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Australian occasionwear — striking silhouettes, masterful draping, couture techniques and hand draping at the heart of the design process.
Best for Australian occasionwear and draping
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Aje incorporates handcrafted details and natural fabrics into Australian ready-to-wear, with feminine clothing central to its collection. Artisans' Nest carries work by Australian artisan designers, placing fashion alongside handmade jewellery and objects for the home. Zimmermann combines occasion dresses with swimwear, using intricate cuts and prints across the Sydney label's clothing range.
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Aje's Bondi Junction shop presents the Australian womenswear label's collections inside the Westfield shopping centre in Sydney. Adrian Norris and Edwina Forest founded the brand in 2008, with this flagship opening later in 2020. The label includes occasion dressing alongside other clothing, but its Australian identity does not establish local manufacture for every garment.
Best for Aje womenswear and occasion dressing in Bondi Junction
Visit official site ↗Artisans' Nest
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It is best known for More than 70 Australian artisan designers — handmade jewellery, homewares, art, fashion, ceramics, gifts; ethical sustainable locally made products; products change regularly; 4.8-star rated local favourite.
Best for More than 70 Australian artisan designers
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Sydney label (2004) — Hailey Baldwin, Emily Ratajkowski and Kendall Jenner are fans. Accessible glamour and evening wear.
Best for Celebrity-favourite Australian glam
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Australian designer — artistic womenswear, sculptural pieces, and feminine power dressing from a renowned Australian fashion family.
Best for Artistic Australian womenswear
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BONDI BORN's Gould Street flagship in Bondi Beach sells the label's designer swimwear and resortwear from a dedicated storefront open seven days a week. The Australian brand also ships internationally through its own online store and is carried by stockists including Nordstrom, David Jones, and Holt Renfrew.
Best for Swimwear, resortwear, fashion design
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Australian sibling duo since 2003 — timeless yet modern wardrobe staples, masculine-style tailoring with feminine silhouettes. Bella Hadid is a fan.
Best for Tailored Australian essentials
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Australian designer — edgy yet timeless styles seen on Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Zendaya and Bella Hadid. Red carpet and street style favourite.
Best for Red carpet Australian fashion
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Australian seaside brand — reinventing the Hawaiian shirt with bright, brave, fun designs. Seaside styles for the summer wardrobe.
Best for Bright Australian seaside shirts
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Australian designer showing at Paris Fashion Week — architectural silhouettes, pushing boundaries with proportion. Cate Blanchett and Christine Centenera are fans.
Best for Paris Fashion Week Australian design
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Sydney denim and streetwear label founded in 1999 by surfers Gareth Moody, Dan Single, Paul Wilson and George Gorrow, known for hand-distressed jeans and its box-cross logo. Stores in Paddington and Bondi, Sydney, and in Melbourne.
Best for Australian denim and jeans
Ksubi began in 1999 on Sydney's Northern Beaches, started by a group of surfer and DJ friends - Gareth Moody, Dan Single, Paul Wilson and George Gorrow - who were dissatisfied with the denim fits available on the market. Working out of a garage in North Sydney, the group screen-printed their own tees and hand-distressed denim using tools as basic as sandpaper and grinders, developing the axel-grinded, heavily worn finish that became the label's signature. Their first proper collection landed in 2000, and the brand debuted at Mercedes Australian Fashion Week the following year, quickly becoming known for a DIY, rebellious attitude paired with its box-cross logo. The brand today keeps stores in the Sydney beachside suburbs of Bondi and Paddington, plus one in Melbourne.
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Sister design duo Beth and Tessa MacGraw — free-spirited designs, Australian Fashion Laureate winners. Feminine and artistic.
Best for Free-spirited Australian design
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P Johnson makes finely tailored menswear and ready-to-wear womenswear, offering made-to-measure suiting and shirting guided by expert fitters alongside a full online shop. Beyond its Sydney showrooms on Elizabeth Street and in Paddington, the label runs showrooms reaching Melbourne, Brisbane, Jakarta, New York and London.
Best for Tailoring, made-to-measure, menswear, shirtmaking
Visit official site ↗Bondi / Global
Sydney label founded in Bondi in 2014 by housemates Sophie Coote and Nikki Campbell, launched via an Instagram-only capsule; picked up by Barneys New York within three years and later stocked at Harrods, Matches and Galeries Lafayette. Added a swimwear line in 2020 and opened a Bondi flagship.
Best for Australian linen dresses and resort separates
Sir was started in 2014 in Bondi, Sydney, by Sophie Coote and Nikki Campbell, who were housemates at the time and launched the label with a small, Instagram-only capsule collection rather than a traditional wholesale rollout. The relaxed, resort-driven aesthetic — linen shirting, easy trousers, breezy dresses — found buyers quickly: within its first three years the brand was picked up by Barneys New York, followed by stockists including Harrods, Matches and Galeries Lafayette.
The label expanded into swimwear in 2020, adding structured one-pieces and swim sets to its ready-to-wear range. Sir later returned to its origins with a flagship store in Bondi, the suburb where Coote and Campbell first conceived the label; the store's interior was designed by Tamsin Johnson.
Sir remains run by its two co-founders and is positioned within the broader wave of Australian resort and beach-adjacent labels that built international wholesale distribution largely through digital-first launches rather than runway shows.
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Buy/sell/trade second-hand clothing exchange in Newtown, Sydney; part of a small Australian chain that started in Brisbane before expanding to Sydney (Newtown, Alexandria) and Melbourne.
Best for Buy sell trade vintage clothing.
SWOP is a second-hand clothing exchange founded by two high-school friends who opened their first store in their hometown of Brisbane before expanding to Sydney's inner west and to Melbourne. The Newtown store, on Enmore Road, is a resale space where customers can bring in pre-loved clothing to exchange for either 30% of its assessed sale value in cash or 50% in store credit. The chain has operated in the Australian resale/vintage space for roughly a decade.
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Australia's most celebrated international fashion export — fusion of fashion with swimwear, intricate cuts, dainty prints, and bohemian femininity. Worn by Jennifer Lopez and Blake Lively.
Best for Bohemian swimwear and occasion dresses
Nicky and Simone Zimmermann started at Sydney's Paddington Markets in 1991 with clothes cut for actual Australian life — sun, water, long lunches — and built the country's most successful fashion export by refusing to choose between swimwear and fashion. The insight was structural: treat the bikini with couture seriousness and the dress with beach ease, and one wardrobe emerges.
The signatures are recognizable at fifty meters: intricate broderie and lace, dainty botanical prints, ruffled shoulders, silhouettes engineered for golden-hour photography. Sisterhood remains the operating system — Nicky designs, Simone runs the business — and the collections still open with swim.
The house took its runway to New York Fashion Week in the 2010s, planted flagships from Mayfair to Melrose, and in 2023 sold a majority stake to Advent International at a valuation past a billion dollars — Australian fashion's largest deal. Worn everywhere from Bondi to the Amalfi coast, Zimmermann exports the thing Australia actually owns: optimism, tailored.
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