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EDITORS' NOTES Our September edition is always one of the most highly anticipated issues of Remix, each year celebrating the runway season and very best of New Zealand fashion. It’s no surprise then that we chose global fashion policewoman Kelly Osbourne to cover the issue with an exclusive photoshoot and interview. Kelly wears Kiwi fashion and talks openly to Remix about her decision to leave the Fashion Police show after five years. She’s already started policing fashion again as a judge on Project Runway Junior! To accommodate our rapidly growing digital readership we filmed Kelly during her Remix interview and behind the scenes of the photoshoot. Stay tuned to remixmagazine.com to check out the videos and to get all the latest fashion, beauty, lifestyle and culture news as it happens! Also look out for my upcoming trip to the United States, during which I’ll be contributing weekly blog articles under the #NotATourist tab on our website. As always, things at Remix are moving forward fast, with our December edition only three months away! The team has already started work on it, so talk to us about ways you can be involved in our hot Summer guide and Christmas edition. Enjoy this issue first, though!

TIM PHIN Founder & Editor-in-chief

I’m always delighted to receive feedback from Remix readers around the world, who seem so far away from my desk here in Ponsonby. However, that’s exactly what happened when I met with our cover girl Kelly Osbourne in July. She confessed to being a fan of Remix and always keeping an eye out for our magazine on newsstands in Los Angeles. Kelly and I spent the day together, during which she talked candidly about her rebellious past and exciting future. Read my story with Kelly in the People section, alongside my interviews with the equally fashionable Chiara Ferragni and the equally rebellious Josh ‘Fat Jewish’ Ostrovsky. I also chat with gentlemen Adam Lambert and Leon Bridges about their new music, while editor-at-large Amber Peebles talks to leading ladies Ruby Rose and Eva Longoria about their new roles on television. Be sure to seek seasonal inspiration from our robust Fashion section, within which our stunning ‘Ethereal Energy’ shoot features the latest New Zealand Spring/Summer collections. There’s a wealth of fashion, beauty, lifestyle and culture inspiration in this issue, contributed by our supremely talented team of creatives both here and abroad; I couldn’t possibly mention them all. I hope you enjoy the issue and feel welcome to give me feedback. As I said, I’m always delighted to receive it.

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TEAM 1.We have the former Fashion Police star Kelly Osbourne on our cover. Looking back what’s your biggest ever fashion faux pas? 2. What is your favourite piece of fashion you own and why? 3. Who is the most fashionable person ever? Dead or alive? Why?

@annabellerosedesign 1. My sister and I once wore matching OshKosh B’gosh floral dungarees to a primary school mufti day. It wasn’t like a cute twin thing, she’s four years younger than me. 2. My Celine handbag. Worn with my marle trackpants on deadline, I’m like a walking oxymoron. 3. Person? People! Olivia Palermo and Johannes Huebl are the epitome of a sassy-as-fuck couple.

mini skirt, mismatched knee high socks and pink Gallaz sneakers were definitely a standout though. 2. At the moment I’m never without my Lonely Hearts Utopia Coat - it’s like a blanket but also dressy enough to wear anytime. 3. I don’t know about ever, but when I want inspiration I look up Chloe Sevigny, Alexa Chung, or trendy musicians like Tokimonsta & Yukimi Nagano. I’m also a bit overly obsessed with Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid and Taylor Swift’s clique.

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KIRSTY RANDELL - DESIGN ASSISTANT

ANNABELLE ROSE - ART DIRECTOR

ASSISTANT & ONLINE MANAGER @isabelletruman 1. The ‘90s were full of them. The pleated denim

@kirstydawnstudio 1. I had a pink & black Von Dutch handbag and hat. I basically kitted myself out in Von Dutch. I also had a pair of flared purple jeans - I thought

those were great. I was 9, I think. 2. My ‘The Horse’ watch. I just feel naked without it. Oh and my leather jacket, it goes with everything. 3. Alexa Chung. She always looks great and I want her wardrobe.

CARL THOMPSON - TRAVEL WRITER

@creativecarl 1. Going to primary school in fluorescent handmade MC Hammer pants. Thanks mum. 2. I have a few special pieces I have picked up from different cities around the world. A shirt from Paris, a blazer from Switzerland, a jacket from LA, shoes from NYC. 3. I love Karl Lagerfeld. His style is so defined. I love this attention to detail and his ‘i don’t care what you think’ look.

FASHION EDITORS 1. We have the former Fashion Police star on our cover. Looking back what’s your biggest ever fashion faux pas? 2. When it comes to fashion, how do you define ‘style’? 3. Who is the most fashionable person ever? Dead or alive? Why? 4. Who is your favourite Kiwi designer and why?

AMBER PEEBLES | @amber_peebles

1. The biggest faux pas that comes to mind was my hair do for the school ball, which consisted of two cone-shaped peaks on my head with a curled piece of hair that popped through the centre. 2. Confidence, flair and class - for me it’s a combination of these things that form someone’s style. 3. It’s hard to go past the brave lady that revolutionised the way women dress, born a century ahead of me. She had a true timeless style that influenced the world and continues to do so. Such an interesting inspiring woman, all hail Coco Chanel. 4. I wear a lot of Liam and Juliette Hogan. But one of the best things about this job is working with brands I hadn’t been exposed to and I’m finding newfound love for so many others. We are spoilt for choice with a wealth of amazing designers in this country.

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JAIME RIDGE | @jaimeridge 1. Biggest fashion faux pas – there are far too many! Throughout my late teen years I loved to experiment, so it’s safe to say there are numerous ensembles I look back on with regret. Hey it was fun at the time! 2. Style is a way to say who you are without speaking. I feel you express who you are or who you want to be with the way you dress. What I wear expresses who I am. 3. I simply cannot choose one. However if I had to choose three they would be Victoria Beckham, Olivia Palermo and Audrey Hepburn. Each of them are groomed to perfection and classic in their dress. They all maintain an effortless, sleek and chic appearance and that is why I adore them all. 4. There are far too many incredible New Zealand designers to choose one Currently I am loving both Georgia Alice and Lucilla Gray. Each of them have a strong design aesthetic. I truly admire them both and am very excited to see what each of them become.

PEBBLES HOOPER| @pebbleshooper

1. Between the ages of 10 and 14 was a blur of experimental looks. Dickies and Paul Frank played a key role in me finding my identity as an adolescent, and even though it was all a part of growing up, I still find it hard to look at those pictures. 2. Style is something you have. It’s something different for everyone, but it’s the way you carry yourself and your confidence in what you think is fashionable. 3. Nan Kempner because when I saw her partially donated wardrobe at the Met in New York, it almost brought me to tears. Someone that passionate and driven by fashion deserves that title. 4. WORLD because I’m biased and because they’re geniuses.

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MILLIE ELDER-HOLMES - FOOD WRITER @millieelderholmes 1. Wearing fur, can’t stand the fur trade and totally kick myself for rocking vintage fur jackets in my youth. 2. My favorite things are jewellery and all the jewellery I wear is extremely sentimental. I love my Morris family crest ring and my dad’s Breitling watch. 3. Audrey Hepburn she needs no explanation. Timeless beauty. FIONA CONNOR - WRITER

@fiona_sees 1. DC skate shoes. Not a proud moment. 2. My gold chain Chanel shoulder bag always holds me up when I want to fall down.3. Alexa Chung, does she even try?

ANEKA BURDEN - INTERN

@anekaburden 1. Nothing trumps the day I dyed my hair pink, covered myself in body glitter, and wore purple sparkly bell-bottoms with matching crop top. It wasn’t a pretty sight. 2. I will forever be in love with my Miss Crabb Julee Cruise Dress - it’s perfect for dressing up or down. 3. I’m more of a now girl than a forever one, so the girl I’m obsessed with at the moment is Pepa Mack off Instagram. From luxe knit jumpers to ribbedsleeve leather jackets, her style is the dream.

EVA BRICHAU - PHOTOGRAPHER

@eva.brichau 1. As much as it pains me to admit it, I used to own a red leather crop top. Only wore it once, pretty sure my friends threw it away. 2. At the moment I love my coat. It’s the first time I invested in a decent one and I’m not sure why I didn’t do it sooner. Life is so much warmer. 3. Olivia Palermo. Her outfits are just always on point. She changes between classy, edgy and feminine and doesn’t just stick to one, which is what I do depending on my mood.

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FRASER CHATHAM - PHOTOGRAPHER @fraserchatham 1. Everything with an energy drink logo. 2. The black jeans my girlfriend made me. Black works with everything. 3. Michael Jackson. DAISY CONROY-BOTICA - INTERN

@ daisyelizabethcb 1. Wearing ripped stockings and fingerless lace gloves in my ‘goth’ phase. 2. My black Karen Walker jacket that I got for my 14th birthday. 3. Audrey Hepburn. Her style was simple and elegant, she’s basically my style icon.

KAREN ISHIGURO - PHOTOGRAPHER

@ishigurokaren 1. When I used to wear high-heels while I was shooting. Bad times. 2. My coat collection. Makes anything look sophisticated in the winter. 3. Giovanna Battaglia. Her style is impeccable.

KIRSTY GODSO - FITNESS COLUMNIST

@kirstygodso 1. Oh man, this is not a nice flashback, but probably some grey and sequined Sass & Bide track pants. 2. My triple black Nike Air Huaraches because I can wear them with anything! They top off any of my outfits from sportswear to leather pants and they’re so comfortable! 3. My dream fashion icon would be a combination of Adrianne Ho and Julie Sarinana and Kanye West. I appreciate high fashion and love the detail of designer clothing, but for me it’s all about sportswear with one or two fashion pieces.

ZEENAT WILKINSON - STYLIST @zeenatwilkinson 1. Herve Leger bodycon dress. I don’t even know what I was thinking? It’s just not me... 2. My Prada classic black heels, because they are Prada and they go with everything. 3. Diana Vreeland!

SHELTON WOOLRIGHT - PHOTOGRAPHER @dearshelton 1. It’s pretty hard to go wrong in a t-shirt, jeans and kicks, but I’d be lying if I said I haven’t looked a bit fruity from time to time. In all honestly though I haven’t really put myself out there in terms of fashion so we’re good. 2. My black ripped jeans. I can get away with wearing them almost anywhere outside of a wedding or funeral. Super versatile and comfortable on stage, on the street or in the studio. 3. Kurt Cobain. Not only have I always been a fan of Nirvana, but the way he effortlessly owned the grunge look, which influenced me in my teens and even still today. JONO PARKER - PHOTOGRAPHER

@parker 1. Skater shoes. 2. Favourite piece of fashion is a plain black tee. Too easy, and can’t go wrong with it! 3. A real love him or loathe him type of guy: Kanye West. To me personally he is the most fashionable person ever. Constantly shifting the landscape of men’s fashion with his forwardthinking style. He’s a creative genius..

LAUREN MATTHEWS - WRITER @laurenmatildamatthews 1. When I was 16 I owned a pair of high-heeled Timberlands. Yes, you read correctly. However, this was when J Lo was cool. 2. I have a vintage fur coat that I’m in love with. It’s so glamorous, and I love that women before me have owned it. No doubt that coat has seen some weird and wonderful things. 3. I would say I take fashion inspiration from celebrities like the Olsen twins, Sahara Ray and Olivia Palermo. But I’m constantly in awe of outfits my girlfriends pull together, so am quite happy to let them take charge and dress me.

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SPRING STYLE TRENDS

CHIARA FERRAGNI

WATERCOLOUR DAYS

Research

People

Fashion

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SPRING ACCESSORIES

RUBY ROSE

ETHEREAL ENERGY

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People

Fashion

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FASHION PN A PHONE

ADAM LAMBERT

MIDNIGHT AT THE GALLERY

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FOODIE NEWS

EVA LONGORIA

SPRING TIDE

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STYLE & GROOMING NEWS

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KELLY OSBOURNE

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THE FAT JEWISH

BEAUTY NEWS

MAJOR LAZER

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CHELSEA JADE

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ON LOCATION IN RIO

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TAILORING Embracing courageous at the iconic Athfield House, Welllington

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Our favourite showcase of Kiwi fashion drew crowds back to Golden Dawn each night during the second week of August, with runway shows from Karen Walker, Zambesi, Kate Sylvester, NOM*d, Workshop and Helen Cherry. Presented by Bombay Sapphire in association with R+Co and supported by Quartz Reef and Hallertau, The Marr Factory hosted a long list of designers, media and celebrities, all eager to check out the latest collections from the greatest in New Zealand fashion. Photos by Clara Pafundi.

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HARMAN GRUBIŠA HAS A FANCY NEW HOME

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Harman Grubiša have been on a wild ride since designers Madeleine Harman and Jessica Grubiša joined forces in 2014 to start what has since become one of New Zealand’s most talked about new labels. The girls recently opened the doors of their first physical store, presenting a stunning space on Jervois Road in Ponsonby, designed by Fabricate architects and with furniture from DOMO. Housing their latest collection of womenswear and accessories, the exquisite space features details of stone, clean lines of custom racking and a focal pendant light by Michael Anastassiades for FLOS at ECC. harmangrubisa.com

There’s no going back from being featured in Vogue magazine. However, that’s exactly what happened to Kiwi girls Paris Mitchell and Georgia Cherrie, when their online store The Mercantile was praised by the fashion bible. Launched in early 2015, The Mercantile features vintage pieces carefully selected and curated by the stylish young duo, who also work as freelance stylists and designers on a range called Georgia Paris Basics. Keep checking back in with The Mercantile to see the gorgeous vintage pieces the girls have up for grabs. themercantileonlinestore.com

CLARKS’ DESERT BOOT STILL GOING STRONG

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THE WORLD UNDER ONE ROOF

Along with new season arrivals from Acne Studios, Alexander Wang, Helmut Lang & Marc by Marc Jacobs, Workshop have started seeling three amazing new footwear brands. Chloe mainline, Proenza Schouler and Jil Sander Navy will now be stocked at Workshop stores and online. Workshop has once again done an incredible job at making international fashion accessible in New Zealand! workshop.co.nz

Don’t panic! WORLD hasn’t gone, they’ve just moved. After retailing on Ponsonby Road for over 20 years, WORLD is combining both their Fashion and Beauty store into one space on the iconic Franklin road corner. This new luxury boutique features WORLD’s new season range, alongside an extended collection of objet d’art, fragrance, room scent and skincare from their beauty selection. worldbrand.co.nz

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This year marks 65 years since Clarks released their iconic Desert Boot. Understated and effortless, for dressing up or down, the Desert Boot makes a stylish statement for both men and women, with its smart casual versatility a key reason the design has stood the test of time. The Clarks Desert Boot is created using quality materials and cobbler techniques, from its stitch-down construction, natural crepe rubber sole, signature double eyelet and unmistakable silhouette. Clarks has remained true to their traditions and values while embracing contemporary experimentation and collaborations to create a wide range of Clarks Originals. hannahs.co.nz

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TIMBERLAND BOOTS STILL ON THE UP

BOOHOO’S ‘70S THROWBACK boohoo pays tribute to the ‘70s this season, with a spring/summer edit that combines vintage styles with a modern, directional edge. High-neck crops, crochet, and a range of denim, combined with figure-flattering midi dresses and culottes, make up an eclectic but classic collection. The range oozes femininity with a pastel infused palette consisting of paisley coord sets, botanical prints and crisp white basics. Then the extensive selection of accessories is full of must-haves, including wide brimmed hats, oversized sunnies and backpacks. Shoe-wise there’s just as much selection, with everything from strappy stilettos to classic brogues. boohoo.com

GUCCI’S FIERCE & FEMININE NEW FRAGRANCE Gucci’s new perfume Bamboo embraces the strong, confident woman in a new fragrance that maintains elegance and femininity, while also promoting fierceness. The scent captures the modern woman as she balances power with poise in the hustle of a busy lifestyle. As a nod to bamboo’s ability to withstand the force of hurricanes, Gucci has created a stunning formula that combines exotic florals with sandalwood, Tahitian vanilla and amber.

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Some things get better with time and the fresh new take on the Timberland boot is no exception. Timberland have added a vibrant pop of colour to the timeless favourite with their new Timberland Monochromatic 6” Premium Boot collection. The range adds to the stylish and authentic vibes we love so much about Timberland boots with colours including off-white, salmon and folkestone grey. That’s alongside the exclusive antifatigue technology, premium waterproof nubuck leather, seam-sealed construction and rugged lug outsoles, which allow long-lasting durability to boldly take on any weather condition. timberland.com

INDULGE IN A DAY OUT The Indulge Her Day Out event is coming to Auckland this November and will feature all the latest fashion, beauty, vitality and lifestyle inspiration. The event is not to be missed, with a stellar line-up and dynamic approach viewing the latest fashion and beauty breakthroughs. Be inspired by guest speakers discussing a range of topics, including antiageing, relationships and wellbeing. Enjoy a hassle-free day with some of your closest in a fashionably elegant atmosphere. Treat yourself to a spa treatment or mini makeover while you’re there! nzindulge.co.nz

RUN STRONG WITH UNDER ARMOUR For runners looking to mix up their routine with strengthening drills, versatility, flexibility and superior cushioning are essential. It’s a good thing Under Armour have come to the party then with their new charged cushioning shoe for men and women, which offers exceptional forefoot flexibility and superior cushioning like no other. The charger cushioning delivers superior impact protection and energy return to keep you going for longer. They take the force out of surface impact and convert it into responsive comfort, helping you run better and get fitter. underarmour.co.nz

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CITROËN’S DS BRAND PAYS TRIBUTE TO LATE FASHION ICON IN PARIS If you’re heading to Europe anytime soon, then pencil in a trip to DS WORLD Paris, which is currently exhibiting a photographic tribute to fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent. A series of 36 unseen images of the fashion icon, taken by Pierre Boulat and then his daughter Alexandra, retrace nearly 40 years of the designer’s life, from his beginnings at Dior to his last show in 2002. The series takes visitors inside world of Yves Saint Laurent, his shows, his home life, and everything in between. It’s the latest incredible showcase presented by Citroën at DS WORLD and our international readers have until September 10th to check it out! citroen.co.nz

NEW BALANCE LIFESTYLE COLLECTION GOES 2.0 The most popular styles in the New Balance Lifestyle collection are about to get a makeover with some new additions, including New Balance key performance technologies. Prepare for midsole cushioning, the new Vazee running system and the Phantom fit technology to be incorporated into the iconic 574 and 1980 silhouettes. The new styles follow the classics, making performance and sport meet the requirements of a 24/7 lifestyle. New Balance says this represents a major evolution for the range as they look to put an enhanced focus on what they call ‘sport-style’, defined as mashing performance necessities and re-engineered classics. newbalance.co.nz

START THINKIN’ SUMMER SHADES We’ve got a major preoccupation with having the hottest seasonal items before everyone else, so we’ve already started searching for our favourite new Summer shades. One range that ‘caught our eye’ was the latest from Blenders Eyewear, a brand launched by two friends out of Southern California in 2012. Blenders Eyewear is stylish, cutting-edge and affordable brand, with head-turning and vibrant designs that stand out from the rest. Summer is on the way, so sort your new frames ahead of the pack. blenderseyewear.co.nz

NICK VON K ‘ENGAGES’ IN A NEW DIRECTION The latest collection by New Zealand jewellery brand Nick Von K is the first since enigmatic designer Nick Von Klarwill got engaged. The experience of making such an important ring clearly had an impact Nick, whose latest collection Glitter Runs In Our Veins is a more sophisticated and luxe range, with delicate pieces in place of his famous chunkier, grungy look. The collection centres around a spaceman floating among the stars of the universe in search of adventure. As well as the gorgeous spaceman pendant, we adore the stunning star studs and matching necklace. nickvonk.com

LOGITECH TURNING HEADS An old favourite gets a new look! Household brand Logitech is now placing design at the core of all their efforts, creating a portfolio of products that go beyond the normal expectation of a PC. They’re reinventing products that have a place in every aspect of our lives. The change comes with a colorful new attitude and a re-designed logo. The newer products can be found under simply ‘Logi’, with a motto that design is the combination of advanced technology, business strategy and insights from their customers. Keep an eye out for what’s next. logitech.com

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GIGI HADID JOINS THE TOPSHOP RANKS Cara was a face and Kendall did a campaign, so it was only a matter of time before Gigi became joined the Topshop ranks as well. Those girls are joined at the hip! Topshop has unveiled model and fashionista Gigi Hadid as the latest face for Topshop, joining a prestigious line-up that has included icons like Kate Moss. Mega babe Gigi is the face of the Topshop Autumn / Winter 2015 campaign, and her effortless, Californian style, together with her bold and confident personality, makes her the perfect Topshop girl. Visit Topshop at 203 Queen Street, Auckland.

SEE AN IDEA YOU DIG GO GLOBAL Mauri ora! Ever thought one of your ideas had the potential to be a really big deal? Well, here’s a way your idea could be taken to the next level. Dig My Idea is the Maori Innovation Challenge and a chance to submit a digital business idea that has a focus on economic outcomes for Maori and Aotearoa. It can be any digital business idea that has the potential to go global. Register online to receive advice and resources on how to build your idea and pitch, and to check out the huge amount of prizes up for grabs. Entries close October 18th, so get in there! digmyidea.nz

OSBORNE LANE: FIVE REASONS TO VISIT THE HOTTEST NEW SPOT IN NEWMARKET Tucked away between Osborne Street, Kent Street and York Street sits Osborne Lane, a destination hub of beautiful boutique shops and eateries, frequented by foodies, fashion lovers and those in the know. From the best high-end stores to grab and go bagels and coffee, Osborne Lane is rapidly becoming a new hot spot. Here are five reasons you should check it out… 1. CAMPER COFFEE. The Camper Coffee crew really know their coffee and pride themselves on serving up the best brew in the area. Pop by for an espresso and a yarn.

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2. NEST. Nest is one of those stylish and inviting stores that you wish you could live in. Kitted out with the best quality homeware items, visiting Nest should be on everyone’s weekend to-do list. 3. I LOVE UGLY. Home to one of New Zealand’s biggest fashion success stories, the I Love Ugly Osborne Lane store shows off everything the brand is known for, with beautifully detailed and designed fashion filling the exquisite space. 4. BEST UGLY BAGELS. Created by Al Brown, the famous Montreal bagels served

alongside Havana coffee have become something of an Auckland signature, a musttry for visitors and a popular brunch spot for locals. 5. BURGER BURGER. The second, and biggest, destination for the famous Burger Burger, where burger lovers can indulge in the ice cream bar or head down at the weekend to try the new brunch menu. Bacon and egg burger anyone? newmarket.co.nz Words by Isabelle Truman.

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THE PERFECT LITTLE BLACK DRESS Australian blogger Jasmine Dowling understands that style is about so much more than simply following trends, which is why moochi chose her to design a piece in their latest Style Set collaboration. Jasmine tells Remix about how she designed the perfect little black dress…

Which piece/s did you design in the latest moochi Style Set collaboration? Tell us a bit about the process designing it. I designed a little black A-line dress for the collection. When I was asked to be involved the first thing I asked myself was what I have been searching for my own wardrobe. It was the perfect black dress. I knew the dress needed to be versatile and comfortable, but with a unique cut, so from there I started sketching. How did your background / personal style inform your design? I have always been more style than trend driven because I don’t have a model’s figure. I always pay attention to the fit and the cut of garments and that was really important in designing this piece. I have cut the shoulders in to be quite narrow and padded the neckline so it stands up slightly, with pockets for utility. REMIX MAGAZINE RESEARCH

Tell us more about your blog. Who are your readers? When did you start out? What was your original reason for starting a blog? The original reason for starting the blog came from social media in 2013. I found myself posting a lot of outfits to my Instagram and realised that was turning into a mini fashion blog. It helped that my partner is a photographer, so I put him to work and we made it happen. My readers are very design and style oriented. They are not slaves to fashion trends, but more focused on personal style and expression. How would you describe your personal style then? My personal style is focused on easy-to-wear basics with an edge. Whether that edge is the cut of the garment, the fabric or the volume, I like pieces with a surprise. Since I am not someone who would wear something only once, I make sure my pieces are versatile and usually fit within

a diverse colour scheme. For me dressing is all about getting garments that suit you, your body type and your day ahead. What do you think it is about moochi that makes it so popular? Why do women love their garments so much? I think moochi really pays attention to what a modern woman is wearing and will want to wear. They take hints from trends but turn them into wearable staple garments. Their shapes and attention to the cut of the garment is so evident, and I think that’s really important to the modern woman. You could easily build your dream staple wardrobe from moochi alone. jasminedowling.com moochi.com Photo by Michael John Hughes

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CATCHING UP WITH KATE Having recently made a welcome return to New Zealand Fashion Week, Kate Sylvester will this year present her latest collection in association with Mercedes-Benz, joining a prestigious list of designers worldwide to so before her. Now 22 years in the business with her husband Wayne, Kate is taking a moment to look back on the industry and how things have changed. She opens up to Remix writer Fiona Connor about what keeps her motivated as one of New Zealand’s most cherished fashion designers.

When did you realise your passion for fashion design? As a kid all I did was play with dress-ups and make cut out dolls. I think it was at intermediate that I suddenly kind of clicked I could do that as a job. My parents were teachers so at primary school I imagined that grownups became teachers and then suddenly I realized ‘I could play for the rest of my life’ and that was that. Do you think starting a business helped or challenged you back in 1993? There are geographical challenges with being in New Zealand but that’s balanced by the fact that as a nation we are so incredibly supportive. We were living in Paris, Wayne and I, he was working in graphic design and I was working for a designer and we started to talk about doing our own business. His bosses were sponsoring him for residency so we potentially could have stayed and lived in Paris, but when we started to talk about our own business we thought it made a lot more sense to start a business in New Zealand.

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How has the fashion industry changed over the last 22 years? It has changed so much. It’s barely recognisable really. I think the Internet’s changed everything in how we communicate. Now any brand starting up is on a global stage. When we first started up we were just a New Zealand brand in New Zealand, whereas now there’s no sort of concept of that, you can sell to anywhere in the world now. The flipside is that the infrastructure of the industry has changed so much too. I mean we produce product in China now; you just cannot produce everything in New Zealand anymore. Every aspect of the business as we know it has changed. Can you name a time, perhaps when first starting out, that the hard work you were putting in felt validated? There have been lots of them over the years, lots of validating moments. Certainly getting that first wholesale order from Workshop was really fantastic. Also, the first show that we did in Sydney, which was in ‘97, was incredibly exciting. 64

The Australians sat up and took notice with that collection, which we sold to Barney’s in New York. What principles do you hope to communicate through your designs? To me the collections work on two different levels and there’s two ways people can relate. On the one hand there is the storytelling that we have around the collections. But then I also love the fact that I design clothes for women to live in. What I absolutely love is how women take Kate Sylvester clothes and interpret them and wear them in their own life and wear them for years. I don’t design these one-off concept pieces that can only be worn one way. The way that I design is about embracing women’s lives. If not a fashion designer you would be… I would be making something. Kate makes things. katesylvester.com Words by Fiona Connor Photo of Kate by Olivia Hemus

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ANGE TODD OF ISAAC + LULU Ange Todd is head designer at the seaside studio of Sills + Co, shared with shoe designer Kathryn Wilson. Todd says her latest venture Isaac + Lulu started as an indulgence, the opportunity to create things for her friends and people like her, who share a taste and similar lifestyle.

How did you come to start Isaac + Lulu? Was it something you had planned or did it happen organically? Isaac + Lulu really just happened, and I love that it has just organically evolved into something that we, and others are wearing and enjoying. I have spent a number of years designing for various brands, and to succeed in this role you need to respect and understand the brand you are designing for, while ensuring it is progressive and fresh. This more often than not means designing product you personally would not always wear. Isaac + Lulu started as ‘our’ indulgence, the opportunity to create things for ‘us’, our friends and for people like us, who share our taste and have similar lifestyles. When I say ‘our’, I am alluding to the great team I am lucky enough to work with at Sills + Co. Collectively we bring Isaac + Lulu to life. Has fashion and design always been a part of your background? Yes, from making some ‘stunning’ outfits in my teenage years, I say that very tongue ‘n’ cheek, I’m cringing remembering that bright pink tube dress I proudly made and wore too often. Being a bit of a perfectionist, I quickly recognised I needed to REMIX MAGAZINE RESEARCH

learn how to do things properly and had a desire to learn about textiles, tailoring and design. I did my time at Massey University, learning the fundamentals of design and business, while making some lifelong friends. Been designing ever since! How would you describe your collection? Perhaps to someone over the phone? What’s the aesthetic? The range is fresh, fun and thoughtful. The starting point of every collection is thinking about gaps in my wardrobe and pieces, shapes and colours that I am currently coveting. That includes sourcing from vintage through to draping entirely new shapes. I think this is what gives it a unique and unpredictable aesthetic. The collection has pieces that will have you covered from off-duty cool through to glamorous evening. What makes Isaac + Lulu special? It is unpredictable, we’re not taking the lead from anyone else, which is liberating and really frees up the design process. It’s important to keep it accessible and wearable, so you don’t need to think too hard about what goes with what. I think it’s fair to say the collections are well considered and everything needs to earn its place.

Who would be your dream person to wear / use one of your pieces and why? That’s easy, Cara Delevingne. She’s super cute, with just the right amount of quirky. I like that she comes across as uncomplicated, a straight shooter. I often consider her as a muse for the collection; we have a gorgeous shot of her on our mood board for Winter 2016. Do you have a favourite or special piece? The poppy skirt. Call me indulgent, but I have a red, black and navy one. Love the ‘50s nippedin waist, full pleated midi skirt and modern side pockets, it’s a new shape for me and I’m loving it. What’s next in the pipeline for you? Ideas are always being knocked around the office with the team, and right now there is a bucket list opportunity we are considering, but it’s a bit too early to share. What I can share is that we are working on a line of beautiful leather handbags. There are two shapes, a ladylike shoulder bag and a cute smaller cross-body bag. They are divine and will be available online and in store in November. instagram.com/isaacandlulu

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AMBER BIBBY OF LITTLE GHOST Self-described accessories addict Amber Bibby has created a gorgeous and unique line of leather accessories with her boutique fashion label, Little Ghost. How did you come to start Little Ghost accessories? Was it something you had planned or did it happen organically? The brand name Little Ghost has been with me for years but it wasn’t until 2014 that I had the ‘lightbulb moment’ and realised what it was to become. Fashion has always been a huge part of my life so combining my obsession for accessories and love of leather/textures, the ball started rolling to design my own pieces. So, I guess it’s happened both organically and intentionally. Has fashion and design always been a part of your background? Even when I was a little girl I enjoyed designing dresses and drawing crowns. Taking photos and creating stylised looks was also a favourite passtime. Having a mum who worked in the makeup industry led to a love of beauty and all things fashion. I definitely think having that influence growing up led to a natural adoration for fashion and design. How would you describe your products? Perhaps to someone over the phone? What’s the aesthetic? We are creators of handmade leather accessories. There is a real contrast in our range, from delicate suedes and furs to spiked and studded REMIX MAGAZINE RESEARCH

embellishments. Beautifully soft pastel colours to strong blacks and greys. Our designs are both practical and unique.

and not wanting to take my bag with me. I wanted a wallet that would fit my lipstick, cellphone and traditional wallet contents - I guess like a clutch.

What makes Little Ghost accessories special? By arming yourself with one of Little Ghost’s accessories, you’re telling the world something about yourself, whether you are bold and daring and like to leave your mark on the world, or a more delicate, measured spirit who prefers to mix sophistication with just a touch of edginess. We are a mindset; an expression of strength, beauty, style and confidence.

Tell us a bit about your design process and how you come up with the inspiration? I love creating mood boards at the beginning of the design process. They become quite extensive with pictures of scenery, art, quotes, stylised looks and leather swatches; lots of different colours and textures - they could easily take over my studio. I like having a story behind the collection. I design pieces that are practical, because after having a baby and having a busy lifestyle I realise how practicality is important in fashion.

Who would be your dream person to wear / use one of your accessories and why? There are so many fierce, inspirational women making their stamp in fashion it is impossible to choose just one. We adore strong, unique babes that carry their looks with confidence, like Leigh Lezark, Jemima Kirk, Kelly Osbourne, Chloe Sevigny, the Olsen Twins, Elisa Sednaoui and Alison Mosshart to name a few. Do you have a favourite or special piece? I personally use the black and gold ‘Empress’ - I love the oversized wallets. The design for the slightly larger wallet came from going to lunch 68

What’s next in the pipeline for you? Little Ghost is forever evolving and being quite new, we are having fun discovering the brand’s strengths and personality. I am currently working on the next collection and continuing to push the Little Ghost brand to the masses. littleghost.co.nz Words by Steven Fernandez

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10 YEARS OF ZOE & MORGAN It’s hard not to be moved by the remarkable pieces that line the forefront of the glass casings in the Zoe & Morgan shop. The combination of exquisite designs with the intricate placings of precious stones is beautiful to the eye, yet so powerful on the mind. Behind each collection is a theme, inspired by a place formerly travelled and explored by designers and siblings Zoe, Morgan and Ruth. Fiona Connor spoke to Zoe Williams, co-founder of Zoe & Morgan, about their inspiration, goals and what they will be doing to celebrate 10 years.

How much of an influence did your father have on your passion for jewellery design? A big influence, definitely. He had ‘Moonbird Silver and Gold Jewellery’. He originally had a shop in Ibiza and that’s why Morgan is in Ibiza this year with a pop up Zoe & Morgan shop. It just holds a close space in our hearts. He bought us all to New Zealand as a family when we were kids and had a shop in Devonport. He used to run jewellery workshops there after hours and loads of people would go and learn how to make jewellery so I decided from a really young age that I would go into jewellery too. What message does Zoe & Morgan hope to communicate to buyers? What we’re interested in is freedom and travel and adventure and kind of living life like our Mum, who is Buddhist. We aim to run a respectful business, stay humble and we consider everyone as equals. A lot of what we make has a special message but we just want to kind of put it across in a subtle way. REMIX MAGAZINE RESEARCH

What sets Zoe & Morgan apart? What I like is the industry is really fast moving. For example a lot of the technology that is used to make jewellery now wasn’t even invented when dad was alive. I think a lot of the industry has struggled to keep up with the new technologies as there are a lot of old school techniques to make jewellery. Unlike most jewellers we merge both. I am personally really interested in the combination of traditional techniques and the latest, cuttingedge technologies. Where do you find inspiration for each collection? We will always choose a theme and that theme will normally be based on somewhere that we have been that we were really inspired by. For example the ‘Eye of the Tiger’ collection a few seasons ago was inspired by a trip to Bhutan, and ‘She is like a rainbow’ by the English countryside. And then our current collection ‘Huia’ is inspired by New Zealand.

Any chance your own kids would follow in your footsteps? Funny you should say that, last week at Hot Water Beach I asked my daughter what she wants to do when she is older and she said ‘I want to work with Mum.’ What is Zoe & Morgan doing to do to celebrate the 10 year anniversary? We’re celebrating where we came from. We started with the savings in our back pocket and we’ve progressively grown the business each year since then. We’ll celebrate in New Zealand and London with a party. We’ve also got some beautiful images that we are going to be selling and we are releasing a high-end collection of fine jewellery. zoeandmorgan.com Words by Fiona Connor

ROAD TRIP: A SPRING SHOWCASE

Photographer SHELTON WOOLRIGHT Fashion Editor AMBER PEEBLES Styling Assistant ISABELLE TRUMAN Makeup SAM HART using Smashbox Hair by JESSICA TAYLOR from Servilles Model Claudia @ Unique Models

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1. TANGO top, CALKIN KLEIN jewellery, TIGERLILY towel 2. DEADLY PONIES scarf, C&M CAMILLA AND MARC top, CALVIN KLEIN JEANS shirt, TIGERLILY bottoms 3.BILLABONG dress, LEVI’S jacket 4. ONE TEASPOON jacket, CALVIN KLEIN JEANS top, BRIXTON belt, WORKSHOP jeans, MEADOWLARK ring, BLUE BLANK clutch, JEFFREY CAMPBELL heels 5. WITCHERY shirt, CALVIN KLEIN bangle, MEADOWLARK ring, KAREN WALKER ring, stylist’s own boots

DENIM DIARIES Expert advice direct from Levi’s denim guru Jen Sey to help you find the perfect pair of jeans this season. Tell us a bit about your background with Levi’s. I’ve been with Levi’s for 16 years. I’ve had a wide variety of experience here, which has kept it interesting. I’ve done everything from in-store marketing for Levi’s to leading Dockers Marketing, leading the Ecommerce global business unit and now I’m the Chief Marketing Officer of Levi’s. What’s your go-to pair of Levi’s? The new 711 Skinny. Love. Wearing them right now in fact in grey. I also love the 721 High Rise Skinny. They make my legs look longer than they should (I’m only 5’4” on a tall day). And they make my tummy look flatter than it is! What should Remix readers look for in buying the perfect pair of jeans? You have to feel amazing. If you feel amazing then chances are you probably look pretty amazing too. REMIX MAGAZINE RESEARCH

Comfort. All part of feeling amazing. Variety! Don’t get stuck on one style. Wear skinnies one day and 501CT the next. Why not? It’s a world out there. Take part in all the looks. Have fun. What has been the most exciting thing you’ve been working on lately? Lately the most exciting thing has been the partnership with Alicia Keys. She is so inspiring and honest and talented. She is the perfect voice for our brand. Brave, authentic and real. Tell us a bit about the new women’s denim collection. What was the inspiration and reasoning behind it? The idea is to provide every woman with a pair of jeans that she can look and feel amazing in. That she feels like she can go out and take on the world in. Because when you’re wearing a great pair of 74

jeans, you feel pretty ‘badass’ – to quote Alicia Keys. And as she says, all women are naturally badass, so they all deserve to feel that way. 501 has obviously always been your biggest seller, but what are the other jeans that have been really taking off lately? The 501 CT (short for customized and tapered) is our big new fit for 2015. The 511 slim is huge for men right now. We led the market with the men’s slim/skinny trend and we continue to every day. We have a 541 Athletic fit in men’s right now that is also really picking up steam. It provides a slim look for a more athletic build. Within women’s the launch of the new 700 series is the big news. The 711 Skinny is sure to be our next hit. levi.com Words by Isabelle Truman.

SUSPENDED IN SPRING A few of our favourite Spring accessories celebrated in the art of stationary suspension.

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VINTAGE 101 Top tips on the art of vintage shopping Vintage shopping is a totally different beast to ordinary retail shopping, but for those willing to dive in and have a go, the rewards can be priceless. To gain some tips on sourcing second hand pieces, Remix writer Fiona Connor spoke to Mark Cowie, operations manager for Recycle Boutique. Having recently returned from the United States, where he travels to find pre-loved gear for the store, Mark gave some advice on the art of vintage shopping. Why has Recycle Boutique decided to start bringing items over from the United States? We’ve done this in the past but in smaller quantities, never to this extent. Our goal is to provide an extra service for our customers. Whether it’s our customers who drop of their pre-loved designer clothing to sell or our diehard regulars looking for an awesome deal, we want to make sure we give the best possible option to finding something they love at a good price. Customers have the option to buy secondhand New Zealand designers for a fraction of the price REMIX MAGAZINE RESEARCH

or go for a few vintage pieces like Harley tees and denim Levi jackets. It’s all about options. How do you identify quality vintage gear? The quality is important but it’s also about making sure the item is genuine and real and not a fake. Then also matching it to the style that’s popular and on trend. What are some tips for finding the best vintage wear? The trick is to take your time and never give up. Just when you think you’ve had it and can’t keep looking anymore through that bin of 1000 shirts you find that amazing one-off piece that makes it all worthwhile. Another tip I would have is don’t be afraid of a small stain, sometimes it adds a little character to the piece and to be honest you will most likely be able to get the stain removed. Stylistically speaking, what in your opinion makes great vintage? Style tips for vintage at present range from flared denim, striped dresses and tops to wool 78

collar denim jackets, long sleeve tees with classic Levis 501s. Our main goal for our recent trip was sourcing ‘90s street wear clothing. We went looking for long sleeve tees, denim dungarees, college jumpers, track jackets, sneakers, boyfriend jeans, colour blocked blouses, turtle neck sweaters, throwback tees, playsuits and classic band tees. What are some of the best finds you have brought back already? On our last trip we brought back women’s and men’s brands such as Pendleton, Nike, Calvin Klein, GAP, Tommy Hilfiger, Converse, Starter, Adidas, Lacoste, Ralph Lauren, Levi’s, Wrangler, Disney and Champion. The best find was without a doubt the Harley Davidson tees. recycleboutique.co.nz Words by Fiona Connor Photography by Eva Brichau

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We set ourselves a challenge this issueâ€Ś to pull off a fashion shoot using only the camera on a mobile phone. Photographer Karen Ishiguro shot this Spring editorial using only the new Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge. Stylist Amber Peebles chose a palette of blue and green for the fashion as a nod to the recent release of the Samsung Galaxy S6 in blue topaz and the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge in green emerald.

Photographer KAREN ISHIGURO on SAMSUNG GALAXY S6 & S6 EDGE Stylist AMBER PEEBLES Styling Assistant ISABELLE TRUMAN Hair SARA ALLSOP @ DHARMA Makeup SHARON NGEN @ MAC Coesmetics Models SOPHIE CREAN @ Red 11 & STUART RUSSELL @ 62 Models

Stuart wears COCURATA vest, WORLD badge, ZAMBESI tank, WORKSHOP pants. Sophie wears VANISHING ELEPHANT shirt & skirt, LEVI’S shirt, TOPSHOP bracelets, ZOE & MORGAN ring, BENAH FOR KAREN WALKER bag

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1. GRANOLA TO GET UP FOR It’s a struggle to get out of bed most mornings, but the crew at True Food have provided the ultimate incentive. Their delicious natural granola is a total mood lifter. Their ‘Raglan Classic’ is paleo, gluten free, vegan,and 100% organic, so you don’t have to feel guilty about eating it. Oh and it tastes delicious. True Food are currently offering free shipping for first time customers. truefood.co.nz 2. WIBBLY WOBBLY GOODNESS At the start of 2015 Jessica Mentis combined her two passions, food and architecture, to produce unique jelly creations for everyone to enjoy on Instagram @ thejellyologist. She posted a new jelly everyday for 100 days using innovative flavour combinations, including grape cucumber and dill, earl grey and almond milk, and rosemary infused vodka. Jess designs the moulds on architectural software, prints them off with a 3D printer and then fills with jelly. Now that the 100 days are up she’s designing bespoke jelly pieces that showcase her spectacular wobbling creations. mentisstudios.com/thejellyologist

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3. DOMINION ROAD’S LATEST The new addition to the Vinyl Coffee Shop family on Auckland’s Dominion Road is not to be missed. Ralph’s Bar & Eatery has a menu full of flavour with plenty of free-range meats, as well as vegetarian and vegan options. The menu will be updated every few weeks with exciting specials and new offerings, with the current Pork Belly Burger and the Jalapeño Poppers proving to be popular. There’s also a slushy machine with margaritas and vodka apple sours. So much yes. ralphs.co.nz 4. OVI HYDRATION OVI Hydration is the newest name in flavoured water, an all-natural fruity water without any nasties. There are three delicious flavours to choose from - Citrus, Berry, and Peach - and you’ll be able to find your favourite from supermarkets, dairies, and petrol stations nationwide from this October. With antioxidants from green tea, OVI Hydration is an easy way to get your daily water intake and sweet fix at the same time – a much better alternative than a nasty soft drink. facebook.com/OVIHydrationAustralia

5. BE THE BOSS IN A FOOD TRUCK Ryan’s Kitchen is taking the food truck experience to a whole new level by encouraging diners to get involved in making their own food. You could shake the dressing for your salad, sprinkle your own mix of spices or even craft your own beverage. Creator Ryan Fong’s family previously ran The Fresh Grower, which grows and supplies high quality vegetables to restaurants and supermarkets all over the country which is why Ryan’s Kirtchen has a focus on quality in-season ingredients. ryanskitchen.co.nz 6. FOOD FOR THE SOUL Located in the historic Saatchi & Saatchi building, The Strand Café creates food that’s good for your waist and tastes great too. Their colourful menu and delicious cabinet food are made with seasonal produce and love. Open Monday to Friday from 7am to 4pm they’re a great place to grab a quick bite and a coffee before work or a cold pressed juice on your break. They also do catering for local events as well as being available as a function house for any kind of gathering you have in mind. thestrandcafe.co.nz

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7.WOOHOO! MADAM WOO NOW IN AUCKLAND If you’ve ever been to Queenstown you’ve probably experienced Madam Woo’s wow-worthy authentic Malaysian food. Thankfully creator Josh Emett and Fleur Caulton have decided to open another in Takapuna. Open noon ‘til late everyday, the fastpaced, fun, and fresh restaurant has already become a favourite amongst Aucklanders. The vibrant and irresistible Malaysian menu is to die for, with a cocktail menu equally as impressive. Grab a group of friends and make a trip to Madam Woo in Takapuna if you haven’t had the Queenstown original. You’ll thank us for the suggestion! madamwoo.co.nz/takapuna 8. STREET CORNER CRUMPETS Crumpets are something we don’t eat enough of in New Zealand and that is something we need to change. Fortunately Hamish and Amy, high school sweethearts from Whakatane, are doing just that. Having travelled the world, they’ve returned to New Zealand to try their hand at something creative. They handmade a cart, which they use to sell their crumpets alongside coffee

and organic tea. You can find them during the week on the corner of Khyber Pass and Park Road, then they’re at various markets around Auckland on weekends. krakencrumpets.com 9. DON’T THROW STONES The Glass Goose is the newest edition to the offerings on Federal Street. The bar and eatery is designed to look like a glass house, with a stunning view up from the bottom of The Sky Tower. The food ranges from bite sized shucked oysters to large plates to share with friends. There’s even a raw kitchen menu for those of you that like your food not to be heated above 48°C. They have all the usual beers, ciders, and wines as well as an impressive cocktail selection. Pop by for an after work drink and nibble with your mates. glassgoose.co.nz 10. SO HOT RIGHT NOW New Zealand’s own Huffman’s Hot Sauce was announced as a world champion in the Pepper Blend category at the U.S.A Hot Sauce World Champs in July. The Wellington based company beat over 1000 products entered by over 200 companies worldwide. Priding themselves on being a robust blend of sun-

ripened sweet peppers, distilled white vinegar, and pure sea salt imbued with the warmth of red chilies and smoked Spanish Paprika, Huffman’s Hot Sauce will blow your socks off in more ways than one. huffmanshotsauce.com 11. A CREEPY CRAWLY SNACK If you have a fear of insects, then perhaps read on. Everyone else – get a load of this crazy cool new snack! Auckland lifestyle brand Crawlers have started selling edible insects covered in chocolate. We’re talking scorpions, tarantulas and crickets, as well as bags of ‘mixed bugs’. All of Crawlers’ insects are sourced from farms around the world that are ethical in their trading and the insects themselves are said to contain nutritious supplements. crawlers.co.nz 12. NEW KID ON THE BLOCK Even though it’s new to the scene, Grafton’s Ceremony cafe has already become known for their delicious breakfast sandwiches and great tasting coffee. Started by Connor Nestor and coffee fanatic Charles Williams, Ceremony has some pretty fine food options, as well as friendly staff keen for a yarn. ceremony.company

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FOOD TRUTHS Remix publisher Tim Phin sits down with nutritional expert and BePure founder, Ben Warren, to get the unfiltered lowdown on the food pyramid, the paleo diet and the way to live a healthy lifestyle.

New Zealand is clean, green and healthy, but what is wrong with New Zealand? At the moment we are using too much nitrogen. We’re not putting enough trace minerals back into the soil, so we are not getting the nutrients through in the food that we should get. What is wrong, at the moment, is the whole agricultural system is set up for production quantity, not quality. What that means is as a consumer we get candy floss vegetables, vegetables that haven’t got the nutrients in them that they should have. What’s the answer then? The answer is awareness; first and foremost, people need to be aware of the foods we need to be eating and how to get the nutrients we need. Then transparency and that comes from the consumer. Once people start demanding high quality food then the producers will start getting paid enough money to produce that. So what is BePure? BePure is a company dedicated to having people live happier and healthier lives. For people to live a happier and healthier life they need a base degree of health, energy and ‘feel good’ hormones. For me, that all comes from nutrition and what you put in your body. I’ve tested over 4000 people for zinc and over a third of the people were deficient. They’ve got no chance. Tell me a bit more about BePure ONE specifically. BePure ONE came about because people were REMIX MAGAZINE LIFESTYLE

asking what they need to take to be incredibly healthy and I was telling them they had to take eight products. So we basically made a multi vitamin antioxidant product that has over 50 ingredients, and it has all the base nutrients your body needs for health. We couldn’t put fish oils in there because you can’t blend them, due to antioxidation issues. Basically the base nutrients we recommend is BePure ONE and then high quality fish oil, which for us is BePure THREE. Tell us more about the adrenal support. The adrenal glands make most of our hormones; they primarily make our daytime energy hormone. In the modern world people’s adrenal glands are running out of the raw materials to make these hormones. BePure ONE supplies the raw materials to make the hormones, then your food supplies the building blocks and the adrenal regenerator helps stimulate the adrenal gland through specific pre-made proteins, which makes the hormones we need for energy production. What has bread done to our society? Nothing, I think bread is amazing if you are eating bread from 150 years ago. The trouble is the bread we are eating now is nothing like the bread our great grandparents were eating. There are a number of issues around it. It’s a processed grain, so your body is able to get the energy from it quicker than sugar. Two slices of wholemeal bread will raise your blood sugar levels more than five teaspoons of sugar. Then there is the gluten 88

aspect; the protein that is found in low grains is really problematic. 70% of light skinned people have some degree of gluten intolerance, so that means it’s protein gluten and their bodies’ immune systems react to that protein like it’s a virus. Ok so what’s up with the food pyramid then? The food pyramid is bought and paid for by the food industry. They are doing a good job. Interestingly enough the nutritional team they established for putting together the food pyramid wanted it to go a lot further than the most recent change, but then it went to the powers that be in the United States and for whatever reason they diluted it heavily. So more grains are in there than perhaps should be, but it is improving slowly. Let’s face it: the public knows more now about nutrition, so the food pyramid would be laughable if they left it they way it was. Is there anything harmful about the paleo diet? I don’t believe so, no. It does mean you have to work a little bit harder to get say, your calcium. I think whenever you cut out a major food group you have to work a little bit harder. So if you are a vegetarian you have to work a little harder to get protein. If you are paleo you have to work a little harder to get calcium and fibre. A lot of people think paleo people eat a lot of meat and some veges, but really it could be a lot of veges and a little bit of meat. bepure.co.nz

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PERFECT PICNIC Spring picnic inspiration from four of our favourite foodies, including their chosen picnic spot, recipe, company and soundtrack.

Styling by Lauren Matthews Photography by Loic Quedec Homeware courtesy of Royal Doulton, Karen Walker Homeware & Father Rabbit

LAUREN MATTHEWS

@the_kitchencollective What is your perfect place for a picnic? An idyllic spot in New Zealand special to you? Perhaps a beach or park? Why is it special to you? There’s nothing quite like catching the ferry across the Hauraki Gulf to Waiheke. My grandparents had a bach there when I was growing up, so I have some incredibly fond memories of the island. Bonus points for all the scenic wineries and the ability to go home fairly quickly should the temperamental weather play up. Who would you want to spend your picnic date with? Why is that person or why are those people special? My three best friends live overseas. Yes, they’re rather selfish. I would reunite with them, but there’s no doubt our innocent picnic would end up in something a lot more devious.

What else do you love about Spring? Lambs! They’re so adorable. But unfortunately for them, they’re tastier than they are cute. What music would you listen to on the car ride there or at the picnic? Your go-to soundtrack for an afternoon out? Depends what mood I’m in - anything from hip-hop, grime or cheesy house to old school favourites like Fleetwood Mac. But ideally playing DJ wouldn’t be up to me, I get car sick looking at my phone while on the move. See Lauren’s recipe on page 96 91

What is your perfect place for a picnic? An idyllic spot in New Zealand special to you? Perhaps a beach or park? Why is it special to you? My favourite picnic spot is where my husband proposed to me, at Puheke beach in the Karikari peninsula, underneath a Pohutakawa tree. It’s a magical spot we happened to ‘stumble’ across. We visit it most summers and it’s still just as special as it was the first time. It’s right on the rocks, by the ocean, with lots of sun and just the right amount of shade under a big Pohutakawa. Who would you want to spend your picnic date with? Why is that person or why are those people special? My husband Carlos. Although we work and live together we get on so well and we try to spend time with each other as much as we can. I’d also love to have a picnic with my high school girlfriends, who I’ve been best friends with for a grand 17 or 18 years now. We’d reminisce about the good old days when we were young and free!

NADIA LIM @nadialimcooks

See Nadia’s recipe on page 96. REMIX MAGAZINE LIFESTYLE

What else do you love about Spring? It doesn’t get so dark so early, so you’re more motivated to do things, rather than just stay inside snuggled up on the couch. Also, strawberries, strawberries, strawberries! The first of them arrive in Spring and when they first come in I buy three or four punnets and eat them all. I eat so many that I often get hives for a day, but it’s worth it. What music would you listen to on the car ride there or at the picnic? Your go-to soundtrack for an afternoon out? Loving Boy and Bear at the moment.

What is your perfect place for a picnic? An idyllic spot in New Zealand special to you? Perhaps a beach or park? Why is it special to you? The best place would have to be Fairy Falls out West; it’s a beautiful part of Auckland out of the city. Connor and I used to take the dogs there; you can have a picnic and then walk to the waterfalls afterwards. Who would you want to spend your picnic date with? Why is that person or why are those people special? Definitely my wives Kirsty Godso and Amber Young. We always have the best time when we are together. They’re my best girl friends it wouldn’t be a picnic without them. What else do you love about Spring? I love that it’s not Winter anymore, that baby animals are being born, all the flowers are blooming. It would have to be my favourite season after Summer. What music would you listen to on the car ride there or at the picnic? Your go-to soundtrack for an afternoon out? I am obsessed with Fetty Wap at the moment and the two songs I have on repeat are ‘679’ and ‘Come My Way’. See Millie’s recipe on page 97.

MILLIE ELDER-HOLMES @cleaneatznz

JULIA & LIBBY MATTHEWS @juliaandlibby

What is your perfect place for a picnic? An idyllic spot in New Zealand special to you? Perhaps a beach or park? Why is it special to you? Anything by the sea (or in a submarine) so we can hang out with sea life. Who would you want to spend your picnic date with? Why is that person or why are those people special? Khloe Kardashian because she would be lots of fun, Chrissy Teigen because she loves food like us and Gregory van der Wiel because heâ€™s eye candy. What else do you love about Spring? New life, days getting longer, weather getting warmer, daylight savings, Spring produce and outdoor exercise. What music would you listen to on the car ride there or at the picnic? Your go-to soundtrack for an afternoon out? We would listen to Drake, J Cole, The Eeeknd and our go to soundtrack is White Iverson by Post Malone. See Julia and Libbyâ€™s recipe on page 97. 94

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LAUREN MATTHEWS’ SWEET AND SAVOURY GALETTES

NADIA LIM’S SMOKY AVOCADO, CORN, ROAST RED PEPPER AND POTATO SALAD

Savoury: Potato, Rosemary and Parmesan Galette (serves two) INGREDIENTS: 2 agria potatoes 1 cup of freshly grated parmesan 2 sprigs of rosemary 2 sheets of flaky puff pastry 1 egg (beaten with a touch of water)

INGREDIENTS: 2 red capsicums 800g waxy baby potatoes (quartered) 4 corn cobs ½ cup mayonnaise (or for a lighter version, mix half thick Greek yoghurt and half mayonnaise) 1 heaped teaspoon smoked paprika 1 small clove garlic (minced) Flesh of 2 firm ripe avocados (cut into chunks) 1 bunch of asparagus (lightly grilled and cut into 2 cm pieces) ½ small red onion (thinly sliced) Juice of 1 lemon 1 cup basil leaves (torn)

INSTRUCTIONS: Preheat oven on fanbake to 200 degrees. Let pastry thaw and roll out slightly on a floured surface. With a mandolin slice washed potatoes on the thinnest setting. Leaving a 2cm border, cover the base of the pastry with a good amount of Parmesan. Place potato slices in a circular pattern, overlapping them slightly bringing them towards the center as you go until completely covered. Scatter with rosemary, drizzle with olive oil and season well. Using your fingers twist the border of pastry over to create an edge. Brush exposed pastry with egg wash and bake for 15 minutes until golden.

INSTRUCTIONS: Preheat oven to 220°C. Place whole capsicums on an oven tray and roast for 20-25 minutes or until skin is charred and blistered. Remove and cool slightly before peeling off their skins. Discard seeds and pith, and cut flesh into strips. Place potatoes in a large pot with plenty of cold water and 1 teaspoon of salt. Bring to the boil, then add corn cobs and boil for 6-8 minutes until potatoes are tender and corn is cooked. Drain potatoes and corn and allow to cool. Cut corn kernels off the cobs once cool enough to handle. Mix mayonnaise with smoked paprika and garlic. Toss mayonnaise with potatoes and season to taste with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Mix capsicum strips, corn kernels, avocadoes, asparagus, red onion and lemon juice together. Lightly toss with potatoes. Garnish with basil leaves just before serving. Serve alongside extra grilled asparagus drizzled with olive oil and season with fresh lemon zest and plenty of sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. REMIX MAGAZINE LIFESTYLE

Sweet: Blackberry and Coconut Sugar Galette (serves two) INGREDIENTS: 2 sheets of puff pastry 1 cup of frozen or fresh blackberries ¼ cup of coconut sugar 1 egg (beaten with a touch of water) Crème fraiche to serve INSTRUCTIONS: Preheat oven on fanbake to 200°C. Place berries into the pastry, leaving a 2cm border, sprinkle over coconut sugar. Using your fingers twist the border of pastry over to create an edge. Brush exposed pastry with egg wash and bake for 15 minutes until golden. Serve with a generous dollop of crème fraiche. 96

MILLIE HOLMES’ LOUKOUMADES & SNAPPER CEVICHE Loukoumades INGREDIENTS: 4 cups flour 1 ½ tablespoons active dry yeast ½ teaspoon salt 1 ½ - 2 cups lukewarm milk/water 1 cup of good quality Greek honey Oil for deep frying (or vegetable oil) Cinnamon powder for dusting

JULIA AND LIBBY MATTHEWS’ RAW RASPBERRY CHEESECAKE

INSTRUCTIONS: In a bowl, dissolve the yeast in 1 cup lukewarm milk/water, then cover the bowl with a cloth and let it stand for 10 minutes. Then add the flour and salt to the mixing bowl and continue to mix well; sparingly add the remaining lukewarm milk/water while continually mixing. The batter should end up as soft and sticky dough. Cover the mixing bowl with a cloth and place in a warm spot for an hour or so to let the mixture rise. You want it to doublein size and have bubbles forming on the surface. When the dough has risen, heat oil in a deep pan and prepare to fry the loukoumades in batches. You will need a teaspoon and a cup of cold water for this - dipping the teaspoon into the water before using it to spoon up portions of the dough will ensure it does not stick to the spoon. Drop teaspoons of the dough directly into the hot oil, helping with your fingertip if the dough does not easily slide off the spoon. Fry each batch of dough balls until they puff up and achieve a golden brown colour. When they are ready, remove them from the oil with a slotted spoon and set them on a platter lined with paper towel to drain. Place on a platter and drizzle generously with Greek honey. Dust using cinnamon powder and serve.

CRUST INGREDIENTS: 1 cup walnuts 1 cup raw macadamia nuts 1/2 cup medjool dates (pitted) 1/4 cup dried coconut FILLING INGREDIENTS: 3 cups raw cashews (soak overnight or for at least a few hours before using) 1 cup fresh or frozen raspberries 3/4 cup lemon juice 1/2 cup water 1/4 cup coconut sugar (or stevia) 1/4 cup honey (melted) 1 cup coconut oil (melted) 1 teaspoon pure vanilla essence Pinch himalayan salt RASPBERRY SAUCE INGREDIENTS: 1 cup of fresh or frozen raspberries 1/2 cup medjool dates (pitted) Juice of 1 lemon

Snapper ceviche INGREDIENTS: 1 piece fresh snapper (in 1 cm chunks) Juice and zest of one large lemon Juice and zest of one lime 1 avocado 1 shallot diced 1 tomato diced 1 small green chili seeds in (optional) 1 handful of fresh purple and Thai basil

INSTRUCTIONS: Line a spring pan with baking paper and put aside. Place the walnuts, macadamia nuts and medjool dates in a food processor or blender and process until smooth. Then press onto the coconut. For the filling, blend the cashews, raspberries, lemon juice, water, coconut sugar, honey, melted coconut oil, water, vanilla essence and salt. Blend until smooth. If you would like the filling a bit more tart add extra lemon juice, if you want it pinker add more raspberries. Pour the mixture onto the crust and smooth out with a knife or spatula. To set, place in the freezer. It will take a few hours for the cake to set. When ready to serve unclip the spring pan and place a sharp knife around the edge of the pan to ensure that the cake does not stick to the sides. When ready to serve make the raspberry sauce so it is fresh. Blend the raspberries, medjoool dates and lemon juice and pour on top of the cake.

INSTRUCTIONS: Simply combine the fish, chili, shallot and lemon and leave covered in the fridge overnight. Before serving add the rest of the ingredients. 97

WINE NEWS

We tested our wines in Riedel’s new Extreme Restaurant Central Otago Pinot Noir glass. The Riedel folks have developed a glass specifically for our favourite Pinot Noir region. Apart from looking like the business, this highly engineered vessel concentrates the aromas and highness of the experience like no other glass!

LUCKY PINOT NOIR NO. 13 The ominous number ’13’ has deep significance by virtue of extensive spiritual and real world affiliations that date back to the beginning of time. From the 13 moon orbits in our calendar year, the Egyptian mythical 13 stepladder to eternity or the 13 fellows of Christ’s Last Supper. Notoriety, foreboding or enlightening - 13 has gravity. So was it coincidence or fate that 2013 is proving to be one of the greatest vintages in the history of New Zealand wine? We handpicked a selection of examples from this spirited and celebrated vintage that are set to become folklore…

HANS HERZOG ‘GRAND DUC’ MARLBOROUGH PINOT NOIR 2013 The Grand Duc is a wine produced from exceptional vintages, this being the second only vintage from which Herzog has produced a ‘Duc’. Supple, earthy and powerfully complex. Balanced and integrated with layers of savoury over delicate fruit and harmonious acidity. Marlborough’s own Burgundy Grand Crus. And a nod from Hans that 13 is the magical vintage. $80-90 herzog.co.nz BURN COTTAGE CENTRAL OTAGO PINOT NOIR 2013 Elegant, stylish and refined. Soft rich black cherry, spice and flint - tightly integrated layers of earthy savouriness and fine tannins. An exceptional wine that marries the Californian and Burgundy styles through the gifted hands of famed Sonoma winemakers Ted Lemon and Claire Mulholland, REMIX MAGAZINE LIFESTYLE

ex-Amisfield. A wine on it’s way to cult status. $60-70 burncottage.com COROFIN ‘SETTLEMENT VINEYARD’ MARLBOROUGH PINOT NOIR 2013 Precision and focused. A savoury wine with sublime black cherry sweetness and supple texture. The vibrancy of its whole bunch complexion adds depth and freshness. Complex and captivating with a lingering and elegant finish. A youthful Pinot with a mysterious personality, she has a lot more to reveal over the next few years. $40-50 corofinwine.co.nz SATO ‘PISA TERRACE VINEYARD‘ CENTRAL OTAGO PINOT NOIR 2013 A Pinot Noir for the purist. Sato are natural wines - wines produced without adding or removing anything during winemaking process. The palate 98

is delicate and silken, a lighter styled potion. Wild berry and vanilla blanketed with earthy mushroom and fine textural tannin. The purity of the fruit is lifted via a layer of crisp acidity adding structural freshness. Mt. Pisa gravel and whispers of Burgundy $50-60 greatlittlevineyards.com AKITU ‘A1’ CENTRAL OTAGO PINOT NOIR 2013 Deep dark and brooding with herby aromatics. Concentrated and youthful with bright spicy fruit. The Dark stone fruit follow herbal whole bunch and crisp balanced acidity A complex wine with hints of tannin and oak. This will develop into a captivating potion in the coming years. $55-65 akitu.co.nz Words and photography by Stephen Green

NZ’s first ever wine that lets you know when it’s chilled and ready.

Nothing spoils the flavour of a white wine faster than serving it too cold, which is why VNO white wines have an intelligent label that turns blue to tell you when they are perfectly chilled and ready. So now there’s nothing to stop you relaxing and enjoying the tropical fruit flavours and zesty finish of VNO Sav Blanc. Also available in Pinot Gris and Chard.

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LET YOUR WINE BE THE BOSS VNO’s temperature-activated range of white wines

Who better to tell you that your wine is the right temperature than the wine itself? Serving wine at the right temperature enhances the aromas and flavours, which is why VNO has created a temperature activated range of white wine. ‘Most fridges are set at around 3°C to keep your milk and beer cold but that’s too cold for white wines. By having this technology at consumers’ fingertips it allows them to know when to take their wine out of the fridge,’ says Maree Anthony, Brand Manager for VNO Wines. ‘Being the first wine brand in New Zealand to offer this technology is exciting. Drinking a wine too cold masks its true flavours, where drinking it at the right temperature will enhance your wine experience’. When VNO is chilled and ready - 8°C for both Sav Blanc and Pinot Gris and then 11°C for Chard - vibrant blue sound waves appear on the new labels of the VNO white range. You’ll never have to drink an over-chilled white again and can instead enjoy all the aromas and flavours. Launched in 2013, VNO Wines has a portfolio of premium wines from the best New Zealand and international wine regions. VNO has enhanced its range of wines by including three lighter wines, called VNO Skinny* that are naturally lighter in both calories and alcohol and full of flavour. Ideal for a cheeky little tipple! vnowines.com *See pack for details.

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COFFEE NEWS

Ken Griffen with Michael Allpress at the Face Value exhibition.

THE LATEST AT ALLPRESS STUDIO A conversation with Michael Allpress Drake Street in central Auckland has been home to Allpress since 2000, but recently the space has become known for much more than a spot for a brew and a bite. For the past two years the Allpress Gallery, now renamed Allpress Studio, has been a hub for designers, artists and storytellers, established or emerging, to share their talent with the community. Michael Allpress tells us about the space and latest exhibition. How did the Allpress brand get started? Allpress first got started 25 years ago in Victoria Park Market. I was travelling around America and ended up in Seattle. There was a whole dimension of specialty coffee happening there and an espresso cart on the street caught my eye. I saw a couple more develop and decided to bring the concept home. We started off as espresso carts, then moved into wholesale distribution and now have 230 employees globally. How did the transition to the gallery come about? We’ve had the space above the gallery for 15 years and we’ve grown into it - it’s quite a different building now than when we first moved in. It’s a REMIX MAGAZINE LIFESTYLE

great space and just lends itself to art exhibitions and performances, parties, talks and dinners. We have Nicola Fox who has been curating that for the past two years now. What are the main focuses of the space? The concept was to introduce different people to Allpress and a way of us connecting to different people. It’s got great community benefits – we don’t charge anyone for rental down there, it’s not-for-profit, and created for established and emerging artists. We’ve had Lisa Reihana down there and she showed four works that had never been shown in New Zealand before, which was great. We’ve got Max Patté, a British born Wellington-based artist who was Head of Sculpture at Weta Workshop, here during ARTWEEK Auckland. Why the name change from Allpress Gallery to Allpress Studios? We just think it’s a bit more relaxed and more open for alternative stuff, rather than just pieces on the wall. We have a studio in Melbourne that’s had a number of different shows on – we had

one with big vintage motorbikes. We’ve also got a space opening up in London too. Who have you had exhibit recently? We’ve just had the photographer Richard Hodder exhibit, which was really popular. He went to the four corners of New Zealand, and grew a massive following through it. We had Ken Griffin, he’s an illustrator and the creative director for Huffer as well. He sold out and had a really strong show downstairs. We’ve also had some ceramics and pottery too. Our first quite large scale lecture was with Michael Seresin, who is a cinematographer that has worked on Planet of the Apes, Harry Potter, Midnight Express and is currently working on the Jungle Book over in London. We have events such as a sneaker swap and we’ve also had a record swap, which is cool. All kinds of different gatherings. facebook.com/allpressgallery Words by Isabelle Truman. Photos by Duncan Innes.

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SPRING FIT

Nike Master Trainer Kirsty Godso’s easy six-minute drill to get you fighting fit for Summer.

Now that Winter is on the way out, it’s time to get a head start on Summer. This is an easy workout you can do anytime and anywhere, regardless of this temperamental Spring weather. Make sure you warm up, then perform the below exercises in the same order listed, working at a maximum output for an interval of 40 seconds, then resting for 20 seconds before the next exercise. EXERCISE ONE: LATERAL SHUFFLE TO BURPEE Improve your agility and power with this drill. Stay low in the legs with feet just outside hip width as you shuffle sideways for 10 metres then drop into a burpee. Once you land the burpee, repeat in the other direction. See how many you can fit into the 40-second time interval and without cheating the burpee. EXERCISE TWO: MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS Place your hands under your shoulders and get your body into a plank position with a straight back, tight core and your bodyweight forward. Drive knees into your chest as fast as you can REMIX MAGAZINE LIFESTYLE

whilst keeping your hips down to maintain intensity in your core. EXERCISE THREE: FORWARD/ BACKWARD TUCK JUMP Start with your feet under your hips. Bend your knees slightly and push off both feet to jump forward. Land softly in an athletic position before quickly jumping backwards and then exploding into a tuck jump. Try and pull your knees into your chest and use your arms to get height. Land with bent knees and repeat. EXERCISE FOUR: PUSHUP SHOULDER TAPS Start with your hands slightly outside your shoulders and your back long and flat, core tight and eye gaze at your fingertips. Drop your chest towards the ground then tap your hand to the opposite shoulder. Return to a pushup and repeat on the other side. If your speed starts to decrease, take your knees to the ground to keep the intensity up.

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Go through this sequence at least twice for a heart raising six-minute workout, and if you’re up for more, add on another round or two! instagram.com/kirstygodso Words by Kirsty Godso. Photography by Jono Parker.

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DESTINED TO DESIGN WAYNE HEMINGWAY FOR ROYAL DOULTON Wayne Hemingway has long had a penchant for design, since his early days trading timeless trinkets at London’s Camden Markets. Today Wayne is the co-founder of fashion manufacturer Red or Dead and the director of Hemingway Design. Here he tells Remix about partnering with British design icon Royal Doulton and the striking ceramic interiors collection born from the new partnership.

When did you first begin designing? I was brought up in a house where my mother and Nan were always making clothes and my Pop was always making toys for me or repairing things. I was experimenting with putting ‘looks’ together from the age of 12. My family would never have known that there was a career called ‘design’. I learnt about design on Camden Market, selling secondhand clothes and buying up well designed, timeless old furniture, homeware and artifacts. Tell us a bit about Red or Dead and the worldwide popularity the brand had after starting off at the Camden Markets? It was an amazing experience to create a brand of this scale and impact without any planning, training, investment or borrowings and with a team of likeminded young people who loved to go clubbing and watching bands. It’s only looking back now at the scale of what was achieved, the shops opened around the world, the 300 employees and the legacy that we get some perspective. At the time it all seemed so natural. You first started working with your wife and now your daughter is involved. How do you find working so closely with family? We all get on well. Geraldine and I met when were

teenagers and started our business very soon after meeting. It became second nature to work together and as it was a hobby and interest that turned into a business. We have our complimentary skills and do not get under each other’s feet. We made a conscious decision to involve our kids in our work, taking them to the office, allowing them to explore the warehouse, visiting our shops, the exhibitions, the catwalk shows, the photoshoots, taking them on research, buying and material sourcing trips. It is great having the thinking of new generations in the business. It keeps things fresh. What’s the inspiration behind Hemingway Design? We have a deep rooted philosophy that design is about improving things that matter in life. This manifests itself most obviously in our regeneration and affordable housing work, but also in our products, where great design at affordable prices is a must. How did your partnership with Royal Doulton come about? We met at a trade show, liked what each other were up to, talked, got on and decided to collaborate. The best way. Why did they make sense for you to collaborate with?

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Totally based in Britain, a great British history, decent people and an openness to design collaboration. For people that haven’t seen it yet, what should they expect from the collection? A contemporary ceramics collection, featuring embossed textures, bright colours and with a timeless mid-century aesthetic subtly running through it. Do you still spend your weekends at markets? If there is a chance to visit an interesting one then we will. We all enjoy seeing independent retailers expressing themselves and having a go at being creative and having a chance to control their own destiny in some way. Interview by Steven Fernandez royaldoulton.com.au

on trend Interiors

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TECH & GADGETS

THE SUPER FLEXIBLE NEW HP

HP SPECTRE X360 HP has taken the laptop-meets-tablet situation to a whole new level. Introducing the Spectre x360, a laptop that not only folds backwards into a tablet, but has four different modes, including a standing mode perfect for movies or Skype. The new model has the ability to wirelessly send HD content from your HP to your TV without needing a cord and was built using a polymer battery with up to 12.5 hours of battery life – that’s a trip from New Zealand to Los Angeles! hp.co.nz

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SAMSUNG WITH A HINT OF GREEN & BLUE

SAMSUNG GALAXY S6 & GALAXY S6 EDGE We have a love affair with the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge, since using them to photograph a fashion feature this issue. Check out the shoot in our Research section! Taking these phones up another notch, the Galaxy S6 is now available in Topaz Blue and the Galaxy S6 Edge is now available in Emerald Green. Carefully selected to complement the sleek metal and glass construction of Samsung’s most sophisticated handsets to date, the new colour options echo this year’s trends in fashion and high-end design. The Topaz Blue and Emerald Green hues add a vibrant and sophisticated finish reminiscent of precious gemstones. samsung.co.nz

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CUSTOMISE YOUR COFFEE MACHINE

NESPRESSO PIXIE CLIPS Nespresso is embracing their customers’ personal style with the launch of the new Pixie Clips machine. With interchangeable side panels, this stylish baby can be adapted to suit individual styles or the latest design trends. The machine comes with either white and coral or black and lemon side clips, then 11 additional clips are available in a range of colours, designs and finishes, allowing you to give your Nespresso a makeover at any time. Oh and it goes without saying that the coffee from this little number has the premium quality, taste and aroma expected from Nespresso. nespresso.com

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kelly osbourne Outspoken fashion icon Kelly Osbourne opens up to Remix about her decision to leave Fashion Police, her fondest memory of Joan Rivers and her plans for the future. Editor Steven Fernandez spent the day with Kelly in Hollywood to find out whether the future could involve a return to the Fashion Police panel.

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Makeup Denika Bedrossian Hair Ryan Randell Styling Assistant Natalie Hoselton Photography Assistant Andrew Ryan Special thanks to SMUDGE Studio, West Hollywood. TIMO WEILAND dress, ISABEL MARANT coat, PIERS ATKINSON headband, Kellyâ€™s own jewellery

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You try working with someone that you love and then going back into that same studio. I couldn’t, I didn’t want to, I was ready to go.

It’s been a turbulent year for Kelly Osbourne, and that’s saying something, because Kelly Osbourne has had a pretty turbulent life. In case you’re a little too young to remember, Kelly pioneered reality television alongside her family in The Osbournes, which dominated MTV and popular culture between 2002 and 2005. Jump on YouTube and stream a clip to get an unfiltered glimpse of life inside a family of rock royalty. Like I said, Kelly Osbourne has had a pretty turbulent life. Even by the standards in her own crazy world, the last year has come with some massive ups and downs for Kelly, which changed her life completely. Most notably was the sudden death of her mentor, close friend and Fashion Police host Joan Rivers. Shortly after Joan’s death was Kelly’s departure from Fashion Police, in response to remarks made by co-host Giuliana Rancic, which were widely considered to be racially distasteful. Kelly was an integral part of Fashion Police since the first episode five years ago and 2015 has been the first time since it started she has had time to herself. ‘Literally after I left Fashion Police I realised I haven’t had any time off in nearly seven years, like a considerable amount of time off. I haven’t been able to go on family vacations. I worked 52 weeks a year for going on seven years. Five and a half years at Fashion Police and before that with what I was doing before. So really I knew whatever decision I made now was going to really reflect what I want to do for REMIX MAGAZINE PEOPLE

the rest of my life. So I took a break,’ Kelly tells me, tucked up on the studio couch with her Pomeranian, Nancy. We’d taken a brief break from our photoshoot, Kelly and I picking away at chicken salads during our conversation. Throughout the day she was easygoing and relaxed, playfully imitating other celebrities, famous singers and superstars, most of whom are her friends. Sure she’s Hollywood, raised around people like David Bowie and Elton John, but she’s also very detached, astutely aware of how ridiculous the celebrity world and people in it can be. There were no diva demands, rider requests or tantrums – it was easy to forget Kelly is a multi-million dollar fashion icon. ‘Touring with dad I was exposed to everything, all walks of life, whether it was somebody who was homeless or royal families around the world. So I learnt to judge people on their actions, not by who they were. Some people say to me, “Oh my god, you met blah blah blah”. So? Actually they were really rude! Half the people in Hollywood I just don’t understand why they’re so successful. I truly believe in karma and when they’re so nasty [don’t know] why good things keep happening to them? It’s always really funny to me because I say what I think, so some people hate me. I’m extremely apologetic though because I never want to hurt someone’s feelings.’ Case in point, Kelly’s August appearance 115

on American talk show The View, during which she directed a question to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Kelly asked who would clean Trump’s toilets if his proposed U.S. border laws made it difficult for Latino immigrants to gain citizenship. She had the best intention but delivered it poorly and was horrified at having potentially offended the Latino community. Kelly’s public apology expressed her refusal to be labeled a ‘racist’, having herself walked away from Fashion Police in protest of racially ill-considered remarks. ‘People are responsible for their own words so I couldn’t give a fuck about that,’ she says when asked about Giuliana’s remarks. ‘However, it was five and a half years of the most incredible work experience and it was the most fun job I have ever had. I will forever be grateful to E! for giving me that opportunity.’ Dispute with Giuliana aside, Kelly says that her time on the show was coming to an end and she wasn’t planning to renew her contract anyway. ‘There’s no “maybe” or “wait and see” [about Kelly returning to Fashion Police]. Regardless of what happened or not, this was my last year. You try working with someone that you love and then going back into that same studio. I couldn’t, I didn’t want to, I was ready to go,’ she says.

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That was the thing about Joan, she never forgot anyone’s name and she was the most generous and kind person. She might have had a vulgar mouth but she was a true lady.

‘Joan made everything fun. Everything. I mean one time we were on an airplane together and I got on late and I didn’t know that we were on the same flight. I woke up and thought I had died because I couldn’t see. Joan had duct taped a note to my head telling me that she was on the same flight, seat 3H, so I should turn around and look, that I don’t snore in my sleep, and if I needed a ride she’d give me a ride. It was cold in New York so she’d written that if I needed to borrow a fur coat, I could borrow whatever I wanted, even though she knew I didn’t like wearing animal fur. That was the thing about Joan, she never forgot anyone’s name and she was the most generous and kind person. She might have had a vulgar mouth but she was a true lady.’ Despite the break, Kelly hasn’t been out of work long. She has already started shooting as a judge on Project Runway Junior, continuing to lend her respected style critiques to television audiences. Official title or not, Kelly is the world’s most recognised fashion policewoman. ‘I’ve always been very independent in my sense of style, it’s just that not everyone gets it. I’m going on six years of this colour hair and it’s only now that I’m getting credit, that people are saying I started it. Before I used to get tweets every day saying I looked like a granny. REMIX MAGAZINE PEOPLE

When I dyed my hair this colour it was the first time I’d never looked in the mirror and felt complete. I’m really lucky that I have hair that can put up with all the shit that I do to it, because trust me, my poor hair. If it was a child it would be taken away from me.’ ‘I am so happy, I am so happy for her,’ Kelly says of the recent announcement that Rivers’ daughter Melissa would replace her mother on the show. ‘You know I love Kathy [Griffin], but it was just trial and error, it’s going to take time. It will never be what it was but at least let the right people continue on the legacy. What people need to remember is that Fashion Police is not Joan Rivers’ legacy. Joan Rivers’ legacy is the fact that because of her, her mouth, her jokes, and her comedy, it is okay for girls like me to say whatever the fuck we want. And do you think women like Beyoncé Knowles would be such independent women without women like Joan Rivers? She was groundbreaking, and there will never be another.’ It’s been a few years since Kelly was in our neck of the woods and as we finish our chicken salads she tells me that she loves Remix, always looking out for the magazine at her local West Hollywood newsstand. She wants to come back 118

to New Zealand, the last time having been with her father Ozzy, mother Sharon and brother Jack at the height of The Osbournes’ success. ‘Karen Walker is from New Zealand, yeah? I was meant to go to her runway show several times and it always fell through. I love her designs so much and it is about time. So excuse me people of New Zealand, figure out a way to get me there!’ Not that she has much time. To be a judge on Project Runway Junior Kelly has relocated to New York, where she’s also working on a range of other projects, including her own fashion line. She’s still outspoken with the famous purple hair and she still says ‘fuck’ a lot, but despite 2015 being a turbulent year, it’s also been a happy one. Remember she’s 30 now; Kelly’s been doing this for 15 years. ‘Even before The Osbournes I was born into a family where I didn’t understand why people knew who I was because I didn’t fucking do anything. But now I give myself credit, because I never used to. I would always think I never did anything to become famous. But looking back we started a whole generation and a whole new genre of television that didn’t exist before we did it. I have to give myself credit for that, all of my embarrassing moments included.’

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THE FAT JEWISH If social media had a king, then that king would be The Fat Jewish. Born on Manhattanâ€™s Upper West Side as Josh Ostrovsky, The Fat Jewish is a pop culture personality and social media sensation, specialising in the discovery and exposure of the funniest (and weirdest) stuff on the Internet. Chances are that most of those memes you find funny have come straight from his account, which has over five million followers at time of print. Editor Steven Fernandez caught up with The Fat Jewish to get a lesson on social media etiquette and an insight into his wonderfully weird world. 123

You recently launched White Girl Rosé with a big bash in New York. Can you tell me a bit about the party? What happened? I heard you got naked… We had our launch party. We wanted to do one in the city and one in the Hamptons. So the one in the city - things really spiralled out of control. It started out as a rosé event. There were a lot of people drinking rosé and looking relatively respectable. So it started out kind of fancy. And then as the night went on terrible decisions were being made and I just ended up on the balcony completely naked, pouring rosé all over my genitals. How did the opportunity to make it come about? And why did you decide to create your own line of wine? How did the whole kind of project come about? So last summer in the Hamptons - which is obviously very much rosé country - there was like an actual shortage. I was out there and there was an article in the paper ‘Rosé running dangerously low in the Hamptons’. So I went out there and I went to this party that I got invited to as somebody’s plus one - I definitely did not know these people - and I ended up talking to this 50-something-year-old woman with rock hard breast implants who’d had way too much work done. I started talking to her about the shortage because I wanted to see if people were taking this seriously. And she was acting like she was talking about fucking 9/11. She got so serious with me, she was like ‘You know, we’re okay, we made sure to stock up. There are some people who won’t be able to get there hands on them’. You’ve also released your book recently Money, Pizza, Respect. What’s in the book? Is it sort of an overview or a collection of stories over the years? We haven’t got it here in New Zealand - I haven’t got one myself. Can you tell our readers about it? It doesn’t come out ‘til October. That’ll be why I don’t have it… I’d say that’s the primary reason why you don’t have your hands on it. It’s basically like a collection of ridiculously awesome stories. I’ve basically lived my entire life, it hasn’t really been

about the money, it’s just been about making memories. I’ve been doing ridiculous shit to get new stories and I felt like now is the time that I can finally get something happening and compile them together. My living is basically performance art and putting myself in weird and dangerous situations. I figured someone had to hear these stories. The book’s also a little less stupid than I think people will think, there’s actually some fucking pathos in there, there’s actually some truth. Even though I am a physical fucking cartoon character, I’m also a real person. So there’s some stories about how at 13 my dad thought that I was gay because I was like super judgemental and into shoes. So there’s a little bit of fucking truth and honesty in there that I think people won’t necessarily expect. Yeah your dad calls that ‘a memory’ but you call that ‘a Monday’. I literally call that breakfast. I’m eating brownies for breakfast because I still can’t believe that I’m 30 and I don’t live with my parents. I just can’t believe I can smoke cigarettes and eat brownies for breakfast even though I haven’t lived with them for years. I’m never going to get over it.

The thing is, people always come to New Zealand to see Hobbits or The Lord of the Rings stuff, but you just came here and had terrible sex? Yes exactly! Everyone’s always looking for a Middle Earth creature but I actually found one. She was just friends with a bunch of surfers. It was horrible. I couldn’t understand, her accent was so thick. I don’t know about the regions of New Zealand. You know, it’s much easier for me to understand Michael Caine than it is for me to understand Adele because she has some kind of cockney, trailer park talk. This girl basically just sounded like an alien from the middle of the Earth. She was an actual fucking Hobbit.

How did the whole thing start? Did you just start by posting pictures you thought were funny with captions for your friends and it grew from there? Or was it quite sudden? What I was doing before Instagram, the stuff was a lot more left field, a lot more underground and weird. I used to do a lot of shit with Vice magazine. So most of the people who were fans of mine were alternative. Like runaways, Puerto Rican runaways, guys with leg tattoos who put coke in their butt. More alternative type of characters. So I did a lot of shit with Vice and it was more weirdo, then once I got on Instagram what I found was that Instagram had a lot of rules. So I was like, ‘You know what this is actually an opportunity for me to speak to a wider audience by not being the ultimate fucking weirdo’.

When was this that you were down here? This was probably like four years ago. They tried to teach me how to surf but didn’t work because I’m like fat and Jewish so it wasn’t going to happen. So I just ended up getting blackout drunk all day and then having sex with a real life troll. So I was there and then I went to Australia but there were too many bros screaming in my face. And then I went to Bangkok and watched a woman smoke a cigarette with her vagina - it was a great trip.

Are you aware that your Instagram has more people than the entire population of New Zealand?

At what point did you turn you turn your Instagram notifications off? What would happen if you turned them on now?

I actually visited New Zealand once. I visited these fucking maniacs that I know that live in Gisborne. REMIX MAGAZINE PEOPLE

That’s crazy. I actually visited New Zealand once. I visited these fucking maniacs that I know that live in Gisborne. I’ve had sex with a lot of horrible girls, and I’m sure that New Zealand probably has a lot of beautiful women, but I had sex with the ugliest girl that I have ever had sex with. Her hands were so fucking big, they were huge and rough and it felt like she’d just been like just rubbing tree bark. She looked like, imagine John Goodman in like 1989.

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In Bangkok it was the opening of the beer bottle that blew my mind. Yeah I mean the one I saw only smoked a cigarette. Her smoke rings were not good but she was doing them out of her vagina so you have to cut her some slack.

Yeah, I don’t know what would happen. My phone would be very upset. That would be actually horrible. I turned them off at least a year and a half ago because it was unbearable. But now what happens is that I just never read the fucking comments and then once every while I’ll get super stoned and just light some candles, get naked, sit and just read through my comments. It is fucking terrifying in there. Never go in there, it is horrible. There seems to be three things that are happening. One, is like someone telling me how much they’re in love with me and that they want to rip off my dick and bronze it and wear it as a necklace. Two, is just like girls talking to each other, just tagging their friends being like ‘This is so us’, ‘This is so you’ or ‘This is so Dave’ and then like making plans. Then the third thing, what I assume to be like middle Americans and Eastern European teenagers, telling me they will put me in an oven like a piece of pizza. Like being so anti-Semitic. So basically just terrible across the board, just don’t go in there. Ever. The ones that make me laugh are the people that write like ‘First’ on the comments, and it’s like you were close you’re actually the 97,000th person to comment. Oh my god. The ‘first like’ people, they are never close. If you’re gonna be a ‘first like’ guy then you’ve gotta get in there, you’ve gotta be more focused than that. Because people are coming through with 138 comments being like ‘first comment’ and it’s like an eleven year old and they’re being absolutely dead serious. Exactly! Every Kardashian photo ‘First comment’. It’s insane, they’re the best. They’re just so dumb. They may be the dumbest people we have right now on the Earth. I notice that you don’t follow many people, so I was looking through your followers and pulled up five names from your list and I want you to tell me what you think of these people in onr sentence. First sentence that comes to mind. Okay? Okay, amazing.

50 Cent. Well two things. One, I love 50 Cent, I’ve always been a huge fan. He’s just like so ridiculous and talks so much shit. But I’m also angry at him because he had a cologne and he didn’t name it ‘50 scent’, and I have never forgiven him for that. He called it like ‘Power Smell’. With 50 I just love him so much, he’s like New York and I very much like him but I’m just still so mad about the cologne thing. Okay, Terry Richardson. [Laughs] The best. He’s just such a monster, I’ve met him a bunch of times, he’s super nice. I’m a huge fan of a creep. He’s like creepy Uncle Terry. I’m hoping that no one has really got hurt by him because that’s not cool but he is such a pervert. Actually something awesome was that a friend of mine walked into a bathroom at a party once at Alexander Wang’s house and Terry Richardson was in the bathroom getting jerked off by a girl who had an oven mitt on her hand. Classic Uncle Terry. So that alone, as much as he’s like the worst because he’s a creepy fucking man who’s done so much wrong, he got an oven mitt hand job at a party. Rihanna. The best. That’s the top notch. She gives absolute zero fucks. The more that everyone in the world tells me that they give zero fucks the more I know that they’re just overcompensating for their ultimate fucking fragility and could be broken at any time. Nobody cares less than Rihanna about nothing. First of all, the celebrities that I’ve met, their relationship with pot for the most part is that they smoke pot in their houses. Like relaxed. Because if you smoke pot at a red carpet event you would get so much anxiety. One time I smoked a joint with Wilmer Valderrama and then we went to this big party and we were on a red carpet and I literally thought that my eyeballs were bleeding and I wanted to die. It was so intense and so terrible. But Rihanna is just down to light up at any time.

She’s the only person I can think of that would be so down to light a joint only

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moments before knowing she’s going to be face-to-face with Anna Wintour. Exactly! Like do you not ever get anxiety Riri? No she doesn’t because she gives that little fucks. Okay next, Caitlyn Jenner. Caitlyn Jenner, just so much yes. Like the most yes. Think about how incredible her life has been. She’s amazing. My whole goal is to have an amazing Wikipedia page, which goes along very well with the stories and the memory making, the more awesome shit that happens the better your Wikipedia page is. Think about how killer that dude’s Wikipedia page is. It’s fucking amazing. Also, she’s better looking than basically every woman I’ve ever slept with. She looks so good, I would suck your dick Caitlyn Jenner, like real talk. Okay and lastly, Paris Hilton. Paris Hilton and I went to high school together. I actually really love Paris Hilton, she’s kind of a great American I would say. I think we need to start recognising her as one of our treasures. She’s pretty fucking great. Also, she pioneered all this shit that’s going on right now, of cultural fucking stupidity. She fucking started that shit. The end of the world, which is eventually coming, she had a big hand in that and I respect that.

Someone in the ecosystem of Hillary Clinton’s social media met my manager and said - quote - that they would love to have me involved.

It seems like your Instagram rival is Fuck Jerry (@fuckjerry). Is there beef between you guys? Are you cool? What’s the deal? I think at first it was just kind of annoying because he kind of does what I do but I was doing it first. But then I realised that I didn’t really care because I’d met him in person and he is the like the least funny fucking person you could possibly imagine. I kind of want to give him a hug, like I think he might have Aspergers, like something’s really wrong with him. He has the charm and the fucking personality of like a terrible fire at an elementary school, that’s how charming he is, he has the charm of a terrible fire. He’s just really terrible. I met him and I was just like ‘I want you to ride this wave and make a little money and do your thing because you’re going to be working in a cinema in like two years.’ When you look back on social media since you started, what do you think has been the biggest moment that broke the Internet? Would you say Kim Kardashian’s ass or something before or after that? Yeah I guess, in terms of just likes, of clickable fucking traction, number of actual fucking clicks, yeah I guess it is probably the Kim moment. But that’s the thing, no one’s really won the Internet yet. I’m actually good friends with the people at Paper magazine, I’m in that issue with Kim Kardashian. I’m right before her in that magazine. So I was very keyed into that whole thing before it came out because I’m good friends with the woman that runs Paper and I was thinking that ‘Break the Internet’ is such a killer concept. I don’t actually think REMIX MAGAZINE PEOPLE

that that broke the internet but what gets me excited in the morning, the only thing that can even get me an erection these days, is thinking about the fact that someone is going to win it. And I don’t know who it’s going to be or when it’s going to be but that’s all that gets me out of bed. It’s like everyday somebody wins the Internet, one day someone’s just going to win the whole thing and no one’s done it yet. I feel like we’ve got some major, amazing, Hillary Clinton moments to come over the next year. Oh my god she’s gonna dominate. Someone in the ecosystem of Hillary Clinton’s social media met my manager and said - quote - that they would love to have me involved. So here’s the thing, forget the fucking polar icecaps melting or the fact that the world is on fire or Boko Haram or ISIS or any of this shit, that’s the fucking end of the world. The world is ending. That’s insane. Imagine though, you next to her in a pantsuit. Oh my god. I promise you, the ‘break the Internet’ moment comes if you give me one hour with Hillary Clinton. You let me conceptualise and design one social media post for her I swear to god I will literally butt-fuck the Internet to death. Your dog Toast recently had a brush with New Zealand fashion, appearing in an eyewear campaign for New Zealand designer Karen Walker. How did that happen? Did Karen reach out to you? Did you become 126

the new Dina Lohan? Well first of all I exclusively and strictly wear women’s sunglasses, I would never be caught dead in men’s sunglasses because they’re just not as fucking killer. My publicist had been in touch with Karen and got me a bunch of products, so I was a exclusively wearing Karen Walker women’s sunglasses and then she reached out because she saw me wearing them all the time in all kinds of photos. So when she reached out we were like, ‘Has a dog ever been the face of a sunglass line? No’. She walked the runway and all this shit and not only that but it was a success. The dog Instagram is actually really nuts. What’s next for you and social media, the Fat Jewish, what’s around the corner or upcoming for you? Actually today they just announced that I signed a deal to do plus-sized male modelling for a huge modelling firm. I’m the first plus sized male model to get like a major deal. I’m basically telling the world that having those ‘dick lines’ like abs, having those and having abs that go up to your fucking neck is out and having a body like Shrek is in. Shrek bod is very hot right now. So I’m doing male modelling and then September I have an alldad fashion show with like ‘dad fashions’, like khakis and button downs, sensible walking shoes, wristwatches. And then I have the book coming out and maybe Terry Richardson and me will collaborate on a line of oven mitts, who really knows?

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CHELSEA JADE We’ve had a major crush on Chelsea Jade for a while now, which is why we had her perform at one of our Remix parties earlier this year. The musician formerly known as Watercolours is one of New Zealand’s most enchanting talents, regularly charming audiences with her ethereal sound and eccentric performances. Her latest track ‘Low Brow’ is a stunning listen. Remix writer Isabelle Truman sat down with Chelsea to ask her about her beginnings in the art world, her good friend Lorde and plans for making music in America. 128

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Yeah all my new songs are about sex... My parents are really into my music but there was one song that was particularly overt, and my mum responded ‘It’s not funny’ because I was chuckling.

You’ve just returned from Los Angeles. What were you over there doing? I was going to make a joke but I’m not going to. I was going to make a joke about being a criminal and facing charges for something but I’m trying to apply for a visa so that’s probably not wise to joke about. In truth I was working on my debut album with Sam McCarthy, who was in Kids of 88 and is now in a new band, as well as other songwriters and producers. When did you decide you wanted to pursue music as a career? When I was at art school I was in a band. I was totally miserable having to compromise on the amount of time I spent on music by pursuing higher education. I have this feeling that if you are being productive intellectually you don’t necessarily have to engage in formalised education. If you are making a concerted effort to engage with the world in a lateral way what’s the difference if you do it at a university or not? I made all of my art about the politics around doing music at art school. My band at the time was becoming disinterested in what we were doing and I was the one that was like full steam ahead with everything. They were at music school so they had another outlet. Anyway I started making work that was about ego. I’d make an EP in a week and all the credits would be my name. I did a performance piece where I asked everyone in my class to tell me why they deserved to go to a listening party with my music. But then it was just this shitty thing I had made in a week. It wasn’t really cool. Tell me what your influences have been, not just in music, but writers, movies… I feel like at the moment I’m taking a lot of life advice from whatever Tavi Gevinson has touched. I’ve been listening to podcasts where she has been interviewed, because she’s got this really insightful way of looking at things. She’s really interesting. A good one to listen to is Ideas At The House. She did a talk in REMIX MAGAZINE PEOPLE

the Sydney Opera House and it’s about how sometimes when you don’t feel creative energy to make your own work it’s just as valid to appreciate other people’s work. You hang out with a few other musicians – Lorde being one of them. Do you think surrounding yourself with other creative people helps inform and inspire your work? I happen to be surrounded by people who are hyper intelligent in whatever they do. It trips me out when I think about Ella’s age, because I never think about it until someone else brings it up. Her age is so arbitrary. It has come to the point now where it is counter intuitive to align her with a number when there is a body of work and decisions involved. It’s more interesting for your own life if you surround yourself with people who are like-minded, but who don’t engage with things you are engaged in. Like for example my friend runs a website called The Pantograph Punch, it’s really quality writing commenting on society and theatre. Is it scary to share something so personal? Not just music about people in your life, but something that you’ve worked so hard on and is so close to you? I think it’s scary not to. It’s impossible to be productive if you’re working towards something that isn’t authentic. Otherwise I don’t know how you would get started or how you would finish anything if you are constantly pandering to something other than what you actually think. Also, I’ve worked for a long time, really hard, on what I do. It’s like any other job you know. You do the work, you treat yourself like a little industry, and you get better at it. I saw a funny tweet where you said you were playing your parents songs that were mostly about sex… Yeah all my new songs are about sex. I didn’t say anything to them, I was just smiled because 131

I knew they would not appreciate it. My parents are really into my music but there was one song that was particularly overt, and my mum responded ‘It’s not funny’ because I was chuckling. Who’s your musical guilty pleasure? I just don’t believe in guilty pleasures. I love everything. I love Taylor Swift and I’m not ashamed of that. I also love John Luther Adams, who is a classical composer, who makes soundscapes in nature in the middle of the forest. At the moment I really like Alessia Cara, although she hasn’t got much out. She has this great song that samples Portishead. What’s your idea of the perfect day? It sounds really dull, but one in which I successfully execute a routine, which is not that easy for somebody who has to be selfmotivated. That’s why it would be the perfect day. Get up early, go for a walk, eat a healthy breakfast, have a coffee, have a shower, and then get to work. And make a song in a day. That’s my perfect day. My song ‘Low Brow’ was made in a day and that was super liberating. What are your favourite New Zealand labels? I’m loving Georgia Alice at the mo. I will always love Liam, from the Ruby and Liam family. In fact there is another subsidiary of the Ruby family called Modern Manners and they sent me this shirt that says daily psychic readings. They didn’t know that I’m obsessed with psychics and horoscopes. If I’m going through a bad time in my life the first thing I do is find a psychic. One of my projects in art school was gathering daily horoscopes and putting them in a blog post and analysing how they related to each other.

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CHIARA FERRAGNI The next time you need a temporary escape from your everyday life, check out Chiara Ferragni’s Instagram. Known as ‘The Blonde Salad’ online and in her first published book, the Italian born fashionista is widely considered to be the world’s most influential blogger. 137

Chiara’s Instagram is a mosaic of inspirational images, tracking her adventures across the globe in all the latest killer fashion. Commanding an online following larger than the New Zealand population, Chiara is living proof that you can make a very successful career on the Internet. She’s covered Teen Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, appeared on Project Runway and even released her own fashion line, the Chiara Ferragni Collection. Remix editor Steven Fernandez spoke with Chiara about life on the road and becoming an online powerhouse. Where is home for you? What’s a normal day like for you when you’re not travelling or working? There are two places that I call home: Milan, Italy and Los Angeles, California. I like to take the best from both places. When I’m in Milan I spend most of the time with my team, The Blonde Salad crew, at our headquarters. I normally have lunch with all of them and have dinner with my family and friends. When in Los Angeles I like to wake up early, check my emails, have breakfast and, when I have some free time, go hiking with my friends or my boyfriend Andrew. I love to have healthy lunches or dinners with my friends out or even in my backyard. According to fashionista.com you are the most influential style blogger in the world. What do you think it is about The Blonde Salad that has been so popular and made it so successful? What sets your blog apart? I’m flattered about that. I think that the key to our success is the fact that I’ve always worked hard and been surrounded by the hardest working people; talents who support me everyday. I think I am the most determined person on earth and I really believe in what I do. At what point did you realise The Blonde Salad was much more than a hobby and in fact something quite enormous? Was it the Teen Vogue story? It happened organically, but I remember the turning point. It was when a couture brand contacted me for collaboration, because that was one of my dreams coming true!

What kind of content is most popular? Which of your posts do your readers love the most? Besides me, there are four editors creating content for The Blonde Salad. There is a wide range of topics, from lifestyle to shopping sections, from travel to inspirations, from beauty to trends. They are all go very well, but what my readers like the most are the travel articles where they can get inspiration for their future travels! All content is always shared on the official Instagram account @theblondesalad. How many run the blog with you? Who is in your team running what has become a business of style inspiration? My team is made up of 16 people. Some of them work for the Chiara Ferragni Collection, my shoe line. Other editors are in charge of The Blonde Salad. We have the accounting department and people working with me on my crazy agenda. All together we are the TBS Crew and we have our own Instagram @tbscrew. Some say that the heyday of the blog has passed and that social media has taken over in terms of influencing people’s style. Do you agree with that at all or would you say social media just adds to the blog? I believe in both channels equally. They are both very important and unique. They absolutely compliment each other as well. Your cover of Vogue Spain was a world first. You’re the first blogger to ever cover an issue of Vogue. How did that feel and what was that experience like working with the Vogue team? It was such an honour to me. I dreamt about it through my whole childhood. It was an amazing experience to shoot with the Spanish team in Milan. I liked working with them because they were really professional and I immediately felt comfortable with them. It was a blast! You looked incredible at the Met Ball, dressed in Calvin Klein. How was your first experience at the Met Ball?

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Thank you so much. I loved my Calvin Klein outfit. It was my very first Met Ball and I was pretty excited to be there. I had the chance to meet people I really admire and spend the evening with them. We noticed a photo of you with Lorde. Of course Lorde is special to us, because she’s a New Zealander and Remix is a New Zealand magazine. Are you a fan? Did you guys hang out? She is so nice! Of course I know she is from New Zealand. I have been a fan of her since her first single hit the charts. We were sitting at the same table so we had the chance to talk a lot. Are you familiar with any New Zealand fashion or New Zealand designers? I know Karen Walker! I will now do some research about more of the fashion in New Zealand. Have you ever been to New Zealand? If not, what do you know about us and our country? We need to bring you here for New Zealand Fashion Week! I have unfortunately never been to your country. Thanks to the Lord of the Rings I got to see the amazing landscapes of New Zealand that I would love to experience soon. Maybe I should come for New Zealand Fashion Week? Yes! What fashion trends do you love at the moment? What are your favourite collections this season? I’m huge fan of the ‘70s and everything that comes with that era… from flared jeans to suede, denim, wide hats and round sunglasses. New Bohemian hippy is the look this season. I loved so many of the new collections. Some of my favorites were Chloé , Celine , Valentino , Saint Laurent and Emilio Pucci. What star or model’s style do you love at the moment? Who are your top style icons? My top style icons come from the past. People like Kate Moss and Jane Birkin.

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RUBY ROSE It seems as though the world has finally cottoned on to how cool Ruby Rose is. Or how hot she is. Or both. This year the Australian DJ turned actress catapulted into global stardom thanks to her role in the American drama series Orange Is the New Black. The former MTV Australia VJ has been highly acclaimed for her role as Stella in the series, adding another notch in her already impressive belt. Remix editor-at-large Amber Peebles has known Ruby for years, so she phoned her up to hear about life as an American television star and role model. 141

Firstly, a huge congratulations on being cast in Orange Is The New Black. It’s a massive game changer. Talk me through what it was like going for the role and auditioning? And when you got the call to say you’re in? It was right after I released Break Free. The short film had gone viral with about 30 million views on Facebook and a couple of million on YouTube. A lot of very cool things were happening and shifting around me. Mind you, this is after a very long two years of not getting many breaks at all. I put all my energy and focus into the short film because I knew I wanted to tell my story, but this was the first time in 10 years I really had the chance to do so. A few weeks later my manager received an email from casting director Jen Euston’s assistant asking if I would be interested in auditioning for the role of Stella. I put in a self tape and about two weeks after that got a call confirming they wanted to cast me for the role. It was all pretty fast and then the next thing I knew I was living in New York working on my favorite show. You must have been doing back flips with joy. Was there anything you were nervous about? Yeah I was nervous about my first break on American TV being on an already successful and loved series. I sort of imagined I would work my way up or start on something smaller or in a guest role. I had dreamed big things but sometimes when those dreams start to materialise it really does hit you like a brick. I felt very transient and gypsy-like before solidifying the role on Orange and it was a big game changer. I had not been in front of a camera in about a year so there was a lot to be nervous about. What was your first day on set like? It was incredibly welcoming and warm. I remember thinking ‘Oh no!’ because I got into the pick up van and I sat next to Vicky, who plays Janae and who in season one has a fairly blunt abrupt encounter with Piper when she sits next to her in the van. Vicky couldn’t be further from her character and was so sweet and supportive, she was genuinely excited to have a new person on board and always offered REMIX MAGAZINE PEOPLE

to run my lines or discuss scenes. I had a fairly easy first day. It was about two weeks before I started really getting into the bigger dialogues. After scoring this role, what has been the biggest change you’ve experienced? The biggest change is being recognised so much in the States; it started a little bit during and after Break Free. It was sort of the perfect amount, maybe once a day or every couple of days someone would come up to tell me they loved the film. Now everywhere is a little more like Australia in the sense that if I am at the airport or anywhere with a dense population,

like the mall or music festival or club, I need to make sure I’ve brushed my teeth and put on deodorant because chances are I’m going to be engaging in a lot of conversations with new people. What’s your advice to keeping a wellrounded life? Meditate and believe in something bigger than yourself, whether it’s the universe, God, a higher power, or karma. Eat well, exercise and take care of yourself like you only have one chance at this, because you do. Are you managing to squeeze in gigs or have you put DJ-ing on ice? I have about ten gigs lined up. I’m going to Italy, Spain and the UK, because I have been meaning to tour there for so long. I’m also doing a good little U.S tour with the Pride festivals, which I am really stoked on being a 142

headliner for. As far as a club circuit, at the moment I don’t really have the time, but I do love how that allows me to connect and interact with fans in a way that otherwise wouldn’t be possible. What do you do to feel at home when you’re away from home? I have a blankie and a hand-knitted teddy from my 80-year-old great aunt Mary. It makes every hotel and airplane bed feel like my own. When you need to recharge what’s your go to chill out activity or place? Skateboarding, surfing, walking, hiking and being with my dogs. I think another reason people look up to you is because you’re a success against all odds. You haven’t exactly had a picture perfect past. How does the knowledge that you inspire people influence the way you live your life? I do everything on camera and off camera the same. I live with integrity and make sure I am always being someone I can be proud of without regrets. I don’t want to be anything but a good human being. I would rather be a role model than a train wreck and I could have been either. We have to be responsible for every decision we make and I couldn’t live with myself if I spent all this time and this platform being selfish and careless with my behavior and attitude. For those who would love to follow in your footsteps, what would you say to them? Keep your head up high, believe your dreams are possible and don’t let other people make you feel like you are stupid for believing in them. I also think focus is important, keep your eye on the stars and don’t aim lower. It’s easy to think you’re on a journey to a destination, only to get sidetracked and distracted on the way and make it somewhere else but not where you had planned. It may be somewhere cool, but it’s not where you are meant to be, so you have to keep going. You will get there if you never lose sight.

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ADAM LAMBERT Adam Lambert is arguably the most successful singer to ever launch from a reality show, having released three albums, headlined three tours and received a myriad of accolades since his runner-up position on the 2009 season of American Idol. As the juggernaut TV show prepares to wind down this season, Adam Lambert continues to turn things up, currently touring with rock band Queen and releasing his own record, The Original High. Adam sat down with editor Steven Fernandez to talk music, fashion and filling Freddie Mercuryâ€™s shoes.

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You’re back in New Zealand again, you keep coming back! What do you love most about it here? And I’m back in January! The fans are super sweet, open and expressive. When I’m in front of an audience here they’re very verbal and interactive. How do you maintain that energy across the tour? The show I did last night was just a one-off show. That’s only the second time that we’ve done a 45-minute set with this new music. Touring is different; it’s more of a routine and rhythm. At the moment, every day is something different, which is in some ways harder as you’re always adapting and adjusting. How do you enjoy performing solo as opposed to performing with Queen? Obviously when I perform solo, I’m in charge of what I want creatively. I have a great team around me that works very hard and they of course have great opinions too. With Queen I understand that it’s their band, and I have a lot of respect for that. I try to be very mindful and if I have an opinion or suggestion I approach it very sensitively because it’s their band, legacy and music. How do you take those Freddie Mercury comparisons? How do you fill those shoes? Well, you saw the shoes I brought to the show – they were about six inches high! I think in the beginning, when we first started working together, which was about a year or two after Idol, I was definitely very intimidated by that. It was a process to make the music a part of me and to feel super comfortable with them as I have so much respect for Bryan and Rodger. Over the course of the handful of gigs we did over the past couple of years – before we got to this tour – we became closer, we became a family and I learnt the ins and outs of the songs as we played them. I got more comfortable with the idea of leading the vocals and I was able to relax a bit. That kind of energy makes for a better show. Tell me about your album, The Original High. You mentioned that you had shit to get off your chest. How was the recording and making of the album therapeutic? I went out to Sweden for two months to start

the process and I got a lot of ideas started out there. I was meant to just be going for three weeks but it got extended and extended and I ended up being there for eight. It was good to get out of Hollywood and to get out of my comfort zone. I didn’t have much of a social life over there, aside from the people I was working with. I spent a lot of time alone in a city that I didn’t know very well, in the cold and the dark. It gave me a lot of time to reflect and think about things and to look back on the last 15 years that I’ve been living in Hollywood and even before Idol, which I think is really important because that’s when I was ‘living a normal life’. I mean I was never normal but before the celebrity status, which puts things into a weird skew. A lot of my friends are in the business and I started talking to people that I knew and asking them questions about whether they’re satisfied and what they want to get out of life. It’s interesting because I think that half the people I talk to don’t even know what they want, and half get what they think they want and they’re still not satisfied. There’s this chase, this longing for something – whatever it is. Some people want power, some want success, money, love, sex, or adventure. You go down a lot of weird paths to try and find that stuff, some of it great, some of it detrimental. I wanted the album to touch on all that and the feelings that go with it. The song ‘Ghost Town’ for example, is about things not going the way you thought they were going to – being a bit disappointed by someone or something; the feeling of being empty, numb and disillusioned. Speaking of ‘Ghost Town’, you know that it came out at the same time that Madonna released a track with the same name… I love Madonna. I grew up obsessed with her. That was the weirdest coincidence considering that I’m a fan of hers. It was December and I was in Mexico and I opened my laptop up and I saw her tracklisting get released for her album. I was like ‘what?’ because my single was already mixed, mastered, and we’d already picked it as the first single. It was leading up to it, about four weeks before we dropped the single, and all of a sudden it was her second single at the same time. It was too weird! Luckily I’d heard the song and I knew how different they were. For a second I was wondering if I should go with a different song, but I decided to stick

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with my plan and not let other things affect my artistic vision, and it worked out fine. This is the last season of American Idol, which was obviously hugely instrumental in your career. Why do you think it’s the right time for the show to wrap up? I couldn’t say. I mean, I think that they’ve had a great run. They’ve made a huge mark on the entertainment and record industry. I owe them a great debt of gratitude. I wouldn’t be where I am now without Idol; it set me up and gave me a shortcut to the music industry for sure. Do you ever call up any of the old contestants or judges? Ever get advice from Simon? I don’t, I don’t even have his number! In the U.K. he manages the contestants but it was different with Idol. When you’re not touring, what do you get up to in your own time? I’m pretty social. I have a lot of different friends. I bounce around and go to dinners and clubs. I do a lot of shopping – it’s a bit of a problem. I definitely have a shopping addiction. The shoes are taking up too much room in the closet at the moment. I also try to stay active, I have a trainer and I go to pilates. I hike around Runyon Canyon too, there’s some good eye candy there! Speaking of shoes and fashion, a lot of people look up to you because of your fashion and image as well as your music. Do you follow trends or do your own sort of thing? Yeah, I like trends. I think a while ago I was more on my own tangent, fashion wise. I used to be really inspired by the glam rock from the ‘70s and ‘80s. I was really into what Bowie did and Boy George and pushing gender ideas, but now I really like designer fashion, I love a lot of the French fashion lines. I like to see what’s going on. I still have a taste for retro but it’s a different thing now, sort of what Saint Laurent’s art direction has been. A little bit more Teddy Boy, ‘50s, classic Americana sort of thing. It’s interesting because being an artist you get kind of boxed into the style you had when you started out, which is limiting. I had a good time with the eyeliner and things but I’ve moved on now.

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eva longoria American actress Eva Longoria has long had a love affair with New Zealand, having made several trips down under over the years. Sheâ€™s even developed a soft spot for the Waiheke Island wine tour! On her most recent trip to Auckland, as a judge in the Specsavers Spectacle Wearer of the Year competition, Eva sat down with Remix to talk fashion and her return to television. 149

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Welcome back to New Zealand, did you miss us? I did. I missed everything New Zealand. Rugby and lamb! I had to come back. What’s been keeping you busy? Visiting Australia and New Zealand to promote the Specsavers Spectacle Wearer of the Year competition. I recently started wearing glasses when I got my Masters degree and I kind of had to navigate through that thing like, ‘Okay, it’s another accessory. Do I want to look cool? Do I want to look sexy? What colour?’ and I found they could get really pricey really quick. I got the call from Specsavers and they were having this competition that celebrates people’s individual style and celebrates wearing glasses and I was really into it. Every time I wear glasses I feel more empowered – I wear them for reading because I know I’m about to learn something. So, I’ve been here a week and when I get back to Los Angeles. I’ll start my new television show. It’s a comedy called Hot and Bothered and that’s my big return to television since Housewives. The winner of this competition gets to come to Los Angeles and come on the set, which is cool. What is a usual day for you? There’s no normal day for me. Every day is so different. I wish I had a normal schedule, but between shooting and photo shoots and my travel it’s hard to come up with a normal day. I like to wake up, run or go to Pilates, have my coffee, read the news and then get to the office, but that rarely happens. To have my dinner by 7pm and be in bed by 9pm is a perfect day for me. Do you manage to set time aside for yourself? Is that important? Oh yeah! Every time I travel, even here, I have one day off to enjoy and one day to work. One day to go to a vineyard and relax! So I usually mix them in and that works really well for me. I was on vacation for one week and I didn’t have anything to do and I almost went crazy!

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The world doesn’t stop, you know. If you had three hours free to yourself, what would you do? Read, sleep and spa. I’m a massage junkie. I love spas and facials, wraps and treatments. So, you mentioned before that you’ve got a little bit of down time in New Zealand. What’s the plan of attack? I’m going to definitely go to Waiheke Island and do a tour. I went last time and I really loved it. I’m a wine lover. What’s your take on New Zealand style and fashion? I haven’t spent enough time here to really enjoy it because I’m always at a hotel working and I always come in winter. So I haven’t really seen a great representation of it – it’s always coats, boots, black! Now obviously you’re a pro at the red carpet ensemble. What are your tips for turning on the glam? Red carpets are a different set of rules - that’s not my usual style. People don’t realise that it takes 12 different people to create the red carpet illusion – the hair, the makeup, the stylist, the assistants. A lot of thought goes into those outfits that is not from me! By the time I get it I’m just like ‘that’s pretty!’. But Spanx are the best invention ever, platform heels under a long gown to make you look taller too, and always altering, altering, altering. Some people buy off the rack and leave it as is. I alter even t-shirts! Is there a common mistake when someone is stepping out onto the red carpet, or in more normal terms, I guess – going to a ball or something? I think over accessorising with gowns. You have an amazing gown and then it’s the big necklace with the matching bracelet and the ring, it’s too much. I actually learnt that from Victoria Beckham. She generally wears nothing when she wears her gowns. So I generally wear 150

an earring, or a necklace, or a ring, but never the whole lot! I keep it minimal. Obviously there’s a lot of pressure in looking picture perfect. Is having fashion as a huge part of your role a fun thing or is it more stressful? Well, as I said before, the hard work isn’t really done by me. It’s fun because I’m a girly girl and I like makeup and hair and dresses and heels, so most of the time it’s fun. What is style for you? My style is comfort. I have to be comfortable, I have to be able to breathe, I have to be able to move. Red carpet rules are different – you can never breathe in those gowns and your feet are killing you, but for me, everyday, it has to be comfortable. Jeans, a button-down shirt and a good pair of heels are my go-to. I have so many pairs of jeans it’s ridiculous, and I always wear the same one pair. When it comes to eyewear, do you switch it up with the styles that are trendy or do you stay with classics? I only wear reading glasses and I used to love the thinner ones and now I love the Demi Moore bigger frame kind of look. I definitely think my style evolves with frames. I’m trying to explore with colour too, but I don’t think I’m funky enough to pull it off. I feel like colour frames are for people with bangs. How does someone impress you in this competition? Confidence! Being confident in your frames, in yourself and in your body. There was a girl that previously won the Specsavers Spectacle Wearer of the Year competition and she was just stunningly beautiful because of her energy. She had a shaved head and this cool vibe. I like to see confidence ooze through.

Entries for the Specsavers Spectacle Wearer of the Year competition 2015 are now open at loveglasses.specsavers.co.nz

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ALL WHITE EVERYTHING Topman stylist Lyndon Sharma introduces guys to this season’s freshest look, an all-white ensemble. White is a common colour choice for the majority of men. The classic white t-shirt and Oxford cloth button-down have long cemented themselves as wardrobe essentials for men, day in, day out. However, all-white outfits are much less common, which is why the new Topman ‘White Out’ trend is set to make a visual impact. Skinny jeans, tees and luxe trainers allow you to go full white out with

this special edit from Topman. You don’t have to go all in with a pristine white suit. Start off small by adding a versatile pair of white jeans to your wardrobe and matching them with a white tee, polo or button-down shirt. It’s a bold statement, but White Out offers a refreshing change to the busy colours and prints that have previously inundated menswear. To then break up the look, you can

CALIFORNIA STYLE STRAIGHT FROM AUSSIE Australian label The Academy Brand are focused on clean, classic and accessible clothing that stands the test of time, and a commitment to superior craftsmanship and premium quality. Their latest range, found on our shores at Superette, Smith & Caugheys, Stencil, and Ballantynes, was inspired by the Californian lifestyle and urban beach culture of yesteryear. It focuses on summer friendly fabrics and heritage prints, paying homage to the relaxed Californian attitude with an added retro feel. academybrand.com

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bring in accent colours with accessories and footwear. All clothing and accessories available from Topman. To book an appointment with Lyndon or someone from the Topman team, phone 0508 TOPSHOP, email topmanstylist@topretail.co.nz or pop into 203 Queen Street, Auckland.

NARCISO RODRIGUEZ HAS THE BLUES Narciso Rodriguez has launched a new version of his enormously popular 2007 fragrance, For Him. The 2015 release, entitled Narciso Rodriguez For Him Bleu Noir, is a modern and elegant scent. The fragrance is clean and sharp, with depth and sensuality, as well as the original fougere and musky character. The spicy accord consists of nutmeg and cardamom, while the signature musky heart of this composition remains the same, complemented by a woody accord of blue cedar and black ebony. ‘I love blue so dark that it appears black. I like black which takes depths of dusk,’ says Rodriguez about Bleu Noir. Available in department stores and Life Pharmacies nationwide.

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GREAT GEAR FOR ALL OCCASIONS Gubb & Mackie have received a trans-seasonal delivery of some of their most popular garments, including unstructured jackets, casual suits and chino trousers, just in time for the weather change. They have plenty of new items, which you can throw on over almost anything, be it a shirt, jumper or t-shirt. Their versatile cotton suits are the perfect casual look for a relaxed office setting, a smart, comfortable travel outfit, or mismatched for the weekend. gubbandmackie.com

THE SUIT YOU CAN SKYDIVE IN Hallenstein Brothers have unleashed their latest Freedom X Brothers Summer ‘15/’16 campaign, showcasing the new Hallenstein Brothers tailored collection. Shot on location in Rio de Janeiro, the campaign video stars Instagram power couple Jay Alvarrez and Alexis Ren alongside some of Brazil’s top extreme athletes. In the film the crew freefall from helicopters high above Ipanema, leap from Pedra De Gavea and pull jetski flips in a luxury pool, all to demonstrate the extreme freedom of the sharp new Hallenstein Brothers Stretch Merino Suit. hallensteins.com

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BEN SCHNETZER THE BACKWARDS BRITISH INVASION First he infiltrated a prestigious British drama school, now New York-born actor Ben Schnetzer is landing roles normally reserved for Brits. Except for needing the occasional soul detox, starting his career in London has been a gambit that’s paying off huge for the 24 year-old. Ben tells writer John Morgan about the peaks and pitfalls of his backwards British invasion. Hollywood is being invaded by British actors, yet you seem to be on a one-man counter-invasion of England. That’s the thing man, you’ve got to represent! When I decided I wanted to go to drama school in England all these actors started to catch my eye. Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Michael Fassbender, Daniel Day-Lewis, Tom Hardy, James McAvoy. On the TV an English guy plays every superhero. I was like, dude I’ve got to go! They’re doing something right over there. In the film The Riot Club your character is a member of an exclusive drinking society at Oxford and in Pride you play a gay activist rallying for English mineworkers. What was it like to play the ultimate privileged insider of British society as well as the classic outsider? It’s funny doing something like The Riot Club where it’s a quintessential British film and this American kid walks in. It’s an interesting world to get an insight into. In England you kind of need to be born into a certain echelon of society and lineage. If you’re not born into it - no matter how much money you have - it just doesn’t cut it. You can never judge your character and have to try to defend your character, but in certain circumstances it was really hard work on The Riot Club because you really have to work to find the redemption in these guys. I think with Pride it was a lot easier to find redemption. It was really easy to wake up every morning and know why you want to make this film and why you want to tell this story and how important it is.

What do you think made Brando so compelling? With Brando there are certain things that are innate in him. There’s the sex appeal. There’s the alpha male. A sense of vulnerability but at the same time real. It is unbelievably appealing but something you can’t try and emulate. So there’s the spectator part of me that’s excited by that. For an actor like Brando there’s no sense of showmanship. There’s just a sense of complete and utter uninhibited presence and un-selfconscious commitment and focus and precision. That’s inspiring and infinitely watchable for me. Everything about his work is just truth. If Marlon Brando was on Twitter what do you think he would say? Oh man he’d probably make a fart joke! Apparently he had quite a good toilet sense of humor. You grew up in New York City, went to drama school in London at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and have made several films in Europe. So what comes to mind if I say: ‘Ben Schnetzer, actor, living in Los Angeles’? I have nothing against LA. It’s really cool. I just don’t have a reason or desire to go at this point. I would like to see myself living in Rome or Buenos Aires before I see myself settling down in Los Angeles. But the future is unwritten so who knows!

When you were young was there one actor or performance or movie that kind of just floored you? When I was a teenager I started following River Phoenix’s work and obviously every actor my age really aspires to have a career in the same universe as Johnny Depp’s. Then my dad introduced me to all of Brando’s movies. I watched A Streetcar Named Desire and it changed the way I think about this job.

There’s a feeling that New York has lost its soul to the investment bank crowd. David Byrne said if it continues he’s ‘out of (there)’. What do you think? Places always change and things are always in a state of flux. I think that New York is always going to be New York and it’s always going to have its soul. I really can’t see that ever being taken away or ever being lost. But I think it’s just a matter of, you know, people readjusting their perspective and their priorities and hopefully we’ll find a resurgence of the kind of rawness that so defines New York.

Of those actors you mentioned, who would you have riding shotgun on a long road trip? Oh dude! Oh man it would have to be Brando. I think there would be times where it’d be real struggle but you know that would be a dream.

You’ve played some really interesting roles but I imagine you can walk around New York and London without really attracting much attention. Do you ever think about what your private life might be like if a big star-making role comes in and you go outside

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and there’s a swarm of paparazzi? I think about it more when I work with people who are a bit more in the public eye and I see the responses that they get when they go out. I think all that stuff is a bridge that gets crossed once it’s arrived at and I think any sort of problems like those are pretty good problems to have. Where does social media fit in with you? Working with younger actors everyone is really hip on social media. It’s not any sort of statement I’m trying to make but I just suck! I’m terrible with computers. I’ve had the same cell phone since I was 17! I think that there’s a lot to be said for social media but I also think that when you’re doing something like acting, your career depends on you being versatile and you being anonymous to a certain extent. At the same time, if you have a voice that people are going to want to listen to, you know, take the time and use that voice to say something that is meaningful and try to represent something greater than what you had for brunch today. Let’s say you’d chosen to be a painter or a writer. What you create and how it’s judged, well it really all comes down to you. But as an actor you are a part of this complex, collaborative endeavor. So how do you define success for yourself within that dynamic? Once they call ‘wrap’ your job is done and it’s not your piece of art anymore, it’s someone else’s. But it’s interesting, I think with any art form you have to find what turns you on and trust that that’s what other people are going to relate to. With Pride for instance, they had just done a screening for the members of the LGBT community and they seemed really proud of it. Monetary success is great, but what if there are kids who don’t feel like they’re cool, but a movie of yours inspired them? Those are the people you want to reach out to. Those are the people you want to say ‘thank you’ to. Those are the people you want to make art for. I remember the first play I ever saw and I’ll never forget it. I’ll never forget who I was with. I’ll never forget the shoes I was wearing. I mean it’s influential this stuff. Words by John Morgan. Photography by Dirk Kikstra.

LEON BRIDGES In 2013 Leon Bridges was washing dishes out the back of a hotel kitchen in Fort Worth, Texas. Now Leon Bridges plays his music to thousands of enthusiastic fans at Glastonbury. Remix editor Steven Fernandez spoke with him about his debut album Coming Home, which has been lauded as a stunning throwback to ‘40s and ‘50s soul. Leon you recently played at Glastonbury, how did you find that? I loved it. It was my first festival, very interesting. There was mud everywhere and it was raining but I thought the reaction from the crowd was amazing. Right out the gate to play a festival as massive as that one. Do you have a dream person you would love to perform or collaborate with in the future? Who and why? I think it would be great to work with Kendrick Lamar. I think it’s very inspiring what he’s doing. He’s a great musician so I think it would be great to collab with him. What music are you listening to at the moment, other emerging artists? What kind of music do you have playing on your Spotify? Every now and then I go look into some new artists, recently I’ve downloaded Young Thug’s new record, Barter 6. Did you grow up around a lot of music? Yeah I grew up listening to a lot of radio. My mum loved people like Luther Vandross and Anita Baker. I didn’t listen to a lot of live music growing up though. REMIX MAGAZINE GENTLEMEN

Did you always feel like you would become a musician? The story goes that you were washing dishes up until you were discovered and signed to your record label. Is that true? Can you tell us a bit about your discovery? Yeah I never thought that I’d ever be at this level, I guess nobody ever does. I think some people want that life from day one, but I never really expected it. But I would say that me meeting Austin Jenkins at the bar that one night was the change of everything. Him coming up to me after one of my sets, telling me ‘Hey, I really love your style, I’d loved to record some songs for you’. I would say that was the start of everything. Can you tell me a bit about the music, a bit about the record? Where all of these songs recorded in a few sessions or have some of these been composed or written over the years? Yeah I would say that there’s one song on the record that I wrote during the session but the rest of the songs I had way before I met Austin Jenkins, way before Columbia Records got into the mix. It was cool to see all those songs that I wrote come to life with the full band in the studio. Yeah that’s pretty crazy, I can’t imagine that happens that often that many people already have 162

so many tracks ready to go before their sessions. There was no hiring musicians, there was no hiring producers, or anything, it happened in Fort Worth with Austin and me and the rest of the guys just having a vision to make some soul music. Do you have a favourite song on the album or perhaps a song that means most to you? My favourite song on the album is definitely ‘Brown Skin Girl’, it’s not one of the singles or anything. It’s always been a favourite of mine. Is that a favourite to perform as well? I would say my favourite to perform is ‘Twistin’ & Groovin’’, that gets pretty fun on stage. When you’re not on the road and you’ve actually got some time off, which I can’t really imagine is very much at the moment, what’s your ideal way to spend a day when you’re not working? When I’m at home I like to just hang out with friends or catch up with family. That’s ideal for me. Sitting at home and watching cartoons if I can. I’d say that’s the most ideal thing, spending time with friends and family. leonbridges.com

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CHANEL LE LIFT ANTI-AGING RANGE Chanel is a name that is synonymous with elegance and sophistication in the beauty world and their new eye concentrate mask certainly lives up to the reputation. The Le Lift range of products is Chanel’s answer to anti-aging. The eye masks’ velvety formula will smooth out your lines, brighten under eye darkness, and keep your face looking refreshed and young. No need to worry about those pesky wrinkles anymore, Chanel has you covered in style. chanel.com

Los Angeles Livin’ SMASHBOX L.A. LIGHTS COLOUR STICK COLLECTION Illuminator is the makeup artist’s favourite tool, the device to thank for beautiful glowing, luminous skin. Smashbox have taken inspiration from the natural, golden light found at sunrise and sunset to create their new L.A. Lights Colour Stick Collection, a multipurpose creamy illuminating stick with a built-in buffing sponge, to give girls everywhere the Hollywood glow. smashboxcosmetics.co.nz

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Healthy Head, Happy Hair GOLDWELL DUALSENSES SCALP SPECIALIST No one likes having a bad hair day, let alone a bad scalp day! So the guys at Goldwell have come up with a solution. The Dualsenses Scalp Specialist will help get your scalp back to being balanced, which will also have your hair looking beautiful and healthy. To help with the three main scalp problems it comes in three segments: Sensitive, Anti-Dandruff, and Deep Cleansing. These products use salon quality technologies and will get the top of your head feeling clean and refreshed in no time. goldwell.co.nz

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SHISEIDO FULL LASH VOLUME MASCARA Mascara is a daily must and since we’ve had our hands on Shiseido’s new Full Lash Volume Mascara, perfect lashes have become a breeze. Made with a full expansion brush, created specifically to separate and fan out lashes, and a CurlUp wax to lift lashes from the root up, Full Lash Volume Mascara adds volume while lasting all day long. shiseido.co.nz

GIAMBATTISTA VALLI X MAC Renowned Italian designer Giambattista Valli, loved for his sophisticated and unapologetic use of colour and elegant femininity, is the perfect choice for a MAC collab. We’re obsessed with the colour selection - five distinct gelato-esque hues from sugar-pink, bright peach and raspberry red to hot strawberry and dark cherry. Not to mention the covetable custom-matched packaging. And if you’re not in the mood for the full matte finish, the designer collection is topped off with a clear crystal glaze gloss with a subtle pearlescent finish. maccosmetics.com

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Introducing New Invisiblur™ Perfecting Shield a breakthrough invisible SPF formula that combats the signs of ageing while instantly blurring away imperfections.

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MAC STUDIO WATERTIGHT SPF30 FOUNDATION Ladies, this is a game-changer! The latest in the cult MAC Studio lineup, Waterweight Foundation is set to blow the competition out of the water. This innovative formula delivers colour in an ultra fluid, elegantly thin elastic gel serum so fine and silky it’s applied with a dropper. You won’t have tried anything like it, guaranteed. With stay-true colour in 20+ signature shades and sheer to medium buildable coverage, Waterweight gently but effectively blurs imperfections, and the addition of Moisture Fusion Complex technology provides instant all-day hydration so skin feels deliciously quenched, supple and liquid-soft to the touch. Available at all MAC stores from September 7th. maccosmetics.com

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ALAÏA PARIS EAU DE PARFUM Azzedine Alaïa has been one of the biggest names in fashion since the ‘80s, known for celebrating all things women, so it comes as no surprise that the designer’s first foray into the fragrance world has been specifically created around revealing and exalting femininity; a fragrance to make women feel confident and desirable. Alaïa Paris Eau de Parfum has a majestic floral heart and a base of musk, a fragrance that dresses skin like an Alaïa design. Available at Smith & Caughey’s Queen Street & Newmarket in Auckland, Kirkcaldie & Satins in Wellington and Ballantynes Department Store in Christchurch.

EVOLU SPOT CRISIS CONTROL GEL Never face a spot crisis alone again! With causes from stress and hormones to diet and environment, sadly being a grown-up doesn’t mean no pimples, but Evolu’s brand new Spot Crisis Control Gel does! First it cleanses with manuka honey and totarol, then it reduces the spot with lentil seed extract, before soothing the problem zone with aloe vera and kawakawa. This tripleaction formula is a powerful little package with absolutely no nasties. evolu.com

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SMASHBOX PURE PIGMENT GEL LINER Gel eyeliner is one of our favourite products for getting the perfect cat-eye before a girls’ night out, but no one enjoys the mess it creates. Luckily, Smashbox have just introduced their new Pure Pigment Gel Liners, available in four great colours. It looks like a regular liner but with a gel formula, so it glides on with ease and dries instantly. Lasting up to 36 hours, this will be your new favourite liner for day and night. smashboxcosmetics.co.nz

JANE IREDALE PLAYON LIP CRAYONS This range of seven modern and versatile shades gives excellent colour pay-off with a soft and creamy easy to blend application. In a range of Charming, Naughty, Luscious, Blissful, Yummy, Hot and Saucy colours, each crayon has a high concentration of moisturising oils that leave lips perfectly soft and conditioned. Plus the sleek pencil design is comfortable to hold for precise application. janeiredale.co.nz

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Beauty Bangerz VIVA GLAM MILEY CYRUS II We’re unashamedly huge fans of Miley and even bigger fans of MAC Viva Glam, so of course we’re pretty much twerking over the latest announcement that Miley’s back with another huge MAC hit for 2015 with a new pop duo of lip colours. Set to be the hue of the summer, the new lipstick and lipglass are a decadent, vivid, sexy orange that screams confidence, glamour and fun. Out September 10th and sure to be a #1 hit. maccosmetics.com

Shape Matters SMASHBOX FULL EXPOSURE PALETTE A woman’s eyes are the windows to her soul, so Smashbox has come up with a solution to enhance every eye shape out there. 14 must-have neutrals from nudes to blacks; longwearing shimmers and velvety-smooth mattes are perfect for an alfresco lunch or late night drinks. The double-sided brush takes the guesswork out of application, making it effortlessly chic. The breakthrough eye shape chart helps you find a gorgeous look just for you. smashboxcosmetics.co.nz

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Youthful Skin Made Easy ENVIRON INTENSIVE AVANCE DFP 312 CREAM Environ Intensive Avance DFP 312 Cream is made to assist in improving the overall appearance of the skin, leaving skin feeling moisturised and looking smoother and firmer. Recommended for use before the signs of aging, stress and everyday living start to take a toll, this tri-peptide powerhouse will help keep skin looking younger for longer. psb.net.nz

Golden Anniversary

ELIZABETH ARDEN GREEN TEA BAMBOO Imagine sipping on a cup of fragrant green tea in the cool green surrounds of a lush bamboo forest - could anything be more refreshing or relaxing? Elizabeth Arden have bottled this delicious dream, as the newest addition to the Green Tea fragrance family, where bamboo and lush green tea notes mingle with sparkling citrus, soothing cucumber, bergamot and violet leaves providing the perfect blend of calming and invigorating properties. ‘While creating this fragrance, I envisioned a spa in southern Thailand, surrounded by bamboo groves and lush green foliage,’ says perfumer Rodrigo Flores-Roux. ‘The sound of a waterfall trickling in the background calmed my mind as I sipped on my soothing green tea. I drifted into a place of pure relaxation, tranquility and peace.’ elizabetharden.co.nz

LINDEN LEAVES GOLD RANGE ‘I’m hugely excited by the launch of our premium Gold range,’ says Linden Leaves founder Brigit Blair. ‘It’s a bold statement of our commitment to beauty for the body and the soul. The presentation, the sheer luxury, indulgence and feel-good factor this range imparts makes it so special.’ From lotion and shimmer mousse to body oil and bath salts, all enhanced with 23 karat gold leaf, the decadent new offering from Linden Leaves celebrates the Kiwi brand’s 20th birthday with a gilded range of products formulated to fight premature ageing through moisture retention, cell regeneration and collagen resynthesis. lindenleaves.com

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Sunkissed Beauty ELIZABETH ARDEN SUNKISSED PEARLS LIMITED EDITION COLOUR COLLECTION Drawing inspiration from all the colours in the ocean, Elizabeth Arden Sunkissed Pearls Limited Edition Colour Collection is an exquisite array of products that you need in your makeup bag. The bronzing and highlighting duo make contouring a breeze and the sleek black gel liner is easy to use and will have your eyes looking party ready. Both the lip glosses and eye shadows come in three stunning shades so they’ll be perfect for any occasion. elizabetharden.co.nz

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Revitalise Your Eyes SHISEIDO ULTIMUNE EYE Looking at screens for long periods and not getting enough sleep is something we can all relate to. Too bad it makes our eyes tired and the skin around them dry and weak. Shiseido’s new Ultimune Eye concentrate is going to help fix that though. Focussing on skin immunity, the revolutionary formula is designed to add rich moisture and strength that comes from within your own skin. Apply the concentrate morning and night after your other face products and feel it begin to work in just four weeks. shiseido.co.nz

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FLASH EYELASH SERUM Longing for thick, fuller eyelashes that make your eyes pop, without using falsies? Look no further than fLash Eyelash Serum. The lash-enhancing wand glides on like liquid eyeliner, curling and lengthening with every stroke. Infused with a blend of nutrients, it conditions and strengthens eyelashes to keep them healthy all year round. Each in-demand tube lasts for three months; plenty of time to see those lashes turn from sparse to lush. All this for a fraction of the price of other lash serums! Available nationwide at selected pharmacies and Farmers department stores.

SKINFOOD’S TANNING MOISTURISER Spring is here, which means it’s almost time to get those pins out! Get bare-leg ready without damaging your skin, with Skinfood’s Tanning Moisturiser. With rosehip oil, sweet almond oil, sunflower oil, rosemary extract and a calming orange citrus scent, Skinfood’s Tanning Moisturiser nourishes your skin while delivering a natural looking sun-kissed tan. Skinfood has a whole range of nutritious, paraben-free products, so check them out this Spring. skinfood.co.nz

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IT’S FASHION SHOW SEASON AND TIME FOR ALL THE HOTTEST LABELS TO REVEAL THEIR NEW COLLECTIONS ON THE CATWALK. FOR GIRLS HEADING ALONG, WE’VE PUT TOGETHER A LITTLE SURVIVAL KIT OF OUR FAVE ACCESSORIES TO HELP YOU LOOK YOUR BEST.

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TOP (From left to right): GUCCI BAMBOO Eau De Parfum, BRITNEY SPEARS FANTASY Intimate Edition Eau De Parfum, ELIZABETH ARDEN GREEN TEA BAMBOO Eau De Toilette BOTTOM (From left to right): NARCISO RODRIGUEZ L’ABSOLU FOR HER Eau De Parfum, BOSS JOUR POUR FEMME Eau De Parfum, I AM JUICY COUTURE Eau De Parfum, KAREN WALKER ‘A’ Eau De Parfum, AMOUAGE INTERLUDE MAN & WOMAN available at WORLD BEAUTY

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NEW! PHOTO ANGLE PURE PIGMENT GEL LINER

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Supermodel Behati Prinsloo is the new face of I AM JUICY COUTURE.

THE REBELLIOUS FRAGRANCE PERFUMER DORA BAGHRICHE OF FIRMENICH PARIS TELL US ABOUT DESIGNING HER LATEST FRAGRANCE, I AM JUICY COUTURE, HER MOST MISCHIEVOUS SCENT YET.

What is the inspiration behind I AM JUICY COUTURE? Juicy Couture came to me with the idea of creating a fragrance meant to be a complete declaration, a manifesto. The fragrance was created for this new girl’s identity who has an outright desire to be who she is and get what she wants. The image came very easily to me and I became obsessed with bringing the irreverent I AM JUICY COUTURE girl to life. In the end, I was able to create something amazingly bold and rebellious. How would you describe the fragrance? I AM JUICY COUTURE is a rebellious gourmand that gives the sensation that you are doing something mischievous, but it’s so good that you can’t stop yourself. It combines ripe, juicy fruits to open this bold and alluring scent REMIX MAGAZINE BEAUTY

before blending a seductive mix of Gardenia and Cashmere Woods. What inspired you when you were creating the fragrance? I was inspired by French Pralines – they are these lush candies that look like bright, pink crystals. I wanted to achieve a similar effect in the fragrance, but with the luxurious warmth of Amber. I imagined candied crystals of gold and this thought process led me to create a Candied Amber Accord, which is completely unique to I AM JUICY COUTURE. I love that it has never been used before in a fragrance – it brings that perfect unpredictable element to the scent. What sets I AM JUICY COUTURE apart from the best-selling Viva La Juicy fragrance? Both fragrances are bold and modern and 188

maintain the Juicy Couture DNA. Viva La Juicy is more for the charming, chic darling, whereas I AM JUICY COUTURE is for that mischievous rebel. The florals in I AM JUICY COUTURE play a much lighter role and there are a lot more naughty twists in this fragrance. Can you describe the type of girl that wears I AM JUICY COUTURE? I AM JUICY COUTURE is for the girl who is unapologetic and owns who she is. She is a free spirit and strikes the perfect balance between rebellion and sophistication. I AM JUICY COUTURE is available at selected department stores and pharmacies nationwide. Photo by Kevin Mazur @ Getty Images

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Photographer OLIVIA HEMUS Makeup KIEKIE STANNERS @ MAC Cosmetics Hair ZOE CLARK & KYLA ROSE from Redken Models AMY & SOPHIE @ Red 11 Models Make up assistant JUMEE WARDLAW @ MAC Cosmetics

THE GUILTY ONES (2014) Inspired by Stolen Girlfriends Club’s 2014 show The Guilty Ones at New Zealand Fashion Week

RUNWAY REINTERPRETED | MAC X STOLEN GIRLFRIENDS CLUB REMIX CELEBRATES 10 YEARS OF STOLEN GIRLFRIENDS CLUB WITH THIS SPECIAL EDITORIAL, IN WHICH MAC NEW ZEALAND SENIOR ARTIST KIEKIE STANNERS REINTERPRETS THREE OF THE BEST BEAUTY LOOKS FROM THE STOLEN GIRLFRIENDS CLUB CATWALK.

THE END HAS NO END (2007) Inspired by Stolen Girlfriends Clubâ€™s 2007 show The End Has No End at New Zealand Fashion Week

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THE BIG COMEDOWN (2011) Inspired by Stolen Girlfriends Clubâ€™s 2011 show The Big Comedown at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week

MARC MOORE CREATIVE DIRECTOR FOR STOLEN GIRLFRIENDS CLUB

KIEKIE STANNERS NEW ZEALAND SENIOR ARTIST FOR MAC COSMETICS

Can you believe Stolen Girlfriends Club turns 10 this year? In 10 years you’ve done 10 fashion week shows. Does it seem like yesterday you did your first? Time flies when you’re having fun. We’ll never forget our first runway show in 2007. The atmosphere was electric, all our friends and family were in the audience and they were hooting for each and every outfit as loud as they could. We were super green and probably feeling a little unworthy of showing at New Zealand Fashion Week, but all of the support we received gave us a lot of confidence that we needed.

Can you believe MAC has worked with Stolen Girlfriends Club on 10 fashion shows? How many have you worked on as the leading artist? It’s amazing to think MAC has worked with Stolen Girlfriends Club for 10 fashion weeks and I can remember all of them! I have been lucky enough to work on all of the Stolen Girlfriends Club New Zealand Fashion Week shows and directed makeup for two of them. I’m directing the makeup for their show at New Zealand Fashion Week this year. How did you select the three looks you’ve reinterpreted here? What made these iconic / stand out from the others? We’ve chosen three iconic shows from the Stolen Girlfriends Club timeline. It’s hard not to go past their first ever show at New Zealand Fashion Week in 2007, The End Has No End. This was MAC’s first outing with Stolen Girlfriends Club and highly memorable for its injection of attitude and energy. The second look is from the boys’ show at the 2011 Rosemount Australian Fashion Week in Sydney. The makeup was directed by MAC Director of Makeup Artistry Terry Barber. Titled The Big Comedown, Terry created two stand out makeups for the show - a loved-up fuchsia lip and a punk-rock glitter lip. The last look is 2014’s New Zealand Fashion Week show The Guilty Ones, on which I directed the makeup.

You guys have always had super innovative shows. Why is it important to do something different and how do you come up with the ideas? We have always liked to do things differently, it keeps things entertaining, inspiring and engaging. Not only for us but for our audience too, it’s why they buy into our brand over others. You can never rest on your laurels or take your foot off the gas. You’re always trying to improve on what you last did and that challenge really does help you grow and hone your craft. The ideas we come up with are always so different each year. It all depends on what music I’m listening to, or what films I’ve seen or what parties I’ve been to, or where I’ve travelled. There really is inspiration in everything if you open your eyes.

How do you come up with the makeup ideas and looks? Do you work closely with Marc and the team on that? We work together to put together a beauty look that will reference the story that Stolen Girlfriends Club are telling with their collection. I love the way that Marc and the team have such a strong vision and theme for the show that they are putting on - you are transformed into their world for those few minutes you’re watching. When creating the makeup we discuss the mood and vibe of the show, the hair and styling, and look at makeup ideas they may have. However, the team trusts me to create something or develop on initial ideas myself.

How has it been working with MAC for ten years? Why are you guys the perfect partnership? MAC was one of our first ever brand partners. They believed in us before anyone else. We’re so lucky to have worked with them for so long. We have done so many cool projects together. How did you choose the three looks to reinterpret for us? Are these your favourite three? It was hard to choose. I had to let MAC lead the way on this one, as it is more about the makeup looks and less about the actual collection/ clothes. I have too many favourite shows to choose just three! What are your favourite shows looking back and why? I reckon I have six favourites when I think back. Our first show The End Has No End will always be a favourite, Pretty Vacant in 2008 was amazing and pretty unbridled, Welcome to Noweherein 2009, Last Night’s Party in 2010, The Big Comedown in Sydney in 2011, and also The Guilty Ones last year was great and a return to the brand’s roots.

Why has the partnership between MAC and Stolen Girlfriends Club been such a perfect fit? Why have you two brands made such a great team? At heart, both MAC and Stolen Girlfriends Club have the same brand ethos, an irreverence that means we like to create something unique together. We both believe in the community we have surrounding the brands, the teams we work with and the relationships that we create. It’s always a collaborative process when we work together, and perhaps a little bit rebellious, which suits us!

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Photographer STEPHEN GOODENOUGH Makeup KRISTEN STEWART Hair STEWART CORKIN & KATIE GRIGG Models KRISTEN, REBECCA, SARAH & SOPHIE from Portfolio Models

KRISTEN STEWART, FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF KRISTEN STEWART SCHOOL OF MAKEUP IN CHRISTCHURCH, PRESENTS AN EXCLUSIVE REMIX EDITORIAL, SHOWCASING THE ‘ART OF MAKE-UP’ WITH SPRING FASHION. KSSM.CO.NZ

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Makeup: MAC Studio Sculpt Foundation, MAC Sheertone Blush in Peaches

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Makeup: MAC Strobe Cream, MAC Studio Sculpt SPF 15 Foundation, MAC Lipglass in Clear, MAC Paint Pot Bare Study, MAC Eye Shadow in Mystery used in brows

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Sarah wears IVY BLU dress

Makeup: MAC Eye Shadow in Bronze, MAC Smolder Eye Kohl, MAC Sculpt Sculpting Powder

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Makeup: MAC Eye Shadow in Soba & Mystery, MAC Sheertone Blush in Tenderling, MAC Chromatographic Pencil NC 15

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Sophie wears IVY BLU top

Using: ORIBE Royal Blowout Heat Styling Spray, ORIBE Soft Lacquer Heat Styling Spray, ORIBE Crème for Style

Using: ORIBE Gold Lust Nourishing Hair Oil, ORIBE Dry Texturizing Spray, ORIBE Superfine Hair Spray

Photographer MARA SOMMER Art & Hair Director DANNY PATO @ D&M using Oribe Hair Care Styling RACHEL MORTON Makeup AIMIE FIEBIG Models LYDIA @ Red 11 & DANI @ Unique Models

Fallen Raven FRAGILE, BEAUTIFUL AND HAUNTING, THESE IMAGES BY PHOTOGRAPHER MARA SOMMER AND ART & HAIR DIRECTOR DANNY PATO TAKE INSPIRATION FROM A DARK BALLET. USING LUXURIOUS ORIBE HAIR CARE PRODUCTS, PATO’S HAIR LOOKS GIVE A CONTEMPORARY, THEATRICAL EDGE TO CLASSIC FORMS, TOYING WITH CONTRASTS MATTE AND SHINE, SOFT AND SHARP, DEEP COOL CHOCOLATE AND DUSTY BLONDE. ORIBE.COM | DANDM.CO.NZ

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watercolour days Photographer OLIVIA HEMUS Fashion Editor JAIME RIDGE Hair & Makeup LAUREN GUNN using Kevin Murphy

GUCCI dress and cuff

Nails by IMOGENE BEVAN from POP Nails Model TALIA @ 62 Models

HELEN CHERRY dress, DIOR necklace, bracelet and ring

GEORGIA ALICE top & pants, TOPSHOP necklace, LOLA AND GRACE ring, MEADOWLARK rings

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MAURIE AND EVE knit top, GEORGIA ALICE skirt, ZAMBESI dress, MIMCO necklace

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STYLE STALKER dress, ORSINI ring, KAREN WALKER ring, MEADOWLARK ring, SWAROVSKI necklaces, bracelets & ring

CAMILLA AND MARC dress, DIOR bracelet & earrings

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ANDREA MOORE shirt, KAREN WALKER skirt, WORKSHOP sweater, TOPSHOP cuff and earrings, LOLA AND GRACE ring, MEADOWLARK rings, KAREN WALKER ring

CAMILLA AND MARC culottes, STORM singlet, SWAROVSKI necklace & earring

KATE SYLVESTER dress, STELLA MCCARTNEY bra and briefs, MIMCO ear cuff, bracelet and necklaces

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Featuring THE NEW ZEAL AND FASHION COLLECTIONS S P R I N G / S U M M E R 2 01 5 / 2 01 6

Photography KAREN ISHIGURO Stylist AMBER PEEBLES Creative Consultant & Lighting JAMES K LOWE Stylist Assistant ISABELLE TRUMAN Makeup JUMEE WARDLAW for M.A.C Comestics Hair TRACY ROBERTS for Common Thread using Davines Model Chrystal Liu @ Red11 Models Thanks to Kingsize Studios

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KAREN W A LK ER An ode to time travel, the remarkably together and tough Joanna Lumley in â€˜70s sci-fi detective time-travel series Sapphire and Steel is the jumping-off point for this season. A young Karen Walker watched in awe as Sapphire guarded the order and integrity of time, all the while being a beacon of chic. The message was placed. Functional and strong does not exclude glam.

ZAMB ES I Functional and minimal in its simplicity, the collection unifies a passion for fabric with texture and form, and stays true to the everevolving nature of the brand, proudly made in New Zealand. MI PIACI shoes

ANNAH S T RETTON Annah Stretton Pink is unashamedly a celebration of colour, drama and femininity, a touch of fairy tale and frippery that translates into gorgeous girly styles that work together in layers or simply on their own.

WORLD WORLDâ€™s latest is not a collection in the strict sense, but is a selection of pieces that work together, but also stand alone to celebrate Summer with colour and shape and better reflect how we dress during the warmer months.

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MOOCH I For Spring 2015, Moochi continues to build on a foundation of modern wardrobe pieces with its mainline range, to bring a touch of luxe to the everyday. Relaxed in style, military-chic khaki pieces are softened with pretty boho-style lace, bold deck chair stripes and double denim for a layered spring look with big personality.

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HELEN CH ER R Y Helen Cherry continues to deliver a collection that embodies all the elements the brand has become renowned for; luxurious fabrics, impeccable tailoring and, above all, understated sex appeal and glamour.

WOR K S HO P Fun, versatile and breezy vintage washed rayon dresses, Hawaiian shirts and lounge shorts in floral and tropical prints are perfect holiday throw-ons.

NOM * d This season NOM*d presents LONG LIVE, a celebration of summer, music and culture. Once again, a signature black palette forms the basis of this collection with the addition of milky whites and creams, to get you in the summer mood. ZARA shoes

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S TOLEN GIRLFRIENDS CLU B Stolen Girlfriends Clubâ€™s Township Rebellion responds to small town blues, bogan relics and the fine balance between gritty and pretty. Referencing the bleakness of Huntly, New Zealand, the collection explores the isolation of living in a rural small town and a curiosity about leaving the place you grew up in.

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A N DREA M O ORE All women are everyday superheroes. So with a heavy dose of luxury and fun Andrea Moore has came up with The Ride of Your Life. Everything you feel on horseback you feel in life; adrenalin, fun, adventure, fear, love. Andrea Moore dresses you for the ride of your life.

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KATE S YLVESTER Romeo 4 Juliet takes one of the most iconic love stories of all time and turns it into signature Kate â€“a nonchalant celebration of casual luxury and sartorial classics. FRANCIA UYS shoes

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Midnight at the Gallery Photography STEPHEN TILLEY Stylist PEBBLES HOOPER Stylist Assistant ISABELLE TRUMAN Makeup KALINA SWANINK using M.A.C Comestics Hair BETHANY PAIGE-WOODS using KMS California for Vada Nails by LEAH LIGHT Model MARIE @ Clyne Models Special thanks to Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tﾄ［aki

Artwork credit: Joseph Dufour & Co for Jean-Gabriel Charvet, Les Sauvages de la mer Pacifique (The Savages of the Pacific Ocean) 1804-1805, hand-painted wallpaper, Collection of Auckland War Memorial Museum Tﾄ［aki Paenga Hira. 224

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NOM*D jacket, KATE SYLVESTER pants, DIOR bracelet & bag

GEORGIA ALICE top, KATE SYLVESTER pants, LOUIS VUITTON necklace, belt & bag, MI PIACI shoes

ISABEL MARANT blazer, top & shoes from WORKSHOP, WORLD skirt, DIOR sunglasses, stylistâ€™s own bag

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ZAMBESI top, STORM pants, ZOE & MORGAN bracelet, LOUIS VUITTON bag

GEORGIA ALICE jumper, KATE SYLVESTER skirt, LOUIS VUITTON bag

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GEORGIA ALICE dress, ZOE & MORGAN rings, LOUIS VUITTON necklace, belt & bag, ISABEL MERANT boots from WORKSHOP

KATE SYLVESTER top, ZOE & MORGAN earrings, LOUIS VUITTON necklace

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Abby wears ANDREA MOORE top, CAMILLA & MARC dress, GEORGIA ALICE trousers, MIU MIU earrings, CHAOS & HARMONY shoes. Evelina wears HELEN CHERRY coat, ZAMBESI sheer top, GEROGIA ALICE bandeau, MAURIE & EVE trousers, DIOR earrings and ring, MIU MIU shoes

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Abby wears EUGÉNIE shirt, MOOCHI bra, GEORGIA ALICE shorts, ZAMBESI jeweled cuffs, NICK VON K rings

Photographer ADAM BRYCE Fashion Editor ZEENAT WILKINSON Hair Stylist RAYMOND ROBINSON from Servilles Make Up: GABRIELLE HOUGHTON Nail Art IMOGEN BEVAN @ I Love Pop Nails Fashion Assistants CATHERINE MAREE BALLE & WADE MORGAN O’BRIEN Photography Assistant RICHARD SYMONS Model ABBY & EVELINA @ Clyne Models Special thanks to Kingsize Studios

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Evelina wears KAREN WALKER denim jumpsuit, MOOCHI bra, UNDERGROUND SUNDAE jewels, TOPSHOP socks, LOVESICK platform shoes Abby wears ANNAH STRETTON top, MAURIE & EVE off-shoulder top, KATE SYLVESTER belt, GEORGIA ALICE skirt, MIU MIU earrings, WORLD ring, SENSO boots

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THRID FORM top, KAREN WALKER coat, EMPIRE OF GENIUS bandana, LONELY SWIM briefs, WORLD bangles, SWAROVSKI cuff

SILENCE WAS... jacket, CALVIN KLEIN JEANS shirt, WORKSHOP jeans, ADIDAS sneakers

PRADA shirt & gloves, MIU MIU dress and earrings

Abby wears NOM*d sleeveless top, GEORGIA ALICE off-shoulder top, LONELY HEARTS white top, KATE SYLVESTER trousers, LOVE & OBJECT necklace, MEADOWLARK rings. Evelina wears EUGÉNIE top, KATE SYLVESTER shirt and trousers, LOUIS VUITTON bag, MEADOWLARK earring and rings

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Photography CALYPSO PAOLI Fashion Editor AMBER PEEBLES Makeup ALISON BREWER @ MAC Cosmetics Hair VERITY GRIFFITHS & STEVIE ENGLISH Model Eliza from Unique Models & Brit from 62 Models Stylist Assistant CEC BRIDGFORD Floral arrangement by Studio Bloom

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Left: HIDESEEKER singlet, INGRID STARNES bralette, WORLD pants, NICK VON K ring, CALVIN KLEIN earrings & bangle, MANGO belt This page: BOOHOO jumpsuit, NOM*D jacket, KAREN WALKER earrings

Eliza wears KATE SYLVESTER top, BOOHOO shorts, WORLD belt, KATHRYN WILSON heels, KAREN WALKER ring, HOUSE OF HOLLAND eyewear Brit wears WORLD shirt & pants, FRANCIA UYS shoes, BOOHOO eyewear, KAREN WALKER bracelet 240

CALVIN KLEIN JEANS cardigan, BILLABONG shorts, KAREN WALKER earrings & bangle

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Eliza wears GLASSONS dress, CALVIN KLEIN bracelet, KATE SYLVESTER belts. Brit wears KAREN WALKER scarf, NOM*D shirt, STELLA MCCARTNEY bra, MOOCHI pants, TOPSHOP belt

KATE SYLVESTER dress, TOGGS swimwear, KAREN WALKER bracelet

ROAM Photographer JONO PARKER Styling & Art Direction EMMA WALSH Models FRANKIE ADAMS & RIKIHANA DOUGLAS Makeup LOCHIE STONEHOUSE using MAC Cosmetics Hair COLE CANDY @ Ryder Salon Styling Assistant KOBI BRACKEN Photography Asisstant HAYDEN WORSFOLD

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Frankie wears stylists’s own tee, THRILLS fur, CALVIN KLEIN JEANS jeans, TIMBERLAND boots Rikihana wears CARHARTT beanie, I LOVE UGLY shirt, ASSEMBLY bomber, LEVI’S jeans, TIMBERLAND boots

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Frankie wears BILLABONG bodice, ASSEMBLY parker, ADIDAS trackpants, TIMBERLAND boots Rikihana wears ZANEROBE beanie, jumper & jacket, ASSEMBLY chinos, TIMBERLAND boots

Frankie ADIDAS tracksuit, ONE TEASPOON bralette, TIMBERLAND boots Rikihana wears ZANEROBE hoodie & pants, ADIDAS windbreaker, NEW BALANCE shoes, G-SHOCK watch

Frankie wears CROOKS & CASTLE beanie, STUSSY tracksuit, G-SHOCK watch, NEW BALANCE shoes Rikihana wears HALLENSTEINS windbreaker, ZANEROBE pants, NEW BALANCE shoes

NIKE vest, ZANEROBE trackpants, CASIO watch, UNDER ARMOUR shoes

CROOKS & CASTLE cap, I LOVE UGLY tee & vest, THE ACADEMY BRAND shorts, TIMBERLAND boots

ANDREA MOORE jacket, KATE SYLVESTER top, WORLD skirt, ZORA BELL BOYD necklaces

Frankie wears NEW BALANCE top & shoes, CALVIN KLEIN UNDERWEAR underwear, LEVI’S jeans Rikihana wears LEVI’S jacket & jeans, NEW BALANCE shoes

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PLATFORM in collaboration with Kingsize Studios

Remix and KINGSIZE STUDIOS are proud to present the latest Platform Shoot, featuring the work of an emerging photographer, identified for growing potential and dedication to the arts by the Kingsize team.

Photography ANDREI BLIDAREAN Photography Assistant GEORGE RUMP Stylist DANIELLE CLAUSEN Hair BENJAMIN JAMES from Ryder Salon Model BECKY @ Clyne Models 254

Opposite: KAREN WALKER top, SWAROVSKI necklace This page: WYNN HAMLYN top, SWAROVSKI bracelet

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How did you get into photography? I think it was when I was 18. I had started taking photos trying to replicate photographs I thought were cool on tumblr, things to do with graffiti and sneakers etc. I became interested in fashion imagery because my girlfriend was always looking at editorials at the time, and I don’t know why but I just locked on to that and have been trying to do it ever since.

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Where are you from originally? How has that influenced your work? I was born in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. I think it’s mostly influenced my process. Romania has a beautiful culture, but I think many Romanians tend to be very critical by nature. I think having this trait stops me from becoming complacent and pushes me to keep learning. How would you describe your style? I don’t think I have a style I can describe and communicate clearly yet. It’s just a big jumble in my head and words on many pieces of paper. The best way I could describe it at the moment would be that I’m trying to create imagery inspired by ideas and philosophy. Tell us about this shoot concept. I guess we tried to create something that wasn’t visually derivative, but is still somewhat relevant in the context of fashion. A big influence was the philosophy of existentialism; in particular the existentialist concept that society is unnatural and its traditional religious and secular rules are arbitrary. It’s really an existentialist representation of someone waiting for their meal at different times of the day. instagram.com/andreiblidarean

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FRESH TALENT We adore the growing portfolio of work by Auckland photographer Libby Cavenett, who recently graduated from Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design. Editor Steven Fernandez spoke with Libby about how she got started and her plans for the future. Remember, you saw her here first!

Can you just give us a rundown on what you’re up to at the moment? I graduated at the end of last year and at the moment I’m focusing on trying to be a fulltime freelance photo assistant. At the same time I’m interning for a photographic organization called AIP – the Advertising and Illustrative Photographers Association. I’m also trying to work on building up my own personal portfolio. When did you realise that you wanted to get into fashion photography? During my studies a lot of my work was based around the body and the sculptural aspects of the body. So looking through pages of editorials and stuff, I became interested on ways you can use the body in a sculptural aspect and putting a conceptual spin on that. So, if you were to describe your style, what would you say? It’s very minimal and I focus on the sculptural aspects of things. My final university project was based around architecture and the human presence in architecture. The colour pallets I use are often kind of subdued and calming. REMIX MAGAZINE ARTS & CULTURE

How did Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design help set you up for your photographic career? Different ways of thinking is a massive thing that Whitecliffe teaches. Because it’s fine art based, I’m coming into a commercial world with a fine arts perception of things. I look at things a bit differently, which hopefully gives me a good edge. Whitecliffe is also really good because the classes are designed smaller, so the tutors really get to know you and your style and they really care if you do well. In a couple of weeks I’m going back to help out some of my old tutors with a shoot - it’s nice to go back and see them! A lot of my friends who studied elsewhere wouldn’t go back and catch up with their teachers. Tell me about some of the photography exhibitions you’ve curated? My first exhibition out of university and my curatorial debut was an exhibition called New Perspectives; it was a part of the Auckland Festival of Photography this year. It was myself and ten other emerging photographers, some of them still studying their masters, so it was a good mix. For the opening night we had heaps of people come through and lots of great feedback. 258

What do you want to achieve in the next few years? I’ve actually been thinking about Berlin a bit lately. I went back into Whitecliffe a few weeks ago for one of the student’s exhibitions and was talking to one of my tutors about travelling. He said Berlin would be amazing to go to. Travel is definitely on my agenda. I would love to shoot for National Geographic or something like that. The whole photojournalist aspect of photography is why I got into it in the first place. What other stuff do you like to do outside of work? Doing as much as I can and seeing as much as I can. I love going on little adventures, which I don’t do nearly as much as I should. I love being with my friends and I’m a big fan of going out for coffee. Follow Libby’s photography at instagram.com/libby_cav More information about Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design at whitecliffe.ac.nz Words by Steven Fernandez. Image of Libby by Eva Brichau.

LELA JACOBS’ LATEST The Auckland artist and fashion designer talks about her upcoming involvement in ARTWEEK Auckland

Now in its sixth year, ARTWEEK is back to celebrate the talent in Auckland’s thriving art scene, with exhibitions, installations and performances taking place across the city for a week in mid October. The unique art festival aims to shine light on all corner of the Auckland art scene, from K Road to Devonport, Newmarket to Arch Hill, Ponsonby to West Auckland. Recently back from an artist residence in San Francisco, Auckland artist and fashion designer Lela Jacobs talks to Remix about her involvement in ARTWEEK Auckland this year. You’ve just returned from San Francisco. What were you doing over there? Sausalito to be exact, which is just over the bridge. We were in an area called Gate 5, which is where they have all the houseboats and ships. I was working on projects, being an artist in residence. I had a break from cloth for a while and worked on ceramics at Mill Valley Ceramics Studio, which was my first attempt at sculptural work. The concept was based on my own clothing patterns. I was building lots of the same shapes and using ship rust from the ship, putting it into clay. I’m going to keep building the same shape here for a while and try get a really big pile, a grave-like pile, of these forms. Can you tell me a bit about your signature style and brand ethos? It’s locally made with natural fibres and it’s comfortable. That’s very important, I like the idea of people getting dressed once in the day and not having to think about it for the rest of the day. Also, a bit of craftwork, weaving and hand knitting.

I work with local weavers and hand knitters and there’s also the jewellery element. What was your inspiration behind opening The Keep? It was a little bit of an accident in a way. I just walked along with a friend of mine like four years ago. I needed a studio, because I was working from home, but I wasn’t looking for a store. So I guess that’s why this place has ended up as a studio/ creative space as well. There are no major rules about what it is. Lots of people use it for projects. When we were away it was used out the back for building ceramics and Courtney, our designer, has been building her new collection here in between working. How are you involved with ARTWEEK Auckland this year? I’m going to show the ceramic and the paper elements of my residency in San Francisco. I would usually have a different person displaying but because I’ve just come back from there it makes sense to show the work that I’ve been building. Have you been involved with ARTWEEK Auckland before? I’ve shown other people from The Keep for it, which has been cool. I haven’t shown any of my own work yet though. That’s exciting that it’ll be your first one showing your own stuff. Yeah, it’s hard to put cloth into the art world sometimes. It’s controversial in regards to where 259

it falls, whether it’s commercial or not. But the ceramics and the paper stuff that I’ve been building is not a commercial project, I never built it with the intent to sell it. So, do you have specific times that people come in here during ARTWEEK Auckland ? We haven’t organised that side yet but we’ll probably have something on a Thursday night alongside my friends a few doors down, who are going to be doing something for ARTWEEK Auckland as well. It would be cool to do a block scenario where we just have wines on Thursday night and people can interact between both places. So, now that you’re back from San Francisco for good what are you going to focus on for the rest of the year? We’re shooting the new lookbook in a couple of weeks, then New Zealand Fashion Week is around the bend and we’re going to show there. We’re in production of the summer collection at the moment, which will be dispatched in the next few weeks. Interview by Isabelle Truman & words by Daisy Conroy-Botica. WHEN: Saturday 10th – Sunday 18th October 2015 WHERE: Selected locations across Auckland MORE INFO: artweekauckland.co.nz

BANKSY IN THE BIG APPLE Chris Moukarbel talks to Francesca Rudkin about documenting British street artist Banksy’s 2013 New York residency.

American filmmaker Chris Moukarbel’s latest documentary, Banksy Does New York, is a unique film documenting British graffiti and street artist Banksy’s notorious 2013 residency in New York City, through the new lens of social media. As befitting Banksy this was no ordinary residency, with his art scavenger hunt Better Out Than In seeing him leave hints on his website each day about the whereabouts of a new work throughout October. For a month New Yorkers were obsessed with the anonymous artist, hunting down each piece with competitive vigor, and posting their efforts on line. Reaction to his works and their political and social messages was fierce and diverse. Pieces were ripped from walls, destroyed by fellow graffiti artists, painted over, admired, protected and stolen. Some ingenious hustlers even charged people $20 to take a photo of a picture of a REMIX MAGAZINE ARTS & CULTURE

Beaver. HBO approached Moukarbel with the idea of this documentary a few weeks after Banksy had left New York. With a background in art and making films themed around internet and identity (Me at The Zoo), Moukarbel immediately jumped on board. Banksy Does New York is a well-balanced, thought-provoking and entertaining romp through this residency and is as much about the reaction to the work as the work itself. In this way, the film continues the debate Banksy stokes about the role of public art. It’s something Moukarbel was conscious of when producing this documentary. “He’s [Banksy] always looking at the broad effect of the work and sometimes it’s just a simple stencil but the effect it has on the public and the way people reacted to it was a kind of street theatre, and so we knew that 260

we were playing into that” Not surprisingly, Moukarbel’s first stop was the Internet. ‘It was really the most effective way to tell the story,’ says Moukarbel. ‘I couldn’t have been at every location with my camera to shoot it, because he was a moving target, but every New Yorker that went out there was documenting it and putting it up online, so they were the lens through which we go to see and experience that entire month.’ ‘Being able to access this massive online archive was conceptually interesting, it related to what Banksy I think was intending for the work to do, living out in this public space online, but then it was also the most accurate way to tell the story.’ Selecting material came down to personal taste. ‘I like stuff that’s offbeat, weird and you wouldn’t expect to see,’ says Moukarbel.

‘There was more comprehensive coverage and people that had filmed it in a more direct way. We used some of that to make the story obvious and clear to people, but then there’s also a lot of weird offbeat three or four second videos that get woven into the film to create texture and excitement.’ Even though this documentary was produced retrospectively, the use of social media and Internet ‘found footage’ gives an incredible sense of immediacy. While bringing order to a massive amount of material was challenging, Moukarbel admits making a documentary using crowdsourced material is easier than a traditional documentary. ‘In this case the archival footage exists on the Internet and it’s being put up by people who want other people to see it.’

When Moukarbel had identified storylines and characters to follow further he contacted them, shooting about a quarter of the film material himself as interviews and fly on the wall footage. The mix of this beautifully shot footage and rough online videos and content gives the film a distinct texture. It doesn’t matter whether it’s slick looking interviews or dodgy smart phone footage, Moukarbel is proud of the fact all the material here is treated in the film in the same manner. ‘I think so much of the way we see media and consume media now online is this collapse of high and low… On my laptop I’m looking at emails, I’m looking at crappy YouTube videos, I’m looking at high production HBO documentaries or films and they’re all sharing the same screen, so it sort of feels as if you’re getting a ride through someone’s internet journey.’

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So, how did Banksy feel about this Internet portrayal of his residency? At first Banksy’s people were skeptical and concerned Moukarbel was producing an expose that would attempt to uncover Banksy’s identity. ‘I made it really clear I wasn’t interested in that, that I was really interested in telling a story about New York City,’ explains Moukarbel. ‘So Banksy’s people, they were supportive. I mean, they didn’t work with us on the film in any direct way, but they gave us the thumbs up, so that was great.’ Banksy Does New York screens during Rialto Channel’s Double Exposure series, Friday 9th October at 8:30pm, channel 39 on SKY. Rialto Channel’s Double Exposure documentaries air every Thursday and Friday in October at 8.30pm.

AUCKLAND CABARET The Auckland International Cabaret Season is returning to the Auckland Town Hall this September, following the enormous success of last year’s inaugural event. Seven cabaret acts, both local and international, will grace the Town Hall stage and Herald Theatre between Wednesday 2nd and Sunday 6th September, offering a line-up of original, classic and contemporary performances. Remix writer Fiona Connor caught up with two of the international performers, Ireland’s Camille O’Sullivan and Australia’s Michaela Burger, to hear about how they plan to dazzle Auckland audiences.

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EXPOSING EDITH Writer and actress Michaela Burger to perform Exposing Edith at the Auckland International Cabaret Season When did you discover your love for performance? I don’t remember ever not performing or singing. My first professional show was when I was nine, it was the The King and I actually, and I think that kind of gave me the buzz with the rehearsing and the costumes and the stage and the audience. I just got very addicted to it and was knew that was what I want to do. You’re not only the star of the show but you also wrote it. Was Edith Piaf someone you were inspired by growing up? Yeah, definitely. I discovered her when I was on exchange in France when I was about 17, and from then on I was just kind of obsessed with her. I read all her biographies, listened to her music. I did sing her music a lot while I was studying classical voice and every time I have done a show I have done at least two or three of her songs within the shows. Would you say this role is your biggest accomplishment to date, performing your own work? Yes. I think creating your own thing and then performing it and doing it with such a great team, my directors Shona and Greg, we are together REMIX MAGAZINE ARTS & CULTURE

creating this magic and it’s so much more satisfying than doing something someone else has written. Is there a message you want the audience to take away from your performance? Telling her story is actually quite full on because she had such a catastrophic life with so many extreme highs and extreme lows, so in that respect the audience totally comes along with us on this journey and for me it’s important we share her story together. Although they are not speaking, they are coming along with us and come into her world. The way that Greg plays the guitar is out of this world. He creates a whole orchestra just with his guitar. Hopefully the audience can pick up the honesty that comes from the show. With cabaret it’s so important that you believe in what you’re saying and you’re actually telling a story you want to share. What was important to you in regard to respectively paying tribute to Edith’s character? On the musical side, what we wanted to do was write and arrange the music in a way that she 263

may have done if she was alive today with our technology. So we used loop pedals and delay pedals and we changed the time signatures in the arrangement, so it has a more modern time signature. We really wanted it to be really authentic, in that French Parisian, iconic sound that she had. On the story side I wanted to go into the small details and wanted to show people the side of her they may not have known. In the show you see so many dynamics of one person. She was so generous at the same time as being very selfcentered, at the same time as being passionate and full of energy, at the same time as not caring about anything, so she had so many different sides. In the media they showed her extreme highs and lows and the scandals and her lovers ,but we were able to find some direct quotes of things that she had said that actually show her as a person we found so gorgeous. We’re not telling the audience ‘this is what she was’ or ‘this is what she is’. Instead we bring them into her world and they can decide and feel like they got to know her in their own minds.

CAMILLE O’SULLIVAN Performing songs from her album Changeling at the Auckland International Cabaret Season. because they have moved me to either laugh or cry to the point I have to sing them and put them in the show. When you sing them for about 10 years, you better love them because that’s a long time to be singing something and as you change where you are in the world or where your head is, those songs change as you go. I think coming from Ireland a singer/songwriter country, if you aren’t a songwriter you feel slightly embarrassed, and it took a while for me to realise I’m a performer. I inhabit it in the same way, because that’s what I bring, a truth to something. So as a singer I love all kinds of music, but for the show I’ve got to go in there believing it Is it important for you to take the audience on a myself, because when I sing it it has to be real to me, journey of different emotions through your show? otherwise I the audience will feel a fake. Sometimes Yeah definitely, because for me it means you can the nicest compliment is when they ask what I wrote really inhabit the songs and you can become very the song about, but I didn’t write it. vulnerable or you can be very dark or you can be very angry. You change very quickly and people in You used to work as an architect and a painter – what the audience are kind of surprised by that. It can be made you transition into performing? wonderful and funny but it can also unnerve them. I did work as an architect and I did work as a painter It just means the live performance is about the and I loved doing that, but I kind of kept my toe in by doing acting in university. I had a lot of reservations dynamic of something unsure about to happen. about going on stage. I had nerves. I don’t want to The songs you perform are all covers. How do you make simplify it but basically I had this massive car crash and that put me out of walking and using my hands the songs your own? Everything that I choose is very personal, the reason for a year, and it was a moment when I realised I had to do the stuff I loved to do. So I left my job and just that I sing those songs in the first place is Can you tell us what the audience might expect from your performance this year? Well, usually nobody knows what’s going to happen next. It’s kind of a rollercoaster of emotions. I sing the works of Bowie and Nick Cave and Tom Waits to name a few, and it’s essentially all these different characters and songs and I become all the different people. So it just means that you’re showing different aspects of yourself. It goes from very dark to very light and you’re going to have a lot of fun and you’re going to have a lot of darkness. The show has a lot of variety.

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kind of went for it. You have a lot of fight in you after something like that and when you’re exhausted on the road you have to remember those moments because they are very clear and motivating. Has there been a moment since that turning point that you’ve felt the change was worth it? For sure. I mean the journey along the way too. Playing Sydney Opera House, playing The Roundhouse, and playing Royal Albert Hall. There are certain things like being on the Later with Jools Holland show, when you ask yourself what the hell is going on, because you can’t quite believe it. It was the same being in Mrs Henderson Presents with Dame Judi Dench. Those things are kind of like lotteries. You definitely have to pinch yourself sometimes. Interviews by Fiona Connor Camille O’Sullivan & Exposing Edith perform as part of the 2015 Auckland Cabaret Season WHEN: Wednesday 2nd Sunday 6th September 2015 WHERE: Auckland Town Hall & Herald Theatre MORE INFO: aucklandlive.co.nz TICKETS: ticketmaster.co.nz

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MEETING MICHELLE Michelle Monaghan is an American actress best known for her roles in Mission: Impossible III - Ghost Protocol, Fort Bliss, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Gone Baby Gone, Made of Honor, Eagle Eye, Source Code, and the first series of HBO’s True Detective. In Pixels, from director Chris Columbus, she is featured alongside the likes of Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Josh Gad and Peter Dinklage. She stars as a military officer who must oversee a rag-tag bunch of gamers who are called into action in a bid to save the planet from aliens who attack using famous arcade game characters, such as Pac-Man and Donkey Kong…

When you first read the script for Pixels, what did you think? It actually made me really nostalgic when I read it. It was something that was such a part of my world growing up, playing all these old-school arcade games and going to the arcade. It wasn’t really something that I’d thought much about since then, to be honest. Then when I read the script I thought, ‘Oh, my Gosh.’ It was really funny and I thought it was such a cool idea, the way that it was re-introducing these games for a whole new generation but doing it in a very fresh and funny, high concept way. And having something like that, directed by Christopher Columbus, I could immediately envisage it because he is a visionary of films like this. That really excited me, as did the chance of working with such a great cast. That goes without saying, of course. Your son is too young to play computer games but do you expect to have to monitor that kind of thing quite closely as he grows up, and with your daughter too? Yes. Absolutely. As a parent I feel an overall responsibility to be really diligent about anything they’re being ‘entertained’ by, whether it be a computer game or a movie or social media, anything on the Internet, because there are so many things out there that are such a potentially harmful influence. So monitoring those things is a no-brainer for me as a parent. It makes me probably not such a fun mom in that respect, but I am a responsible one! Pixels is going to resonate with a lot of people who grew up in the 1980s. Being a young teenager at the time, did you make a few ’80s fashion faux pas? REMIX MAGAZINE ARTS & CULTURE

Oh, absolutely. You are so right. I was so that girl who had lovely, long, thick hair and I don’t know what compelled me to perm it. I clearly didn’t learn my lesson the first time, and I ended up perming it about three or four times more. That was definitely a faux pas. And me learning how to do my own make up? Of course, that was a big learning curve. ‘Blending’ was a really good idea along the jaw line! It took me a good year to work that out. That was probably a faux pas. What else? There were definitely some clothes. I was really big into leg warmers and, quite honestly, they are something I wish would come back into style because they are comfortable and cosy. It’s a hilarious cast, but you’ve also got a movie to make. Were there lots of laughs between takes or does the work take over and things become serious? I think that is what Adam Sandler is so great at doing, bringing people together that are fun, laid back, easy-going professionals and he managed to get every single one of us. Not only did we enjoy each other’s company on set, but also after hours we were hanging out, and every weekend we were all hanging out having barbeques and going to dinner or taking our kids somewhere. It was a really great set to work on. When you are doing comedy and you are working with people as talented as they are and as funny as they are, you have the freedom to improvise. Did you know Adam previously? Our paths crossed probably about ten years ago. We met each other for a film. I can’t even remember which one it was. It never got made. The stars never aligned for us to work together so finally this came up and it was perfect. 267

Were you a fan of any particular bits of Adam’s work? Yes. C’mon, all of it, especially Billy Madison. Whenever that movie comes on TV, which is quite often, I have to watch it. It is a great, great funny film. Give me a snapshot of your character in Pixels; she’s a military operative, right? Yes, her name and title is Lt. Colonel Violet Van Patten. It is a great name! She is a weapons expert and she develops the weapon that is called a light-cannon and that is what is used to destroy the aliens. She is very straight-laced and works for the government. She is someone who is not necessarily confident that a bunch of washed-up former arcade champions are the right people to save the world. To say the least, she is not taking anyone seriously. They are a motley crew of guys and she is the one who is in charge and who has to wrangle them, so to speak. So they frustrate her, but she is also at the same time charmed by them. What are you doing right now, shooting Sleepless Night? Yeah, it is a remake of a French film (Nuit Blanche) directed by Baran bo Odar. I’m making the film with Jamie Foxx, playing an internal affairs investigator, investigating him as a dirty cop. We have some very intense, action-packed scenes together. It is a real action drama. We are two weeks in and it has been going really well. Pixels is in cinemas nationwide from Thursday 24th September. pixels-movie.net

You are considered one of the deepest cinematographers in the world, because of the time and passion that goes into each of your works. How long do most of your works take to create? It depends, because each work is different. I think there are two stages to creating a work. The first stage is to think; it takes me a very long time to ‘breed’ a new idea. Some works take me one or two years, some three to five years, some even longer! The second stage is the actual production of the work. Compared with the time it takes to conceive the idea, it is shorter. Some productions take two to three months, and some take longer as there are occasionally difficulties we have to overcome in production. Did you know you always wanted to be an artist and cinematographer? What was your first realisation that this is what you wanted to do with your life? I learnt oil painting in university, but now I create moving image works mostly. However I believe that whether painting or film, they arrive at the same end by different means or roads. Looking back on your body of work, do you have a favourite? And why is the chosen work your favourite? REMIX MAGAZINE ARTS & CULTURE

Each of my works are like my children, I love them all. But if I have to choose, maybe An Estranged Paradise (2007) is the one I cherish most; it was the first film I shot in 1997 with 35mm black and white film. How has your upbringing in Beijing and your Chinese heritage influenced your work and career? I grew up in China where I received a very traditional Chinese-style education. My experience is connected with Oriental aesthetics. I studied painting as my major in university, and I learned a lot about Chinese paintings and traditional culture. My Chinese background, both traditional and contemporary, has had a very significant impact on my art. I also studied Western art, both classic and modern, and European films. My education, local cultural influence and experience all inform the general direction of my art. One single artwork cannot reflect all standards in different cultures - it should have its own taste and standard. Each artwork should reflect the artist’s own aesthetics and characteristics, yet also express something that is universal. What makes Chinese cinema unique? Why do you 268

think now more people are watching Chinese films? As we all know, China has a long history of civilisation. With the rapid development of today’s society, economic changes, as well as people’s life changes, their thoughts also change. Perhaps it is this kind of change that has made Chinese contemporary art and film become a cultural focus worldwide. Silence is an important part of your work. Tell us the importance of silence in your films, especially The Light That I Feel. There is an old Chinese saying, ‘Here silence speaks’. Sometimes, silence is a kind of background music; it gives the viewer more room to imagine. Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest is your most well known work. Why do you think this was the most popular worldwide? Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest is a film series that took five years to shoot and produce. In total the series is five hours worth of black and white film. It explores a story about seven young people, their lives, ideals, and beliefs. Each of them had a dream for their life. The seven young people are together, a bit like a young

YANG FUDONG Now 44 years old and based in Shanghai, Chinese cinematographer Yang Fudong has a body of work celebrated internationally for its long and suspended sequences, spiraling narratives and multiple perspectives, which are his reflections on the psychology of a new generation in modern day China. As he prepares to showcase his latest work in an exhibition Yang Fudong: Filmscapes at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Fudong spoke openly with Remix about his career and inspirations.

unknown group, full of desire for their future lives. Sometimes being young is magnificent; it represents an uncertain future. Where do you make most of your video installations and do most of your photography? I’ve been working and living in Shanghai since 1998. But the places where I do my works are all different - it depends on the idea behind the work and its content. For instance, my latest two works: One called The Coloured Sky, New Women II (2014) co-commissioned by Auckland Art Gallery and ACMI was finished in Shanghai, whereas the other titled The Light That I Feel (2014) was shot on a small island in Norway. Tell us about your exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery. What work can visitors expect to see? In my solo show Yang Fudong: Filmscapes, my latest work The Coloured Sky, New Women II (2014), which I finished in the end of last year, will be exhibited. It is a five-screen colour installation work co-commissioned by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and ACMI in Australia. In the same show, I will also exhibit one single-channel film and another important film installation piece of mine. I’d love everyone to come and see the

exhibition, I think New Zealanders will really enjoy it and get something out of it. Have you ever been to New Zealand? Will you visit Auckland for the premiere of your exhibition? I am coming to New Zealand for the first time for the opening of Yang Fudong: Filmscapes on Saturday 26th September. I’ve heard it is a beautiful country and a great place to travel; I’m really thrilled I have the opportunity to visit New Zealand and meet Kiwis! Who are your favourite artists / cinematographers / photographers? Who inspires you? Many of China’s early films of the 1920s and 1930s are very beautiful. Some of the silent films were in fact very modern. There is so much to learn from and refer to in those films. They are great artworks. There are also Western films from different times, such as Jarmusch’s Stranger than Paradise (1984) and Fellini’s 8 ½ (1963), and the films of Antonioni and Bergman are all very powerful. Those directors are like my teachers. I learn when I am watching their films. Artists and directors around the world have created so many great works. These works do not have to be experimental, sometimes they can be very 269

conventional films, TV series and documentaries, but they refresh and nourish you. If you look at video art in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as theatre, literature and novels, you will see many talented artists. Also, I get inspired by a lot of traditional art. For example, if you walk into the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you will see ancient sculptures, paintings and cultural relics. They all provide endless inspiration and imagination. These artworks have endured over time and have a strong sense of history. These things influence you, but they are also invisible. You get energy and inspiration almost unconsciously. What is your advice to young aspiring filmmakers, photographers, producers or directors? Be brave to achieve your dreams. Interview by Steven Fernandez, with translation by Fay Yeong. Yang Fudong: Filmscapes WHEN: 26 September 2015 to 24 January 2016 (10am to 5pm daily, except Christmas Day) WHERE: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (Corner of Wellesley Street & Kitchener Street) MORE INFO: aucklandartgallery.com

MAKING NEW FRIENDS Catfish co-host Max Joseph spoke to Isabelle Truman about directing his first major feature film, We Are Your Friends, and what it was like working with stars Zac Efron and Emily Ratajkowski.

Max we know you best as one half of the TV show, Catfish. How did the transition to film director come about? I have been making films since I was 15. I’ve always wanted to be a director. I’ve made shorts for a long time. Before Catfish started I was doing a lot of viral videos and commercials. During the end of the first season of Catfish I got a call from the production company Working Title and they were interested in doing a movie that took place in the world of electronic music. They asked me if I could come up with a story line, so I kept submitting drafts and eventually they liked it enough to make it.

in Los Angeles. He wasn’t just learning how to be on stage but learning how to compose music and produce it on his laptop. Beyond that he is really powerful actor. I hope people will come away from it seeing Zac Efron as a really great actor. I think everyone knows he is a movie star but they don’t necessarily know that he can really act. I think this was a challenge for him because normally he plays really extroverted, charismatic characters that are generally alpha types. This film was a challenge because in the pecking order of his group of friends he is not first, or necessarily even second. He is the guy in the back seat.

Tell us about the movie, We Are Your Friends. The film in a broad sense is about growing up and more specifically finding your voice as an artist and a young person in this crazy topsy-turvy world. Doing Catfish we meet a lot of kids who don’t know where they are going, they don’t know if they like themselves, they are a little lost and I don’t blame them. I’ve always loved comingof-age movies; they’re my favourite movies by far. The film is about finding your own voice and realising that maybe the path to wherever you want to get to can come from somewhere inside of you, as opposed to reaching for something beyond yourself.

How did you decide on Emily Ratajkowski to be the lead character/love interest, Sophie? The good old-fashioned way. We auditioned lots and lots of girls for Sophie and Emily was the best. I didn’t know who she was when she came in. She is very precocious, she carries herself in a way that you think she is older than she is. However, at certain times, saying certain things or on certain angles she still looks very young and that was appealing. On the one hand, yes she is a beautiful girl, but then when she talks and carries herself there is something way beyond being just an attractive girl. She is very intelligent, very confident and very mature. And that was what Sophie was always supposed to be.

How was it working with Zac Efron? Zac is awesome. He’s very professional; he is a really sweet guy, a people pleaser. He wants to do his best. He worked really hard learning how to DJ, he met three times a week with a local DJ

Working on such a big project it must have made you feel like a family by the end. What were some of your highlights of the film making process? The very beginning table read that we all did was one of the only times we had all the cast together.

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It felt like a family then. Also the weekend before we shot the first scene of the movie I rented an Air Bnb and told everyone to come with one thing that their character would bring We had an amazing night and day together hanging out, getting to know one another, the boys really bonded. From that point onwards it felt like we had known each other for a really long time. Summer Fest was also an amazing highlight. Because we were a low budget film, in order to create a festival we threw one of our own, by getting acts to come and inviting people for free, in exchange for us being allowed to film them. We threw this big festival in downtown LA, all the cast of the movie were there. They were the hardest scenes to shoot but it was the last day so everyone was celebrating. Why should readers go see We Are Your Friends? Readers should go see it because it’s the kind of movie that you go to the movies to see. It’s fun, it’s exciting, it’s intense at times and it can take you really high but also really low. I hope there is a big emotional pay off at the end. It’s the kind of movie I always want to see when I go to the movies. It’s a movie that takes you somewhere and brings you through an experience and takes you out the other side. I think that the acting is great. Zac is awesome. Emily is awesome. The boys are awesome. It’s just awesome. In cinemas nationwide from Thursday 27th August. wayf-movie.com Interview by Isabelle Truman.

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MAJOR LAZER Major Lazer is coming to New Zealand! Jillionaire tells Remix why they’re excited to be coming back...

Major Lazer, made up of Diplo, Jillionaire and Walshy Fire, have become the biggest dance act in the world, propelled by their anthemic hit single ‘Leon On’, which has become a cultural phenomenon, still being sung by toddlers and grandparents on YouTube the world over. Major Lazer are heading back to New Zealand for the epic Our:House Festival this November, so Isabelle Truman had a chat to Jillionaire about what audiences can expect. You seem to constantly be touring and travelling. What do you guys do to relax in between? For me, if I’m in a city that I have friends in, I like to go and hang out with them or go to the beach. I keep it fairly lo –key, other than if I’m DJ-ing or DJ-ing an afterparty, I don’t really go out that much. I try to do some sightseeing, get an idea of what the city is like and the local cuisines. I’m all about checking out the local food. I’ve heard that you guys, and you in particular, have a bit of a soft spot for New Zealand. What is it about this place that you love? Auckland feels a lot like home. I’m from Trinidad, Tobago and it reminds me a lot of there in that it’s warm and friendly. Even the architecture reminds me of Trinidad. I have some really good friends in New Zealand, like Nick D and Aroha, and when I first started touring on my own, New Zealand was one of the first places I went to internationally. It’s definitely a special place for me. REMIX MAGAZINE ARTS & CULTURE

There are a lot of people here that have been fans of Major Lazer for years, but worldwide you have totally blown up lately. How are you dealing with the fame side of things now that ‘Lean On’ has been so huge worldwide? We’ve had some of our craziest shows in Auckland, we love it down there, but I guess it hasn’t really fully hit home yet. We still try to keep it simple and easy and have fun with what we do. There’s not really much of a fame aspect, I think for us it’s mindblowing at times to see the success of ‘Lean On’ and to see the response to everything that’s going on. And I guess you’re sort of removed from it all because you’re constantly on the go? Yeah, but then I’ll be in an Uber and the song will come on, or I’ll be in a gas station and it will start playing. Even my high school friends will text me to say their children love the song! What are some of the biggest influences for Major Lazer? How do you guys find inspiration for new tracks? I guess we’re just always searching. We’re always looking for new music and always listening to demos of new stuff. We’re always keeping an open mind. We all pursue our own solo projects too. For me, I have my label too and we get a lot of new artists, so it’s constant. For people that have already seen you guys play, how 272

have your sets evolved since then and what’s new for Our:House Festival this year? Last time we played at Our:House it was a lot of fun! This time we have new production, we have new dancers, and we have a lot of new music, obviously. So it’s the same high energy but there are new elements to the show. We’re always trying to add new stuff and change things around. The last thing fans want to see when we come back is the same show as last time. We just want to constantly evolve and keep it fun. First thing that comes to your head when we mention the artists playing at this year’s Our:House Festival? DJ Snake. Turn Down For What! Oliver Heldens. Future house comes to mind; he’s like the pioneer of that. His song ‘Koala’ is crazy. Duke Dumont. I saw him live at Coachella this year and he was really good. Galantis. I haven’t seen them live in awhile and I’m not super familiar with their new stuff, but I was into their older stuff so it will be great to check them out again. WHEN: Our:House Festival 2015, Friday 27th November 2015. WHERE: Mount Smart Stadium, Auckland. TICKETS: ticketmaster.co.nz

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PEKING DUK Off the back of their enormous set at Coachella, the Peking DuK boys Adam Hyde and Reuben Style returned briefly to New Zealand for a stint at Deep Hard ‘N’ Funky Music Festival. Having smashed the Kiwi charts with their singles ‘High’ and ‘Take Me Over’ this year, they’re now gearing up for a mammoth set at Rhythm and Vines. They tell Isabelle Truman about what fans can expect and what makes R&V special. Is your life just a blur of airports and festivals at the moment? Adam Hyde: Pretty much, yeah! We did one over in America about two weeks ago and then we flew straight back to Splendour in Australia and now we’re flying to Lollapalooza, then we fly to Los Angeles for High Summer, then we’re going to Canada. It’s festival after festival on festival at the moment. Was Coachella a stand out from the rest? Reuben Styles: Coachella is everything you want it to be and more. It’s a proper experience and the vibe there is really fun. Another cool festival we did was Electric Forest in Michigan, which was literally in the middle of a forest among these huge tall trees. When the sun went down it just lit up and was this psychedelic bush rave, with a really cool line-up. You’re coming back to our shores to play at Rhythm and Vines this year. I saw that you played at their BW Festival last year. How did you find that? AH: BW was sick last year, the crowd was completely nuts, but we’re stoked to be on the Rhythm lineup. Rhythm is like a New Zealand

treasure, man. We’re going to try to take it to the next level at Rhythm and Vines this year, for sure. Will you get a chance to stick around and see some of the festival/other artists? AH: We’ll definitely be able to check out whoever is on the same night as us, but then we’ll have to fly back to Australia, unfortunately. But I mean, who knows, maybe I’ll stick around - miss the flight and hide from our manager. You were just here performing at Deep Hard ‘N’ Funky. Why do you love playing in New Zealand? What keeps you coming back? AH: We love New Zealand; it’s honestly like a second home. New Zealanders definitely know how to party, which always makes for a good show. The crowd is always the sweatiest, loosest, best people. No lie! What’s special about New Year’s Eve gigs? RS: I think it’s the vibe of the crowd, they really let go and everyone’s trying to hook up with everyone, which is always fun. Of course then there’s the countdown, the resolutions, everything like that. A lot of people say New Years is shit but I highly disagree. So, what are your New Year’s resolutions then? AH: I’ve never really had one, eh! Last year I was like ‘you know what, I’m gonna start exercising’, and I actually do that to this day, so I guess I stuck to that! So this year, maybe it’ll be to party less and work harder. RS: To put chili oil on absolutely everything, including my banana shake. 273

What can people expect from your New Year’s show? Will it be a bit different to the usual Peking Duk? RS: For sure. We’ll bring some guests out, we’ll bring an amazing light show and we’ll bring lots of sweat. Your new single ‘Say My Name’ came out a couple of weeks ago. Tell us a bit about how the song came about? AH: It came together really naturally and quick, it was awesome. We were playing Stereosonic in Melbourne and we didn’t really sleep so we were still a bit drunk. Ben Joseph,who sings on the track, was staying at my house in Sydney at the time and on the plane home we were talking about how good a song would be with a really simple drum beat at the beginning. Like Rick Rubin vibes, Artic Monkeys influence. As soon as we got home we just decided to give it a crack and it all came together really quickly. At a festival, if you could have any artist in the world to be headlining on the same night as you guys, who would it be? AH: I’m gonna say Notorious B.I.G, definitely. I’ve been listening to a lot of his stuff lately. I mean, I’ve always loved him, when I was in high school he was all I listened to, but I’ve been listening back a lot and he’s the best. WHEN: Tuesday 29th December 2015 – Friday 1st January 2016 WHERE: Waiohika Estate, Gisborne TICKETS: On sale now at rhythmandvines.co.nz

OKI SATO OF NENDO A conversation with the founder of the Tokyo and Milan design house

Although Japan’s purist ideology may have wavered since Tanizaki’s In Praise of Shadows, there is one contemporary design firm exporting a new mantel for Japanese minimalism and pushing it forward with clarity and wit. Nendo, the design house of Oki Sato, a Canadian born, Tokyo and Milan based architect, is both prolific and divergent; designing everything from coffee cups for Starbucks to shoes for Tod’s and stores for Theory, as well as their own products and furniture. They have successfully navigated the tenuous balance between high-end gallery work and mass production, all the while effacing an unbearable lightness of being with an intentional ghostly transcendence. New York writer Mark Curley caught up with Sato after his successful one-year retrospective during this year’s Milan furniture fair. Oki your work is often humorous, but not clichéd; how do you go about the process of design? I look for small things that can gradually develop to make big changes. It’s like the media - before it was the radio, television and newspapers that provided information, but now everyone can provide information. It’s the small things that people notice. If somebody on the other side of the world finds something interesting, the next day everyone knows. It’s like a virus. The process is more or less the same for design. We try and think of small ideas that become like a virus. I’m trying to look for smaller and smaller ideas that affect people’s emotions in a way. I think it’s those small things that make people’s lives so rich and comfortable. It’s always about giving people a small smile in the end.

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You design across the spectrum, from graphics to products to architecture. Do you approach them all in the same manner? Yes. For me, the role of design is about solving things and about finding new solutions. Also, it is about what kind of story you can find behind the object, whether it’s product or architecture or graphics. It is all the same to me. The reason I work on so many projects is I feel that the more output I have, the more input I can have. The more ideas I deliver, the more it creates a flow that makes me able to find new ideas. You have offices in Japan and Italy, how does this geography influence how you work? Both offices, in Tokyo and Milan, operate as one. For now, I don’t think we have an influence by geography. Having Skype and 3D printers, I can send 3D models. I can send data to Milan and then they can print that. Before I would have my models sent to my hotels because I would spend every day in a different hotel. Then after I checked it I would destroy it and then I go to the next hotel and there would be another box, I would check it and then Skype with my team and then destroy it again. Now I can print it in Europe so it is getting much easier. The quality gets much higher because I can test it so many times. How do you stay ahead of the curve? I don’t think I stay ahead of the curve! I’m focusing on what I’m doing at the moment. Is that also the case with new technology? Nendo means ‘playdough’ almost - it’s about mixing different colors and creating different shapes. It’s the flexibility of designing things. I 274

believe that when we work on so many different fields they influence each other. When I find a new material or technology, I can use that for furniture or interior design. It’s a way to not focus on certain things and to be able to find new ideas within different projects. A lot of companies are really interested in new techniques and materials, but it’s not about finding new things, because there is always something new. I try to look for old things, old techniques that are not used anymore, old materials that can be mixed to create something new and be very competitive in the market as well. It’s not about sketching and making renderings, it’s more about observing and looking at things. You have done several projects (stores and products) for companies with very recognisable brands, how do you fit Nendo the brand into that dynamic? It is always important that we share ideas and that we understand both our brand identities. Every client is different. Is that the same as the ‘low end vs high end’ design debate? Innovation and tradition can be closer, and that’s the future of design, I believe. Basic research and experimentation has been always important to me since this process could produce the items for the museum or gallery, and then from there, those concepts might lead to mass production.

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ON LOCATION IN RIO Social media sensations Jay Alvarrez and Alexis Ren talk to Remix about shooting the latest Hallenstein Brothers campaign in Rio de Janeiro.

The ‘follow’ button on loved-up couple Alexis Ren and Jay Alvarrez’s Instagrams (@alexisren and @jayalvarrez respectively) should come with a warning label; ‘May induce insatiable wanderlust.’ The taut and tanned Californian models, soon to star in a New Zealand ad campaign, are a match made in social media heaven. With their sunkissed good looks, extraordinary photogeniscism and dual penchent for partaking in extreme sports around the globe, theirs puts most smoothieand-sunset Instagram feeds to shame. They love social media, which loves them right back. They have over seven million followers across Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter and YouTube. Together, they travel the world - from their home in Los Angeles, to Hawaii, Tahiti, Thailand and the Greek Islands, documenting their adventures along the way in both film and still shots. Jay’s YouTube videos have garnered over 15 million views to date, and prove that a committed relationship doesn’t have to dampen a young adventurous spirit. We see them Nerf gun fighting while freefalling from a hot air balloon, skydiving, motocross riding, diving into a pool from the roof of a Hollywood Hills mansion and doing donuts in a Lamborghini. Jay and Alexis both feature in the latest Hallenstein Brothers campaign and took time out from filming in Rio De Janeiro to chat with us about their relationship, their Instagram following and their globe-trotting life. Where are you both originally from? Jay: I’m from Hawaii and Alexis is from Santa Monica, California. How did you meet? Jay: We met through a friend Jorden Keith who’s a photographer from LA. We were booked in to do a shoot together and then the day before I jumped off a friend’s three-story roof into a pool and hit my face on the bottom. I couldn’t go to the shoot the next day to meet her, so she DM’d me. Alexis: No! He DM’d me… anyway we caught up, clicked instantly and it’s been that way ever since. REMIX MAGAZINE TRAVEL

How much of the time are you travelling the world and how much time are you in Los Angeles? Jay: The summer months we are out of LA all the time. Throughout the rest of the year we would be in LA one or two weeks of each month and the other two we are out travelling, working and exploring the world, creating adventures. We’re basically always on the go. Do you take your pictures on phones, or cameras? Do you take all your own photos? Jay: Any camera really. I have professional gear - a Canon - but we also use our phones or whatever is handy at the time. Sometimes the phone shot can be better than the camera. Jay, how did you start out doing extreme sports? Jay: I grew up on the North Shore of Oahu - it’s an epicentre for extreme sports. I was pretty much was surfing every day, and I watched people skydiving my whole life from the beach ‘cause the drop zone is right by my house. I started talking to a few people who did it, watched a few YouTube videos and got super-pumped, so I threw myself out of a plane when I was 18 and it all started from there. Alexis, how did your modeling career start? How were you discovered? Alexis: I was discovered in a clothing store at the age of 13. I’d been studying ballet fulltime, but when this opportunity came up, I started modeling and I have been doing that ever since. Eventually I plan to go to New York and really focus on fashion, which is what I love. Why do you think people love your Instagram adventures so much? Jay: We travel to some of the most amazing places in the world and we show it from our own unique perspective, which our followers seem to connect with. We try to take them on a journey with us, so they feel like they are there experiencing the whole thing as well.

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What you are doing in Rio with Hallenstein Brothers? Jay: This trip to Brazil has consisted of eating a lot of acai and jumping out a lot of helicopters. The main point of the trip though was to get some awesome material to make a cool video for the upcoming Hallenstein Brothers Summer ’15/’16 campaign. It’s been amazing. This place is beautiful. We’ve been having a good time with all the crew and the boys @austin_victoria, @dubbsvision and @finding_hogue. How do you choose what brands / people to work with? Why did you say yes to a fashion brand like Hallenstein Brothers? Jay: I was working with my buddy @austin_victoria who I worked with previously in Hawaii, and he mentioned how fun the campaigns were to shoot with Hallenstein Brothers, as he had worked with them in Cuba. But the main thing that sold it to me was skydiving in Brazil. Brazil and skydiving... that sounded amazing! Name a highlight from the shoot? Alexis: Our favourite thing about Rio was just the unique beauty, and how it’s like a city next to a jungle. The people and the energy are awesome, it’s so beautiful. We also met a bunch of fans there and they were so nice and kind to us. The craziest part? Jay: Jumping out of the helicopter over Rio was the coolest thing ever. We landed on a secluded spot where no one was around. Any plans to come to New Zealand? Jay: Hallenstein Brothers have invited me to come out and do another video with them later this year. From what I have seen it looks like a pretty amazing place with some of the most epic scenery in the world! hallensteins.com Words by Olivia McPherson.

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Croatia is one of Europe’s hottest travel destinations, largely thanks to famously affordable sail packages aimed at young travellers looking to party. However, if jumping on a floating dormitory of debauchery isn’t your thing, then make sure to shop around, because there are different boats, packages and experiences to suit all types of travellers. We went with a Sail Week Croatia package, setting sail for seven nights around the Dalmatian Islands, and I can confirm it was absolutely stunning. The Sail Week Croatia staff made checking into the yacht very straightforward and even though the airline temporarily misplaced our bags it wasn’t a big deal, because a towel and pair of shorts are

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you really need anyway. Our first stop, with our Skipper Lovrov, who we immediately renamed to Skipps, and an Irish coskipper Thomas, was Supetar. I really didn’t know what to expect and I was pleasantly surprised when we pulled into Supatar, greeted by beautiful stone buildings with terracotta roofs. We found friendly locals, cheap beers, and gelato within a two minute walk from the boat. This was a theme that ran through all of the local towns, with each disembarkment revealing a new little town to discover and a new little adventure to undertake. Makarska was next on our route from Supetar. Bouncing through the waves on an angle was

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about as rough as the sailing got, although travelling from Supetar to Makarska we did realise one of the hatches was wide open. A rush or water came over the bow and went directly into one of the bedrooms… not that we let that dampen our holiday spirits. Traveling from island to island was almost always broken up with a stop-over at one of the many beautiful island bays. With our music up loud, Croatian beer Ozujsko in hand, and the sun beaming down, it was absolute heaven. The crystal clear water was magical and hard to stay out of. Makarsha was amazing, with several fun nights at the party scnee. The port of Vis followed, and didn’t disappoint. Vis is one of the outer islands

and was a military base until 1990, when it was reopened to the public. Vis is a beautiful town somewhat untouched by tourism, giving it a truly authentic Croatian feel. One of the highlights of Vis was going to dinner at Roki’s, a country cottage and cricket club turned restaurant and vineyard. We dined on stingray and lamb Peka, a traditional Croatian meat, slowly cooked for over two hours in iron pots covered in coals. Future Croatian sailing tip: Reservations at Roki’s are a must so they can prepare your Peka. After a couple of nights in Vis we moved on to Hvar. I was told by many friends that Hvar was one REMIX MAGAZINE TRAVEL

of the best places on earth. It didn’t disappoint. Palmižana bay was our anchoring point, where we created a flotilla with the other Sail Week Croatia yachts. Talk of Hvar’s beauty has clearly traveled far beyond my friend group, because boats of all sized packed the bay. Super yachts line the Hvar waterfront and reiterate the fact that Hvar is the new Saint Tropez. For our last night we moored back at Split, the port we set sail from. Split is a more established town with a 1700-year-old walled town and palace at the centre. Narrow cobbled lanes, bustling cafes and restaurants are everywhere. Split also has 282

a great nightlife scene with bars and nightclubs along the waterfront. tia did not disappoint and Sail Week Croatia made exploring this wonderful place an absolute breeze. If you’re looking for something different, an adventure holiday made easy, then look up Sail Week Croatia. We couldn’t recommend it more. Five stars. sailweekcroatia.com Words & photography by Carl Thompson.

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