NZ Fashion Week

Everyone wants them. Not everyone gets one. Nowhere in society is the class system more apparent – except perhaps when doing your supermarket shopping at Nosh – than in the rarefied world of Fashion Week Goody Bags…

The Huffer show ending NZ Fashion Week broke all the rules. It was off-site, in-season, and full of excited fans rather than the jaded and nonchalant. Instead, their El Summer event was an installation-cum-exhibition-cum-celebration…

To a swingin’ doo-wop soundtrack, RUBY models walked out with a spring in their step in sweats, stripes and turquoise prints, all styled with woolen beanies and striking turquoise winged eyeshadow in their AW13 fashion week show…

Stolen Girlfriends Club showed ‘Dead End’, their Autumn/Winter 2013 collection of camo cobra prints, shiny PVC teamed with winter wool, and fighting snakes printed on dresses and bags in a concrete carpark in Grey Lynn…

Again showing with its sister label, RUBY, Liam kicked off NZ Fashion Week 2012 with a giant show seated in the main shed; on-site for a change. Fashion week’s weather had started with a torrential downpour…

Charlie Brown showed her winter collection ‘Naughty & Nice’ at fashion week with two stories: military luxe and an Oriental-themed Indochine opium den…

Salasai took us on a trip to the American mid-west with their Autumn Winter 2013 collection ‘Heartlands’ straight from a very stylish prairie with sticks of hay in their pockets and clutch purses…

I want to begin by saying I adore Cybele, and this is one of my favourite shows from Fashion Week so far. Any show that can combine owls with cats is going to be a winner in my book for starters…

Another busy day down at New Zealand Fashion Week 2012 on Day Two including twenty-seven names, Ingrid Starnes, New Generation, Deryn Schmidt, NZ Weddings, Andrea Moore, Riddle Me This, Trelise Cooper and Kagi…