Two Sydney labels Friedrich Gray and Dion Lee have just popped up in their own pop up shops in Sydney. We took a camera to see what happens when two of our most composed designers get their wine on. Ben Pollitt of Friedrich Gray did not disappoint but we are yet to catch Dion Lee out. Friedrich Gray store launch
For any fan of fashion anopportunity to take a peek inside the inner workings of a label is always afascinating one; a chance to see what goes into creating the clothes on yourback replica tissot watches even if it's just seeing where it all happens. So when talented youngdesigners open up their studios to turn them into retail spaces or pop up withstores that the designers are personally involved in (like Dion Lee over atGlenmore Rd) offering customers a personalised design experience it's ourgood fortune and duty to check it all out.
Ben Pollitt's neo-gothic alter egoand alias Friedrich Gray launched a pop up store last Thursday night onDunning Avenue in Rosebery. It's located just next door to Pollitt's actualdesign studio and is a 20 square metre warehouse studio space replica breguet tourbillon watches online lit with whiteneon bulbs and a floored by polished concrete. Luxuriously industrial yetminimal Pollitt's concept studio store aims to bring shoppers "a retailexperience within the studio walls".
Drop in to shop the A/W 2010collection the studio collection as well as samples and archive pieces - buthere's a doozy custom made Friedrich Gray jackets are also up for order!Hurrah for leather jacket aficionados! Forget buying those market knock offsand instead invest in a custom made Friedrich Gray. They've opened the archivesand are allowing customers to build their own jacket from the ground up. Startsaving your pennies kids.
Dion Lee pop up launch
Last time I spoke to Dion Lee replica zenith port royal watches hetold me that he had a pop-up shop in the works - very exciting news indeed. Itactually popped and opened up last Wednesday evening with a generoussplash of white and red - wine that is. Taking over the space that was formerlyoccupied by Romance Was Born Lee and his team swooped in to transform theroom using the beautiful metal skeleton stairs that were taken out intothe desert as part of the shoot for the lookbook of collection entitled 'How tobe Invisible' as the central theme of the store. How they managed that Isimply couldn't fathom - though I did hear that a certain garden/houserenovation TV show host pitched in with his team to help out with the logisticsof it all.
The set up is simple minimalist andclever; Lee utilising the metal structures from 'How To Be Invisible' not onlyto decorate the space but to also function as racks to display and hang theclothes from. The room is pretty much bare aside from them and a wall sizeimage of the skeleton stairs out in the middle of the desert expressing theDion Lee aesthetic beautifully.
With pieces on sale from A/W 2010 pre-collection 2010 one off samples and some killer bling up for grabs thisis a great opportunity to nab some highly covetable Dion Lee. And perhaps ifyou're really lucky you might even have the man himself wrap your purchase foryou. Look for the little doorway at 2A 2-16 Glenmore Road TheIntersection in Paddington.