COMA - New Art & Gallery in Rushcutters Bay.

There seem to have been a few new galleries opening in the Inner East area this year. A few of which have been covered here on Street Fashion Sydney, most recently The New Standard, and now we have COMA tucked down on a little island in Rushcutters Bay, in the new concrete box apartment block construction opposite the 'Vibe' hotel just down from Elvis Pizza. I made a special-directions-collage below so you can't possibly miss it. It's minimal all the way! Back to the launch, there was a lovely mix of sculpture, painting, collage, prints and some drawing. I have to say that I certainly enjoyed the works on show and the oftentimes erotically interpreted theme for this, opening group show True love Over Physics.. Head on down & check it out!

Brian Kokoska
Jon Pilkington
Yves Scherer
Colin Snapp
Cornelia Baltes
Gabriele Beveridge
Oliver Osborne
Chris Succo
Ebecho Muslimova
Ophelia Finke

True Love Over Physics
04.11.16 - 28.11.16
http://comagallery.com/  COMA Gallery 137 Bayswater Road Rushcutters Bay.

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Sydney, Australia.

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A Gentleman with Superb Sartorial Elegance.

Well we all know I don't grab shots actually in the street that often. However if we had more of this kind of sartorial splendour around town I most certainly would. Thanks Dan for letting me grab this shot yesterday afternoon, Sunday best? Absolutely!

By the way those pants are a fine check and they have played digital havoc when the file size was reduced .. But what can one do!!

Telling Stories in Pictures all over Sydney..

Kent Johnson, Sydney, Australia.

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Fitness; Is the new Fashion.

OK so summer is officially over here in Australia although it should remain comfortably not-cold for a while yet. Plenty of time for outdoor activities. Of course if you are an outdoors activity, fitness type you probably don't care much about the weather anyway (cause you are just going to do it); and maybe not so much about fashion... or do you? I have been thinking for quite a long while now that Fitness, all that stuff around going to the gym, running, working out, you know, fitness.. well that is the new fashion. Fashion has a long long history of shaping our bodies and since the 90s and porn as fashion culture which is still going on, thanks Terry Richardson.. (irony and sarcasm) the clothes are almost all gone anyway. Fashion without clothes does not really leave a lot of options; and if you have nothing on.. you probably still want to look great! So its all mega gyms and skins 2XU sort of stuff; or Chanel tracky dacks, Karl how could you!!! You said ".." oh never mind.

Seen at Gaffa Gallery, last night.

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Kent Johnson, Sydney, Australia.

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Australian Men's Style - The 'Patchwork' Flannelette Shirt.

International readers of Street Fashion Sydney may not be aware that there is a traditional national dress for Australian men; this typically consists of a Flannelette shirt, blue 'wife beater' singlet, a pair of shorts (it's hot down under) and a pair of thongs aka flip flops or Havaianas - expensive thongs; and of course thongs are footwear not underwear, which for men can be optional. I still recall my friend David Gofton opining that every Australian suburb or region ought to have its own distinctive Flannel pattern not unlike the Scott's and their Tartans for different clans. I'm still inclined to think this is a pretty good idea and a bit classier than people running amuck in 'local' Rugby League footie jerseys..

Last night at Sarah Cottier Gallery I spied this young man sporting what I took to be an arty interpretation on the Flannelette shirt redone in a quilted check pattern; Check, one two! Nicely teamed with deep blue black pants with some blue plimsolls. Love it, great personal style and as Aussie as it comes.

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Claudia Karvan for Noah Taylor at Olsen Irwin Works on Paper Gallery..

I did not catch the explanation, however Noah Taylor was unable to attend this opening of his 'New Works' show; which of course made it impossible for me to make an artist at their opening portrait of him for my collection! Never mind, the crowd was great; Claudia Karvan is of course simply gorgeous, gave the opening speech on Noah's behalf; and I will get that portrait another time!

From the look of the artworks and the one in the window in particular I think Noah may have been reading the Russian masterpiece The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. A bizarre novel which features a large walking, talking, black cat which gets up to all sorts of mischief, and there's a magician too, in the novel, the Master I think, it's been a while.. Anyway artists are a lot like magicians in that they make wonderful things appear where previously there was nothing at all. Noah's works look great, bold strokes, black ink, white paper, magic! And there were plenty of people spilling out of the gallery and across the sunny Woollahra pavement in the lovely winter light and those people were kind enough to let me snap their style for Street Fashion Sydney; and here they are.

Noah Taylor
New Works
Exhibition 4 – 21 June 2014

Olsen Irwin
Works on Paper, Small Paintings and Sculpture
40 Queen Street
Woollahra NSW 2025
http://olsenirwin.com/blog/noah-taylor

Kent Johnson
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Soft Blacks and Brown.

When I asked this young man if I could grab a shot of him for Street Fashion Sydney at the Gallery 9 exhibition opening, he asked me if I was being ironic, and after I assured him I was not, he agreed to let me grab a few frames. Anyway I do love this outfit. And while yes I do believe that it is looking more like women's apparel than classic menswear;  its working very well. It also reminds me of my trips to Sportsgirl in my late teens to buy shirts as they were funkier and cheaper than the the shirts you could buy in the mens stores.. Thanks so much for a great street fashion shot. Art in background is by WHAT, photographed at Gallery 9 in Darlinghurst.

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The Boys on the Street - King St Newtown.

A pretty quick grab-shot of these lovely guys out on King Street Newtown this week, nice styling guys, love the floral print baseball caps; thanks for a great shot.

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