Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 111 - Jan/Feb 2023 i frankie Magazine

In no particular order: watermelon, purpley-orange sunsets, ice-cream trucks, losing track of time, frozen grapes, weird tan lines, outdoor cinemas, spending a whole day by the sea, spending a whole day at the park, trips with mates, making playlists, cheesy beach reads, buying a giant bag of ice from the servo, the smell of barbeques, wearing the loosest clothing you own, thunderstorms, granitas, escaping to the frozen aisle of the supermarket, the relief of a cool change, light at 9pm, garage sales, miraculously avoiding sunburn, buying magazines at the airport, having a cheese board for dinner, feeling like anything is possible. We hope this issue keeps you company as you soak up the summer rays. Enjoy! x Emma and the frankie team…

Can you please tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do? I live on a sweet slice of land out the back of Byron with my pup Banjo, and two horse friends, Poppy and Delilah. I moved up here as soon as I finished school to get away from the city and to learn to farm, and lived in a few different places before this. I’ve always found such peace in nature and around animals. I have my own veggie plot here, where I grow food for myself and sell veggie boxes to locals, and I’m about to dive into studying equine-assisted therapy. Horses have always been part of my own healing journey, so I would love to share that gift with others. How did you get…

Pondering a tree change. Investing in anti-wrinkle eye serum. Lopping off long tresses into a chic bob. These are the things you expect to find your peers doing once they hit the big 3-0. So, imagine my surprise when I looked around and observed my friends doing neither – instead, they were committing to couples therapy, of all things! Like many in my age group, I have dabbled in individual therapy at different points in my life; I am fluent in the therapy lingo of attachment styles and self-care that proliferates on Instagram; and I have even worked at a mental-health organisation. And yet I still associated couples therapy with older married people navigating midlife crises, grown-up kids leaving the nest and tawdry workplace affairs. Weren’t we a little young…

RITA SILVESTRI My husband and I left Italy in 1969 and arrived in Melbourne the same year. I was 22 years old. We came here thinking we were going to stay one or two years – like a long honeymoon – and then we’d go back to Italy. But we loved it and stayed forever. I got married in a little red miniskirt and jacket – it was the only thing I had that day, because I eloped. I didn’t tell my parents that I was getting married; nobody knew. I wore the suit with a white shirt, white shoes and a bag. I told my parents I was going to a girlfriend’s party and then I went out the door, off to city council to get married. And then…

Some words just feel gross, in the same way some fabrics make your skin crawl or when your toenail catches on the bedsheet. By Caro Cooper If you love to curl up with a hot choccy in your jammies after a scrummy dinner, chances are we’re not friends. Don’t get me wrong, your evening activities sound pretty solid to me, but you, as a person – you’re far from it. People who abbreviate words and add an e-sounding suffix make me feel weird. It’s the kind of feeling that makes me rub behind my ears while staring hard at the ground as I will it to swallow me whole. Did you ever stay over at a friend’s house when you were a little kid and the way their family did…

Who are you and what do you do? I am an artist in Manchester, UK, making posters and comics. My average day is getting up and writing ideas in the morning, then reading for a couple of hours, then drawing for the rest of the day. Can you sum up your artistic style in a sentence? Focusing on the background details. How did you get to making these film posters? I started off making posters for music and poetry nights in Manchester, but I lacked technical or digital skills. At the same time, I had just gotten an iPhone and started taking photographs, so I decided to set up the poster info physically and then take a photo, which would become the poster. When I became interested in making film…

AMBERGRIS – Smells like: manure, damp forest floor This waxy ingredient secreted by sperm whales has played a big part in the perfume world for more than 1000 years. It’s a fixative, which means it has nifty properties that make fragrances last longer on skin. Ambergris smells absolutely horrific when fresh – like faecal matter, to be exact – but like a fine wine, it gets better with age. As it drifts through the ocean, it takes on a complex sweet and earthy aroma. Ambergris is harvested from the shores of beaches, and as you can imagine, is pretty damn hard to find. This means that just a kilo of the stuff can cost tens of thousands of dollars. These days, synthetic alternatives are far more common than real ambergris.…

NAKED LIFE – LEMONADE CUCUMBER On first impact, I was stoked. I could have sworn I was smashing a Kirk’s lemonade. Crisp, effervescent. Then came the cucumber extract, a nice, fresh adult touch. Then – then – came the wave of sweeteners: monk fruit, erythritol, stevia. I am all for natural sweeteners, but there’s no tricking your tastebuds. These low-calorie additives are like those long-sleeved tees covered in tattoos: from a distance you might be fooled, but when you get up close, you just feel sad. The bottle and branding transported me to a sunny Noosa afternoon and made me want hot blonde friends with yachts (I’m working on it). I would buy this again, but I would cut it 70/30 with plain soda water to reduce that sweetener kick.…

For most of her life, Fazilat Shu has given those around her a crash course in Uyghur identity. Not because she’s an educator or cultural ambassador, but purely because she stood out in her hometown of Adelaide. “I look different – people can’t put me in a box,” she says. When asked about her ethnicity, Fazilat would launch into the basics: Uyghurs are a Turkic ethnic minority group native to north-western China; they are ethnically and culturally different from Chinese people; and their nation enjoyed brief independence before becoming a part of China. Over time, the conversation changed to, “now we’re being ethnically cleansed”. Constantly explaining her heritage, and the human rights situation in China, took a toll. “It gets really overwhelming,” she says. Fazilat wants to highlight the beautiful…

Well, well, well – if it isn’t the harsh, unavoidable hand of Father Time plopping us into yet another party season. That time of year when invites flood inboxes, decorations adorn shopfronts and Mariah Carey reminds us that all she wants for Christmas is me. Or you. You might get invited to an event where the only person you know is the host. Or maybe plus-ones aren’t invited. Or maybe you just feel like meeting new people even though you hate the outside world. Before you start hyperventilating into a bag, consider my guide to attending a party solo (it’s compiled by a deeply awkward person, so you know it’s legit). Grab your party hat – let’s do this. THE PRE-PARTY If you have an anxious brain, it will convince…

art + illustration winner yasuko toda “ I loved the story behind Yasuko’s work, and how she used lockdown to connect with not only her immediate environment, but also Australia’s unique landscape of Indigenous flora. As a fellow immigrant, I have been educating myself on the incredibly rich history of Australia’s First Peoples and their caretaking of this land – I commend Yasuko for bringing it into her work in her own way.” Jeremy Wortsman, founder and director of The Jacky Winter Group, Good Stuff art + illustration judge Tell us a bit about yourself. I’m an illustrator and artist from Tokyo. I also do animation, zines, manga and conceptual art. What did you want to be when you were a kid? My dream was always to become an artist;…

I grew up attending a Tibetan Buddhist temple in Melbourne’s southeast, where devotees of the head monk would defend his long and droning sermons by framing them as an intentional test of his followers’ patience (an incredibly genius marketing tactic). As a tween, I would pass these multi-hour-long sessions by covertly reading Sweet Valley High books. While those around me were trying to grasp the Buddha’s ‘Four Noble Truths’, I was wondering if hunky Todd Wilkins was going to end up with book-smart Elizabeth (good twin) or feisty Jessica (evil twin). In between weekly visits to the temple, each day my mum and stepdad sat diligently in the lotus position on floor cushions and prayed to a makeshift at-home shrine complete with Green Tara Buddha figurines, tea lights,…

leek & parsley butterbean toast SERVES 2 A hearty yet vibrant toast combination that takes only 10 minutes to prepare. Most of the ingredients are shelf stable, too. INGREDIENTS – olive oil– 1 x 400g tin butter beans, drained and rinsed– 1 leek, washed thoroughly and sliced into half-moons– 1 clove garlic, crushed– handful of parsley, chopped– 1 tbsp capers, drained and chopped– squeeze of lemon– salt and pepper– toast, buttered (to serve) METHOD Heat a generous drizzle of olive oil in a medium frypan over high heat. Once hot, add the drained beans. Leave for a few minutes before jiggling the pan to flip them over. Once the beans are lightly crisp and golden on both sides, remove to a plate. Add the sliced leek to the pan, drop…

frankie x Gucci NOVEMBER 17, 2022 – JANUARY 15, 2023 You don’t need a green thumb to explore this enchanted garden! If you love fashion and creativity, the Gucci Garden Archetypes exhibition will be one to explore this summer. It’s a multi-sensory exhibition dedicated to creative director Alessandro Michele’s unique, eccentric and magical fashion campaigns – and it’s coming to Sydney! The exhibition features a hidden imaginary garden, a mirrored labyrinth and cinematic multimedia installations that bring Alessandro’s inspirations to life. Experiencing the immersive Gucci Garden Archetypes is like falling directly into the brand’s wondrous, one-of-a-kind ad campaigns. We’ve created a line drawing from the ‘Urban Romanticism’ exhibit room based on the Fall Winter 2015 campaign for you to weave your own magic on. This fun activity was brought to…

blue sky thinking If you’re looking for duds to throw on during a sticky summer day – duds that lend an air of cool and sophistication even when you can feel your make-up slowly sliding off your face – Kowtow’s latest collection might have something for you. You’ll be pumped to know that the Kiwi label’s optimistic ‘forever pieces’ are backed up by some admirable sustainability efforts, too – the brand recently became a B Corp and set a target of zero materials sent to landfill by the end of 2023. Good stuff. au.kowtowclothing.com rubik’s cute Any kid who solved a Rubik’s cube without peeling off the stickers always had our utmost respect. If you were once that child genius, perhaps you’d appreciate Journey Of Something’s floral art cube. For…

Where’d the idea for this project come from? I started it in April 2015 when I picked up my son Calder and noticed his back pockets stuffed with things. One of the items in his pocket that day was a red thumbtack. That night I decided to photograph the items on our kitchen table. It then became an archive of the tiny magical objects I found in his pockets each day after preschool. What drew you to capturing this? I’ve always been interested in photography’s capacity to suspend and document moments of transition and change. The magic of childhood is so fleeting, and these objects represent a chapter of boyhood. I like the idea of the photographs being a taxonomy report of a child’s imagination. When I started finding these…

learn something new If you’re as old as I am, you might remember your mum giving you a Kodak disposable camera to take to school camp. I remember holding on to my camera like a precious jewel. Even then, I knew that there was something very special about capturing moments on film – even if I can’t remember now what moment I was trying to capture in the series of photos with my thumb covering the lens. If it’s been a while since you picked up a film camera (or, like me, you never graduated beyond a disposable), these tips, made with expert help from photographer Sarah Pannell, will gently guide you through the process. No pretentious film bros allowed. WHY SHOOT FILM? In a world where almost everyone has…

fi macrae It was the classic endo story, really. The pain started out mild when I was 23, but soon intensified to the point where I was collapsing on the floor or in the shower. My doctor said it was just period pain, and I was like, “OK, cool.” It was my partner at the time who eventually said I should get a second opinion. It was a slog, but one mass the size of a tennis ball on my left ovary and several surgeries later, I got my diagnosis. I’ve been in and out of hospital for the past five years. That’s probably been the biggest impact on my sex life: the medical trauma. I wish I’d known going into diagnosis how invasive that process is, particularly as a…

Tell us about how this collection began for you. Throughout the pandemic, we found ourselves stuck in our living rooms and reminiscing about the small details of normal life that we used to take for granted. For AW22, I wanted to create a living-room utopia: a celebration of the beauty and joy that can be discovered in our immediate surroundings at home. What were some of your inspirations? Famous product designs and designers of the 1960s and ’70s; the work of Joe Colombo (he was so ahead of his time. His ‘Smoke’ glass would be quite scandalous by today’s standards), Verner Panton and Eero Saarinen in particular, since they did not sacrifice function for aesthetic value. I have carried this principle into my designs by creating garments that look beautiful…

Tell us a bit about yourself, please. I live in Whalley Range, a suburb of Manchester in England. I can usually be found at my desk working on paintings and illustrations while listening to the Do!! You!!! Show on NTS radio. When I’m not working, I love getting out on my bike or going skateboarding. What’s the story behind your ‘pixelated’ aesthetic? I have a desire for all my individual pieces to belong in the same ‘universe’. I wanted a style that could be instantly identifiable, and I found the best way for me to get to that was by setting myself restrictions on how I would construct my pieces. I consider my approach to be more akin to playing with building blocks as opposed to traditional drawing or painting.…