There’s a new role taking Kylie Bax out of our countryside and into our living rooms every Friday night – the lifestyle show Kiwi Living, where she’s the resident fashion guru.
A couple of times a week, she makes the two-hour journey from her home in Cambridge up to Auckland where she sits down with someone who needs an overall style revamp or a new outfit for an event.
Bax firmly believes in the power of fashion, and the impact it can have on reinventing how you see yourself.
“I think everyone can get stuck in a rut, more so when you’re older. It takes the inner you to shine through and want that change. But it takes courage – it takes courage to want to change. It can take courage to even ask the question. But we have it inside to do that.”
She’s talking about style, of course, but given the conviction in her voice when she says it, you can imagine Bax has relied on her own inner courage more than once in her life – both personally, and professionally.
There’s a reason why, 20 years after her modelling heyday in New York, she’s still a household name.
Bax has never been one to rest on her laurels, always reshaping her career: supermodel, actress, farmer, TV presenter.
She had been looking for an opportunity to show off her personality to the hometown audience and Kiwi Living, with its relaxed style, seemed like the perfect place for her to get to know the New Zealand people and vice versa.
“They’ve seen ‘Supermodel Kylie’, who’s graced the covers of Vogue and Sports Illustrated, but they don’t know the real me,” Bax says.
Read the full interview with Kylie in the latest issue of NEXT
