Marco Zirov ( Creative Visionary )
Antoine Ryan ( Business Visionary )
Damian Gordon ( Audio Visionary )
“Palestine”
boutique/gallery
256 Crown Street, Darlinghurst
NSW 2010 Australia
Photography by Sophie Wolanski
Pete Vs Toby is the collaboration of three 20 something artists living the Australian dream. Living and working out of Bondi, these best friends spend their days turning their art into cash by making Certified Organic hand-made clothes. In the early days they would drive down from Byron every Sunday to flog their goods at Bondi markets. After having great success they moved to Sydney permanently and thus Palestine was born.
All the questions were answered by Marco Zirov, “cause the other two lads were real busy packing orders, cleaning the shop and doing other boring but important tasks”.
Q. Seeing that none of you are Peter or Toby, why Pete Vs Toby?
There are a few places it could have come from, you know subconsciously. Marco’s godfather is named Pete and his son is Toby, Paschal said there was an old 1940′s American comic book with characters Pete the Penguin and Toby Twirl (a pig with a twirly tail) and the best explanation is Raina saw Pete Versus Toby engraved on a foam boogie board at the Broken Head caravan park in Byron Bay.
Q. Some of your art is a little controversial, has anyone ever taken offence?
Yes, but as our friend Karla says, if it doesn’t offend it is really not art. My favourite painting that I have been working on for the past year is a pilot’s view from the cockpit of one of the 911 plane’s about to hit the world trade centre. I showed this girl from New York the other week and she was pretty enraged. I think people are way too uptight about life and death.
Q. PvT is stocked in Japan? How did this come about?
Honestly we were probably in a blog or something like that, we just got an email one day from an agent named Haka and it just went on from there, I am kinda lucky ’cause I have been to Japan a few times and really love and appreciate their culture. My dad married a Japanese lady and now I have a Japanese brother, so maybe that helped, shout out to Yashi.
Q. If your not wearing PvT what are you wearing?
2nd hand stuff from the markets or Vinnies or Cream etc… I guess we started making clothes cause all the stuff out there was just boring and branded…
Q. A few years ago there was tailored vest, then came coloured jeans and now it’s wayfarers. Can you foresee the next trend that will sweep the nation?
Barefoot, honestly we have been rocking the barefoot trend in Byron since we were in the sandpit. With the help of Michael Franti and most of the kids in 3rd world countries who actually make the shoes we are starting the barefoot revolution.
Q. Likes and dislikes you have towards living in Sydney…..
Likes: multicultural lifestyle next to the beach, lots of good food and beautiful open minded people..
Dislikes: lots of police, inherent racism towards the friendly people living out west, people that think cocaine is cool…
Q. Where do you get it frequently?
I’m not sure what you mean, but I get food from the Shop Wine Bar and Lauries vegetarian, I get my energy from the beach and daily swims from the rocks back to the shore. I get love from my friends, I get life from the sun and I get it from my mum…
Q. Anything to plug while your here?
peteversustoby.com just cause it’s really our lifestyle and opinions in a blog. We don’t expect everyone to own one of our garments but we are trying to shock people and wake them up with our ideas… you know we are the Nu Australia, the revolution. Mixed children of the future who just don’t care.
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