Chasing Summer

The best thing about Clovelly, second only to our resident Blue Groper, is that you don’t have to fly to Miami to wear heels on the beach.

There’s your hook, Tourism Australia.

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March 25, 2016Sydney, Australia

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After four nights in a row of under 4 hours of sleep (attributable first to the most paralysing jet lag to ever hit me with a sledgehammer, and second, back to back 13 hour shoots), this is how I was hoping my Easter long weekend would shape up. Instead, I’m editing an exhibition, two campaigns, six editorials and seven briefs (coincidentally also wearing briefs) on my kitchen floor. I’d migrated from my desk in the hopes that green tea would recover me from the throes of fatigue, then decided I was too tired to drag me and all my external hard drives back through the house, so assumed Asian-squat and am still here three hours later wondering whether my near-empty fuel tank will get me to the office in time for a sexy Friday night busting pixels and prose, or whether I should just avoid leaving the house altogether.

But yeah.

This is how my long weekend was supposed to look.

Perfectly tousled and illuminated, red-lipped, wetsuited and goggled up in search of the Clovelly Beach Blue Groper 2.0. Like a retired Bond girl who can’t quite bring herself to hang up her heels. Like the sweetest Brit that ever was: Ms Alex Moxham, heating up Clovelly’s concrete lines with no sign of an English lobster sunburn, nor zinc-ed up extremities – just a growing crowd of Surf Life Savers and obvious shoe enthusiasts watching her work her way around killer swimsuits and block heels during our SENSO SS16 campaign shoot.

That’s the best thing about Clovelly Beach, second only to our resident Blue Groper. You don’t have to fly to Miami to wear heels on the beach. There’s your hook, Tourism Australia.

And on that, I’ve just remembered that there’s a pile of Ferrero Easter Eggs at the office, not being eaten right now.

 

Excuse me while I go and fuel up to spend a sexy Friday night in.

Busting pixels and prose.

Alex wears:

SENSO Xander Heels – Duskii Wetsuit

SENSO Gordon II Flats – Static One-piece

SENSO Xanthe II Mules – Mikoh Wetsuit

SENSO Mackenzy I Sandals – Hatmaker Hat – Gorman Bikini

MODEL // Alex Moxham @ IMG

PHOTOGRAPHY & STYLING // MARGARET ZHANG

HAIR & MAKE-UP // CHARLIE KIELTY

See full the campaign at SENSO

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About

Margaret Zhang 章凝 is an Australian-born-Chinese filmmaker, photographer, consultant and writer based between New York and Shanghai. Since establishing her website in 2009, Zhang has gone on to work with global brands including CHANEL, Swarovski, YEEZY, Bulgari, Gucci, MATCHES, Under Armour, and Louis Vuitton in a wide range of capacities both in front of and behind the camera, while completing her Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Laws at The University of Sydney. Zhang’s directing, photography, and styling has been employed by the likes of VOGUE, L’Officiel, Harper’s BAZAAR, NOWNESS, and ELLE internationally. She has been listed in Forbes Asia’s 30Under30 and TimeOut’s 40Under40, and her work has been recognized as shaping the international fashion industry by the Business of Fashion BoF500 Index for four consecutive years. CNN has identified Zhang as a leading fashion photographer in Asia and ELLE named her the region’s most influential digital voice. She went on to be the first Asian face to cover ELLE Australia. In 2016, she co-founded BACKGROUND, a global consultancy for which she specialises in Western-to-Chinese and Chinese-to-Western cultural bridging for a range of luxury, lifestyle, and brand initiatives. In 2017, she exhibited a series of 39 unseen photographic works as a solo show in Sydney, and premiered her first short film – a 15-minute exploration of her visceral relationship with classical music on both performance and abstract planes – to critical acclaim. In 2018, co-curated the first annual FOREFRONT Summit focused on inter-industry problem-solving at all scales of business. From this king summit, Zhang developed FOREFRONT+ – a round table series of candid conversations covering subject matters of universal concern. In 2019, THE FACE Magazine engaged Zhang as Creative-Director-at-Large for Asia for its relaunch. Zhang is currently working on her first feature film.