Styling for fashion designer Roberto Cavalli and MAC Cosmetics is about as far from rural Ashburton as it’s possible to get.
Mandi Kingsbury, however, has made it look easy. To be fair, the Kiwi fashion director has had lots of practice, spending the past few decades wrapping her tentacles around Dubai’s high-rollers: in 1994, shortly after winning the Supreme Award at WOW, Kingsbury was head-hunted for a job at Arushi, a Dubai couture house.