australia :: melbourne :: shopping

[Pandemonium]

please do. i need to learn that shit.

[jcotteri]

badda bing.. i need viridi pants..

who can comment...do you think that these:

would stretch much.. as in this kind of fabric.. i want to get a size 2 now and it would be a perfect fit if the waist stretched a cm or maybe a little less than a cm..

[DJI]

it looks like cotton or a cotton/linen blend so it should stretch a little bit j. you finally found a pair of those VA pants?

[Pandemonium]

those are fuckin' sweet. i think they do stretch a tad.

[DJI]

any new shit at fat yet? still waiting on new season chronicles and claude stuff but been to busy/lazy to check it out lately.

[DJI]

yeah tell me about it man. hoping that the new season claude maus collection is good, they better start making XS again. wish they would update their site, latest lookbook is from FW07...

[home]

yeah fuck fat has some monotonous shit 9/10s of the year

i'm gonna go against the trend and so those viridi pants look like shit. sorry jcot. refined industrie cargo steez.

[DJI]

they aren't really cargo pants, I think they look great in either charcoal or black

[home]

okay, looks much better in black / charcoal

but im still not sold on oddly placed pockets.. personally speaking

[Pandemonium]

they should get more material boy in fat or stuff like that.

love that shit.

[DJI]

couldn't agree more tyro. the mid-range stores here have a dismal selection of designers and ridiculous mark ups (eg. cactus jam). would love to see a store that stocks some of the japanese designers like dilettante and zekka in perth, I'm sure there would be a market for it here.

I think its about time assin re-evaluate their pricing policies. it's bad enough that they take forever to get new stock in, how do they justify a mark up of 100 to 200%? it's seriously cheaper to fly overseas if you are making a serious buy. L.E.F.T. and EM are priced reasonaly for what they stock, but that isn't saying much when you're looking at 4k+ for a leather jacket.

fat and alice are rather uninteresting atm, although this is due to no fault of their own. the aussie designers seem to be pretty slack and take forever to release their new collections. seriously, brands in the northern hemisphere have had the new season collections available for a good 1-2 months now and we are still looking at racks of dusty shit from last season...

[Pandemonium]

because we're obviously entrenched in what we assume is fashionable (general pants, save ksubi's zany shit and april 77).

there's no need for it for the large proportion of melbfags.

[DJI]

Also australia has no basic clothing stores, (like Uniqlo, H&M, Zara, topshop, etc...)

this is true, I don't understand why there aren't any decent stores for basics here in Australia. closest things we have are AA (overpriced hipster shit) and giordano (sweat shop quality peasant steeze)...

[Pandemonium]

we have bassike which is pretty nice, not overpriced but expensive.

[DJI]

CR wouldn't be so bad if they could slim down the fit but I know exactly what you mean. the shit they sell at zara, h&m, topshop, gap, etc. fits well and doesn't look half bad for basics/designer rips. uniqlo in particular is fantastic value for money, although none of the shit fits me well bar the 500 yen tees and the jeans (just copped grey T-000s and the fit is spot on).

[DJI]

we have bassike which is pretty nice, not overpriced but expensive.

tbh I've always been fairly underwhelmed by the quality of bassike's tees, they don't really justify the price.

[DJI]

haha, that's exactly what we need to do. capitalise on the untapped market.

[Pandemonium]

i don't know, captilising on an untapped market can be dangerous too.

we have no idea about the size of the demographic that would support such an idea.

... so sad though.

[Sebastien]

i think this was the vague idea behind plane on chapel st, to capitalise on this untapped market that is clearly lacking in melbourne, by providing basic good fitting clothing but whenever i have been in it was pretty much wall to wall aa shit but i think they are bringing in a few other labels

[home]

if someone here has the patience (and $$$) to set something up, i'd be keen to join..

seriously.

fuck architecture.

[DJI]

haha, I would seriously love to be involved with a store like that too but as tyro said you need the financial backing and the balls to do it. I'm fucking sick of uni and engineering/science in general though...

[home]

hmmmm we need investors.

however, my intuition is telling me nobody is going to want to invest...

out of interest, if anyone knows, how much coin would it roughly cost to set up a place stocking the aforementioned level of labels? im talking stock, rent, fitout, registration, etc. - everything

?

[Pandemonium]

over 129837120954172034921830921840921785210983 dollars and 20 cents. i think.

[DJI]

seems like the melbourne sufu guys are a disenchanted bunch, we need to find investors for this joint venture haha

[jcotteri]

hai if you stock some quality mid priced labels like ndg, ndc, f+b, and also some moderately priced japanese brands like viridi anne, DBSS, WJK, Isamu Katuyama, julius, Mihara Yasuhiro, Lounge lizard, Factotum etc you could really be successful in having me as a customer and prolly many others..

[jcotteri]

especially DBSS and Viridi Anne that shit needs to be stocked over here and the best place is Melbourne..xxxx

[home]

Cost of rent + fitout - wouldnt be so bad,

Commitment to buys - would be a fair amount...

figured as much..

if anyone here is actually serious (i'm not even sure i am), i'm heading to tokyo next month for just over a week and again in december/january for a longer period and would more than happily look into possible hookups. start that networking steez.

because, the more i think about it, the more this rings true:

anyone ever think we need more clothing stores in Melbourne? We have stores that stock high/avant/top end shit like assin/eastern market/l.e.f.t., plenty of designer shops like all that gucci and shit, fat and alice have aussie shit on lock, but where are the stores that stock mid level shit like A.P.C / geller / NDG / etc etc etc....

Basically why doesnt melbourne have an incu or our spot?

in fact, i've been thinking it for a while myself. from what i've heard and seen, despite shifts in the last 5-10 years, mens only = (probable) FAIL. we would need some steezy chicks to steer us into some nice womenswear as well.

I would love for nothing more than to knock those fat (no pun) chicks off their pedestals..

[DJI]

honestly, if I were given the opportunity to be involved in something like this I would be extremely interested but all I have to offer at the moment is enthusiasm...

[jcotteri]

yep me too. I am too far away

also my cash buy +++

[DJI]

you could always find yourself a wealthy sugar mama