THE LADIES OF DUKE

INTERVIEW BY WILFRED BRANDT
PHOTO BY ELVIS DI FAZIO Emily Hunt and Raquel Welsh are the two responsible for the Sydney based, celebrity-trash-culture and op-shop fashion obsessed magazine. They are an oddly maternal, eerily co-dependent pair and their homely abode above a shop-front on Parramatta Road makes Grey Gardens look like the Ritz. We sat them down to talk about their lives and the elaborate collections that surround them.
Vice: So tell me about your photo frames.

Raquel: Emily: OK.

R: E: R: Is her picture on your Love Wall or is she on the Hate Wall?

R: E: R: Alright, what’s with your Charles Manson tapestry?

R: And you named the magazine Duke because you’re both obsessed with royalty?

R: I think you guys are obsessed with ordering things. You seem to order everything—all the stuff on your walls and all your books.

E: So you anthropomorphise everything in the house?

E: You have a great collection of monkeys. Are they all from the 80s?

R: E: R: E: