Fashion bloggers unite: i love street fashion. i love how it’s fashion for both the ordinary and not-so-ordinary. There’s no too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too light, too dark, too young, too old or any rules at all for that matter! Red can be worn with orange, boys can wear floral and your belt does NOT have to match your shoes.

And in support of all things street fashion, our Barrack Street store is the ONLY retail outlet in all of Australia to stock cult Korean street fashion mag, Cracker Your Wardrobe.

Having started only one month before Pigeonhole first opened in Spring 2007, our friends at Cracker have built up a publication that now shows all of Korea how to dress, tie their laces and eat their kimchee every month of the year!

Now here’s some news… Cracker’s travelling street team will be in Perth this next week to do a promo shoot for a Korean apparel label called Basic House and they want YOU to be involved!

That’s right, Team Cracker has asked Pigeonhole to select a mixed group of fresh faces with a positive disposition and a little bit of fashion sense! And we promised them we knew just the folk for the job!

They’re after 5-6 young people of all different ethnicities for a casual day of shooting next Wednesday or Thursday. You’ll need to be available  from either 10am to 1pm OR 12noon to 3pm on either day and you’ll be awarded with a $50 pigeonhole voucher and a little cracker mystery pack for your efforts and the promise of fame and fans in a foreign land!

If you think you’ve got what it takes then send through a mugshot to cracker@pigeonhole.com.au with your phone number, age, height and availability (morning/afternoon wed/thursday) and we’ll see what we can come up with!

If you don’t make the cut for the shoot next week, then don’t worry… Team Cracker will be out in force on the streets of Perth on Monday and Tuesday so dress to impress as you might just find yourself part of a suprise tshirt campaign or find your face plastered all over seoul’s most popular street press next month!

so watch out… this might just be you!

peace: johann

My botanical knowledge is fairly limited (most of it comes from asking my mum the different names of plants and flowers when I see them). She’s one of the only people I know who calls different plant species “cool”. Wanna know one of the many plants my mum finds awesome? The Ginkgo. Fair enough, as it’s one of the oldest known living plants around.

This final division of gymnosperms (lol) has only one class, which has one family, which has one order which has one genus which contains one single species which is… anyone? Bueller? That’s right! Ginkgo biloba. These crazy guys are resistant to pollution, insects and disease which would probably explain why they’ve been around so long.

Another neat-o thing about our friend Ginkgo is that the veins in in their leaves fan out and branch out but never reconnect. That’s what gives them their cool shape, a like so…

So I guess it’s not surprising that we have this beautiful species replicated in store.

Ginkgo leaf necklaces, $45 each

There’s also some new ginkgo leaf earrings and necklaces in the London Court store, so come in and have a look!

Sophia

I know it’s a cliche, but I’m a complete sucker for cute animals. My desktop background is a picture of a koala relaxing in a bucket of water and I’m more than happy about that.

I sent a picture of some fat little puppies sleeping to about five of my friends and I’m forever interrupting my sister to make her look at what our cat is doing (usually sleeping). So it’s not surprising that I absolutely love the range of animal jewellery by A Skulk of Foxes that we have in store.

Geelong based couple Natalie and Andrew Cirillo are the folks behind the label. With over 20 years in the fashion and 3D animation industries between them, their designs are definitely unique. AND all of their jewellery is proudly hand made in Australia. The Cirillos have created a beautiful collection of sterling silver and acrylic accessories and we’re lucky enough to have some of their sweet brooches and cufflinks in store.

Wombat brooches, $18 each at London Court

Elk brooch, $49 at Bon Marche Arcade

Sterling silver horse cufflinks, $149 at Shafto Lane

So, if like me, you simply adore animals, pop into Pigeonhole to see these creatures in real life!

Sophia