High Street Memories

After growing up on a farm in Leongatha South Gippsland, fashionable gumboot guru and chief executive of Melbourne-based footwear brand Merry People Danielle Pearce got her first taste of the city on Swan Street, Richmond. …

Back in the early ’90s, Australian comedian Merrick Watts would go to Sydney Road, Brunswick to experience culinary culture he wouldn’t find in Eltham where his family lived. “Back then, the food was really seen …

When musician Mark Lizotte – AKA Diesel – left Perth in the ’80s bound for Sydney, he moved into an apartment in Elizabeth Bay ready to chase his rock’n’roll dream on the east coast of …

Australian theatre star and actor Matt Lee, who returns to the stage for Titanique Musical, studied at Newtown High School of the Performing Arts in the ’90s, and landed his first major musical in the …

When Alex Fevola decided to open a new flagship store for her make-up brand Runway Room, she had her eye firmly cast on High Street, Armadale. The iconic fashion and beauty shopping strip is where …

Julia Busuttil Nishimura discovered the joys of Lygon Street, Carlton while studying Italian at Melbourne University in 2007. The celebrated Melbourne-based cook and author would stroll the strip during her breaks, exploring its Italian cafes …

One of Australia’s leading bridal gown designers, Steven Khalil, has dressed red carpet VIPs including JLo and Kylie Jenner, but he has always had a soft-spot for the neighbourhood that gave him his start – …

When chef, restaurateur Guy Turland left his hometown of Bowral in the Southern Highlands of NSW to relocate to Sydney for an apprenticeship at Est aged 17, he moved to Hall Street, Bondi. It would …

From high school teacher to MasterChef Australia alumni, Alice Zaslavsky – also known as Alice in Frames – cultivated her culinary curiosity on North Road, Ormond in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs. “I spent a lot of …