High Street Memories

The Design Files founder and editor Lucy Feagins has been writing about home and interior design for 16 years, inspired by modern architecture, design and art. Now she brings the printed version of her digital …

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 …