It’s a scene from another time, the sort of experience that Melbourne does so well – or did so well, before COVID, the rise of fast fashion and online shopping. An Alice in Wonderland-type stumbling across a beautiful corner boutique in some inner city suburb, stepping off the rainswept street into a world of deep-veined panelling and lush colours.
Only in this version of the fantasy the girl is Henne – Swedish for ‘her’ and the muse of the Australian women’s wear brand of the same name. As for the shopfront, it’s Henne’s first bricks-and-mortar outlet, sprawling languidly across two terraces in Prahran
