High Street Memories

Auburn Village holds a special place for interior designer and The Block judge Shaynna Blaze – first visiting the area as a child when traveling to Melbourne to see her paternal grandmother who lived in Hawthorn, …

Celebrated pastry chef Darren Purchese worked at London’s Savoy Hotel before moving to Australia in the early 2000s, where he worked as a pastry chef at Vue De Monde in Melbourne and Bennelong in Sydney. …

Model and pilates studio owner Brooke Pitt (nee Hogan) made a name for herself as a fashion model who rose to fame via her social media profile in the mid 2000s. It was a spot …

Melbourne filmmaker and author John Safran first visited Carlisle Street, Balaclava as a primary aged-student, and would occasionally sit behind the work counter of his grandparent’s shoe repair store which they ran on the street …

When Australian homewares and interior designer Collette Dinnigan opened her first fashion retail boutique at 33 William Street, Paddington in 1992, she was also residing upstairs. As a 20-something up-and-coming designer with a budding entrepreneurial …

Australian TV and radio personality Zan Rowe takes a trip down memory lane on Puckle Street, Moonee Ponds, a suburban strip in Melbourne she remembers visiting as a child right through to her rite-of-passage teen …