Scoop's autumn issue is available to read online. See page 92 for the New Zealand section of the global review, a feature I've been putting together for eight years. It feeds my love of design and justifies hours of web surfing design blogs. 

As an interview, it was a disaster. I spent seven hours with Bob Jones, during which time he ordered six bottles of wine and didn’t answer one of my questions.

I can’t say I wasn’t warned. Just before our lunch-time interview, he told radio presenter Mike Yardley that he was personally responsible for a recent increase in red wine consumption.

I walked away from an afternoon with Bob Jones with my head spinning, and not just from the wine. I couldn’t tell you when he got his OBE or how he got started in property investment, but I heard stories about him punching out the Czechoslovakian president and making a fortune by sending everyone in England a bill for 12 pounds. He spun yarns about discussing Rastafarianism with Lennox Lewis’s mother and meeting Haile Silassie - twice. 

Woman Today
By Kris Herbert

It’s hard to imagine New Zealand fashion without iconic Dunedin label, Nom*D, yet when Margarita (Margi) Robertson and her husband Chris started the company 1986, the words “New Zealand” and “fashion” were scarcely uttered in the same sentence.