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Andy Pickering

Andy Pickering is the Auckland based Creative Director of Pilot Magazine.

Georgia Fowler & Vinnie rock the Dogs

PILOT cover-girl Georgia Fowler totally rocks Kate Sylvester’s Diamond Dogs campaign and lookbook. You can see the full lookbook here.
Creative Direction: Wayne Conway / Photography & Styling: Karen Inderbitzen-Waller
Georgia Fowler @ Clyne / Vincent Paunovic @ 62

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Mad Men Does Barbie

The New York Times reports that: “After 3 seasons, Mad Men, the television series about advertising in the 1960s, has attained a level of popular-culture cachet. And now the show will enter a realm of the pop-culture pantheon that its creator, Matthew Weiner, says has surprised even him: Mattel plans to bring out versions of [...]

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Mercy Mercer by Derek Henderson

Michael Lett has just published Mercy Mercer, the second monograph from Derek Henderson following the critically acclaimed The Terrible Boredom of Paradise in 2005.
“Mercy Mercer’s 128 colour photographs of the Waikato river, its neighbours, travelers – typically ‘New Zealand’ in flavour – are punctuated by unexpected moments that tell unofficial stories of New Zealand; tales of colonial [...]

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Stolen Girlfriend’s Club Sale

Stolen Girlfriend’s Club sale yo…

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Currently Reading / You Are Not a Gadget

Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not a Gadget has a very intriguing introduction. 
“It’s early in the twenty-first century, and that means that these words will mostly be read by nonpersons-automatons or numb mobs composed of people who are no longer acting as individuals. The words will be minced into atomised search-engine keywords within industrial cloud computing [...]

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Is This The World’s Gaudiest Apartment?

Gawker reports that extreme-right-wing-nut-job-shock-jock Rush Limbaugh is selling his New York apartment. They have all the photos. Dear God. Have you ever seen anything more heinous? Well, I mean the study is kinda cool, sure. No? Probably not. That bedroom though? Wow. Speechless. Yours for a cool $13.95 million…

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David Bowie Vs Alexander McQueen

Dazed Digital have just posted a fantastic feature that covers all the collaborations between Lee McQueen and Dazed & Confused. The highlight has to be a conversation between David Bowie and McQueen from 1996.  It’s a very frank and very revealing interview from two very legendary Brits. You know it’s going to be fascinating to [...]

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Undies Monday is Today at Mag Nation

Don’t forget folks that TODAY is Undies Monday at all Mag Nation stores. That means if you walk into any store in just your undies / bra they will give you a FREE magazine to the value of $50. That is a brilliant deal and the weather in Auckland is sunny and warm, so if [...]

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Amazing / Heartbreaking photos from Chile

At 3:34 am local time, today, February 27th, a devastating magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Chile, one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded. According to Chile’s interior minister, at least 214 people are now known to have been killed. The Tsunami warnings from around the world are just starting to be pulled back now. Twitter the [...]

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JERKIN / SKINNY JEANZ / HEDI SLIMANE

 INTRODUCING JERKIN / THE SKINNY JEANZ MOVEMENT ON HEDISLIMANE.COM
“I just finished a report on this emerging movement I ended up being connected to called Jerking. It was born in Long Beach, Los Angeles, in late 2008 among black teenagers in high school. They call it the Skinny Jeans Movement and have songs like “I ROCK [...]

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Undies Monday @ Mag Nation

Our favourite magazine shop is Mag Nation. They are very, very serious about magazines but they’re not afraid to have some fun. Hence, their new promotion:
‘Undies Monday’.  Here is how it works:
Walk into any Mag Nation store on a Monday in just your underwear and they will give you for FREE any magazine, book or [...]

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Dali / Femme à la tête rose

Design: Salvador Dalí  / Year: 1935-1937  /   Available: matisse.co.nz
During the ‘thirties in Paris, Salvador Dalí surrounded himself with a circle of friends involved in the application of art to varied disciplines, above and beyond the study of pure pictorial art. Jean-Michel Frank, a furniture maker and decorator of prestige in the Paris of those [...]

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Flight Dress

Charmaine Reveley ‘Flight Dress’ in 100% silk

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If You Have to Cry Go Outside

Best thing about The City? Kelly Cutrone, the evil lesbian fashion PR power bitch at the head of People’s Revolution. Kelly can take down a wannabe with one sentence like no-one else we’ve seen… plus she has a new book out, currently rocketing up the NYC book lists…

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Last chance to get PILOT issue #3

Hello friends,
A gentle reminder that if you haven’t already picked up a copy of PILOT issue #3, they will only be in stores for another week or so… so grab one now if you want one. Once they are gone, they are gone… we are already close to sold out of back issues for PILOT [...]

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fuckyeahgoths

98% of things referred to as goth are dreadful. This tumblr is for the 2% of brilliant / fuckyeahgoths
The original Goths were an Eastern Germanic tribe who played an important role in the fall of the western Roman Empire. In some circles, the name “goth” later became pejorative: synonymous with “barbarian” and the uncultured due [...]

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MasterChef New Zealand

At PILOT, we like our food. Food is one of life’s purest pleasures. We enjoy eating out, eating at home, we love to cook and we have a weakness for Food TV, especially Reality TV involving Chefs. Anything with Gordon Ramsey, Marco Pierre White or Heston Blumenthal is a must record on the MySky machine [...]

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Lady Gaga / Brit Awards 2010

At this year’s Brit Awards, held today in London, Lady Gaga received 3 awards for her debut album The Fame, winning Best International Female, best breakthrough act and best album for The Fame. Gaga dedicated a force-of-nature performance of ‘Telephone’ to fashion designer Alexander McQueen and also performed ‘Dance in the Dark’. Watch the performance below [...]

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2010 Winter Olympic Games

The 2010 Winter Olympic Games are underway in Vancouver, Canada. Above is the official poster set. Go here to see every official poster from the winter Olympic games from 1924 to 2010.

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