High Street Memories

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 …

When radio personality Jo Stanley left her northern home suburb of Yallambie for the southern suburbs as a university student, Glenhuntly Road Elsternwick became her regular shopping strip. It was the early ’90s, she was …

Alice Bennett, best known for her cake empire Miss Trixie Drinks Tea, spent her MLC high school years on Glenferrie Road Hawthorn; a strip many students in the leafy east would frequent once the bell …

Chyka Keebaugh began discovering the artisan delights of High Street, Armadale when she was in her early twenties in the ’90s. The Australian business woman, author and media personality carved a niche as a homemaker …

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 …