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When we were groms we used to craft mini surfboards out of balsa wood, fibreglass ‘em, sand & spray ‘em and screw ninja turtles through their feet and slang ‘em for 50 bones to the other kids at the beach so we could buy gelati’s and save up for a new board. Fast forward 15 years and we had no idea that we would be sitting here trying to explain to you all, why it is we do, what we do.

The concept of Vanguard has always been to be a lifestyle brand that integrated different subcultures under one label for likeminded people to collaborate, celebrate and contrib-ute to.

Vanguard is not defined by any sport but represents a cul-ture and a lifestyle that embraces ride(surf skate snow etc), music and art interests but oveall underpinned by a creative element that relates to fashion.

I’m not sure whether it is the feeling of self expression which drives us or the fact that we might have already lost our marbles by the age of 27 had we chosen to follow the paths set out by our uni degrees, but I feel that the key to what keeps the stoke alive and the ideas rushing can be put down to one main idea which we have based the L.I.V.I.N campaign and magazine on… Freedom!

Freedom to travel and explore, to create what we love, to work our ass off to get this far and to be able to bail down the coast on roadie on a Thursday arvo if the surf’s pump-ing! So here you have it, a little journal which gives you a bit of an insight into who inspires us, what gets our creative juices flowing and why we wouldn’t have it any other way!

Enjoy!Jono and Sam

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ALBY M ANGELS ‘ADVENTURE BOUND’ GIVEAWAYCar rental for road trips has developed an expensive and complicated name – but with Spaceships, getting adventure-bound has never been a more chilled venture. A New Zealand innovation, Spaceships were created to fill the niche be-tween a bulky campervan that’s hard to drive and a rental car. They are custom-designed for easy travel, with camping features packed to the brim and heaps of space to spread out while you’re on your way from A to who knows where. These guys are so good that in 2006 they won the New Zealand Tourism Award for Innovation for their creative custom-design, so expect to be rather stoked with your rental. Get Space Travelling!

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Purveyors of vulgarity, nudity, bodily fluids, and good times,The Black Lips are back in OZ in 2012 and Happy Endings, Pedestrian and Penny Drop are proud to present their Gold Coast show at the Coolangatta Hotel Thursday 1st March (conveni-ently in time for The Quicksilver Pro).

After receiving rave reviews from Pitchfork and Paste Magazine the self described flower-punk band from Georgia are returning to Australia for the third time to showcase their sixth studio album ‘Arabia Mountain’. Join us for what will surely be one of the most disgusting, offensive, entertaining shows of the Summer.

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ALBY M ANGELS ‘ADVENTURE BOUND’ GIVEAWAY

Want to experience the original cut-offs clad Alby in all his World Safari glory? Go in the running to win the never before released full World Safari collection of three digitally remastered DVDs, plus a World Safari poster and Escape Magazine – both signed by Alby himself!

To enter, head to www.vanguardfashion.com.au and tell us in 25 words or less tell us what your dream outback adventure would involve.

For more info on Alby head to www.lynnsanter.com www.albymangels.com

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We clocked over 1000k’s cooped up in a mini bus on the road down Sydney with this crazy little 4 piece and their entourage.

This pack of 6 hippie rascals slept in a van with 1 single bed parked around the streets of Bondi, Tamarama and Avalon for 3 nights straight while they preached the revolution to punt-ers at our launch party in Bondi and a bunch of other gigs around town.

We see big things ahead for these guys in 2012 with the launch of their EP and a whole buch of gigs and tours around OZ.

Wack on Psychic’s Ring + chase the dragon with The Otchkies at http://soundcloud.com/the-otchkies

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NO HOMEFurther expressing and explaining the creative vision of the labels, No Home showcases independ-ent ly produced fashion films by leading Australian fashion designers in association with Australia’s premier consumer fashion festivals.

No Home executive produces many of these films by pairing fashion designers and filmmakers to-gether in collaborating teams and connecting these teams to industry production partners. Participating fashion festivals in 2012 are L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival, Mercedes-Benz Syd-ney Fashion Festival, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival (Brisbane), Perth Fashion Festival and BMW Adelaide Fashion Festival. As Australia’s first national fashion film project, No Home will present two nights of fashion film screenings at each participating fashion festival. On the third and final night, No Home will present a cross-over fashion film party celebrating fashion, film, art, music and technology.

At various times throughout 2012, fashion films will be available online via nohome.tv, the No Home mobile application and its social media channels.

In another first, the films will be integrated into an online retail space ena-bling consumers to shop their favourite designers films.

Joining us on the line up this year will be, Song for the Mute, Aurelio Costarel-la, Friend of Mine and Up-per Left Arm to name a few.

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The original adventurer: weathered yet styled, enthusiastic yet chilled, and a man’s man – but

always with a girl on his arm. This is Alby Mangles.

In his near-crotch-flashing shorts and with a toothy grin, Alby was the charming adven-turer of the 1980’s, winning the world over one travel film at a time. Later scandals and a fall from the public spotlight still don’t out-shadow the fact that Alby, deliberately or not, ultimately founded the travel-doco film. You could even pin this unlikely hero as introduc-ing an early form of reality TV to our once fiction-swamped screens. He says today’s ver-sion of adventure has changed since the days of his exploits – for the worse. “There are all these reality shows out there now, so getting travel-ling and adventuring isn’t as big a deal anymore. When I got out there nobody was doing it. It’s easier in some ways today to travel, but the raw nature of hitting the road a few dec-ades before … you can’t go past that.” Though he now lives a farm life in rural South Aus-tralia, Alby is to soon share his OVER SEVENTY ‘Adventure Bound’ films titles, that aired in the US to the highest rat-ings ever achieved, many of which have never been seen in Australia before, available now at his website. We certainly haven’t seen the last of this experienced trailblazer.

two road-bikes, $400 and a cam-era for what turned out to be a six year trip across 56 coun-tries and four continents. They dodged bullets in Mozambique, got lost in the Sahara Desert and sailed the Pacific in a rat-tling old boat. Crazy? No – Alby says he wouldn’t have done it any other way. “We hardly

Pre film and fame, Alby grew up as the youngest of three chil-dren in rural South Australia, living through a divorce and poverty as his mother tried her best to support her fam-ily. Alby always moved to his own beat, leaving school at age 13, and replacing typical teen activities with small town mis-chief like underage driving and gambling. Though he was without a doubt a pain for his folks, Alby says that because he was never pressured by them to do anything that he was able to make his own dreams happen. In 1971, Alby and a friend decided to hit the road, taking just

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ever had any money, and we just knew a general direction we were going, never anything definite, so we just did it,” he says. “My whole life is rather undefined, it always has been. You haven’t got in five minutes time and you haven’t got five minutes ago, that’s history.”Alby preaches a laid back doc-trine – he reckons all young people should live in the same free spirited way. “I try and live in the now, and I don’t plan too much and I don’t think about the future much,” he says. “When you’re young and twenty you just go with it, and you should. Young people definitely need to live in the moment. You don’t necessar-ily need to travel; as long as you’re living in the now then things will just unravel for you in a good way, even if you don’t know exactly what you want at the time.”

For Alby, adventure and life were always spontaneous part-ners. Traveling with no money and no idea of direction or goal, Alby and his crew trekked the world by the seats of their cut-off shorts. After hitchhik-ing across India and catching a cargo boat to Africa, Alby and his travel-mates spent $100 in South Africa on an old bomb

that ran on belts – to see them to Europe. Yes, Europe. Alby says it should never have got them further than a few kilom-eters. But 18 months later, the same car putted the crew right into Holland. Alby says the car manufacturers, who they de-cided to visit, were so amazed at their story that they handed them a brand new jeep, $10,000 for their trip and put them up in a fancy local hotel for a month. “We were always pretty spontaneous with what we did and the means we used to get from A to B – and generally it paid off,” Alby says.

On arriving back in Australia, Alby set to work making his first amateur movie, World Sa-fari, documenting his always-amusing travel trials. After he and his project received a hostile first response, the up and coming entrepreneur spent four years running local screenings around Australia, everywhere from RSL’s to footy clubs and town halls, with lo-cal advertising pulling in-creasingly big crowds at the events. Gradually, Alby became a rough-and-tumble legend. Ad-mired for his looks, bravado and the babes he traveled with, Alby won hearts over worldwide. But heroism aside, the biggest

claim to fame Alby can boast is the fact that he changed the face of travel film, establish-ing the notion that a documen-tarian could also be a star, and that this could make a flick more thrilling. Audiences sud-denly got to see reality TV – somebody passionate about what they were doing – a real per-son – who was facing trials and tribulations never even dreamed of by the average middle class Australian. In this way, Alby unwittingly set a style that has taken on a life of its own, from Steve Irwin (who Alby de-scribes as a “great” man) to Bear Grylls and even the Ley-

Los Angeles Film Festival in 1986. Alby at this stage had shot to full blown sex symbol status, posing nude for Cleo amongst other exploits. This definitely helped increase the popularity of Alby’s films – as did the buxom blondes who fea-tured alongside him.

Alby definitely knew the val-ue of the girls, once saying: “People think I’m a real wom-aniser. Well I mean, I don’t say I’m not, but I’m not as bad as they think I am I mean, in World Safari II I had about six or seven women – call it 10 women, right? And those 10 women came on the screen in an hour and a half or two hours, right? But that was over a pe-riod of eight years.” Though ten women featuring in World Safari II may be stretching the truth, it can’t be denied that Alby was a love of the ladies – and that these hot chicks tended to pull a large audi-ence. “To make a film and be as successful as I was, you had to take very opportunity you could get. So by having a pretty girl in the film obviously that helped at the time,” he says. “I like ladies, so why not? Girls are just as adventur-ous as guys so there were lots of girls that wanted to come

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World Safari II was an even greater success. Following the red-hot reception of the first film, the second set off with a larger budget and at one stage found itself out-grossing the ‘80s hit Ghostbusters and win-ning Best Family Film at the

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along.” Alby says the girls helped make the film so success-ful because of the men to wom-en audience ratio. “The girls definitely helped the success of the film, because at least half the audience was men, and they were at home, married and probably a bit bored and wished they had done it.”

Though it sounds all cruising-with-the-babes and movie-pre-miere-hopping, the road was never entirely smooth for Alby. Dubbed the Alby curse, a rumour of bad luck carries with Alby on his trips saw a crew member fall from the World Safari II boat to become a quadriplegic and eventually die of complica-tions. Alby most famous side-girl, Judy Green, was infamous-ly injured in a car accident while travelling on a remote road in South America, landing her in a coma for two days and leaving her in medical care for months. A new It Girl appeared in the film shortly after, in the form of Michelle Els. Els eventually walked out on Alby – proving the man couldn’t avoid a little drama, no matter how much he simply wanted to trav-el.

Asked if all humans have some element of an adventuring spir-

it in them, Alby says no. “Peo-ple are all too wound up in meaningless things. Most young people are constantly thinking about being older and taking on those expected things that come with age, they’re always focus-ing on the future.” Then again, he says travel isn’t essential to be happy – you just need to relax and enjoy life. “Some of the greatest people I’ve met in my life have never traveled more than 30km from their house or their hut. Personally I don’t think travel guarantees you to be ‘worldly’.”

These days, Alby is passionate about helping others. His farm is his main focus, as are his trips to third world countries to volunteer. “I’m passionate today about helping the less fortunate, be it animals or hu-mans. I think we as Westerners have enough. I don’t need all the stuff I have so I’m happy to give it away to people who are more in need of it than I am,” he says.

“I know in the future I will be helping people and animals but I don’t know where, I just know I will be doing it, and that’s enough for me.” - Tempe Nakiska

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I know this guy, a lawyer, and he once told me I was odd for wanting to write stories for a living.

My first thought was that it must take an odd sort of person to want to sit in an office all day. It made me think that perhaps the prospect of putting pen to paper is a grim task when your days are spent indoors, and it seems likely there would be few stories to tell. But on the other end of the spectrum, what if your job involved roaming halfway around the country to play music, travelling new roads and burning time at the beach before gigs. For Brisbane disco revivalists, Mitzi, it’s all part of being in the band. I sat down with Cale, Jad and Charlie, three quarters of Mitzi, in their West End studio to listen to them recount one of their more memorable tours. So what went down?

Cale: Well our hire van broke down.

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Cale: We played a gig in Adelaide and we didn’t know one single person in Adelaide so we slept in our van on the side of the road. After the gig Dom went to bed and locked himself in the van because he was scared people would break in while he was sleeping. I came back an hour later. I was knocking on the window and calling Dom but he wasn’t answering his phone so my plan was to get the window to pop open, then to reach in and tap Dom and wake him up. So I’m standing there pulling and noth-ing’s happening. Then I pulled a bit too hard and the whole window just went everywhere. We all met up but we couldn’t get a hold of Jad because his phone was dead. We’re standing there, all too loose to drive but we couldn’t just leave our van there. This German backpacker chick came up to us and she’s like, “Oh are you guys tourists? And I said “Can you drive our van to your house, where you’re staying, and just like, take us there?” So we got her to drive our van but she couldn’t drive. She was locking on the brakes and lurching all around the street because she had her right foot on the accelera-tor and her left foot on the brake.

Jad: Meanwhile, I was in the club and every-one just disappeared. I was out the back and the place where the club was, you could see

through the smoking area, through the car park and to the road where our van was. Then I looked through the car park and I see our tour van just pull out and burn off. So I started tweaking out a bit. And then I thought I’d turn my phone on be-cause it was a Nokia and when they’re flat when you turn them on it goes for about 30 seconds. So I turned it back on, messaged the boys, and

I just got the message back, before my phone died again I got the address, then I had to

get a $50 cab out to the sticks.

Cale: We were at this girl’s house and Jad rocked up and I remem-

ber she wanted us to go inside and smoke weed and she kept

coming out holding a bong. We’re all fighting with each

other like little girls and she’d walk out and go,

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bong?” But we didn’t even recognise that she was there. We were just wigging out so bad.

Charlie: This is a long story.Cale: Yeah, this is a long story. So we thought we’d just get to Sydney and sort our shit out and we’d be sweet from there. Probably about half an hour out of Adelaide it started raining and we had this big massive window that was all smashed and there’s this big gaping spot. So we stopped, taped it all up…

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Jad: We had to buy garbage bags from the servo and duct tape the window up.

Charlie: And the plastic made the shittest noise.

Cale: We probably got about two to three hours out of Adelaide and it was kind of getting into really flat country. Not deserty but really bar-ren landscape and the van just out of nowhere goes…

Charlie: No it started with these slight little wob-bles but we didn’t know what it was so we just dismissed it, and then we were driving and Dom’s like, “What the fuck? I can’t control it.” And he drove off the road.

Cale: So we realise we couldn’t drive it so we just stopped and we rang up the NRMA or whatever it’s called in South Australia, and they said be-cause it’s so far away from any towns it’s a $110 callout fee and they only accept cash. We were a million miles from anywhere and we had no cash. Eventually the tow truck people said they’d come out but it was fully pitch black by this time of the night.

Jad: And it was dark and cold.

Cale: It’s really dark and cold, we’re in the mid-dle of nowhere and the tow truck driver wheeled the van up on to the back of the tow truck and he said, “Alright, who’s coming with me back

to town?” It was only a two-seater tow truck so he couldn’t legally take us all. Jad went with the tow truck driver and they just left us.

Charlie: Just standing there. What’s that movie called? Wolf Creek.

Cale: Actually what happened is, they called a cab driver and sent a cab from the nearest town out to pick us up. It was a $150 cab ride to come and pick us up. So the tow truck driver left and said, “The cab should be here in about an hour.” We were sitting out in the desert freaking out.

Charlie: Wolf Creek was just going through my mind, it was fucked.

Cale: A cab did come, took us back to this town and we stayed there overnight. The hire van company the next day were pretty apologetic because the van was in pretty bad condition. So they paid for us to get a Greyhound all the way from somewhere in South Aus-tralia to Sydney.

Jad: It was just a series of events.

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Here at Vanguard we like to surround ourselves with creative people that we can collaborate with in our collections. We scour Australia and the world to find some amazing artists to come up with some killer artwork for our tees,

shirts, boardies and more.

Here is a little selection of the motley crew we have rounded up for our current

seasons designs….with friends like these……

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New Navaho by DARKO

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Rasta Mummy by Chris Proud

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Smokey Joe by Fraser Anderson

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No Idear by DARKO

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