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South Yarra
Celebrated Australian design duo Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy create luminous bowls and vases, and bold resin, gold, and silver jewelry. Each piece is distinctive and unique.
562 Chapel St., Melbourne, Victoria, 3141, Australia
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Prahran
A Melbourne music institution, Greville Records carries rare releases in rock, alternative, and vinyl.
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City Center
This market has buzzed with food and bargain shoppers since 1878. With more than 600 mostly open-air stalls, this sprawling, spirited bazaar is the city's prime produce outlet—many Melburnians come here to buy strawberries, honey, fresh flowers, imported cheeses, meat, and eye-bright fresh fish. There is a section for certified organic produce, and the beautiful Dairy Produce Hall is a plethora of cheeses, fresh pasta and breads, coffee, and deli delights. On Sunday there is less food and more great deals on jeans, T-shirts, and souvenirs. Food trucks and live music on weekends lend the market a festive air.
Elizabeth St. at Victoria St., Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
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City Center
An elegant 19th-century shopping plaza with mosaic-tile floors, Block Arcade contains the venerable Hopetoun Tea Rooms--- serving high tea since 1892—jewelers including French Jewelbox, specialty Australian chocolatier Haigh's, the underground, long-standing record shop Basement Discs, Australian plant essences company Essensorie, Gewurzhaus spice merchant, and Australian By Design, hidden away on the third level (take the lift opposite the Hopetoun Tea Rooms).
282 Collins St., Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
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City Center
A fantastic array of cookbooks stock the shelves of Books for Cooks, including many from local chefs. Located at the Queen Victoria Market, the shop's only steps from plenty of fresh produce, meat, and fish to support any sudden inspirations.
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City Center
Once the busiest east–west thoroughfare in the city, Bourke Street Mall is a pedestrian-only zone—but watch out for those trams! Two of the city's biggest department stores are here; an essential part of growing up in Melbourne is being taken to Myer at Christmas to see the window displays.
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Richmond
In Richmond, east of the city, Bridge Road is a popular shopping strip for women's retail fashion that caters to all budgets.
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Fitzroy
Northeast of the city in Fitzroy, Brunswick Street has hip and grungy restaurants, coffee shops, gift stores, and clothing outlets selling the latest look, as well as retro and vintage finds, from fashion to housewares, signs to delightful bric-a-brac.
Brunswick St., Melbourne, Victoria, 3065, Australia
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Fitzroy
Brunswick Street Bookstore specializes in art, design, and architecture publications, and also stocks modern Australian literature.
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Camberwell
A popular haunt for seekers of the old and odd, this market, about 6 km (4 miles) northeast of Chapel Street, South Yarra, has more than 300 stalls selling antiques, preloved clothing, books, and knickknacks. Food vans provide sustenance.
Station St., Melbourne, Victoria, 3124, Australia
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Prahran
This street is where you can find some of the ritziest boutiques in Melbourne, as well as cafés, art galleries, bars, and restaurants.
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Prahran
Everything from estate jewelry and stylish secondhand clothes to porcelain and curios is on sale at these wooden cubicles and glass-fronted counters.
217–223 Chapel St., Melbourne, Victoria, 3181, Australia
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City Center
A precinct of stores frequented by shoppers lured by labels, Little Collins Street is still worth a visit. In between frock shops you'll find musty stores selling classic film posters, antique and estate jewelry, and Australian opals. The glittering St. Collins Lane draws less mainstream, higher-end designers, while the eastern end of Collins Street, beyond the cream-and-red Romanesque facade of St. Michael's Uniting Church, is the Paris End, a name coined by Melburnians to identify the elegance of its fashionable shops as well as its general hauteur. Here you find big-name international designer clothing, bags, and jewelry. Its newest precinct, the 80 Collins Street, hosts such curios as sustainable cobblers and luxury eye-wear designers between cafés, new hotels, and swanky restaurants.
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City Center
Craft Victoria fosters creativity with seminars and exhibits, and has a top-notch selection of Australian pottery, textile works, and jewelry for sale. The not-for-profit design group also runs free exhibitions and interviews with makers of contemporary, sustainable craft and design.
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City Center
This big, upmarket department store has a large array of luxury brands for both men and women.
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South Yarra
International and Australian designers mix and mingle here, so you can find local fashion icons like Scotch & Soda, Silk Laundry, and American Vintage here. There are eight boutiques, including its Prahran, South Yarra, Brighton, and Hawthorn stores.
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City Center
Many international brands established their first Australian outlets at this major shopping mall in the city center. The mall is filled with fashion, technology, food, and art outlets, and joined via aboveground glass walkways to the Myer and David Jones department stores and the Bourke Street mall to the south, and Melbourne Central shopping center heading north. International stores include Michael Kors and Victoria's Secret, and Australian designers are well represented, including RM Williams, Scanlan Theodore, sass & bide, and Camilla. Coffee is always close to hand and there are several upmarket food courts—on the fourth floor, Tetsujin's sushi train has great city views.
Lonsdale St., Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
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City Center
Dotted with chic boutiques fighting for space amongst top-end cafés, bars, and restaurants, many of them selling merchandise by up-and-coming Australian designers, Flinders Lane will keep fashionistas happy. Between Swanston and Elizabeth Streets, look for Cathedral Arcade, home to vintage and designer stores, in the bottom of the Nicholas Building. The lift leads to an eclectic collection of tiny shops full of unique fashion and accessories. Flinders Lane will try to divert you with walls of colorful street art.
Flinders La., Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
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Fitzroy
The gallery shows and sells the work of established and new Aboriginal artists from the communities of Balgo Hills, Papunya, Maningrida, Turkey Creek (Warmun), the Tiwi Islands, and others in the Central Desert, Top End, and Kimberley regions. Visits are by appointment only.
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City Center
Bespoke shoemaker Hassett sells handmade leather belts, satchels, and wallets, many made from kangaroo leather. Much of Theo Hassett's leather is sourced from Greenhalgh Tannery in Ballarat, which specializes in tanning with wattle tree bark. On the premises you'll also find a café and a barbershop.
2 Somerset Pl., Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
