indie shopping

'holding hands', designed by Dell Stewart and Adam Cruickshank (image courtesy of Craft Victoria)

Red Capelet by Grazed Youth AUD $99 from the indie art & design store

Designer Dana Lenko has been injecting colourful cheekiness into Melbourne fashion for over a decade. The Lenko boutique, which moved from Melbourne Central into the lovely Cathedral Arcade a year ago, stocks local, interstate and international designers as well as the Lenko label.

The independent design scene in Canberra consistently rumbles, but perhaps not as audibly as it does in our larger, and assumed cooler, cities. The recently opened Shop Handmade however, is turning some curious eyes towards the nation's capital.

Melbourne's first Modish Creators Market kicked off last weekend and there were over 60 stalls at the market's Malvern Town Hall locale. Business partners and cousins, Kylie Loy & Kelly Jenkins, are the gals behind Modish. As well as running the market all day, they each had their own stall: Kylie's Tiges and Weince and Kelly's Cool Kids Creations.

A charming collection of signed prints, greeting cards and a new range of jewellery by Claire Cimbora from Schmooks

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