Goods - Cool Items and Interesting Stuff
GOODS has two meanings. Firstly, it is our guide to innovative objects from Perth and around the world, and secondly, GOODS can't be bad. A resource for gift buyers, home-makers, scene-stealers, trend-watchers and possibly even shoplifters, GOODS isn't about making your credit card cry, it's about setting your standards high.
Digger's Club Seed Packs
The best way to motivate yourself to grow your own fruits and vegetables is to pretend it is contraband. That way, each time you hear a police siren or a chopper flying overhead the adrenaline rush will be enough to get you tilling that soil.
It actually feels somewhat counter-cultural and a little bit mind expanding when you find out via the Digger's Club website that with only 40 square meters of soil and a couple of hours regular work you can reduce your food costs to $8 per week.
Birthday Suit
The Emperor got around in his birthday suit when two sneaky weavers promised him the finest suit of clothes from a fabric invisible to anyone who was an incompetent ninny. Ninny he was - not because he couldn't see the fabric, but because he trusted a pair of mimes. Mimes are creepy, everyone knows that.
MANIAMANIA
Jodorowsky's films are primal twists wrapped around colour wrapped around your eye socket. And yet every time I watch Holy Mountain I fall asleep. The layered optical overload sends me dreaming.
MANIAMANIA's design outputs are of this ilk - wild, multifaceted and phantasmagorical. Their profusion of influences and first comprehensive jewellery collection 'Real Life Awaits Us', has a resemblance to Jodorowsky: Mesoamerican iconography, alchemy, geology, shamanism, magic.
Ballet V Alpha60 limited-edition T-shirt
Coco Chanel, Alexander McQueen, Toni Maticevski, Christian Dior and Kit Willow. Maverick designers have long sung duets with ballet. And the latest designers to catch pointe shoe fever are Alpha60, who teamed up with The Australian Ballet to stitch something up.
The product of this union is a typical Alpha60 monochromatic image printed onto a loose-fitting, unisex tee.
R M Williams Boots
Reginald Murray Williams would surely be chuffed to see his bespoke riding boots taking to the streets. In our guest edited issue, Fenella Peacock (Ant!pod!um) introduced us to that special combination of ruggedness and femininity that can be achieved with frilly skirts and blundies. Well people took stock of Ant.
Karla Spetic
Lollies that fizz on your tongue, naïve children's watercolours, farmyards viewed from afar and the aroma of warm butter ... the dresses, hard-tailored pieces, mouthwatering swimsuits and wispy tanks of Karla Spetic's designs call to mind a hardy femininity, a history tempered by freshness.
Born in the fairytale-like city of Dubrovnik on the coast of Croatia, Spetic moved to Australia in 1993 and after graduating from the East Sydney Fashion Design Studio launched her label in 2006.
WORTHIS bags
The bag. What if this age-old transportation device was individually hand-crafted to order, using hand-dyed and hand-woven organic fabrics? Then it becomes something more than just a bag. It is a musing upon an ancient time, when people transported precious stones and scripts, and not just their iPhones.
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