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 THE LADIES OF DUKEINTERVIEW 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 Duke 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.
Raquel: There’s a bunch of rules. If we find a photo of someone in a frame, it stays. Emily: If we find a frame that has one of those photos that shows you how to put a photo in a frame, we leave that in too. OK. R: Sometimes we cut pictures out from magazines. Like there’s the picture of Peter Andre and Jordan’s magical wedding, which we stuck in. E: It was quite a lowkey wedding, you know. R: She came in on a pink horse-drawn pumpkin, and a pink Cinderella outfit. Is her picture on your Love Wall or is she on the Hate Wall? R: She’s on the Love Wall cause she’s pretty fucking awesome. E: But Peter Andre’s on the Love and Hate Wall. R: Yeah, cause we have like, mixed feelings, y’know. Alright, what’s with your Charles Manson tapestry? R: I made it for an art show. It’s incredible that nobody bought it. How ridiculous! Nobody’s ever going to make a tapestry of him ever again. And you named the magazine Duke because you’re both obsessed with royalty? R: Yeah, but also because we’re obsessed with David Bowie, who’s the Thin White Duke. 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: We are obsessed with ordering. And Duke is really a way of ordering our thoughts. So you anthropomorphise everything in the house? E: Yeah totally! Everything’s personified. And that’s why we place them together so it creates more of a life. Because when they’re by themselves, it’s just like, they’re lost. You have a great collection of monkeys. Are they all from the 80s? R: Yeah. There was a thing about the 80s with rude chimpanzees acting like humans. But also a thing with a lot of naked women with the chimps as well. E: It was all weirdly sexualised. R: It was a weird thing with boobs and chimps. E: We don’t know why these things happened, but we certainly appreciate them. RELATED LINKS: http://www.viceland.com/int/v15n10/htdocs/ladies-of-duke-166.php
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