Cityscape Summer 2020
Welcome to 2020. For our first issue of a new decade, Cityscape has taken up the 5 Ways to Wellbeing as a kaupapa, or set of principles, underpinning our editorial direction for 2020 and beyond. If you haven’t heard of them before, the 5 Ways – Connect, Be active, Take notice, Keep Learning, and Give – have been taken up by mental health agencies and organisations around the world. There is extensive scientific evidence that if practised regularly, the 5 Ways will lift your wellbeing. The challenge is to find ways to introduce these actions into our daily lives. Between the covers of Cityscape we have curated a selection of experts local and international that can help. Supporting local businesses by getting offline and in-store is one way to connect with your community as well as be more active and giving – as consumers, we often make big decisions about where to spend our money on the basis of saving a dollar or two. Remember, when you buy from a small business, an actual person does a happy dance! We have all our regular features and contributors as well, and all that’s hot in beauty, cuisine, home and events.
Welcome to 2020. For our first issue of a new decade, Cityscape has taken up the 5 Ways to Wellbeing as a kaupapa, or set of principles, underpinning our editorial direction for 2020 and beyond. If you haven’t heard of them before, the 5 Ways – Connect, Be active, Take notice, Keep Learning, and Give – have been taken up by mental health agencies and organisations around the world. There is extensive scientific evidence that if practised regularly, the 5 Ways will lift your wellbeing. The challenge is to find ways to introduce these actions into our daily lives. Between the covers of Cityscape we have curated a selection of experts local and international that can help. Supporting local businesses by getting offline and in-store is one way to connect with your community as well as be more active and giving – as consumers, we often make big decisions about where to spend our money on the basis of saving a dollar or two. Remember, when you buy from a small business, an actual person does a happy dance! We have all our regular features and contributors as well, and all that’s hot in beauty, cuisine, home and events.
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COLOURS OF NATURE
were looking at the natural
camouflage of the animal kingdom,
so that came through in blues and
corals and the hyper-real colours
that are available within nature for
camouflage. So that was the
starting point and from there we
developed the materials and the
silhouettes. From our archives we
brought back a molten style in
small and medium. Sometimes
there‘s only so much you can do
with a shape and a bag and so
rather than reinvent the wheel
we’ve probably got something in
‘We want to be excited
by what we create just
as much as our
customers do’
our back catalogue that we can
reference. What’s coming in bags?
Like everything it does have a bit of
a cycle. It goes huge then it goes
tiny then it goes practical then it
goes hands-free and back and
forth. I think it’s very driven by
lifestyle so as technology gets
smaller and we need fewer things I
think it will be related to that. In
terms of trends or styles, people
are getting more adventurous in
terms of colourways. We used to
know that people would just buy
our black bags time in and time out
but the new collection we
soft-launched in our own online
store and the blue crocodile bag
sold out almost immediately, which
surprised us. They want something
that is more adventurous. We’ve
never liked to produce the safe
items and options, we want to be
excited by what we create just as
much as our customers do. But it’s
always nerve-racking – this crazy
blue, do we order 100 of those, or
how many? Sometimes we have to
take a punt ourselves.
Do you have a favourite from the
new collection? It’s a mixture –
probably anything in the new blue
crocodile. We’ve done a
Mini Scurry tote in the
croc which I think is
probably my favourite. In
terms of shape I do like
the Midi Molten, the
shape from our archives
that we’ve blown up. And
then also we’ve
developed a new python
leather that is really
amazing, it’s got about
four different colourways
through it – those would
be my favourites. We’ve
done python for a little
while now but that’s a
new colourway of it. It’s
quite an extensive
process that goes into it.
Normally a python
pattern is printed onto
the leather but with this
there’s about 40 different
steps to make it feel and
have the touch of python so it has a
scaly effect to it and it has the
shine and scales, so as close you
can get to the real stuff without
having to actually kill a snake. Tell
us about the new space in
Ballantynes? The space has been
designed in collaboration with
Katie Lockhart, who has worked
with us on a number of different
projects and pop-ups and all of our
interiors. So it’s a mix of oak and
redwood, more classic simple
colours and then these Brancusiinspired
big wooden plinths that
are cut out of a full redwood tree
that was lying in a paddock. We
got Grant, a craftsman that we use,
to carve them with a chainsaw to
create these unusual, textural
shapes. It’s also reflective of the
rest of our retail fitouts.
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