Congested roads getting you down? If you're too lazy to get a fixie, then maybe a cafe racer is your best option. These stripped-back beauties hark back to a 1960s aesthetic, when fairing and comfort were displaced by rat cool counterculture...

There is just something about the series of illustrations from Yoshitomo Nara - Oh! My God! I Miss You, that pulls at my heart strings. For anyone that has ever missed someone - but hated them at the same time.... Yoshitomo Nara captures the childish and frustrating nature of love and everything in between. You can pick up a postcard book copy of the illustrations on Amazon.

Make your autumn prettier with these woolly babies -$24.95 Sportsgirl.

I am completely and totally obsessed with Flashback. I dream about it regularly. In some of my dreams I am living in my own 70's fantasy and in others it is slipping away from me via the hands of some evil customer, who, has somehow found that piece of fabric that was meant to be MINE and is now lost forever. Ok I am sick... Or as my friends kindly say - completely obsessed. When I discovered Flashback all my dreams came true - I am, and sadly will probably always be, completely obsessed with fabric and worse still the patterned, vintage fabric that Flashback sell.

Pick up your very own. $70, United Church Books, 130 Little Collins Street, Melbourne.

Has anyone noticed the rather disturbing trend this winter? Shiny tights have some how slivered their way back from Oliva Newton John's Lets Get Physical video and into today's, well, umm, not so physical, muffin-top infested shopping centres.

Have you checked out the Life Magazine photo archive now available through Google's Image Search Feature? It is unbelievable and overwhelming in its scope. Just look at the picture accompanying this post - a tiny Drew Barry more and Mr. T. Just. Fantastic.

I love the re-released Diana camera. First produced in the 1960's, this little plastic beauty has attracted a cult following (yes, me included) for the dreamy, leaked light effect the camera lends.

Former Melbourne girl, Kit Willow, is set to launch her flagship Melbourne store in hip Malvern Road, Hawksburn. The announcement follows Willow's decision not to show at the up and coming 2009 New York Fashion Week, citing the global economic downturn as a key factor in the decision.