D Honan Is An Australian Visual artist
They call them thrift Shops in NYC. Jewish Thrift Shop,with lots of vintage items, good prices, around $25 US for most pieces. Salvation Army, well picked over, but cheap. Housing Works Thrift Store My favourite, staff are volunteers, including an Australian from Traralgon, manning the dressing room. Stock is good quality, some genuine vintage pieces, or
Selale Gultekin owns a Pied de poule ( vintage shop )in Istanbul . Her beautiful turkish name means waterfall . Appropriate , as she is quite literally surrounded under a waterfall of clothes. Meandering around the cobbled lanes of inner city istanbul we chanced on her cache of nostalgia . The tell tale sign was
Sydney unleashed its tawdry charms for a stolen weekend . Its slightly down at heel scruffiness captivated me . The nonchalant beauty of it’s spectacular harbour . Seediness of Kings Cross , coiled energy of downtown , decaying splendour of the inner city , griminess of Darlinghurst and spectre of abandoned monorail . Dishevelled Surry Hills sheltering beneath the spindly