Chelsea Winstanley is ready to write her own story

The Aotearoa-born, Los Angeles-based producer of What We Do in the Shadows and Jojo Rabbit is back home to direct her own film – and reconnect with the culture that made her, she tells Stacey Morrison. This story first appeared in Ensemble magazine Styling by Karen Inderbitzen-Waller Photography by Karen Inderbitzen-Waller and Delphine Avril Planqueel … Read more

How two industry heavyweights brought new fashion website Ensemble to life

Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand. This week he talks to the founders of new fashion website Ensemble. When Bauer Media announced the closure of its operations in April, … Read more

Ensemble is out to subvert fashion and lifestyle media as we know it

Driven by a lack of meaningful diversity and an advertising industry in disarray, Rebecca Wadey and Zoe Walker Ahwa have launched Ensemble, a new online fashion, beauty and lifestyle website aimed at upending the traditional high-gloss magazine model. It wasn’t our intention to launch during a level three lockdown in Tāmaki Makaurau. Working in an … Read more