Ksubi fashion brand: Where are Sydney's original rat pack members now?
Where are they now? Saturday Confidential takes a look at the OG Ksubi rat pack – a core group of models, muses, artists and party-hard provocateurs – defined the brand’s early cult status.
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Two decades ago, Ksubi (formally Tsubi) exploded out of Sydney’s underground fashion scene.
The original “Ksubi Rat Pack” – a group of models, muses, artists, and party-hard provocateurs – defined the brand’s early cult status. Saturday Confidential revisits the early days of Ksubi, names the characters behind the brand and reveals what they are up to now.
Dan Single
From the wild beginnings of Ksubi, where Single made headlines for the infamous “rat catwalk”, to 2017 when he fell from a Paris building and momentarily “died”, he has made a triumphant return.
The founding member of the Ksubi brand met Pip Edwards, who he would later have a son, Justice Edwards, with. They split in 2008. Not long after his horror fall, he split from his wife, model Bambi Northwood-Blyth. But Single recently returned to Australian Fashion Week with an art installation and book launch for Diary of a Naughtie Kid. Today, he is a designer, DJ, mentoring advocate, mental-health champion and storyteller.
George Gorrow
After stepping away from Ksubi in 2012, Gorrow pivoted to a life of design and hospitality after marrying former model Cisco Tschurtschenthaler and relocating to Bali.
There, the couple opened the acclaimed boutique hotel The Slow in Canggu, a retreat blending art, fashion, music and bespoke architecture.
More recently, they’ve returned to Australia to launch Sea Sea, a 1970s surf-inspired boutique hotel at Crescent Head. His wife, who he married 17 years ago, documents Gorrow and their family’s lives on her Instagram page, Cisco & The Gorrow Gang.
Pip Edwards
Edwards and Single met when Edwards joined the Tsubi team as PR manager and later became part of the design team. Their personal and professional lives intertwined, leading to a relationship and the birth of their son, Justice, who recently turned 18. They parted ways personally and professionally in 2008, despite Single continuing to build the Ksubi brand. Edwards has since taken on roles at Sass & Bide, General Pants Co., and P.E. Nation before recently returning to Ksubi as creative director.
Mikey Nolan
Nolan was part of Ksubi’s creative team in the mid-2000s, when he led the art direction on its denim and eyewear campaigns. After stepping away from Ksubi, Nolan co-founded Double Rainbouu in January 2016 with friend Toby Jones.
Double Rainbouu is still loved by Australia’s style set, capturing international attention. Nolan, who remains one of Edwards’s closest friends, has since launched collaborations with 7-Eleven and Bonds.
Erin Wasson
She was the unofficial face of the brand in its heyday. The internationally renowned model was often associated with the brand, having walked in their shows, including the celebrated New York opening in March 2005 alongside Nicole Trunfio.
With effortlessly cool rock ‘n’ roll vibes, Wasson was the ultimate Ksubi muse.
Paul Wilson
He was one of the founding members of Ksubi in 1999 alongside Single, Gorrow, Gareth Moody, and Oska Wright.
They were surfing and skateboarding mates who united over a shared frustration with the lack of well-fitting denim. Paul was often working behind the scenes instead of stealing headlines, but still played a key role in shaping Tsubi’s, and later Ksubi’s, unapologetic design ethos. These days he is based in the US and has worked with other big-name brands including Koh and Schaller & Weber.
Gareth Moody
The fellow founder, who became a part of the Ksubi brand a few years after it was founded, stepped away from the label in 2005.
He then channelled his creative energy into his own label, Chronicles of Never. He was linked to Lara Worthington (nee Bingle), with the pair dating in 2012.
Moody co-founded the luxury surf-inspired label Non Type with Gorrow, and together they have opened boutique hotel The Slow in Bali.
Harry Hodge
Hodge was a major shareholder of the Ksubi brand around 2004-2005, and has since gone on to be touted as one of Australia’s pre-eminent retail entrepreneurs.
After kicking off his career as a surf journalist and film maker, Hodge then joined Quicksilver and grew the business exponentially in Europe and has been on the board of Surf Stitch.
He also invested heavily in and advised the fashion label Ksubi through his company, the Hodge Consulting Group.
While he has well and truly moved on from his time with Ksubi, he has spoken about his experience with the brand, and why he thinks it failed.
“The brand had some fundamental problems in commercialising the brand and it you know it came unglued in that respect,” he said previously.
“But the learning curve, you know you always learn from your mistakes more than you learn from your successes I believe.”
“They weren’t customer focused. They were self-centred and creatively focused, but their, it’s pretty easy in the apparel industry, you deliver good quality, commercial product in an accurate and timely manner and if you look up each of those in a dictionary, you know good quality pretty easy, commercial product means intended to make a profit and deliver when people want it and deliver what they ordered. Ksubi couldn’t get their heads around that and therefore the brand couldn’t be commercialised.”
His business Hodge Consulting Group is still active and successful, however it’s been noted his experience rundown doesn’t mention Ksubi.
Oskar Wright
Oska, also one of the original founding members of the cult brand now goes by the name of Ozzy Wrong.
While he isn’t a name often associated for the brand, he has gone on to achieve some major career wins throughout the years.
A professional free surfer and artist, who hails from the Northern Beaches of Sydney, ‘Ozzy’s’ artworks have been showcased in Australia, the US, France, Japan, England, Switzerland, and Indonesia, and have frequently been featured in association with surf brand, Volcom.
He was also commissioned to paint a box for Louis Vuitton.
“I was so stoked to get a call from Louis Vuitton himself who asked me and 199 other artists around the world to paint him a box to celebrate his 200th birthday!!!! They even donated ten thousand euros in my name to a charity to help underprivileged kids create some art. I enjoyed the project so much I wrote a song about it ??” he captioned his Instagram post.
His art work is also featured in fellow founder George Gorrow’s Sea Sea Hotel.
Lara Worthington
While Worthington didn’t come into the picture until later in Ksubi’s story, however would often hang out with Edwards and Single and the “It’’ Sydney crowd at the time.
She was front row and centre at their 2012 Australian Fashion Week show.
Model Worthington (Bingle at the time) was a tabloid staple when Tsubi was at the top of its game, before pivoting to business and family life in the US. After marrying actor Sam Worthington.
Bambi Northwood-Blyth
By the time Bambi Northwood-Blyth came into the picture, Tsubi had been changed to Ksubi following a trademark infringement dispute. .
Northwood‑Blyth entered the orbit of Ksubi and Dan Single in the early 2010s, and created a number of businesses with him including a rosé wine D&B Pour les Amour and later co‑launching the silk sleepwear line P.Jamé in 2016.
Their relationship culminated in a high-profile marriage in January 2014, however their romance unravelled amid the aftermath of Single’s 2017 Paris balcony fall.
Since then, Bambi has forged a respected international modelling career - walking for Balenciaga and Chanel, starring in major campaigns.
She also serves as a philanthropy and diabetes advocate, dividing her time between New York and Melbourne.
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