International Women's Day

As a female-driven company made up of 75% women, we are celebrating the women within our community today and every day of the year. 

To mark this day we sat down with Victoria Moore, the artistic, and independent Mother of our Creative Director Marc Moore.

WHAT ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT? AND HOW DID THIS START? 

Painting, writing, dancing, and taking those things & creating a space for people to learn more about themselves. Service is a much-underrated skill and now, more than ever, much needed. 

WHAT DOES INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY MEAN TO YOU?

A celebration of womanhood and how far we’ve come. For me personally, it’s been a long journey since the early 70’s when I was marching & burning my bra (not that I actually needed one then) in protest against the inequality that was rampant then. As a fifteen-year-old hairdresser apprentice, I was paid $8 a week while a male of the same age sweeping a barber’s shop received $14! I feel we still have a long way to go in every aspect where it is actually equal. 

WHAT DOES THE IDEA OF POWER MEAN TO YOU?

Living your values and the freedom & independence that comes from being comfortable in knowing who you are and who you are not. For some of us it can take a long time, this search for identity and being satisfied when you find it. The hard part.

WHAT ARE YOU MOST PROUD OF DOING AS A WOMAN?

Remaining the independent, creative woman I always strived to be while bringing up two sons on my own and still managing to have my freedom in many ways. Being over sixty-five I can finally be creative in all ways, every day, and do whatever I bloody want. I feel I’m at a new beginning right now creatively, I’m planning on becoming a lot more visible with my art through creative growth workshops.

WHAT DID YOU DREAM OF DOING WHEN YOU WERE YOUNGER?

I always wanted to be a dancer/ singer, but I grew up in a generation of parents where limitation were encouraged and that old worn-out myth of; you must get a ‘real job’. Consequently, I left school to become a hairdresser at fifteen which I absolutely hated but as I was creative this was decided as the next best thing. 

Being a child of the sixties your limitations were encouraged and discussed frequently, hence the birth of the seventies where we all said; WTF and let the rules go.