Black Is The New Black

Fashion directory FTape celebrates the work of 23 independent style publications, including New Zealand’s Black Magazine, inviting each “style bible” to “showcase a selection of their most iconic fashion editorials to date”. Black Magazine emerged in a flurry of black and white as a quarterly fashion, beauty, arts and culture magazine back in 2006, publishing bi-annually from 2008. People often ask Rachael Churchward and Grant Fell, the founders of the magazine, about the title ‘Black,’ and their thinking was simple: “Black is the colour of New Zealand, black is the staple colour of fashion, black is the colour of the sand on the beach where we live at Muriwai, West Auckland, Aotearoa. Our national rugby team is called the All Blacks and our cat Oscar is, you guessed it, black. As Rad Hourani said in issue nine of the magazine ‘Black is mysterious, chic, sleek, modern, simple and eternal.'”