Australia, Osaka, it doesn’t really matter, because the kids at KINOAK are too cool to be pinned by geographical whereabouts. This predominantly Melbourne-based label is the latest (and we think greatest) brainchild of modern functionality meets considered technique and design aesthetic. Sourcing design components from around the globe, KINOAK’s dedication to fresh, modern and innovative design is recruiting followers outside the leafy boundaries of Victoria’s capital, and their latest offering has got us all short of breath and hungry for more.

Heading up the fanciful fashion route of classic shaping with what I’m coining a finish of ‘hard-core whimsy’ (you heard it here first kids), KINOAK’s SS 13/14 collection sees graphic emblazoned silk bombers and tie-waist dresses, kaleidoscopic shifts, shirts and shorts and a freshly minimalist take on classic floral symmetry in the form of matchy-matchy-mixy-clashy tailored suiting with a casual edge. Then there are the stop-in-your-tracks-cause-you-want-to-get-involved independent winners. A dip-hemmed dress evocative of sun-drenched poolside days, a semi-backless dress of soft structural composition and a super awesome rich blue button-down collared tent dress interweave with the cult interchangeable separates; a true trademark of KINOAK’s dedication to classically cut modern design innovation.

And with a new website soon set to launch, there’ll be graphic silks occupying cool kids’ wardrobes left, right and centre. Plaster on a cooler-than-socially-allowed attitude to match and you’re set. Get struttin’.