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Romance Was Born open a store

Daniel Boud — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:29:00 +0000

Romance Was Born's Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales with Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson

Here’s some snaps from the opening night party for fashion label Romance Was Born‘s first ever retail shop.

It’s a ‘concept store’ in Paddington called Pearl’s Dream and is open for a couple of months until January 31st.

It features many of the items they launched at their stunning show at Australian Fashion Week this year.

The store was officially opened by Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson. A fitting pair to christen the space as it harkens back to the Flamingo Park ‘frock salon’ they opened in Sydney in the 1970s. Romance Was Born’s work is in the same vein too; bold and colourful with an unabashed love for Australiana.

The shop is next door to Romance Was Born’s SOYA mentors Zimmerman in Paddington – at 2A Glenmore Rd.

Here’s what the press release states:

Romance Was Born: “Pearl’s Dream” Concept Store
“The intersection” 2A Glenmore Road, Paddington
26th November 2009 – 31st January 2010

“Pearls Dream” continues on from the “Doilies and Pearls, Oysters and Shells” SS0910 collection. It is a concept store which celebrates the collection and its collaborators.

“We feel so lucky to work with the people we do and Pearl’s Dream encaptulates our full Romance aesthetic. Its about creating our world for the outside world to experience”. Romance Was Born

“Doilies and Pearls, Oysters and Shells” features collaborative works by two Australian artists, Patrick Doherty and Indigenious shell worker Esme Timbery, and also jewellery by Romance Was Born’s accessories designer Paul Bonomelli.

Pearl’s Dream is Romance Was Born’s tribute to the stylish elegance of Grandmas and the olden days whilst exploring their fascination with the sea; that crystalline underwater world where mermaids are the keepers of its mysterious watery secrets. Romance Was Born open up nanna’s glory box worn by the tides of time to reveal long forgotten treasures – glorious old jewels, budgies in a cage, 4711, a fine bone china tea set with a mother-of-pearl glaze, delicately aged lace doilies and other assorted goodies from a bygone era.

Artisan Guild and Curiosity Shop

Daniel Boud — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:54:07 +0000

Following the trend for pop up shops, the Artisan Guild and Curiosity Shop has just opened on Oxford St Darlinghurst.

Running till the end of July it’s curated by the local mens shoe label Marsu Homme and selling the wares of many of Sydney’s finest artisans including St Augustine Academy, Matt Weston, Elke Kramer, Izrock Pressings, Luke Storrier, All of Our Lives and many more.

I know diddly about fashion, but i was at the shop snapping pictures of all those that do on the opening night last Thursday.

Sydney Apple Store opens to the public

Daniel Boud — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:18:07 +0000

There were hundreds if not thousands of people snaked in a queue around the city to enter the Sydney Apple Store this evening.

It got very squishy indeed along George Street as the doors opened, not so much from the people in the queue who were kept orderly, but by the rubberneckers looking on in bemusement at the Mac fanatics.

Apple Store opens in Sydney

Daniel Boud — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:04:04 +0000

This morning Apple opened the doors to the media at their first Apple Store in Sydney. The official opening is tomorrow evening at 5pm.

I’m not usually one to be excited by a shop opening, but being an unabashed mac aficionado and given the striking shop design it’s hard not to get caught up in it.

The store is fronted by 15 metre high panes of glass, the largest in the world we were told.

The store covers 3 levels and the staircase at the back of the store is translucent so you can see people wander above you.

We didn’t get Steve Jobs, but we did get Ron Johnson to welcome us and give us an overview of the store.

There were stacks of media through the doors to check it out.

The store is on the ground floor of a new city skyscraper on the corner of George and King streets. Just opposite another Sydney shopping institution, Darrell Lea chocolates.

For the first time in Australia we now have our own Genius Bar. Hopefully this will improve the service of macs round here, which in my experience is terrible.

These Mac store openings tend to attract a devoted following and over 24 hours before the doors open a queue was already forming. This was Mike Kaufmann from ifo AppleStore who’d traveled from the US just to be at the opening.

Check out Time Out Sydney for more photos and Andrew P Street’s take on the store.

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