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iD Dunedin Fashion Show

Posted 5:19am Tuesday 26th April 2011 by Julia Hollingsworth

After begging the previous two editors for a ticket to iD to no avail, I wasn’t letting go of my seat. Finally, I was in a dream scenario. I was Anna Wintour without the entourage or expensive clothes, armed only with a notebook. I had expected the crowd to be comprised primarily of antipodean Read more...

Size Her Up

Posted 5:09am Tuesday 26th April 2011 by Siobhan Downes

“I don’t think you ready for this jelly,” chants Beyonce, waggling her voluptuous hips. Kim Kardashian poses seductively on the red carpet, her ample, orb-like backside splashed across magazine pages. “Real women have curves!” screams the slogan of a marketing campaign. It is the Plus Size Read more...

Men’s fashion...um what?

Posted 5:05am Tuesday 26th April 2011 by Rueben Black

What a strange and treacherous place men’s fashion can be. When flannel-loving Al Borland becomes a hipster style-god, you know some weird shit is going down. With a few tweaks, the look has now become suitably pretentious for our beloved self-obsessed Auckland hipsters. So, over summer the shirts Read more...

Rachel Easting of Twenty-Seven Names

Posted 4:59am Tuesday 26th April 2011 by Grace Averis

Rachel Easting is one half of Wellington label Twenty-Seven Names, for which she designs with childhood friend Anjali Stewart. Twenty-Seven Names have gained a cult-like following worldwide, drawing praise for their airy carefree aesthetic. Their most recent collection “Fearsome Five”, which showed Read more...

Sara Aspinall of Company of Strangers

Posted 4:51am Tuesday 26th April 2011 by Hana Aoake

After working alongside NOM*D designer Margarita Robertson for six years, Sara Aspinall formed Company of Strangers in 2008. Company of Strangers’ third collection, Strangelove, which focuses on the notion of obsessive love, was recently shown at the iD Dunedin fashion show. Aspinall has reworked Read more...

Lela Jacobs of Lela Jacobs

Posted 4:45am Tuesday 26th April 2011 by Grace Averis

Lela Jacobs is the brain behind her eponymously named label. Although only 30 years old, Wellington-based Jacobs has become a New Zealand fashion staple, known for her dark, moody looks which focus heavily odetails. Jacobs’ love of quality fabrics, draping and contrast is evident in her most recent Read more...

iD International Emerging Designer Awards

Posted 4:39am Tuesday 26th April 2011 by Grace Averis

“LET’S GET THIS PARTY STARTED”  These were the fabulously cringe-worthy words (courtesy of Her Royal Highness Carol Hirschfeld) that opened this year's International Emerging Designer Awards. For those who are unfamiliar with it, the Emerging Awards show is an annual event run as part of Read more...

5 Iconic Fashion Trend Setters of our Time

Posted 4:34am Tuesday 26th April 2011 by Josh Hercus

5 Iconic Fashion Trend Setters of our Time Lady Gaga: Lady Gaga is a true fashion inspiration. Her style is diverse and difficult to pinpoint, but clearly contains vibrant elements of what 8-year-old girls use to play dress up in, mixed with a heavy dose of Marilyn Manson’s wardrobe. This Read more...

Fake or real?

Posted 6:15am Thursday 14th April 2011 by George Harrison

George Harrison discusses the pros and cons of weed and its legal counterparts Availability and risk   To those of us who have often struggled to find real weed, fake weed of the “puff”, “illusion” and “chronic” varieties have been a revelation. Well, Read more...

INTELLIGENCE ON DEMAND

Posted 6:11am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Christopher Ong

It will be a few more weeks before most university students experience the soul-crushing pressure pot that is the examinations period, but scarfies typically appear to labour through with the “tried and true” methods. Multiple doses of V or Red Bull will be ingested, coffee addictions will be Read more...

Getting Above the Influence

Posted 6:08am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Siobhan Downes

The homeless bum, shooting up with a dirty needle in a dark alleyway. The street-walking prostitute, snorting cocaine between each fuck. The old man with blood-shot eyes, staggering along the street and swigging from a bottle in a brown paper bag. Our perceptions of addiction are tainted by Read more...

Fear and Loathing in the N.E.V.

Posted 6:04am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Dr. Z

When Critic decided they needed a first-person account on the effects of the legal and/or easily available highs found around Dunedin for their upcoming “Drug” issue, I volunteered for the task immediately. I had never tried any of the substances that follow, but as an aspiring Read more...

SIX INSANE OLD -SCHOOL USES OF DRUGS

Posted 5:59am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Josh Hercus

Everything has a history. Josh Hercus looks at some of the past uses for modern day drugs. Giggle party Most of you know that nitrous oxide is used in a wide range of things, from anaesthetics to speeding up cars. But it’s better known as “laughing gas” and back in the Read more...

Around the World Drug Tourism

Posted 5:53am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Anonymous

Travelling is one of life’s greatest joys. However, for many the intrepid explorer, cheap and available ways to elevate that joy well beyond the body’s already soaring levels of dopamine and serotonin remains a primary reason for the journey in the first place, and with that I bring you...drug Read more...

Wanna be on Top?

Posted 3:02am Tuesday 5th April 2011 by Phoebe Harrop

It was an afternoon that left me feeling decidedly average - in both height and hotness – yet strangely entertained. Nevertheless, the first round of New Zealand’s Next Top Model, Cycle Three, Dunedin chapter, was disappointingly devoid of drama. The most exciting thing to happen was when the Edge’s Read more...

Back to the Future

Posted 2:52am Tuesday 5th April 2011 by Charlotte Greenfield

We’re all curious about the future. We can guess at it, make inferences about it, and hope or fear for it, but some people take this a step further and - or claim to belief - that they can tell the future. And people believe them. According to a recent study, 48.8% of New Zealanders believe in Read more...

FAR OUT, MAN

Posted 2:37am Tuesday 5th April 2011 by Siobhan Downes

As Calvin and Hobbes said, “the surest proof that there is intelligent life out there is that it hasn't tried to make contact with us”. In December last year, New Zealand’s Defence Force uncovered fifty years’ worth of its documents on UFO sightings. These include claims that extraterrestrial life Read more...

Ghostbusters

Posted 2:12am Tuesday 5th April 2011 by Josh Hercus

Wellington-based paranormal investigators Strange Occurrence started off as an idea for an art project, which was meant to be “a bit of a joke” until they started getting actual enquiries. With all the members having a lifelong interest in the paranormal, they realised that they would need to get Read more...

R.I.P. Journalism

Posted 4:56am Monday 28th March 2011 by Charlotte Greenfield

Charlotte Greenfield discusses the effect that the fast paced internet and the rise of “churnalism” have had on the art of journalism. Try telling someone you want to be a journalist. In my experience the most common response is “but journalism is dying.” As much as Critic hopes this Read more...

Duckface, begone.

Posted 4:48am Monday 28th March 2011 by Josh Hercus

A Public Service Announcement by Josh Hercus There are many, many problems in the world. We have uprisings and corruption. We have climate change and natural disasters. We have war and mass starvation. However there is one problem that needs to be addressed immediately. A problem that has spread Read more...