Brands

Thirty-one houses. Some of them older than most countries, some of them two women in a borrowed room in Adelaide, and all of them chosen one piece at a time.

Perfumery

Santa Maria Novella

Florence, 1221. Dominican friars began distilling in the garden of a church and the house has never stopped. It is the oldest thing we sell and very likely the oldest thing sold anywhere on the Peninsula.

P Frapin & Cie

The Charente, 1270. The same family has held the same land for twenty generations, first for cognac and later for scent. Fragrances built on eau de vie rather than around it.

Trudon

Paris, 1643. Wax for the court at Versailles and for Napoleon's household, and the same green glass still poured by hand today. The widest range we carry.

Lubin

Paris, 1798. Perfumer to Josephine, and later to half the courts of Europe.

Ormaie Paris

A mother and son, working entirely in natural materials, with caps carved from wood rather than moulded.

Matière Première

Aurelien Guichard, who grew up in Grasse among the fields his family farmed, building each fragrance around one raw material grown for the purpose.

Eight & Bob

The story goes that a young John F Kennedy was given a bottle in France in 1937 and wrote asking for more. Eight, and one more for Bob.

Womenswear

ba&sh

Paris, 2003. Barbara Boccara and Sharon Krief met at school. Barbara went into press, Sharon studied law, and neither of them went to fashion school. They put the first letters of their names on the label and set out to make the wardrobe they wanted for themselves. Barbara dressed bohemian. Sharon dressed rock and roll. Before every season the design team still goes to their house in Ibiza, because the collection has to be imagined somewhere other than Paris.

Acler

Adelaide, 2014. The name came out of a Scrabble set. Kathryn Forth and Julia Ritorto were after a word that carried clarity, moved the letters until clear became Acler, and everything since has been built on that one idea. My own favourite, and I do not say that lightly.

Significant Other

The second label from the same two women, made in 2019 for everything Acler was never built to do. Julia calls the difference beach to bar.

Zoe Kratzmann

She learned to sew on her mother's machine. Her mother was a seamstress. She designs from the Sunshine Coast and has said that sitting outside the fashion centres is what lets them run their own race. The design team is two people.

Mes Demoiselles Paris

Found travelling, and not stocked anywhere else in Australia. Anouck Duranteau-Loeper's prints are drawn by hand before anything is cut.

POL

The label that carries the ordinary good days between the occasions.

Second Female

Copenhagen. Danish cutting, and the pieces that hold a line without asking anything of you.

MOS The Label

Embroidery and slip dressing, cut for a summer that starts at the water.

Sabina Musayev

Tel Aviv. Draping, transparency and a palette that reads as neutral until you look properly.

Magali Pascal

French hands working out of Bali, on silk and lace and the kind of dress you keep.

Auguste

Australian, and made for the months when the day starts outside and stays there.

World of Nomads

Made for the long way round.

Second Skin

The layer that goes on first and is never the point, until it is.

Menswear

Christian Kimber

One house, and the only menswear label on this site. Drawn in Melbourne and cut in Italy and Portugal. Christian comes down to Red Hill himself, cloth over his arm, to sit with you while the jacket is decided.

Jewellery, bags and eyewear

By Charlotte

Charlotte Blakeney was a makeup artist for twenty years. The label began above Ubud in 2012 with five thousand dollars and no experience of the trade. The lotus starts at the bottom of a pond and pushes up through the water before it opens. That necklace took two years to draw.

Arms of Eve

Made to be worn together rather than chosen between.

Dylan Kain

Leather and gold hardware, Melbourne, and the bag that goes from the car to the table without changing.

Lana Wilkinson

Melbourne. Shoes designed by someone who has spent a career dressing feet that have to last the evening.

Billini

Sydney, 2009. Susannah Khouzame was partway through a law and accounting degree, working in fashion retail, building outfits around designer shoes she could not afford. So she made her own, with no experience in footwear and none in business, and taught herself as she went. The first label was called Billie, after her niece.

Sunday Somewhere

Dave Allison and Carlos Aviles shared a flat in Sydney. Both were obsessed with eyewear. Both worked for rival houses, which made frames the one subject that was off limits in their own kitchen. In 2010 they stopped competing and made this instead.

Vieux

Acetate frames for a country where you actually squint.

Oliver Goldsmith

London, 1926. The house that made the frames for Audrey Hepburn, Michael Caine and Peter Sellers, still working from the same archive.

Home

Home Fragrance

Candles, room sprays, diffusers and the things that make a house smell like somebody lives in it.

Lifestyle

Glassware, linen, ceramics and the objects that end up on the table.

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