When I sit down to chat with filmmaker Claudia Pickering over the phone, I am immediately struck by her infectious enthusiasm. She’s sitting in a café working on a web series while we talk. I’m sitting at my desk at home, but still get swept up in the excitement of her burgeoning career in…
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‘This is going to be the huskiest interview there ever was,’ Amy laughs. ‘Just a couple of frogs talking to each other.’ We bond over how croaky our voices both are. Admittedly, listening back to the audio of our interview, I just wanted to suck on a Soother. She orders a soy mocha in a…
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1000 Pound Bend on Lonsdale Street in Melbourne’s CBD is packed when I arrive to chat to Fiona and Sharna of The Fabric Social, a startup born from the feminist peace movement that is currently doing the rounds on crowdfunding site, Pozible. In the backroom of the café, the opening night of the Emerging…
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Name: Zoe Brown Label: WND.LND Web address and/or FB address: www.wnd-lnd.com www.facebook.com/wnd.lnd How did you get into fashion and what do you love about it compared to other types of design? I have loved fashion from a young age—dance costumes, making up my own routines and dressing my Barbie dolls up. Ever since…
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Name: Suzan Dlouhy Label name: SZN Web address and/or FB address: www.szn.com.au; www.facebook.com/szndesign Where are you based? Canberra How did you get into fashion and what do you love about it compared to other types of design? I was looking for an alternative to a desk job, I’d always been interested in art and…
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Name: Jade Sargent Label: SOVATA Where are you based? Canberra How did you get into fashion and what do you love about it compared to other types of design? I got into fashion by experimenting with making hats and fascinators. I wanted to learn millinery but the classes never had enough students so…
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Yesterday marked the 49th birthday of the not-a-woman-but-a-force-of-nature that is Courtney Love. I think that in her fiftieth year, this birthday calls for something of a celebration of her life. Ms Love has always been an inspiration to me, and has been one of my heroes for many years now. It seems an unlikely match…
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Maria Richardson is an eclectic Geelong-based artist who makes vibrant artworks inspired by the Australian landscape, amongst others things. Recently, I had a chat with Maria to find out more about her work as she prepares for her first solo show in November. Can you tell me a little about your background? I was…
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Zara Huts’ voice wavers with nerves on the opening notes of Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love”. She steels herself and carries on, her roots influence infusing the song with a captivating, husky quality. The setting is a backyard party for a family friend, and silence quickly falls over the middle-aged women in attendance, as Huts finds…
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I like to think that I’m a fairly happy and easy going person, but from time to time (before, during and after menstruation) I do get a bit moody… I’ve been known to cry at silly things and my dad knows to avoid me completely in these times. I also admit to having serious road…
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Véra Ada is a 22 year old linguistics graduate with a keen interest in photography and languages. Whilst the latter is the main focus of her career, she considers picture-making as her creative self. After picking up a point & shoot digital camera 5 years ago, she now works in multiple formats, including 35mm and…
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It was the very first Queensland Young Women’s Forum and very appropriately, a room of 50 eager and unique young women sat waiting for the guest speakers to share their words of wisdom and help to continue the passion that braced the room. As we saw her face on the big screen, editor of ABC’s…
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Photographs are nothing like they used to be. They were once a luxury, where you only had twelve shots on the camera roll so you had to make them special. Now, everywhere you go there is a person with a camera, and people always crowd around and smile their fake smiles, no matter how happy…
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