MOVE THE WORLD
“Where is Parris’ ass?” Rihanna declares backstage, immediately after her game-changing Savage x Fenty show at New York Fashion Week in September. As people come at her from all angles to congratulate and celebrate, the superstar is asking after Parris Goebel, the South Auckland-born talent behind the show’s epic choreography, and the woman she identifies later on Instagram as her ‘spirit animal’.
Being described as a ‘god gifted genius’ by someone who is at the sharpest end of the fashion and pop culture zeitgeist is normality for Parris, whose star has risen as one of New Zealand’s biggest success stories on the global stage. Working with the singer/designer/mogul is, and was asked by prime minster Jacinda Ardern to be New Zealand’s ‘entertainment and cultural curator’ at the World Expo in Dubai. She’s also working towards directing and choreographing her first feature film.
