The building at 484 Ipswich Road in Annerley that housed Southside Antiques for more than four decades is preparing to welcome two new occupants, with Brisbane fashion label dogstar and a kintsugi-inspired business called Kintsugi both confirmed as incoming tenants.
The arrival of the two businesses marks a new chapter for one of Annerley’s most recognisable commercial addresses, which fell quiet when Southside Antiques closed its doors permanently on Christmas Eve 2024. For residents of Annerley and the surrounding southside suburbs, the transition signals the next life of a building that has been a community touchstone since the early 1980s.
The End of an Annerley Institution
Southside Antiques operated at 484 Ipswich Road for more than 40 years, becoming one of Brisbane’s largest and most respected antique centres before the McGuigan family announced their retirement and closed the store permanently in December 2024. At its peak, the centre spread across two levels and housed more than 150 display cabinets, stocking everything from English fine china and Australian pottery to militaria, vintage fashion, antique furniture and paper collectables. It drew collectors from across Brisbane and interstate, and its position at Annerley Junction made it a natural stop for anyone travelling the Ipswich Road corridor.
The site at 484 Ipswich Road itself carries a longer history still. Before becoming an antiques centre, the building operated as Lunn’s Cake Shop, run by Olive and Fred Lunn and a well-known local business in the Annerley community. That layered history gives the address a significance that extends well beyond its most recent use, and the arrival of two creative, design-led businesses continues a tradition of the site serving as a gathering point for people who care about craft and quality.
Dogstar Returns to Its Southside Roots
Dogstar was founded in 1998 by Brisbane fashion designer Masayo Yasuki and has built a reputation for fashion designs defined by careful attention to cut, comfort and quality. The label is known for unique cuts and impeccable craftsmanship, a strong commitment to using natural fibres and the ability to make clothes fit beautifully, with design, quality and sustainability at its core.
Yasuki launched dogstar by selling her designs at the Fortitude Valley markets before growing the label into a multi-store retail and manufacturing operation. The brand has weathered significant challenges over 25 years of Brisbane-based business, including the 2011 floods which destroyed an earlier studio, and has emerged as one of the most enduring independent fashion labels in Queensland. Dogstar currently operates boutiques in Paddington, Indooroopilly and the CBD, and the Annerley studio at 484 Ipswich Road is currently under renovation ahead of its opening. Dogstar’s contact page confirms the address is currently under renovation and coming soon, with the Annerley location set to serve as the label’s head studio.
The move to Annerley brings dogstar back to the southside of Brisbane where the brand has long had a presence and a loyal following. For Annerley residents, having a design and production studio of this calibre operating from Ipswich Road adds a genuinely distinctive creative anchor to the suburb’s commercial strip.
Kintsugi Brings a Philosophy of Repair and Beauty
The second incoming tenant, Kintsugi, takes its name from the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with gold, silver or platinum, treating the repair itself as something to celebrate rather than conceal. The philosophy behind kintsugi holds that an object’s history, including its breakages, is part of what makes it beautiful and valuable. As a business name and concept, it carries a strong resonance with the kind of considered, craft-focused approach that suits the Annerley building and its history.
Further details about the Kintsugi business and its opening timeline are expected to follow as the renovation progresses.
Why This Matters to Annerley
The transition at 484 Ipswich Road reflects a pattern playing out across a number of Brisbane’s inner southside suburbs, where character buildings that once housed earlier commercial uses are finding new life as creative, design-led businesses. For Annerley, which sits at the junction of Ipswich Road and Annerley Road and carries a strong identity as an honest, community-minded suburb with deep local history, the arrival of dogstar and Kintsugi represents exactly the kind of considered new energy that respects what came before while bringing something fresh to the neighbourhood.
Residents wanting to stay up to date on the Annerley studio opening can follow dogstar at dogstar.com.au or on Instagram at @dogstarclothing.
Published 27-March-2026.
