PIPDUCK

Pip Graham a self made success, ranked in the top 10 florists in Australia over 11 consecutive years, pontificated the dilemma of having everything. Helen Duckham a legal nerd too qualified to succumb to the pressures of the 9am to 7pm corporate demands dreamt of having everything.

Together they sought to feed their separate desires and fused their polar forces to create Pipduck. They decided the Pipduck quest would have one objective - to abate the perennial must-have desire of the first world. This has led to the Pipduck commitment to a worldwide effort scanning, sourcing, collating and contributing to the Pipduck locus of perfect unnecessary must-haves.Underpinned by the first fetish for footwear, Pipduck's debut is about to cause a splash as it steps up and unleashes its first import to Australia and New Zealand. The urbanised range of hand printed, award winning, water proof, cotton lined designer wellies. So perfect is the footwear it appears to have been produced specifically to Pipduck's criteria. The practical - made - fashionable range of boots and shoes designed by Tamara Henriques has been sought out by top design houses. The printed designs have won prestigious awards. A different boot is produced every year for LVMH subsidiary Pink and selected designs are featured in a number of design museums around the world. Thomas Pink has snapped up the fabulous designs and a swirly boot was produced for Paul Smith.

The extraordinary global appeal of the patterned boot is bound to cause a swirl of rubber boot lovers throughout Australia and New Zealand stampeding in their hunter, ballerina and cowboy styles desperately anticipating the next unnecessary must-have sourced by Pipduck.