Take a walk on the noir side of the Australia’s most liveable city with The Melbourne Flâneur!
Meet the dandy-flâneur who doubles as Melbourne’s most stylish writer.
Dean Kyte is Australia’s most scandalously strange prose stylist. His blog, The Melbourne Flâneur, has become the word on the global street for authoritative info on how to live a leisured lifestyle à la française.
He does it Down Under in what he calls ‘Paris-on-the-Yarra’, and in this underground zine Dean Kyte gives you the low-down on the æsthetic lifestyle philosophy of Parisian flânerie he explains in deep dives on his blog.
As you turn the pages of this immaculately presented zine, you’ll feel a sense of intimacy with Dean as he gives you a guided tour of a Melbourne that even the locals don’t recognize, taking you through how he lives his undercover Parisian lifestyle as Australia’s most dandiacal, flâneurial writer.
he lays out his three-point definition to the most FAQ’d query online, ‘What is a flâneur?’
Gathering together some of the most popular articles published on The Melbourne Flâneur blog, you’ll discover exactly what a flâneur is and learn how flânerie can be defiantly deployed as a ‘Slow’ way of being in the world—a gentle act of analogue resistance to out-of-control digital efficiency.
In addition to fiction and photo-romans that take you inside Dean’s altered-state experience as he observes the urban scene in his wanderings, there’s also an article on the godfather of noir himself, the first philosopher of flânerie, Charles Baudelaire, in which Dean draws a provocative parallel between Baudelaire’s love poetry and the flâneurial praxis of urban Daygame.
Dean Kyte also introduces you to his original concepts of ‘flâneurial cinema’ and ‘flânography’, showcasing how the anonymity of his lifestyle as Melbourne’s most underground writer allows him to penetrate the secret spaces of the city and get the shots on film that inspire his prose poetry and literary noir fiction.
in which he takes you on a 24-hour flânerie through Melbourne’s noir spaces.
Where so much glossy magazine content feels like a catalogue, with enough artificial flavours and colours to give you a belly-ache, The Melbourne Flâneur zine is written and designed to be sipped and savoured.
Gritty yet elegant, as dandiacal as the auteur himself, it bears all the hallmarks of his style: featuring artistically grainy analogue photos and slick digital graphic design, The Melbourne Flâneur zine is an immaculate example of Dean Kyte’s Bespoke Document Tailoring and Artisanal Desktop Publishing brand methodology—the hybrid of industrial production values at a boutique economy of scale.
A feast of fine critical writing and bold graphic design, The Melbourne Flâneur zine is a coffee-table conversation-starter; it’s an intimate introduction to the life, art and ideas of Australia’s best-kept literary secret, and it’s a surreal stroll through one of the world’s most unique cities.
Get real, get gloriously analogue with some old-school print, and get ahold of The Melbourne Flâneur below.