Monthly Archive for August, 2012

This is what I look like hungover on 3 hours sleep, about to catch a flight.

Published on August 31, 2012 in Me, Oh. and Rant. 6 Comments

#CURRENTLY.

Well, well, well. On the positive side, I’m sitting in the Koru Lounge right now and my laptop has almost full battery. On the other side, it has been a pretty full-on draining, past 20 hours. I had my Vanishing Elephant/Area 51 event last night (which, by the way, went great aside from a public frustrated-cry – you know the kind – by me). I drank. I went out. I got home in a not exactly sober state. I semi-packed my bags. I slept. I rose three and a bit hours later, put on this really weird outfit I can’t even show you right now, put more clothes in my bag and drove towards the airport. Then I remembered I had forgotten something. So I drove home, got it, drove back towards the airport. Got near the airport, and despite my mom telling me about three times that I had to stay in the left lane to go to the long-term carparking, I stayed in the right lane and went to the wrong place. I tried to leave, then got in the wrong lane, ended up driving towards the domestic terminal and having to do this weird roundabout u-turn. Back to the long-term carparking which was packed. Finally got to airport to find a shit show of people. People everywhere, all the self-check-in machines breaking, including the one I was in line for and the one I lined up for after the first one broke. (Note to self: Listen to your father when he tells you to only take check-in luggage when travelling for one night only. It would’ve saved a tonne of time and effort.) Finally get through, up the stairs, straight to McDonald’s where I had a Bacon & Egg McMuffin (it’s the only time I allow myself McDonald’s breakfast) and a Tank juice and now I’ve made it to the Koru Lounge and I have 20 minutes until my flight boards and this was the longest story ever and I didn’t even split it into paragraphs or spell check it and it probably doesn’t even make that much sense because I’m hungover. The end.

Oh, PS: I’m going to Sydney today. Back tomorrow. Tell you about it later.

 

Models I met and liked: Lili Sumner.

Published on August 29, 2012 in Models and Models I met and liked. 2 Comments

Lili Sumner.

Name: Lili Sumner
Agency: Red 11
Age: 18
Height: 5’9.5″
Ethnicity: New Zealand European

How did you get into modelling and how long have you been doing it?
I’ve been modelling since I was 14. My sister was a model and introduced me to Amanda at Red 11 when I lived in Hawke’s Bay. I moved to Auckland and started then.

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Highs and Low(e)s.

Published on August 26, 2012 in Highs and Low(e)s and Rant. 4 Comments

Evan Tetreault via Skype, with Rhianon (Clyne) and me for RUBY/Liam.

Highs:

  1. Last week I said driving my on-loan-New-Zealand-Fashion-Week-BMW has been awesome and it still is. I drove to Ponsonby three times today, once to Newmarket and once to Takapuna. It’s just so nice to be in…
  2. This morning I was notified that my picture was in the Sunday Star Times’ social pages. Okay cool. But then I was notified that I am quoted twice in an article on the New Zealand Fashion Week model casting. WAY COOL. WAY, WAY, WAY COOLER. I didn’t even know anyone was listening in at the time which goes to show you should really watch what you say in public spaces, but anyway, high fives all ’round!
  3. I know it hasn’t happened yet but I’ve been pretty excited about the little Area 51/Vanishing Elephant/Katherine is Awesome party we’re having on Thursday. Also pretty excited to see those of you who emailed for invites and are coming along.
  4. I’ve been on a tumblr-question-answering mission lately, so after many days of not posting anything, there are answers and questions galore! Hooray for me! Hooray for you! Hooray for everyone! (Especially the haters).
  5. On Saturday helped out on a shoot RUBY did via the internet. It’s kind of complicated, but basically RUBY enlisted my good, Boston-based, photograph-taking internet mate Evan Tetreault to direct and shoot some of their Summer 2012-2013 collection via Skype, for a little project that I don’t know if I can talk about so I just won’t. It was a lot of fun. Evidence above.
  6. Speaking of shoots, I shot a (different) RUBY lookbook later that Saturday, which was super fun and involved candy floss, and earlier in the week I shot an Area 51 lookbook which was equally as fun and involved a pretty old, vintage skateboard. Two shoots in one week! Look mom – I’m working!
  7. Norse Projects’ Fall/Winter 2010 Lookbook came out two days ago and damn those boys (and the clothes) look good. That first all grey outfit? The best. The absolute best.

The Katherine is Awesome event guide for the next two weeks.

Published on August 25, 2012 in Awesome Things and OMG. 5 Comments

Some looks from Vanishing Elephant's first womenswear collection - launch party Thursday! Image/Me for Area 51.

Homies, listen up. There’s a lot going on right now – not just for me, but for everyone who is into clothes and fashion and the like. Being the good blogger I am, I’ve narrowed down the events to the things I think you should all attempt to attend:

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I haven’t been blogging properly because I’m busy.

Published on August 22, 2012 in Me and Rant. 2 Comments

Image/Area 51 Instagram (@areafiftyonestore).

Lots of things have been happening over the last month. The freelance lifestyle, whilst fun, is also quite a juggling act. In addition to a whole lot of personal life crisis type sh*t that you don’t need to (or want to) hear, there’s been a few work things going on that have taken up a bit of my time.

Firstly, I’ve been organising and shooting a couple of little things, including Area 51′s S/S Lookbook (which took place yesterday – you can see some behind the scenes action on their instagram). The other one I can’t talk about yet. Next week there’s going to be a little event on that I’m helping host, so keep your eyes out if you want to be invited. A lot of my time has been spent on a little collaboration piece I’m doing with Little Brother which comes out at the start of October (you may have worked it out already if you’re clever at the internet - while you’re at it, ‘like’ the page whydontcha?!), and in between my usual blogging and freelancing, I’m also a contributor to The Sunglass Hut’s ‘Inner Circle‘ site which is taking me to Sydney for a lunch next week. High flying, right?! If you add all of these things together and mix in new initiatives for the blog (thanks to those who have been giving me business advice**), preparation for New Zealand Fashion Week, and a trip to New York (which also involves a little bit of fashion week-ing), you can see how things fall by the wayside.

Please bear with me, I promise the content is going to get better*!

Happy Wednesday readers.

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New week, new things.

Published on August 20, 2012 in Awesome Things and New week new things. 2 Comments

Image/Guy Coombes for Twenty-seven Names.

  • I know a lot of you have been waiting for the arrival of the above Love Cats sweater by Twenty-seven Names. This week it drops. I got mine on the weekend, wore it on Sunday and I swear I have never had so many compliments on one item of clothing in one day. Crazy. Anyway, the pre-sales on the sweater went nuts and I’m pretty sure the thing was sold out. But good news, the girls have done a recut (conveniently in time for the launch of their online store) SO, if you’re wanting to get your hands on one of these babies, you can do so here. But only if you’re quick.