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SYDNEY
Top Stuff
Topman racked its pod collection of digital printed shirts, trousers and cotton-weight tailoring by British designers Agi Mdumulla, and Sam Cotton today. Prices are typified by a “nest print” skinny suit at $270, nest print trousers for $115 and feather print mackintosh at $290, pictured in our gallery below. Voxfrock’s advice now is: move quickly. If the quake-like response to Agi & Sam in London, at Fashion Week and its pod collections for Liberty and Topman are any test, local fans of the meteoric brandlet best get a wiggle on to secure their piece.
Messrs. Mdumulla, 27, and Cotton, 26, first fused creative spirits at Alexander McQueen a few years ago. Mr. Mdumulla was working as a designer, Mr. Cotton as a texile artist. Their official collaboration as Agi & Sam was launched in 2010, with the mentorship of Sir Paul Smith.
British designers Agi Mdumulla, and Sam Cotton of Agi&Sam Photo: Guardian, UK
The brand plugs intuitively into the fast-swelling market for young, edgy, borderline-eccentric menswear. Agi & Sam also manages to intensify the magic with references to football and birds (as in, the feathered variety). Associate editor of GQ magazine, Robert Johnston, described their appeal to London’s Guardian as: “They make clothes people want to wear…”, and the paper’s reporter Simon Chilvers nutshelled it as: “quirky inspirations mashed up to create lively clothes for the anti-minimalist…”
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Topshop Topman’s Sydney store at 45 Market Street (Corner George Street) (02) 8072 9300 has the full pod now. There are no plans to stock the line in Melbourne.
MELBOURNE
Luvvamarket
Round She Goes: this Sunday, June 16, 10 am. to 3 pm., Kingston City Hall, 985 Nepean Hwy., Moorabbin. Organisor Emma Morris claims this is the largest pre-loved fashion market for women in Melbourne with more than 100 stallholders who spruik brands as diverse as Prada and ASOS.
(Pictured, some of the vintage jewellery destined for Sunday’s market.) Freebies for early shoppers, warm undercover venue, and a coffee cart with excellent barista all reportedly set the market apart from its ever-increasing competitors springing up like mushrooms around Melbourne. Entry is $2.
www.roundshegoes.com.au
The Australian Edit – A Fashion Space: Sunday, June 23, 1 pm. to 5 pm., Yering Station winery, 30 Melba Highway, Yarra Glen, Yarra Valley, is far from your average, garden variety market. An initiative of fashion entrepreneur Jane Hayes, The Australian Edit is shopfront and showcase for emerging local designers and brands. Miss Hayes is a passionate advocate for the Aussie article and car-loads of visitors to her first market, staged in the gorgeous Yarra Valley late last year, reflected that by shopping with a kind of joyous patriotism.
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At the time, RMIT university’s fashion guru Karen Webster, also described the market as “(a) tribute to the unique and significant qualities of our fashion industry. Fusing fashion, fine food and delicious wines in the magical environment of Yering Station, the independent designers were showcased with integrity and style.”
The Edit is held undercover in Yering’s historic old barn and shoppers’ entry fee of $10 includes a glass of Yarrabank Cuvee, sweetie treats, live music and a whole lotta love that swirls around like-minded fans of Aussie-grown fashion. (Pictured from left, designs by Cylk, Pilkington Jewels and Divya Rao, three of the fashion and accessories brands due at The Australian Edit, June 23 edition.)
www.facebook.com/pages/The-Australian-Edit-A-Fashion-Space/472525312781199
Compiled by Terry Carruthers, intern@voxfrock.com.au
