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Melbourne’s GPO on film part 3

Sarah — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:08:19 +0000

Like Duran Duran’s infamous girls, we are now “on film” too! As the Melbourne International Film Festival is in full swing we will be holding our own online mini-film festival. Students from the Photography Studies College have assembled a series of short stories which we will publish in coming days.

Here is the third by Antony Baxter featuring the hustle and bustle of a typical day of shopping in the heart of the city.

Melbourne’s GPO on film part 1

Sarah — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:05:59 +0000

Here is the first by Louise M Cooper which looks lovingly at the colourful characters we often find on our iconic steps.

Strategies of Desire

Sarah — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:05:32 +0000

Have you visited the State Library of Victoria’s ’til you drop: shopping – a Melbourne history exhibition yet? The month of June sees another special new reason to take a look. With the televisual phenomenon of Mad Men renewing interest in classic advertising, the SLV will stage an entertaining discussion of the topic with a distinctly local take. Entitled Strategies of Desire: Advertising in Melbourne a panel of experts will tackle those things which have ’seduced us and compelled us to buy’. Experts include Harold Mitchell, Executive Chairman of Mitchell & Partners, But Wait There’s More…: A History of Australian Advertising, 1900–2000 author Dr Robert Crawford and Myer’s Director of Apparel Judy Coomber.

Date: Thursday 24th June 2010

Time: 6.00pm – 7.15pm

Place: Experimedia courtyard, State Library of Victoria, 328 Swanston Street, Melbourne.

This special event is free however bookings are required. Email bookings@slv.vic.gov.au or call 03 8664 7099

Image – The Myer Emporium August home sale catalogue, c 1950

WIN tickets to Melbourne: the making of a shopping mecca

Sarah — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:35:51 +0000

The State Library of Victoria is offering 5 lucky Lovers of the GPO a free double pass to Melbourne: the making of a shopping mecca. Sign up for our Lovers of the GPO e-news by clicking here before February 3rd for your chance to win. *Please note all passes have now been won. But feel free to sign up anyway…our next competition will be L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival related*

Join journalist Jill Singer as she hosts a lively discussion about the rise of Melbourne as a shopping capital. Featuring special guests Graeme Davison (author of The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne), Naomi Milgrom (Sussan Group CEO) and Stephen Bennett (founder of Country Road). With an introduction by Deputy Lord Mayor Susan Riley.

This is part of a program of events celebrating the State Library of Victoria’s free exhibition ’til you drop: shopping – a Melbourne history showing in the Keith Murdoch Gallery until October 2010.

Melbourne: the making of a shopping mecca
Thurs 11 Feb, 6–7.15pm
Experimedia, State Library of Victoria
Bookings: 03 8664 7099 or bookings@slv.vic.gov.au
$10; concession $8; Library Foundation $5
slv.vic.gov.au/goto/tilyoudrop

Couple leaving La Pastorale Frocks, 125 Collins Street, Wolfgang Sievers, 1965

’til you drop: Shopping – a Melbourne History

Sarah — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:01:16 +0000

If you are one to regularly find yourself defending your shop-o-holism as “retail therapy” here is a new way to intellectualise and justify your favourite pursuit. Shopping is a crucial part of a Melburnian’s way of life.

We are sponsors of the exhibition ”til you drop: Shopping – a Melbourne history’. The showcase opened on Friday the 11th December and runs until October 2010 at the State Library of Victoria’s Keith Murdoch Gallery (304-328 Swanston Street, Melbourne). Open from 10am to 5pm and late night until 9pm on Thursday nights, the exhibition takes a look at the way shops and the way we shop have changed since Melbourne’s early settlement to today and the integral part shopping has played in moulding our society and history. Recall iconic retail destinations that are still thriving today like the Paris end of Collins street, our historic arcades and the Georges on Collins building or indeed the evolution of Melbourne’s GPO itself.

Gorman’s got the Golden Ticket

Sarah — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:36:59 +0000

Chocolate + eco-conscious Australian designer fashion…that’s our Christmas wishlist pretty much sorted.

During December, whenever you shop at Gorman you will also find in your hot little hand a scrumptious Green & Blacks organic chocolate bar. Hidden inside the bars, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-style, are 5 winning tickets. Each lucky ticket holder wins a new $1500 wardrobe from Gorman and an organic hamper choc-full (literally) of Green & Blacks . We’re picking out our new wardrobe as we speak.

As part of this delicious pairing, Lisa Gorman has designed unique Christmas mobiles that you’ll see hung up in stores. Over 500 ornaments were fashioned origami-style from used Green & Blacks wrappers. That’s much smarter than strings of popcorn and paper lanterns.

Currently, Gorman have lots of fab Christmas ideas in-store from their own limited edition print ballet flats, to Nicole Ritchie’s House of Harlow jewellery line, to an absolutely stunning Tivi wood-grain clutch purse that we certainly have our eye on (Santa are you listening?) There are some good excuses to enter to see if you will soon have one of the golden tickets.

Visit Gorman on the ground level at Melbourne’s GPO