Interviews: At Kiama
Girl number 1: (Black jeans, waistcoat, sunnies, dark hair)
Shenay Spinelli
Age: 15
Lives: Shell harbour.
Q: How much do you spend on clothing if you were going out?
A: $200
Q: Where do you mainly shop?
A: All different stores, probably prefer Sydney’s fashion. Bondi Junction is good.
Q: What are you wearing today?
A: Jeans from Jay Jays
Shoes from Payless
Shirt from Kmart
Bag from Myers
Sunglasses from Sunglass hut.
Total cost: $500
Girls number 2: (The two girls…)
Chyanne Louise (this was the girl in black)
Age: 16
Lives: Kiama
Kelly Morgan (girl in shorts and shirt)
Age: 16
Lives: Kiama
Q: How much do you spend on clothing if you were going out?
C: However much money I have at the time!
K: up to $100
Q: Where do you mainly shop?
C: Sydney and Miranda
K: Wollongong- Lily and Minx, Shell harbour- Coco Pony, and Sydney.
Q: What are you wearing today?
C: Supre
K: Tattoo, Jay Jays.
Boy number 3:
Tobias Earnshaw
Age: 22
Lives: Wollongong
Q: How much do you spend on clothing if you were going out?
A: $60-70
Q: Where do you mainly shop?
A: Jay Jays and Roger David
Q: What are you wearing today?
A: Shorts-surf dive and ski
T-shirt- Jay Jays
Headband- Canteen for cancer
Shoes: Vans and all-stars
Total cost: $200
Girls number 4: (Two emo girls)
Emma Duncan- girl with tattoos
Age:26
Lives: Blue Mountains
Emma Windridge
Age: 21
Lives: Blue Mountains
Q: How much would you normally spend on an outfit if you were going out?
ED: $200- but that’s mostly on the shoes
EW: $150
Q: Where do you mainly shop?
ED & EW: DFO in Penrith, and mostly on Pitt Street in Sydney
Q: What are you wearing today?
ED: Sunnies- newsagent in manly
Jewellery- from a music festival
All other clothing from skate shops.
EW: Sunnies- chemist
Singlet- Kmart
All other clothing from skate shops.
Q: How would you describe your style?
Both: We like to wear what other girls wont be wearing. Focus: Shoes!
Sydneysiders, when you visit the seductive South Coast, please leave your ‘metrosexual’ fling with black, black, and black at the blowhole and safely dispose of the over sized singlets, the wetlook leggings, and the fingerless gloves - you wont be needing them here.
Kiama is a bit like ‘the girl next door’, pretty, down to earth, and playful with its fashions following suit. This year’s ‘grunge’ obsession is beginning to make its way back into the dark corners of our wardrobes, and only the most privileged of its accessorise will carry through to next season.
With summer teasing its way in, I think we are all ready for a more delicate palette of easy on the eye clothing…
Forget studs and spikes, unless on belts, this season is all about bold lines and tailoring, mixed with flirty tulle and neutral shading.
Chanel went as far as hay stacks and barn yard beauties to show off their take on edgy romance, with LILY ALLEN starring in her very own fairytale makeover. Femininity is taking a step back in time, and coming at us in translucent fleshy fabrics.
Beautiful coastal towns like Kiama, may have just found their niche!
Local stores in the area offer simple, fresh and flirty clothing. There are no confronting Madonna trends hung on mannequins, and no Lady Gaga wannabes rocking out in sequinned leotards. Summers key looks can be found nestled within the terraced housing furnishings, which are as delicious as its dresses. Its ambience is so ‘fem chic’ that all it was short of was herbal teas and cupcakes.
Browse the walls of trophy garments and its glass cabinets of glimmering jewellery and feathered hair accessories, then have your coin ready for tossing, because I guarantee there will be decisions to be made.
Between the tight-fitted, asymmetric tube dress, which ticks the fashion boxes for one shouldered, edgy tailoring, and the pearl pink and coral ’flutter’ dress which leaves your heart doing much the same thing, you will float out like Carrie Bradshaw on 52nd street.
The only stressful thing about your day will be “which one?”.
Hmmm, at those prices, I think I’ll take both!
Awesomeee. i think that rlly good. makes me want to grab my surf board and go catch a wave mannnnn. “thats like totally narly dudeee”…he he. o how i love my australian ways..
but seriously, thats a top effort, maybe at the ending you could make the last statement- its about who you know, not what you know. then he goes onto say its a hobby for now. that one statement doesnt seem to flow into the next quote. well it does…but it doesnt..? but its good enough as it is!
:)
p.s arent we just so eager beavers haha
Marty O’Donnell
A Story
It’s 8:30am and there’s a breezy offshore wind at Bombo. It’s playing havoc with recording a conversation, but I finally get into position and prep for the first question.
Juiced: “Tell us a little bit about yourself…”
Marty: “…I’m a twenty year old kid, I’ve grown up in kiama my whole life.”
If you know Marty O’Donnell you might know him as a national television programmer for WIN, you might know him as a keen photographer…or you might know him as a self-proclaimed “twenty year old kid”.
Working shift work for WIN television, O’Donnell makes sure the ads run to schedule, and the news updates are broadcast correctly. It’s on the morning of a rare day off that we meet and discuss his life, Kiama and alter ego as a photographer.
J: “So how did you start photography?”
M: “Well I was 16…surfing with some mates when the board hit me in the head and cut me open. I couldn’t surf for a few weeks so I picked up a camera and it all started from there”
Once healed O’Donnell stepped back into the water, from now on he’d dedicate more of his time to being on the camera side of a lens. Shooting from land and water he built up his reputation as a photographer and developed his own style.
J: “Have you taught yourself a lot of photography?”
M: “Yeah I’ve taught myself a lot of photography, but along the way I’ve picked up some friends who also are into it.”
Having that ability to make friends with ease, O’Donnell lists local guys Dave Robinson, Geoff Latimer and Steve King as his top guys to shoot, as well as listing Steve Conti as inspiration for both surf and lifestyle photography.
With a love for photography Marty also treks around the local area to capture some interesting landscape shots, hiking kilometres up a streambed or into a rainforest to find a shot that’s free of ‘human destruction to the eco-system’. Travelling to places like Vietnam, Cambodia and Bali, O’Donnell has expanded his view of the world and captured shots that highlight the cultural differences between his hometown and exotic destinations.
Knowing that surf photography is a hard profession to make a living from, O’Donnell admits it’s more about who, than what you know.
M: “At the moment it’s a hobby, but if it turns into anything else…great!”
I think its good!!
- the distinction between Kiama and Sydneysiders was good because locals can always spot the tourist. I think you make your point clear about the grunge thing without seeming like your giving them shit or something.
- only change id make would be where you say Chanel went as far as hay stacks and country folk to show off their take on edgy romance. Maybe change country folk to a different term because alot of kiama people live in the country. maybe something like american hicks. something that differentiates between kiama locals and the participants.
:D good job!
james cook.
Do you have an official opening for the southern Gateway? monday 28th september 2009 it opened.
Roughly how long has planning been going on for it? sinces the late 90s. the building is made up of 3 independant businesses,
Are you hoping the Southern Gateway is going to act as a platform for all wollongong tourists? yes there are 1.1million vehicles which drive past the location per annum and have access to it, there have been issues of a disadvantaged access points for people driving on the other side but road agency has made provisions for this. There is still access, its just not neccesarily easier than if driving in right direction.
Have you anything new planned that tourists and locals to wollongong wont have experienced with the current tourist centre? yes, we have high tech technologys which are entirely new to tourist centres, there are little brochures like in traditional centres, we operate interactively using touch screens where people can plan and develop their own itinery and print it out at the centre. Everything is alot more technological. councils 157 spend a significant amount of money on supporting tourist centres, southern gateway isnt just for wollongong, its for other areas of the illawarra, so its acting as a gateway not just for wollongong.
Because the souvenir shop attached to the current tourist centre isnt following you, are you planning to sell your own merchandise?
How do you plan to be of service to non-motorist tourists, for example backpackers, public transport users. “cant be all things to all people” if we can get 10% of those tourists which pass the southern gateway that is 150,000, which is still a lot. Could not confirm whether the current tourist centre in wollongong would be relocated or whether the southern gateway was going to be its replacement. Alot of information is available on the www for those who dont travel by car, so southen gateway isnt disadvantaging people. Perhaps train services need to look at making provisions for their customers and providing tourist information centres at train stops. We cant cater for everyone, nothing in the world can.
There has been a fair bit of public disapproval about the centre being so far away from the hub of wollongong, how have you responded to this?
Welcome to Kiama…
Sydneysiders please leave your ‘metrosexual’ fling with black, black, and black at the blow hole and safely dispose of (forever) the over sized singlets, the wet look leggings, and the fingerless gloves. You wont be needing them here.
Kiama is abit like ‘the girl next door’, pretty, down to earth, and playful. With it’s fashions following suit. This years ‘Grunge’ obsession has offended me on one to many occasions, and thank god it finally seems to be filtering back into the dressing up box. With summer teasing its way in, I think we are all ready for a more delicate palette of easy on the eye clothing…
Forget studs and spikes,(unless on belts!) this season is all about bold lines and tailoring mixed with flirty tulle and neutral shading. Chanel went as far as hay stacks and country folk to show off their take on edgy romance, with lily allen starring in her very own fairytale makeover. Femininity is back in fashion, and its coming at us in translucent fleshy fabrics. Kiama, we might have found your niche!
Local stores offer simple, fresh and flirty clothing. There are no confronting madonna trends hung on mannequins, and no Lady Gaga wannabes rocking out in sequinned leotards. Summers key looks can be found nestling within the Terrace Houses at Lily and Minx, where this exciting new boutique is sure to please. The delicate furnishings are as delicious as its dresses, and it is so fem chic, I am almost disspointed that I wasnt offered herbal teas and cupcakes on arrival. Browse its walls of trophy garments and its glass cabernets of glimmering jewellery and feathered hair accessories. Then have your coin ready for tossing, because I promise there will be decisions to be made. The tight fitted, asymmetric tube dress, which ticks the fashion boxes for one shouldered, edgy tailoring. Or the pearl pink and coral ’flutter’ dress which could rival Carrie Bradshaw on 52nd street?
‘Hmmm’ at those prices, I think i’ll take both!
