Get Me Mr Bucket

Armani, Ralph Lauren, Mr Bucket… High fashion has welcomed a new name to the world of high quality menswear. Don’t worry Mr Bucket hasn’t gone vogue, but he did feature in the 2009/10 summer issue of Men’s Style Australia. They featured Mr Bucket in an article which interviewed designers whose tees “won’t send people running in the wrong direction”. Link to full article.

Meanwhile Mr Bucket was featured on Saturday 27th Feb in the “I Designed it Myself” column which runs regularly in the A2 section of the Age. Link to Full Article

Love is in the air - Who is this mysterious new woman in Mr Bucket’s life. Mr and Ms Bucket will be at the Port Fairy Folk Festival on the labour day weekend (March 6th-9th). A romantic getaway or just a chance to make beautiful music together.  She has arrived stylish, independent and spirited and will feature in her own range of tshirts both with and without Mr B. The design is on a black scoop neck tailored womens tshirt in all sizes.

Update: Thankyou to everyone that brought a tshirt and came to support Mr Bucket on what was a wonderfully fun and enjoyable weekend. Mr Bucket quite spontaneously got out and had a boogie to Ganga Gigi on Saturday night, we’d love a photo of that if you happened to take one.

Mr Bucket has recently moved into the bucket cave, deep in the bowels of the rabbit warren that is Fundere Studios.  Located in Melbourne’s inner-west, Fundere is a hub of artist studios, attached to a commercial foundry which specialises in mould making and bronze casting for sculptors.

We are now fulltime bucketing. The roller-coaster ride will continue with exciting things happening all the time, so thankyou to all the family, friends and customers who continue to support and share my bucket dreams.

Mr Bucket is proud to be included in a recent publication by Slattery Media titled Handmade Melbourne, featuring over 200 artisans creating beautiful things from raw or common materials all over Melbourne.

Mr Bucket tshirt are not only sourced locally, they are screenprinted in the designers own studio, and then individually packaged. This has been an important part of the process, it allows us to trial new ideas and styles.

The difference between buying something handmade and a mass produced good can sometimes seem a bit intangible. What you are really buying is the story behind the object, supporting your local artist and hopefully getting a warm fuzzy feeling from doing that - because, it is good.

Mr Bucket was welcomed by the Daylesford community during the weekend (July 18th), in particular the friendly folk at Red Star Cafe and Magali and Jason from the Wolf at the Door gallery and retail space - let me tell you this place is funky funky funky!!

So after you’ve taken in the country air and had your spa, get down to the gallery and take in some wonderfully eclectic artwork, jewellery and sculptures.

More pics on our Fun Bucket page

Visit Wolf at the Door website or join their Facebook.

Melbourne L’Oreal Fashion Week is coming to the Rose Street Market to set up a runway to model the stallholders’ fashions. With real emaciated models and everything. Mr Bucket will make an appearance and strut his stuff around 2.30pm. The atmosphere at the market is always friendly and inspiring and you are all welcome to come down and lend your support, pick up some bargains from the amazing array of jewellery, clothing and accessories.

posted 5th April

To everyone who helped make the day so successful and fun, thankyou. Particularly Praveen and Rhinehardt the models and my fashion crew - Cecily, Rayemonde, Jo and Kamala. The fashion world are still reminiscing on the success of the Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, most of them blissfully unaware that the real action wasn’t on the Paris Runway or at the Designer Awards but at the Rose Street market where Mr Bucket strutted his stuff…

This is a great photo sent to me by Ben and a couple of his mates who participated in the 2008 Great Victorian Bike Ride.

Congratulations to the 4,200 riders that participated in the 2008 Great Victorian Bike Ride - particularly those that lasted the whole 590kms. Ben might have got Mr Bucket inspired to do the ride next year, meanwhile he has inspired a new t-shirt.

Mr Bucket reckons cycling is the way to go burn carbs instead of gasoline and reduce our carbon footprint - Mr Bucket is following the yellow brick road (he’s got a lot in common with the tin man).

We really appreciate here at Mr Bucket world when you give us a great idea, so thankyou Ben we will send you one of the first t-shirts shortly. Meanwhile the printed t-shirts will be available shortly in time for the Yarraville Festival which Mr Bucket will be attending on the 14th February.

Thankyou to Dan for this fantastic pic of Mr Bucket hanging out with a few friendly locals on Yanuca Island in Fiji. This photo was taking early in the day before they got down to the drums and the kava.

Mr Bucket gave us unprecedented access to his private world in September 2008. We bring you a day in the life of Mr Bucket, from his early awakening, even filmed him in the shower, to his adventures around the city we followed the man around Melbourne. We tried to look under the bucket and discover the truth beneath the bucket. After two days of filming we got over 40 minutes of footage which was edited down to a few minutes and posted on this website and youtube.

A photographer from MX magazine met with Mr Bucket in Bourke St. Mall, he tried to hide from the papparazzi however they got one lucky shot which featured this Wednesday.

A big heartfelt thankyou to all the film crew and Bucket supporters who made this possible.

Particularly Cecily Hearn for the cinematography and Jo Jones for writing/performing and recording the soundtrack.

For the purist, Mr Bucket is riding a 1962 BSA A7 Shooting Star with a hardtail section spliced onto the rear. Mr Bucket lived life in the fast lane, fast bikes, fast women.

Elvis sang a poignant song called “Long Black Limousine” about a lover returning in a fancy car as a corpse. This song epitomised Mr Bucket’s attitude to life.