Chic Fiji
p. 33 · Read in the full issue
From SUE WENDT, in Suva Fiji photographers are really getting into the swing of things when it comes to fashion, as this shot by Bal Ram shows. He took it on the foreshore of Suva Harbour, using a couple of willing Fijian lads and New Zealand visitor Karen McDowell as models.
Karen, 19, was in Fiji to help promote Dot Patterns, a dress pattern drafting system which her boss, Mr. D. Waters, was setting up in Fiji. The parent company is in NZ.
The local photographers are doubtless influenced by the work of numerous overseas photographers who’ve used Fiji locations recently. American Vogue, for instance, carried 16 pages of spectacular fashion shots in its January issue, with blonde model Gunilla, cavorting along Viti Levu beaches and stepping it out with muscular Fijian meke dancers. American Airlines and Saks Fifth Avenue were responsible for the promotion. The prestigious European magazine, Elegance, also devoted 22 pages of its January 71 issue to Fiji fashion shots part of a promotion by Qantas and the Pacific Harbour resort and residential development at Deuba.