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Sydney is a big city shopping experience. There’s everything from gorgeous boutiques and funky one-off shops, to sleek new shopping malls and colourful neighbourhood markets. Sydney has the most dynamic, exciting and innovative fashion scene in the country. Collette Dinnigan, Akira Isogawa, sass & bide and Mambo are just some of the famous fashion names that call Sydney home.
Explore the city centre with stylish department stores, specialty boutiques and historic arcades. Venture down bustling Oxford Street in Paddington, also known as the city’s “style mile”. Get a feel for local street fashion at one-off designer shops in Darlinghurst or combine your shopping with a dash of history when browsing through the art galleries and jewellery stores of The Rocks.
Shoppers are spoiled for choice in Sydney. Looking beyond the city’s famous boutiques, shopping precincts and department stores, delve into the colourful market scene where you can find the object of your desires, uncover a fashion creation of tomorrow, or just soak up the carnival atmosphere.
Paddington showcases the very best of Australian contemporary art, craft and fashion, directly by the artists and craft makers themselves. Paddington Markets is Sydney’s creative cutting edge. Emerging design, art and fashion students compete for an opportunity to launch their creative talents on the Sydney art, design and fashion scenes.
In the open-air, the market is situated in the grounds of the heritage-listed sandstone Paddington Uniting Church amidst the Victorian terraces and modern art galleries of Paddington. The Market is an integral part of the famous Oxford Street shopping strip. Oxford Street is regarded as the epicenter of Sydney chic and cool, drawing the famous and infamous, including the Fox Studios glitterati, all enjoying the dynamic atmosphere that is uniquely “Saturday in Paddington”.
Paddy’s Markets, Sydney’s biggest markets have a wide variety of stalls; food, fashion, gifts & gadgets in a true market atmosphere. With over 1,000 stalls in two huge locations (Haymarket & Flemington), you’ll find everything from souvenirs to sporting goods, clothes to cosmetics, footwear to fruit & vegetable, hot food to heavy metal CD’s, sheepskins to seafood, plants to pendants, crafts and much much more.
Glebe’s Saturday market, famed for its New Age edge; it’s also strong on the books and music front, and features live music to keep things buzzing.
Everything from original design clothing, pre-loved attire, bric-a-brac, books and records, to arts and crafts, jewellery and hats. With around 200 stalls, there’s a lot of stuff to wade through. The multicultural food stalls lend the atmosphere a subliminal exotic aroma, and it won’t be too long before you’re tucking into samosas on the small stretch of grass and pretending, like everybody else, that you’re back in Woodstock.
Bondi market, held every Sunday on the grounds of Bondi public school. Offers plenty in the way of fashion and funky accessories, flowers, music and books.
Bondi Markets get packed but they’re worth a visit. Be prepared to be tempted by distinctive designer products unique to the local lifestyle. The attitude of the stall holders doesn’t alienate and some let you barter, though prices aren’t over the top, and the wares are current and attractive.
If you like old junk it’s there or you might prefer refurbished fashionable antique, imported furniture from the East or works of local artisans. Young designers display their latest fashion lines at non-trendy prices, and while some second-hand clothing dealers are hip to demand, others are free and easy. Alternative stalls are big, so are Eastern, and there’s the reliable down-home chutney stall.
Apart from that, there’s no food to speak of but you’ll find vendors wandering around with baskets, if you’ve got any money left that is.
Rozelle market, where you can browse bric-a-brac, house plants and antiques crammed into the forecourt of Rozelle public school on Darling Street each weekend.
Rozelle Markets began in 1991 and has evolved into Sydney’s Favourite Second Hand Market. It is held in the leafy grounds of historical Rozelle School where there are up to 100 Stalls each Saturday and Sunday. There is a large variety and collectables and clothing. There are many stories of finding a rare and valuable item going for a song amongst the jumble of a casual stall. Also serious collectors can often find just what they want. Film props buyers often come to locate the weird and wonderful things needed to TV shows and movies.
Balmain markets A combination of alternative lifestylers and well heeled locals, where you can browse amongst the second hand books, recycled art, contemporary galleries and jewellery plus sample home made vegetarian snacks. There are 140 Stalls offering: -High quality original Arts & Crafts , Jewellery , Bric-a-brac , Books, Clothing, Footwear, Antiques & Collectables, Organic fruit & vegetables, Unique hand-made items * Multicultural food hall * On-site plant nursery & more.