Beautiful dresses, beautiful shirts, beautiful skirts, just plain beautifully designed clothes worth half my rent. That’s what you’ll expect to find in Life With Bird — clothes you can’t afford… The designs there are sophisticated and chic and the way the clothes are put together create an effortless cool that any girl would be envious of. I particularly like the flow and cut of the pieces. There are flowing dresses, but the top part of the dresses seem to utilise knots, drapes at the front, pleats at the front, and cinched waists to turn what could potentially be a plain dress into something quite unique and stunning. Life With Bird also utilises monochromatic colour schemes of plain black, white, and cream alongside soft prints. If I could afford Life With Bird, I would buy more of their garments — I really do love their designs, I just don’t love the prices($ 300).
Arabella G.
Place rating: 4 Melbourne, Australia
LIFE with BIRD is expensive. No joke. But it’s also beautiful. No, not some missive about how expensive it is to keep a wife — I’m a liberal arts grad for heaven’s sake — but a glowing endorsement of one of Brunswick Street’s best little fashion boutiques: the aforementioned LIFEwithBIRD. Doing a fine line in little silk dresses and surprisingly flattering harem pants rendered in natural fibres such as silk and cotton, LIFEwithBIRD’s cuts are exceptional and its patterns divine, with the label coming up daisies with everything from minimalist but Avant Garde basics to digital print dresses twisted and pleated this way and that. With prices ranging from $ 80 for a basic slip to just under a grand for something pretty spectacular, LIFEwithBIRD’s sartorial wares are definitely on the pricey side, but the quality is incredible. As such, it’s wise to wait for one of LIFEwithBIRD’s legendary sales. Or send an aesthetically tuned in boyfriend who’s liberal with his cash. Sexism is alive and well.