DUKE Deux sees us try our hands at fake ads with hilarious results: Saliva Spit cigarettes, Gold Urine Rum and a mind-reading machine are only a few of the products advertised this issue. We have a vintage watch special, interviews with comedian John Safran, Cheap Daters Kira Joliffe and Bay Garnett, and the fabulous art/drag/dress-up troupe The King Pins – whoa! There’s also our first fashion spread, Blue Jean Blues, and the inaugural Vogue & Bogue – which means What’s Hot & What’s Not, get it? Plus, we also have a sexy feline-inspired centerfold and our accountant poses as the 7-Day Man. Uh-huh. Très formidable!

Public opinion says:

Somewhere between Cheap Date and Ben Is Dead lives DUKE Magazine, a cultural zeitgeist (sorry, girls) of thrift shopping, quirky collecting habits, anti-fashion, artist and collector friends, etc. And in full colour no less! They ask questions like Michael Jackson vs. Prince? They battle over who loves Bowie more. They create fake ads. They play dress up, a lot. Witty, compelling, and just downright fun.
--Atomic Books, Baltimore

In the latest issue of the funny and offensive DUKE magazine, the all-guns blazing Sydney kids behind the fashion-bent publication launch well-argued attacks against the green recycle bags as fashion, Ksubi ruining op-shopping for everyone and some woman who collects rubbish to add to the junkyard within her home. Yes, this is hard-hitting journalism at its best.

--Cool Hunting

Rarely does a magazine come along with an aesthetic so well-formed and unique, but with DUKE, that’s what we’ve got. No ads, just gab from two girls hoarding a whole bunch of op-shop shit in an apartment above some store on Parramatta Road. The content is an oddball mix of local artists, thrift store fashion spreads, and stupid interviews/op-ed pieces, and it’s all frickin’ hilarious.

--Twothousand.com

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