Indholdsfortegnelse for Issue 120- Jul/Aug 2024 i frankie Magazine

1. The biggest films out of Hollywood were Mean Girls, Shrek 2 and Napoleon Dynamite. We still find ourselves rocking “Vote for Pedro” t-shirts, shouting “She doesn’t even go here!” at inappropriate moments, and listening to Jennifer Saunders’ rendition of “I Need a Hero” on repeat. 2. Meanwhile, film nerds were gushing over auteur pieces like Howl’s Moving Castle, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. 3. Social media juggernaut Facebook (or “TheFacebook”) launched, but only kids from Harvard University could create an account. Not to worry, though – we normies were already enjoying another new social media network, MySpace, which had launched in August 2003 and – initially by accident – allowed users to customise their profiles using coding. Our eyeliner was thick,…

Please introduce yourself. My name is Lora Paderes Hlavsa and I am a Filipino-American artist and illustrator based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Broadly put, I am defined by my experiences at the intersection of multiple identities: I am the daughter of a Filipina immigrant and a white American, born in Minnesota but raised in California, and I’m balancing my career in advertising with my passion for fine art. How did this project begin? The People’s Pantry started by accident out of my own homesickness during COVID. Half of my family still resides in Northern California where I grew up, and the pandemic kept us apart. Growing up in a multicultural household, food was one of the primary ways I connected with my Filipino identity – feeding people is how my…

20 years of frankie Remember those multi-coloured plastic beads that were all the rage in primary school? You’d arrange them in your design of choice (a basic butterfly or heart, probably), then fuse them together using an iron – or water, depending on the brand. Rachel Burke, Brisbane’s arty tinsel queen and our issue 120 cover artist, has been experimenting with inexpensive kids’ crafts a lot these past couple years. In the spirit of prioritising secondhand and recycled materials, she’s turned all kinds of mundane stuff into vibrant, playful artworks that would’ve blown our primary-schooler minds. As a kid, Rachel only used Beados to make jewellery (her mum wasn’t keen on wee Rach using an iron). It wasn’t until recently, after a craft workshop left her with a stash of…

A good roast chicken recipe is important to have in one’s repertoire. I think about roast chicken a lot, and I am always interested in hearing how people cook theirs – there are so many ways to go about it. It seems a simple thing to make, and some people may even silently question your choice to serve it at a dinner party at all, but don’t let that deter you. When it is done well, people will understand. Lathering anchovy butter over the entirety of the chicken is a secret chef’s seasoning that no one expects. The anchovies melt into the chicken, leaving it with a deep savouriness that penetrates the meat. The skin becomes golden brown and crisp, the flesh tender and juicy all the way through, and…

Our mid-century forebears may not have gotten everything right (why was so much of their food encased in jelly?!), but they sure could whip up a homemade garm. Back then, a lot of folks knew how to work a crochet hook or a knitting needle, because store-bought woollens were pretty darn exxy. So, home-crafters turned to mags like The Australian Woman’s Mirror, which was stuffed to the gills with cute, cosy and colourful crochet and knitting patterns, alongside short stories, advice columns (“Is deceiving your spouse ever right?”) and recipes for nibbles like jellied cucumber salad (see what we mean about the jelly?). Nowadays, thousands of those patterns are available for free in Trove’s digitised magazine collections. But if you don’t feel like digging through archives, the National Library of…

Please tell us a little bit about yourself. I’m Soap. I was born and raised in Los Angeles (and still live here), and I’m a model and self-employed oil painter. How did this series of cat paintings begin? My sad cat series began as a sort of accident. The first sad cat I painted happened to take off online, which gave me the opportunity to continue, and I’ve just been working at it since. With titles like “Maybe They Just Can’t Hear Him Knocking” and “He Wasn’t Expecting Gifts Anyway”, your paintings make us a little emotional. Why do you focus on themes like loneliness? I think of loneliness as one of the most profound forms of grief that everyone shares a little piece of to whatever degree. We all…

A colourful print hangs above an old piano in stylist Lucia Braham’s home. Look closely and you’ll see the names of famous musicians and bands: Cher, Elton John, Liza Minnelli and Queen, to name just a few. Look even closer, and you’ll see another name: Denis Braham. Denis was Lucia’s dad who worked in the music and entertainment industry, beginning as a roadie and then as the operations manager of the now-closed Sydney Entertainment Centre from the day it opened in 1983. The print is made up of the backstage passes he collected along the way – souvenirs of a brilliant career which Lucia has kept for all these years. Growing up, Lucia would tag along to her dad’s work during the school holidays and get to see how the…

ALWAYS FRESH BREAD & BUTTER Do you remember the day you found out pickles are actually cucumbers? “You mean to tell me pickles, the highlight of a Maccas cheeseburger, are actually cucumbers – the most filler, one-note part of my mum’s salads?!” (This was in the ’90s when I had never tasted a Lebanese or Continental cucumber). These are good sweet-and-salty pickles. The “bread and butter” thing is mildly confusing (turns out, the person who first preserved cucumbers like this traded them for pantry staples – like bread and butter – at her local grocer in the 1920s when her family fell on tough times). They are crinkle-cut pickles – which is perfect because just like you inhale chips straight from the bag, you’ll do the same with this jar…

I love going to the beach, I love reading, cooking, hanging out with friends, board game nights, watching movies. There’s so much in everyday life I love. I live with my partner, and we moved into our own place last year. Probably my biggest passion is travel. For me, travel is about experiencing life in other places. And I think that’s just what I love – I just love living life. I don’t want to be defined by my disability because it puts me into a category instead of making me an individual person. I know so many people in the disability world would agree with that. By being belittled into a category, it’s so hard to have a voice and speak out and be who we want to be,…

When did you take this trip to Japan? In 2019. I had learnt some Japanese when I was younger as my high school had a sister city in Japan, and I find it’s always nice to know some of the language when visiting somewhere away from home – for politeness purposes, and selfishly, to order the good stuff. At what point in the trip did you decide to start snapping photos? It’s a non-negotiable that on holidays I will always take photos. I find the change in environment so refreshing, quite literally, for my eyes. I shoot small things up close for work, so to capture what’s more expansive, and to generally shoot without work pressure, feels really good – like a big, long stretch. “How can I take photos…

When I was a child, I talked like a child, thought like a child, played UNO like a child. But when I became a woman, I set aside all “childish” things – including card games. Only, if my reaction to rapper Post Malone’s recent $3.5 million purchase of a collectable Magic: The Gathering playing card is anything to go by, I really didn’t. The news cued a protracted episode of dark mutterings about my partner, for reasons that will become clear. The thought of Magic: The Gathering, a trading card game, sparks two indelible memories. The first: getting raucously drunk for the first time while playing Magic as a drinking game. The rules were convoluted (“My Hobgoblin ate your Mana – drink!”), so I lost, and kept losing, until I…

For most of my life, I was a conflict-avoidant person. That’s a sanitised way of saying it. I’ve always bloody hated conflict. I grew up with a fair amount of it and a therapist might suggest that it moulded me into a conflict turtle, retreating at the first hint of drama. Until recently, the only person I was comfortable arguing with was my partner. (We argue in whispers so the dogs don’t get upset, which takes the steam out of any fight.) But with age and necessity, both my willingness to stand up for myself and my resilience in the face of conflict have grown. It’s not because I’ve matured; it’s because I’ve become worse at driving, and have adopted a special-needs dog. The two things are unrelated but are…

What inspired your series, I Can Make a Home out of Anything? I wanted to discover a sense of home. Growing up, I moved every couple of months, so I’ve lived in around 84 houses. I wanted to understand what home would have felt like, and heal the part of me that longed for that feeling. What was it like to live in 84 different houses throughout your childhood? Although it was really challenging, I feel pretty optimistic about it all because it’s a really interesting upbringing. And I wouldn’t be where I am now, doing what I’m doing, without that. But I think the hardest part was not having a constant routine and not being involved in a community or having friends. I feel like it’s something I’m trying…

LEONARD ST. If strolling through a misty garden on a crisp winter morning demanded a dress code, we suspect we’d be able to find the appropriate outfit within Leonard St.’s AW24 collection. The Melbourne label’s cosy line pairs sharp collars and romantic silhouettes with vintage-inspired prints and fabrics in hues like lilac, chocolate and artichoke. We recommend styling these lovely garms with a wistful stare, a dusty book of poetry and perhaps a bouquet of wildflowers. Spy the collection at leonardstreet.com.au and try your luck at frankie.com.au/winfor a chance to score a $200 Leonard St. voucher. GLOVE LOVE Thank you, kikki.K, for keeping our hands toasty while freeing up our digits to eat pastries, scroll through our phones and pat pups. We dread to think what messy, sticky, stinky disasters…

You might know Ayesha Madon as Amerie Wadia, the whip‑smart, sassy teenager at the centre of Netflix’s Heartbreak High reboot. What you might not know is that acting is only one of Ayesha’s many skills – she’s also been a musician for as long as she can remember. Growing up in the suburbs of Sydney with creative siblings – her brother was an actor, her sister a singer – Ayesha always loved to perform. She started out as a dancer, doing tap lessons as a kid, then moved on to playing the drums. There was a short-lived childhood dream of being an athlete – “I played soccer growing up, and I wanted to be a Matilda,” she laughs – but music was always Ayesha’s greatest passion. Though her tastes have…

art attack Katie Gamb, an illustrator and painter from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, creates strange oil paintings that are inspired by surrealism, children’s book illustrations, European genre paintings, and the aesthetic of the ’30s and ’40s. This sombre cake is a spin on the 17th century “vanitas” genre, in which still life paintings feature symbolic objects that remind viewers of mortality. “I have a recurring theme of presenting an animal, person or thing being devoured in a sympathetic way,” she says. “As part of the cycle of remaining alive, we need to devour something else, even if it’s just plants. I think identifying with the cake is a more light-hearted way to think about mortality.” Katie’s works are all about storytelling – her careful use of colour and her personification of objects…

By Deirdre Fidge – Before streaming services and [insert old-person voice] TikTokking, there was a giant family television and free-to-air programming. Where I grew up, on Vancouver Island on the west coast of Canada, there was a channel dedicated to shows for kids – YTV. It was the go-to station for me and my older sister in the early 1990s and we’d always watch our favourite show: She-Ra. Whenever we were allowed TV time, we’d grab the remote and switch it to YTV faster than you can say “For the honour of Grayskull.” If that tagline sounds like gibberish, I feel sorry for you and your lack of awareness about She-Ra – the eight-foot-tall cartoon superhero with long blonde hair and a flying unicorn sidekick. She-Ra was made for me…

What inspired your Fluffies? The Fluffies came to be through lots of experimentation. I started working on ceramics a few years ago when I moved to the country. I had a few vessels that had been bisque-fired sitting around the house for about a year; I didn’t want to glaze them – partially because I didn’t have any glaze at home, but I also couldn’t decide on any particular kind or colour. I loved the forms and the clay as they were. So I just kept making vessels, firing them and putting them aside. One day, a dear friend sent me a beautiful beaded necklace that I put onto one of the vessels. I said to the pot, “I would love to put some clothes on you!” They have such…

This project uses a sewing machine, but all you need to know is a basic running stitch. I made one panel here as my window isn’t very wide, but you can just as easily make two. To make the process quick and simple, this curtain has ribbon ties along the top, so there is no fiddly business with pelmets, pleats and suchlike. MATERIALS - curtain fabric- curtain lining- wide ribbon- tape measure- right-angled ruler- pins- rotary cutter and cutting mat (these are preferable, but scissors would be fine)- fabric scissors- fabric pen (or chalk or pencil)- sewing machine- needle and thread- curtain weights (optional) HOW TO Measure the width and height of your window and decide on the size you would like your curtains to be. They need to be…

STEFANIA NOGUEROLES @stefania.artwork What’s on your vanity? All kinds of skincare products: creams, toners, serums and more. A good hairbrush is a must-have, as I love brushing my hair throughout the day. And of course, I keep everything I need to take care of my smile, as well as deodorant, body lotion and medications. Are you a minimalist or a maximalist when it comes to skincare and make-up? When it comes to skincare, I’m a maximalist. I love trying out products to find the best ones for my skin type. Right now, I’m testing out products I bought on my last trip to Japan, and they’re amazing! I’m not a big fan of make-up. I like to keep it simple with a good mascara and a nice skin foundation. What’s…