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The ladies of hml can be quite caustic when it comes to 'wearable art'. It seems a dubious way for weird assymetrical badly shiboried nonsense to get some street cred - we are not convinced. But we are however frock hounds when it comes to avant-garde fashion particularly from one of our favorite decades - yes you guessed it - the glorious 80's. So we are understandably excited about the opening of the Katie Pye retrospective Clothes for Modern Lovers' at the NGV:A. And of course this kicks of a week long ode to the 80's courtesy of your very own rock steady crew here at hml.
Katie Pye circa 1982 doing her best Toyah Wilcox.
The ladies of hml can be quite caustic when it comes to 'wearable art'. It seems a dubious way for weird assymetrical badly shiboried nonsense to get some street cred - we are not convinced. But we are however frock hounds when it comes to avant-garde fashion particularly from one of our favorite decades - yes you guessed it - the glorious 80's. So we are understandably excited about the opening of the Katie Pye retrospective Clothes for Modern Lovers' at the NGV:A. And of course this kicks of a week long ode to the 80's courtesy of your very own rock steady crew here at hml. Katie Pye circa 1982 doing her best Toyah Wilcox.
You all know we love people who take an idea and run with it - even if it means taking it waaaaaay beyond what is neccessary. So with the idea of the tree hugger grass armchair locked into our newly greened brains we did a little research and found this gem on the ever fantabulous Readymade website. Oh yes people it's the one and only 
Its no secret that the ladies of hml love their coffee, and one of the things we've always coveted has been the traditional "we are happy to serve you" New York coffee cup. Beck tried to smuggle one home many moons ago on a trip to New York but the originals squashability really didn't make it the ideal international traveller. Ramona too has always coveted the cup, especially given her love of Woody Allen. That paper cup has become part of the New York landscape. Every year, more than 180 million of the paper coffee cups are used by Italian pizza joints, Indian diners and Jewish delis. It's no wonder someone turned the iconic Greek-themed cup from disposable to permanent, from paper to ceramic and good on them for doing so. Even better it has been manufactured from lead-free earthenware, and the 10-ounce cups are both microwave and dishwasher safe. Excellento! and we are incredibly happy to announce that finally you can get said greenie version right here in Australia, without schlepping all the way to Queens. In fact you don't even need to get out of the chair your sitting on right now. What's that... you need to get one, right now. You're jonesing for a new brew holder? Well just head to the home of the stripey thing 
Peeps it's World Environment Day today so get on your bike, get into the garden and get on board! We here at hml love to reduce, re-use and re-cycle, especially when it comes to Craft. We believe that the thrifty reworking of old materials is not only good for the planet but good for the wallet. DIY is all about taking charge of production and consumption: think global - make local. We'd also like to state that being green doesn't neccessarily mean wearing socks with sandals and using patchouli oil for deodorant - not that there's anything wrong with that. Hip websites like Treehugger show us all how to live more sustainably without compromising our style. Featuring great designs like the 
We always suspected that Durtonia was a mountainous country with a national flag made from vintage teatowels but what we didnt know was that there was monkeys in them thar hills people, sock monkeys. Penelope Durston's Afghan Mountain is on show in the window at Craft Victoria in Flinders Lane all of this week and the next. We've got altitude sickness already.
