Fashion Industry

Sustainable fashion label ESSE has a pop-up for one week, so please ‘pop’ in for ethical fashion at great prices, in gorgeous earth-friendly fabrics and beautiful styles. You can also buy it online directly at @essethelabel. Tonight we celebrated with the designer for drinks at her pop-up store inside Ponsonby Central on Ponsonby Road. Esse the…

H&M and P.E Nation collaborate on a more sustainable athleisure collection for the modern woman. P.E. Nation x H&M The Sydney-based brand P.E. Nation is known for their multi-faceted and fashion-forward activewear and are the go-to for modern women around the world who lead fast-paced lives. The P.E Nation x H&M collection will feature clothes,…

Merchant 1948 is opening a permanent cobbler dubbed Merchant Workshop at its Newmarket flagship in February 2020. Promoting longevity in shoes, the store within a store concept will offer repairs for any shoes (not just those bought at its stores) within the newly renovated Westfield Newmarket locale. On-site cobbler, Steve Monks, honed his craft working…

Not got the capital to start a bricks-and-mortar fashion boutique? Not got the time to start your own fashion truck business and take your products on the road? Then why don’t you consider starting an online clothing store instead? Doing so will allow you to make as much or as little money as you want/need,…

Top Kiwi fashion designers band together for good cause Five of New Zealand’s biggest fashion brands have branched out into babywear to raise funds for children’s health. Celebrated labels NOM*d, twenty-seven names, Juliette Hogan, Trelise Cooper and Zambesi have each designed a baby onesie for greatfull.co.nz in support of Auckland children’s hospital, Starship. The new…

Vans, the original action sports brand and advocate for creative expression, have joined forces with British fashion house Vivienne Westwood to create a footwear capsule collection that champions fearless individualism and liberation.  The Vans x Vivienne Westwood Anglomania collection will launch in stores and online September 20. The exclusive collection reinterprets iconic Westwood archive prints,…

You have great business acumen as well as an eye for quality clothing — it’s about time you combined your entrepreneurial streak with your passion for fashion and started your own online business in the industry. No matter what attires and outfits you make available via your platform, if you do everything correctly, there will…

Blue Bungalow, the Australian e-tailer, has opened its doors in New Zealand. Their point of difference is extremely fast shipping, overnight to Auckland – which is honestly better than most NZ retailers! It was here the next working day. Another thing they do differently from many fashion retailers on the web is the fact that…

D Denise Anglesey, an eco fashion designer (Denise H label) is also the owner of eco fashion store Kereku Creative in Wainuiomata Lower Hutt. Denise has teamed up with Jo Bryant, manager or the Koha Shed to change the lifespan of clothing in Wainuiomata by creating, what they call, a circular economy. The Koha Shed is given donations of clothing…