Starring and directed by Lindy Klim, we invite you to travel with Lindy through her hometown in Bali as she styles our elevated essentials for laidback, island living.

As Guest Art Director, we gave Lindy complete creative control of the brand shoot. As well as scouting beautiful hidden gems to shoot, the model, businesswoman and style icon also engaged local talent including photographers and hair and make-up artists to carefully curate the brand shoot and channel the carefree vibe of island life.

Having moved to Bali in 2011, where she’s now raising her four children, Stella, 16, Rocco, 14, Frankie, 10, and Goldie, 4, we are blown away by how Lindy’s creative direction not only paints an intimate portrait of the dreamy destination but also captures her playful energy and the chic confidence we all crave when dressing for vacation.

Inspired by the island aesthetic, this collection abounds in versatile, endlessly wearable pieces — perfect for exploring villages by morning, beaches by the afternoon and sipping ice-cold drinks from coconuts at sundown.

We caught up with Lindy to discuss how her life in Bali has changed post-pandemic, how she balances her career and her own business, Fig Femme, with motherhood and the perfect styles to pack on your next holiday.

Best of all, whether you’re traveling to far-flung destinations or not, Lindy also shares how you can bring the vacation to you wherever you are through your wardrobe.


You are a Balinese princess, whose father was the prince of Denpasar, Anak Agung Oka Rama. How has living in Bali, particularly during the pandemic, helped you and your children connect to your Balinese heritage?

Bali is my little safe haven. It’s a very humbling and grounding place and I think after years of travelling back and forth between here and Australia, having the two and a half years here was really nice for our family.

We have embraced so much more of the Balinese culture. We speak more Bahasa than we ever have, and we have really connected with the spiritual side of our heritage. Everything is based around the moon — we actually just had a moon ceremony the other day.

Being half Balinese, it’s been so special for me to really connect with Bali as family.

 

What do you love most about the Balinese lifestyle? What role does it play in helping you to balance your career with parenthood?

I love parenting in Bali — my kids just have these amazing lives that are free and spiritual and open. There’s not too many rules here. They actually just went back to Australia for a few weeks and three of them came back saying, ‘Oh my God, there were so many rules; we weren’t allowed to do this and weren’t allowed to do that’.

Also, I find there’s no keeping up with the Jones’ here. You just live your little life and live very freely in Bali. I love that we live in this little bubble. And there’s also lots of beach time.


In the past few decades, the growth of the tourism industry has transformed Bali from an agricultural province to a prime holiday destination. In 2019, before borders shut as a result of the global pandemic, a record number of 1.23 million Australians travelled to Bali. How have you seen Bali change after being closed off to tourists during the pandemic? And how can tourists ensure we play a positive role in the community when travelling to Bali?

Bali is back to being full-on hectic, but it’s also so great to see the borders open. It was quite sad watching the demise during the pandemic. Like everyone around the world, they weren’t prepared for anything like this and so when tourism shut down, a lot of the locals went back to farming and fishing in their local villages.
Despite how hard it was to witness, it was also incredibly moving to see the community get together, including a lot of expats who rallied to provide food banks to help the locals in that time.

Obviously, it’s great that tourists are coming back, but I just hope they can be mindful that Bali is still rebuilding as not everything could be maintained, so it will take some time.


Living in such a beautiful place, does it make you feel more connected to the world around you and are there sustainable practices from living in Bali that you have implemented into your Australian lifestyle?

It’s funny because Bali has always had a really bad wrap for having dirty beaches, but that is actually coming from the different islands; it gets caught up in the ocean and washes up on Bali shores, which makes it look like its coming from Bali, which it’s not.

Bali is incredibly forward thinking. We have The Green School, the world’s first fully sustainable school, where my children attended for five years. As a result of a student campaign at the school, Bali successfully banned plastic-bags years ago. It shocks me when I travel to other places and I see people using plastic bags. We are so used to living plastic-free here.


As Guest Art Director on this Ceres Life campaign shoot, what elements of Bali were you hoping to capture and showcase?

It was such a fun shoot to be a part of. Really hot, but fun.

Before Covid I didn’t often shoot in Bali, I would usually fly back to Australia, but with all of the lockdowns, I started doing a lot more shoots here and so was able to collaborate with a lot of other creatives living here who are from all over the world. For this shoot, I helped source everyone from photographers to make up artists locally which was really exciting.

In terms of inspiration for the shoot, I tried to steer away from rice fields and corn on the cob on the beach vibes, and instead focussed on more of what my day-to-day lifestyle looks like in Bali. So things like riding the motorbike or bicycle; sitting in cafes and restaurants — we have such a rich foodie scene here now. I wanted to create a very urban feel, but with island elements.
 

Clever wardrobe choices can maximise your experience on holidays. What are your must-pack essentials from this collection?

Most of this collection is what I live in. I particularly love all the shorts and shirt basics. The bike shorts, which come in multiple styles, are perfect for walking around and exploring on vacation and worn with an elevated tee is such an island-living look. What I love about this collection is how it can be dressed up and down and mixed and matched, making it perfect for packing and wearing multiple ways on holidays.


There’s a dress for every destination this season, with a variety of silhouettes, seasonal colour palettes and fresh details. In your opinion, what makes the perfect vacation dress?

While I’m more of a jeans and shorts girl, for me I live in sarongs. So, I think any lightweight dress that you can throw over a pair of bikinis but also dress up for a beachside celebration.


There are certain resort wear pieces that make you feel like you’re on vacation no matter where you are, what styles are you loving this season?

As I said, I’m a jeans girl and I have to say, the denim in this collection is amazing. They are cut so well and are super comfortable in modern, flattering styles. I love them worn back with the shoulder pad t-shirts which are super cool, or alternatively, nothing says off-duty like jeans and a crisp white shirt.


Dividing your time between Bali and loved ones in Australia has made you extremely well-travelled. What are some of your go-to packing hacks and travel trips to make jet-setting a cinch?

I stick to a wardrobe formula when packing and pretty much just take the same things: jeans, shirts and two different blazer jackets, plus trainers and a pump.

I also roll everything in my suitcase and my new game-changer is that my husband just bought air tags for our luggage, so you can track and locate your bags and see where they end up if they go missing. They are amazing, especially having lost our luggage a lot recently.

1. What or who inspires you to act on sustainability?
Probably my kids. They are so forward thinking and are constantly telling me things I didn’t know. I also think it’s living in Bali and in this beautiful, natural environment; it makes me want to protect it.

2. What change would you like to see in the world?
Gosh, so much. More than anything, I think we need to change our mindset. For too long we have thought about what is happening now, but it’s really about what we are leaving behind for our children and grandchildren.

3. How have you managed to embed sustainable thinking within own brand, Fig Femme?
We use a lot of vegan ingredients in our products, and I really want to look at our packaging in the future, too. We are slowly getting there and have removed a lot of excess packaging, but I would love for it to be fully sustainable. As a start-up, it’s difficult to achieve but I’m determined to get there.

4. What is a lifestyle change you made this year in order to live a more sustainable life?
During covid, when less things were being imported, it became increasingly hard to find things like shampoo or conditioner in Bali. And so, being stuck on the island, if we couldn’t get it, we just had to live without it. It made us realise as a family that we were massive consumers. I felt so embarrassed and bad about that. So as a family, we have been making a conscious effort to buy a lot less, from clothing to household products.

5. What is a sustainability practice you want to adopt in the future?
We are in the process of building a new home, and I just said to my kids the other day, I want chickens so we can have our own eggs.

6. What is the one piece of advice you would offer to others seeking to create change in their lifestyles?
Find something that resonates with you, that you can stick to. I used to get really embarrassed when people would ask me about sustainability, because I always felt like I wasn’t doing enough. But its ok to start small and concentrate on your own household.

7. What is something with a sustainability focus you have read, watched or listened to lately that inspired you?
I listen to a lot of podcasts and audio books before bed with Joe Dispenza and Dr Wayne Dyer. And while they are less about environmental sustainability, they are about sustainable living— about healing, taking care and slowing down.

8. What do you love most about being in nature?
There are so many untouched pockets around Bali. I always try to take a moment to stop and appreciate it; to soak in the colours and different shades of green and the way the light changes.