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Aesop Interview with Kev on the relationship between Nest the Shop and Aesop the Skincare brand.   Can you recall when you were first introduced to Aesop? I first met Aesop founder Dennis Paphitis in 1996 when I was involved in corporate retail, and then Founding Associate Suzanne Santos, 1 year later. I was working with international luxury cosmetics brands at the time. Dennis and Suzanne didn’t identify with the cosmetic world at all, I was instantly curious about what their intentions were. What were your early impressions of Aesop? At the time of the Cosmetic Floor of Georges opening...

Kevin Mowles is the Owner-Founder of NEST, a home-lifestyle boutique on Coventry Street, South Melbourne, trading since 1999.   R - Can you tell us about your history with producing bed linen and why you decided to make bedding.  KM - There was something about bedding and Nesting that seem to resonate with our clients from the day we opened Nest. There seemed to be a direct relationship between the notion of Nesting and sleeping. But we were challenged with the absence of niche independent brands at that time. That’s all changed of course, and there are a number of...

Luna Gallery is an Australian knitwear label founded in 1999, with a strong ethos for local manufacture, pure natural yarns and belief in sustainability + quality. We had a chat with Bev Armstrong, founder of Luna Gallery, to get insight into the labels success. ST MARC: When you started Luna Gallery, the other brands were moving their production off-shore and knitwear design was becoming almost formulaic. What inspired you to defy the trend and create Luna? Bev Armstrong: Sheer determination. I love working with product & beautiful yarns. Being in the factory’s - seeing, touching & feeling is very important to my knit development.  I believe strongly in...

In our 22 years of experience helping clients to choose their bed linen, these are the steps that we’ve established to help people make the best choice.

At ST MARC we live in pursuit of the ideal balance between quality and value in the practical day to day use of textiles in the home. We often use an analogy drawn from our philosophy around food, that simple healthy produce should experience as little intervention as possible.

These instructions are the ‘ideal’ way to care for your linen and will consequently maximise the life of the linen.