as an antique…
The Woollen Earth
I am Sally and I am the crazy wool lady!I have always been a creative person, sewing, painting, designing, usually on a large scale. I made couture wedding dresses by hand for 15 years. And then a few years ago I found wool. Wool in its rawest, chunkiest form and instantly fell in love.However sourcing…
The Boy & I
THE BOY&I is an Australian made and designed high-quality, contemporary fashion label. Mindfully made in small collections, encompassing sustainability throughout the entire process. Using only the highest quality natural fabrics ethically sourced from around the world. Feminine, Seasonless pieces, simplistically designed to take you from season to season. Now including Our Travels Collection. THE BOY&I…
Simetrie
We balance the human desire for style with our impact on the earth.We do this from our Brunswick based atelier, through our educational leather craft workshops & the beautiful products we handcraft for sale. We aim to empower people through the power of connection, craft and creativity.At simétrie, we create natural leather goods that are…
Shabana Jacobson
Contemporary Jeweller Shabana Jacobson has been making beautiful one-off pieces of jewellery for the last 20 years. She has 3 stores across Melbourne that showcase all her jewellery work as well as her other brands and design work such as her ceramics, skincare label, baby/home and lifestyle ranges.All production pieces are lovingly handmade in Melbourne…
Sanct
Sanct was always going to be a values led brand. I wrote out the values it would encompass before I even had a name or knew what kind of clothing I would produce.For years I struggled with the idea of starting a clothing brand, the industry didn’t need ‘more things’. But after my time in…
Saddler & Co
SADDLER & CO is an Australian brand synonymous with fine leather craftsmanship. Each design embodies an aesthetic of simplicity and practicality, while integrity is an essential part of each product formation. Saddler & Co leather goods are designed and made in Australia, released in small batch collections.Founded in 2010 by saddler and creative duo, Bede…
Retrobub
Retrobub is made in Melbourne by designer Bronwyn Howell . With the guiding ideas of fun and practicality each garment in the range is designed to bring a smile to your face. Cute little animal faces, avocados and gumnuts are some of the designs that start as drawings and then are translated into a fabric…
Quirky Su
We are a Mum and Daughter team who got sucked deep into the sewing world a few years ago. Both of us wanted to create something that was beautiful and unique. The difference was we wanted to use materials that were already available, already loved , and woollen blankets and up cycled vintage and dead…
Pip Keane Design
Pip Keane Design is a Sydney based jewellery studio run by Pip Keane.I studied at the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, where I graduated with a Bachelors degree in Visual Arts majoring in silversmithing. I apply these silversmithing techniques to making jewellery today.I’ve had a jewellery studio, manufacturing and designing jewellery and hollow-ware…
Pink Oasis
Discover the magic of PinkOasis, where vibrant colours and playful designs come together to create unique wearable arts.Behind this brand is the husband-and-wife duo, Felicity and Allen. With a passion for nature, people, and colours, they use traditional and digital illustration techniques to craft imaginative textile prints. Indulge in the beauty of handcrafted bags, small…
Otto & Spike
At Otto and Spike we admire well made, well-designed knitwear, that you’ll love to wear on your head, around your neck and out on the town. Using beautiful Australian Extra Fine Merino & pure Lambs wool.Otto and Spike is as much about a place as a product. We have been knitting in Brunswick (an inner…
Olivia Raymond Designs
Hi, I’m Olivia, designer and director of Olivia Raymond Designs.My creative journey began when I discovered my passion for working with glass after learning glass blowing twelve years ago. I love the way that colour and beauty is formed, almost instantaneously, through heat…this is what really appealed to me about glass as a material to…
Manuela Igreja
Manuela Igreja is a Melbourne based jeweller. After moving to Australia from Portugal, she began to explore the diverse landscapes and fell in love with the local flora and fauna. With a background in mathematics and origami, it seemed a natural progression to explore the geometry and textures that surround us in her organic jewellery…