Sharing a space with Australian designer, Anneliese Hauptstein, This is Make Believe, and other designers, Guy Keulemans and Kyoko Hashimoto, the creative team behind We Are All Made of Stuff have recently opened a summer pop-up shop/studio/gallery/temporary event space rolled into one: ‘having lucked into finding the perfect location in the gritty and cool Reuterkiez district of Neukolln, the desire to make something interesting and fun was irresistible’.

‘One problem, because its a temporary space, that meant zero budget. This became our concept in a way, and using very limited means and only a few Euros worth of paint, sandpaper, and about 2000 metres of white string, we created an interior’. [Photos by Claudia Frickemeier]

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It’s one thing to base a clothing collection on a film heroine, but Sydney art duo, bams and ted, have taken it one step further, dedicating the entire contents of their pop up store to a fresh fictional hero every four weeks. The bams and ted store, which is currently part of the three-month Arcade shop residency at the newly re-launched Gaffa gallery in Sydney has already paid tribute to the lovely but missing schoolgirl Miranda from Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock and Grace Kelly’s femme fatale Frankie from Hitchcock’s To Catch A Thief, with super sleuthing detective Jessica Lange of television series Murder She Wrote to come in April.

Sisters Rachel and Claire Fuller are behind the imaginative and playful spaces, the artist and stylist team sourcing vintage clothing, jewellery, shoes, accessories, homewares and nightwear that reference the featured character perfectly. The end result feels part film set part adult sized dress up box.

Most of the stock comes from the long time collectors personal stash of vintage items, with the former country girls popping back to op shops outside the city close to where they grew up to source extra items.

At first glance the bams and ted set up seems reminiscent of Vivienne Westwood’s legendary Kings Road store of the 70s, with its ever-changing name and contents honouring varying British subcultures. But the girls point out their store is not merely about reinvention but is also site-specific. Their shop sits in a nineteenth century police station and their actual store was a holding cell in a previous time. A murder mystery theme ensued, with the girls picking out films and heroines they admired whilst growing up as themes for the stores three incarnations.

With the last changeover due at the beginning of April, the girls are on the hunt for a more permanent shop space in Sydney and haven’t ruled out the possibility of going into menswear in the future or an online shop. [lead photo by Rachel Fuller]

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We’re a sucker for packaging. But it’s the lack of it at Unpackaged in London that has us in deep swoon. Almost none of the Organic Market’s products, from the extensive range of bulk grains, oils and dried fruit and nuts, to the baked goods, fresh products, or cheeses, are individually wrapped. Unpackaged, instead, opts for simple displays, including custom ball jar framed bulk bins from design firm Multistorey and invite you to bring your own containers (even water bottles!) to fill up on your desired item. What a wonderful place, where you can save the environment one Unpackage at a time.

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Fitting Forward is a new Hamburg based Concept-Store which shows what simmers secretly behind the scenes. Every two months a new headstrong theme world will evolve out of a composition of fashion, product, accessories and illustration. The platform of the shop is a deep black lacquered room-in-room installation. A three dimensional walk-in sketchbook provides space for different artists and illustrators to draw themes onto the walls, ceiling and floor. The shop has a partnership with Edding, the pencil company, so they can change the styles easily to suit the themes. Aforestdesign joined Fitting Forward in its first theme: The TalenTierT – The Zoo Of Uniqueness, which was launched at the beginning of December. The first theme is about weird creatures, wondrous animals and bewildering absurdity. In the zoo of uniqueness you will find elephant-jumpers, parrot-jackets, lonely-wolf-lamps and bunny-mask-broochs, all gathered under the absurd-species-protection-program.

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