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Alex Perry at Melbourne Central Diva

Yesterday, the Melbourne Central Diva store welcomed one of Australia’s leading fashion designers and style icons, Alex Perry. 

 Perry was in-store to launch his latest fashion endeavor, a collection of accessories for Diva. The show stopping collection features enchanting necklaces, flirty feathers, chandelier earrings and glamorous stacks of bangles and rings.

 This must have range of accessories has arrived just in time for the Spring Racing Carnival. Head in to the Melbourne Central Diva store to have a look!

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Saxony Exhibition at Melbourne Central by Benja Harney

Each season Saxony invites an Australian artists to produce works that will be exhibited outside their Melbourne Central store.

 This seasons exhibit is the works of exciting paper sculptor, Benja Harney, a Sydney based graphic designer, who is rapidly creating a niche in his craft. Benja was inspired by the Saxony Spring Summer ‘10 theme from philosopher Carl Jung,  “In spite of its function as a reservoir for human darkness, or perhaps because of this, the shadow is the seat of creativity.”

 The 33 year-old has created a paper pop-up book for Harper’s BAZAAR as well as pairs of paper wings for the Hermes storefront (which were all made from individually cut feathers! ).

 The work outside Saxony was created on site at Melbourne Central.

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ZOMP

The crew at Zomp certainly know what’s going on in the world of shoes. Australia may be classified as an island, however Zomp injects an element of international chic to our stylish shores. Their exclusive selections make it easy for Australian fashion devotees to feel far from isolated. Directly importing a select range of international brands across their Melbourne, Sydney and Perth stores, Zomp’s unique selection of designer brands stem originate mainly from England, Brazil and Italy.  No longer do we need a passport to access reasonably priced quality shoes, we just need an eye for style and individual flair to embrace the newest trends from the likes of Italian creative forces Roberto Del Carlo, Ixos and Enrico Antonori.   With the upcoming opening of Zomp’s first Brisbane store in the trendy James St precinct, we are about to see a lot more beautifully clad feet across our states. We will keep you updated with any new releases and news to keep your soles fresh and looking good this spring. Stay tuned!

Josh Goot Now at Melbourne Central

For this week only Melbourne Central will host the Josh Goot pop up store on level 2.  

With pieces from the A/W 09 collection, the unique sale is set to verge more on an exhibition than rummage sale with the entire production themed and styled to precision!  

Previous season Josh Goot and Goot stock available at up to 70% off – this is a sale not to be missed!  

Open today until the 5th of September

Melbourne Central, Shop 210, Level 2, 211 LaTrobe Street, Melbourne

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Celeb Spotting!

Dannii and Kris have been seen out and about in Melbourne with their gifts from Mimco and OiOi!

Dannii pictured wearing the gorgeous Mimco Catfurther sunglasses and Kris with the OiOi Daddy Rider Baby Bag slung accross his shoulder in both pictures-  we are glad to see them getting great use out of these!

AMPR, Mimco and OiOi would like to wish the new family all the best.

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RAOUL Lands in Melbourne

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Australia has officially welcomed the first store for international fashion brand RAOUL, located at Crown Melbourne. The store was officially launched alongside RAOUL’s stunning Spring-Summer 2010 Collection last Thursday 19th August with a lavish cocktail reception for invited guests.

RAOUL marked the celebration with welcome addresses from Douglas Benjamin, F J Benjamin CEO & RAOUL Creative Director and Ann Peacock, Crown General Manager of Public Relations.

The launch saw the Crown store transformed into a beautiful cocktail area decorated with fresh flowers and a custom designed RAOUL bar where mixologists created bespoke RAOUL cocktails and mocktails for guests to enjoy along with Mumm champagne and delicious canapés.

The guestlist featured some of Melbourne’s most prominent social identities including international model Alice Burdeu, swimming star Michael Klim, music entrepreneur Grant Smillie, fashion designer Zoe Weir, former Victorian Premier Steve Bracks’ son Nick, fashion identity Dhav Naidu and many more.

It was also an opportunity for Melbourne to meet the creative forces behind RAOUL, Douglas and Odile Benjamin and key members of the F J Benjamin team who flew from Singapore especially for the night.

Douglas Benjamin said, “This was a fantastic evening and the warm, enthusiastic response to RAOUL’s brand of accessible luxury has shown that we are well-placed to serve an interesting niche in the Australian market.”

Celebrity DJ Lindy Klim who wore a beautiful lilac RAOUL blouse kept guests entertained all evening with her distinctive sounds.

During the night, guests viewed RAOUL’s Spring-Summer 2010 collection on some of Melbourne’s top models who mingled with the crowd. Many guests noted that the collection should be a hit with race-goers as they start to choose their outfits for the upcoming Spring Racing Carnival.

Check out the collection on the runway below and visit our gallery to see images from the night.

5 minutes with… Franky

  • How long have you been at AMPR? Just over a year… how time flies!
  • Best bit of your job? I get to work in all three departments at AMPR which has been a fantastic learning experience. No two days are ever the same and I get to work with everything from kids clothes to fashion accessories as well as on exciting events such as LMFF.
  • My last meal would be… Gnocci made by my Nonna followed by the chocolate and salted caramel ice-cream sandwich from Cutler & Co
  • I can’t live without… coffee, my iphone and Burt’s Bees moisturiser
  • One thing I want to do before I die is… Run a full marathon. Liv (also from AMPR) and I are currently training for the Half Melbourne Marathon and I’m not even sure we’ll make it through this!
  • Biggest fashion faux pas… I was going to say double denim or socks and sandals…. but both of these are now fashionable! I’m definitely not a fan of hair scrunchies.
  • Favourite Melbourne restaurant … Cutler & Co- I’m dying to go back!  
  • Who is your idol? DELTA GOODREM – I loved her at the Forever New Spring Launch party!!!
  • Who’s the funniest at AMPR? I think that changes every day! There is always someone here to either laugh with or laugh at!
  • Favourite holiday destination? Who doesn’t love New York in summer?! I had an amazing holiday there recently with my Mum and friends.Franky

Run Scotty Run now on facebook!

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Run Scotty Run- Australian designed clothes forbig kids, little kids and in-between sized kids have just launched a facebook page.

We’ve just posted the new spring/summer campaign images all modelled by the adorable winners of Run Scotty Run’s Find the Face competition. 

Check it out and ‘like’ it to be continually updated on all things Run Scotty Run…

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Aus Idol Stan Walker Hits Highpoint – Sunday 22 August

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