Arabella Ramsay Clearance Store
To make way for Arabella Ramsay’s new spring/summer collection in her Armadale and GPO stores, Arabella is opening a winter clearance store.
The store opens today on Spencer Street in the Docklands where there will be 40-70% off the entire Nomadic winter collection and exclusive one off sample stock. Winter coats, fur vests, boots, scarfs and other wintery wares will be available at the store that will be open for at least a month.
And when the weather warms up a little, check out the new spring/summer 2010/11 collection ‘This Side of the Blue’, inspired by an American roadtrip - in stores now.
Arabella Ramsey Clearance Store
201 Spencer Street, Docklands
(03) 8686 7555
Hours
Mon-Sun 10am-6pm
Fri 10am-9pm
If you want to be happy
They won’t make you happy for the rest of your life, but like Jimmy Soul, Happy Socks can certainly give you (and your wardrobe) a pick-me-up. With no sign of the upturned trouser leg trend folding any time soon, trouser lengths remain at least an inch shorter, leaving ankles exposed. Most are content to air their black or grey socks, but why not take this opportunity to inject a hint of colour into your look? A brightly patterned or striped pair of socks is the perfect complement to dark slim jeans and a pair of brogues. While sock brand favourites Paul Smith and Missoni are not always that affordable or easy to come by, Happy Socks fill the gap nicely. Decent in quality with endless design options, happiness really does start from the ground up.
Found at:
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GPO Shop 3, 350 Bourke Street, Melbourne
(03) 9662 3332
209 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
(03) 9486 0391
272 Chapel Street, Prahran
(03) 9510 2334
Israeli Film Festival
If you aren’t sick of the cinema after MIFF, stay seated for the annual AICE Israeli Film Festival. An initiative of the Australia Israel Cultural Exchange, the festival program includes some of the best contemporary features and documentaries produced by Israel’s burgeoning film industry over the last 12 months.
It’s an industry that’s flourishing so strongly that for the third consecutive year an Israeli production has been nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at The Academy Awards. This year that film is Israeli/German co-production Ajami, a tragic story about a community of Muslims and Christians living in Tel Aviv, which will screen on opening night at the festival.
Many of the films in this year’s festival look at the inherent cultural clashes of this diverse country and its landscape, exploring Orthodox religion and life up against contemporary Western society. Others star international actors including Olga Kurylenko (the latest Bond femme fatale) and Joseph Fiennes.
With a dynamic program that reveals this vibrant culture in its many guises, the AICE Israeli Film Festival runs over a week from August 17 to 22 at Palace Como and Palace Brighton Bay.
We have five double passes to give away to a regular festival session of choice (this excludes opening/closing night and Saturdays after 5pm). Send an email to win@broadsheet.com.au with ‘Israeli Film Festival’ as the subject and your preferred session in the email.
Trunk Diner
Opening quietly on a particularly cold day in June, Trunk Diner has slid into the Melbourne landscape with little more than a ‘what, you didn’t know we were here?’
Already well known for its courtyard area, is makes sense to turn that space into a more welcoming haven for the coolest part of the year, closing it in with a marquee-esque array of beams and clear plastic walls that buffer diners from the cooler weather.
More importantly, Trunk Diner caters to those on the hunt for breakfast and lunch, with an American twang. Our focus might be on the gourmet burger (with a choice of four kinds of cheese on your Wagyu) and breakfast waffles, but there’s a healthy list of salads and soups too.
Still, it seems we’re not the only ones taken with the idea of a really great cheeseburger. “We dished up a hundred and forty burgers in the first three-days of trade,” says owner/operator Nick Kutcher. “Not too bad for the new kids on the block.”
Trunk Diner
275 Exhibition Street, Melbourne
(03) 9663 7994
Hours
Mon-Fri breakfast and lunch
