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We are setting up a second blog to go with our successful BlackLog site. It is called The Black Eye and will become a smorgasboard of personal style form around the world as seen through our Black Eyes - photographer friends in various cities. Black Fashion Director Rachael Churchward will be the arbiter of style here at Black HQ.
The Black Eye

If you haven't checked it yet then this here is BlackLog:
BlackLOG - Black Magazine's Blog

http://blacklognz.blogspot.com/

Fashion, beauty, arts and culture, as often as we can. Nice and easy. Local. International. Outernational. Muriwai/Tamaki-Maukaurau. Aotearoa/NZ

Kia ora! Black Issue 9 has been on sale here in New Zealand for around a month now. Copies will go on sale across Australia shortly and a little further down the track overseas. If you can't wait that long simply go to: www.zinio.co.nz and buy a digital copy. There are two covers, a boy and a girl. Here's the boy cover - shot by legendary photographer Robert Erdmann, exclusively for Black Magazine in New York City in September 2008.

We've started a blog like! Come see for yourself at:

http://blacklognz.blogspot.com

We even posted some of the fabulous images we have received in the past couple of days from our talented photographer friends here on MySpace. Check it out, you might be one of them!

Leave a comment, we'd love to hear your thoughts...

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Black 8 is now on sale nationwide in NZ right now. It will take a while to get around the rest of the world UNLESS you want to buy the digital version from www.zinio.com or www.zinio.co.nz. Issue 8 will be available there and available well before the end of April. If you haven't seen Zinio yet, check it out, it's cool.

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BUY BLACK NOW! Right now! Our first digital version is now available online through Zinio. Simply go to www.zinio.co.nz, register as a Zinio member - it's free and takes about 2 mins - download the free Zinio reader [like a pdf reader but better] and take up the subscription to receive 4 issues of Black Magazine for NZ $25 and you will receive a link in the mail to download the latest issue of Black Magazine. Issue 7 has been on sale here in NZ since mid December and goes on sale in Australia next week but it will take many more weeks before you can buy issue 7 in Hong Kong, Montreal or New York so don't wait - GET IT NOW! Only NZ $25 [that's about US $19 for 4 issues!]...we'd love to hear your feedback....lots of love Black...

♥Air NZ Fashion Week 2006 highlights - The old guard rocked it - Kate Sylvester, Zambesi, Nom D take a bow. Huffer moved into the big time and Lonely Hearts, Stolen Girlfriends and Jaeha arrived.
♥Occhiali Optical - simply the best place to get fitted and framed. Service with a smile and attention to detail.
♥Lexus - they picked us up on the last night of FW and took us for a burl downtown to KW - cars that think and see and make no sound at all!
♥The All Blacks - having to put up with a nation sweating on yer ass is pressure enough, never mind having to win the WC itself...
♥The monks in Myanmar - rise up, rise up against the Tatmadaw
♥L'eau D'Issey Pour Homme Intense - another winning scent from Issey
♥Another Sopranos episode to finish it properly please. WTF!!!??
♥TV3's new Sunrise breakfast show - Paul was getting better with Pippa around but a second option for the most useful news slot of the day will be most appreciated.
♥Chronicles Of Never - Gareth turned up for FW and wowed us with the new range which includes some hot denim wear www.chroniclesofnever.com
♥Motorcade at the SGC after party - bitchin' rock n roll, the jars of blue 42 Below went nicely
♥Anyone who actually found the Huffer show more interesting and valuable to the world than wine fights and pseudo celebrity tantrums - get your fun bags out of the picture ladies!
♥The Eco store soap inside Kate Sylvester's goodie bags - what can be more useful?
♥Awesome new denim options from Workshop, Lee and Wrangler - it fits AND looks good!

...is printed! Copies will be on sale nationwide here in NZ next Thursday, Sept 20 and in Australia early October. We think it is our best issue yet [but we always think that] and at 220 pages it is the biggest. Editorials for this issue from New Zealand, Australia, New York and France and features on The Moustache [Go The Mo'], Nuclear Power, The Sneaks, Black Oooze and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra among lots of other stuff. Art by et al, Julian Dashper and coverage on the Blow Treacey exhibition. Our cover girl this issue is Kemp Muhl and again is shot by Derek Kettela in New York. The USA shipment of Issue 5 will be close to landing so keep an eye out at your corner newsagent over the next week or so...ka kite ano

♥Matt Langley, Dunedin songsmith belts out a little beauty debut EP Lost Companions - sing it back!
♥Stores, stores, stores - Federation open a new store downtown and not to be outdone Murray Crane gets jiggy with Gubb and Mackie
♥Chris Trail, South Auckland's best photographer and the man behind our Sea Of Brown Faces editorial in Issue 3 has an exhibition on at the Fresh Gallery, Otara Town Centre - Wahine ends in early September
♥Mika - our favourite form of fabulousness is soon to be seen as Carmen in an Australian production on Australasia's most famous Drag Queen - you'll wear it well we're sure
♥Kate Sylvester sunnies - classic styles in Warhol, Gainsbourg or Seberg vintage
♥Jo Malone scents - best whiff since Eccentric Molecules
♥Derek Kettela - our New York ace follows the superb Rosie Huntington-Whiteley with the equally superb Kemp Muhl as our next cover girl...grateful we are!
♥Sept 20 NZ - Issue 6 of Black, the biggest yet at 228 pages, out on time and better than ever
♥George FM/Becks Winter Warm Up 2007 - NZ's greatest danceathon just keeps getting better
♥Deane designed by World - old school corporate wear gets the World once over

Some things we love this month:
♣SJD - Songs From A Dictaphone - our favourite NZ minstrel is back with a new album and its a little pearler. Sean you are a legend!
♣The Sopranos final season - Tony, Tony, Tony!
♣Lancome's new men's skin care range - beauty stuff for the boys
♣Rosie Huntington-Whiteley our extremely lovely English cover girl for issue 5 - how honoured are we?
♣The All Blacks. We're with you all the way, whatever happens. Go Ice!
♣Maori Television - The real New Zealand? Well New Zealand first at least..
♣Vector Arena in Auckland. Finally New Zealand get a regular stream of big concerts, shame that most of them are shite!
♣Karen Inderbitzen Waller and Matt Johnson exhibition, starts the end of July at 24 Graham Street, Auckland City
♣Speculation - the amazing book of New Zealand art from ARTSPACE...
♣Arts patrons like Kevin Roberts and Jenny Gibbs - doing for NZ art what the government wouldn't
♣TV 3 launching a breakfast news programme. Thank you, thank you, thank you.