The Social Studio is an Australian-based refugee fashion collective that designs and creates garments from recycled or excess manufacturer materials. Working out of Collingwood, Victoria, the group formed in December last year to ease the isolation, unemployment and education difficulties of newly arrived refugees. A central meeting place for the refugee community to establish friendships, [...]

Australian street-wear label General Pants have given their store staff the opportunity to scout talent for their new record label Major Label.   Designed for contract-free single-releases, the label gives all profits and track rights over to the artists.  Launching on the first of March this year, those wishing to record with the label must [...]

Recently, PSFK wrote about Victorian boutique Lulamae‘s pop-up store destined for the Melbourne Central shopping centre. Designed by Breathe Architects, the sustainable pop-up store is finally open for business. Constructed from post consumer waste recycled cardboard, the store came flat-packed and took a day to assemble. [via The Design Files] READ POST ON PSFK HERE.

Breathe Architecture has been working with Lulamae, a Melbourne based fashion boutique, to design a sustainable Pop-Up shop in the lower ground level of Melbourne Central over summer. The entire fit out is made from 100% post consumer waste recycled cardboard. The shop will literally Pop-Up on December 1. With all of the pre-cut panels [...]

PSFK recently wrote about Monocle’s Top 25 Most Liveable Cities 2009. Even though Melbourne made it into the top 10, Michael from linefeed has some innovative store concepts to boost the city’s retail sector. Believing that the city lacks quirky, niche stores Michael states; When I think of shops in Melbourne I think of florescent [...]