Super Squad
What our Super Squad is wearing, clockwise from left, Grace wears Hej Hej ‘You’ve Gotta Be Kidman’ knit, $180, he-hej.co and World ‘The Painter’ jean, $174.50, worldbrand.co.nz; Aych wears Hailwood satin bomber jacket, $200, hailwood.co.nz; Gaby wears Maggie Marilyn ‘Lose Your Fear’ dress, $795, maggiemarilyn.com and Karen Walker ‘Oak Leaf’ earrings, from $429, karenwalker.com; Kate wears Hej Hej ‘Sunday Best’ dress, $280, he-hej.co and Karen Walker ‘Forbidden’ drop earrings from $799, karenwalker.com; and Rachel wears Ruby ‘Fairfax’ linen top, $199, and ‘Daisy Pearl’ earrings, $29, rubynz.com and her own skirt. Make-up Emma Peters of Aleph Beauty. Hair Marianne Wilkies of Vada. Styling Carolyn Enting. Art direction Lisa Lodge.
Gaby Solomona
Storyteller and actress
When Gaby Solomona (28) dropped out of law school to take up acting, it was possibly one of the worst things she could have done to her family.
“In a Samoan family you don’t do that, but after a while they came around to me acting, once they saw how happy I was,” says Gaby.
Gaby had always loved to perform at church and Sunday school but never thought she could do it as a job until she saw Keisha Castle-Hughes get an Oscar. “I thought ‘she’s brown and I’m brown so this could be a thing’.”
Gaby says she “randomly” went to a show at Auckland’s Silo Theatre where she saw the late Pua Magasiva perform in The Brothers Size.
“I had an encounter with God who
