Your name: Megan Salmon
What you do: fashion designer (megansalmon.com)
Your latest project: designing spring summer 13/14
Who are three people that inspire/excite you:
1) the late Alexander McQueen
2) Vivienne Westwood
3) Jack White
What is your favourite…
Car/bike/plane/boat model: Rover 3 litre
Chair model:”how high the moon” by Shiro Kuramatu
Residential space: John Rocha’s home in Dublin
Commercial space: Comme De Garcon, New York
Decorative product: A raven pendant by Thomas Sabo
Functional product: Braun electric toothbrush
Handmade good: a hand turned cedar giant cotton reel stool by Michael Macfarlane Reid
Mass-produced good: GHD hair straighteners
Meal: lamb cutlets
Restaurant: Mela Indian restaurant in Northbridge
Drink: gin and tonic
Bar: The Wine Cellar – a little tucked away find in an arcade on Karangahape Rd, Auckland.
Item in your studio: my industrial sewing machine
Piece of technology: my iPhone
Historical figure: Beethoven
Fictional character: Gregory House
Vice: playing Wordsworth on my iPhone
Virtue: hard working
What does the term ‘Design Hunter’ mean to you? Someone always looking for and refining their sense of place – what they like to surround themselves with.