Kurv.

Hey Maripol a big hello from your friends at Kurv.

Kurv Magazine had the pleasure to interview Maripol, extraordinary

women with a compassionate heart, following is a very small part

of a wide ranging interview.

Kurv: The black bracelets, the jewellery, the crucifix’s, that you often

used to wear, and dressed Madonna in…what was your inspiration

for this now hugely influential look, what were you channelling?

MP: GOD! 100% pure God was my inspiration. Rubber bracelets
where the O’ring type that the soldiers in Beirut were tying up their
weapons with. Not for any war!  It was a friendship symbol, everyone
were passing them. Crucifixes and crosses came with a touch
of Punk rebellion: “I am going to wear them on my ear!”
Imagine a girl name Madonna coming to see me to style her.
What better than to put on my cross designs on her?
We were both raised strict Catholics and we both left our
family home to create and be free [laughs]!

Kurv: You’ve had so many amazing and diverse experiences, and you’re still so young. Do you feel like you have achieved your dreams?  How important is it to you to have a goal, or plan, and follow through with it?

MP: Thanks, baby.  Life is short when you think of it!  It’s time for change, like Obama says!  I am at a turn in my life, with existentialist questions with so few answers and identity crisis as well.  I have not achieved my dreams for a better ... phrase!!!  What’s wrong with the human race, violence, hunger, greed… It sucks.  I feel that we all need to fight harder to become better people, enter finally the Aquarius Age, put down the arms and listen to our ancestors, your ancestors!  The aborigines, the wise men, the peace people, before its too late!! Love, love, love, not stress and hate, stress stress!!!!!!!!!!!!

MARIPOLArama  A photographic exhibition.

18 – 25 March @ ‘Dont Come Gallery’

Level 2, Royal Arcade, 314 Little Collins St,

Melbourne. Dont Miss it.

 Image one By Maripol and features Edwige french, singer and Angle Jack tranvestite 1980.

Kurv Magazine's cover fashion feature photographer and mate, Tony Duran, today produced an amazing high end fashion story/shoot with Ms Brooke Shields + 1.

The talented and yes deliberately unnamed +1 adds an electric dimension to this shoot  providing an empowering message for sexual equality.

As many of you know it takes a huge amount of effort to produce a high end fashion cover shoot, Tony has provided Kurv magazine with its third cover shoot, a huge effort.

I would like to take the opportunity to publically recognise and thank Tony Duran for his commitment, professionalism, generosity and unbounded artistic creativity.

I look forward to presenting 'Duran does Brooke Shields' in Kurv017

Fashion is no longer in Vogue. Kurv 15 March 2009.

 The stampede of fashion editors announcing their newly acquired revelation that there is indeed the existence of a hot fashion look, which can be bought at an affordable price, is continuing at a frantic pace. While high end fashion designers continue to be treated as unwanted guests at a wedding.

Its hard to believe that fashion editors didn’t know of an affordable hot fashion look at an affordable price, its easier to believe advertising revenues has lead to the necessity for editors to promote as fashion less fashionable labels at the expense of  high end fashion labels.

Unfortunately reader’s who expect high end fashion editorials and product placements will have no choice than to leave their trusted magazine in search of a magazine with fashion integrity and cutting edge fashion.

So fashion editors, how can you justify to your readers, who believe your magazine represents the best in international fashion that a $200 track suit is a great fashion buy.

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The ides of March.

Australian Choice Magazine, a respected source for consumers for many years made the following comments regarding food marketing and parental responsibilities.

Importantly Kurv Magazine would like to draw your attention to the following sentence;

 “...Ultimately, parents are responsible for what children eat...”

Obesity rates for adults and children within populations of first world countries are growing at an alarming rate.

Kurv Magazines suggests that in fact an overwhelming number of parents do not take responsibility for their children, they abbrigate their parental responsibility, So relying on a motherhood statement as though it represents an accurate portrayal of the current reality  is infact at the heart of the problem.
Worse, it becomes an impossible impediment for the basis of a rational debate on advertising standards and practice.

Cutting to the chase Kurv believes that the time has come to stop treating the symptoms and concentrate on the cause of the problem. The problem is that a sizeable percentage of parents within first world countries do not understand or practice their duty of Parental Responsibility. It is time for politicians to recognize the appalling state of our children can best be addressed through legislation and educating for a minimum set of standards of Parental Responsibilities.

Kurv Magazine.

Fed up with junk food marketing by Choice Magazine can be seen here.

 “...The Issue...Current regulation does not protect children from being bombarded with ads for junk food...”

“...If ads didn’t influences kids, food manufacturers wouldn’t spend millions on them every year....”