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NZ Fashion Week

  • Shaken but not stirred

    Shaken but not stirred

    Haunting earthquake music set the scene for the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal Show at Fashion Week, which featured a range of local designers including Kathryn Leah Payne, Sakaguchi, Caroline Moore, Mister and Eclipse…

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  • Merino at Fashion Week

    Merino at Fashion Week

    The Merino Show at NZFW saw five designers creatively and stylishly utilising merino wool come together in a Group Show. Designers included Miranda Brown, Untouched World, Taylor, Life of Riley and Starfish…

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  • Helen's Ville

    Helen's Ville

    “I imagined a very well-dressed, well-bred woman who had run off with the band, circa 1975,” says Helen Cherry. “I wanted a sense of refinement and elegance but with an attitude that was more rock ‘n’ roll cool than classic conservative.”

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  • RUBY / liam hit picks

    RUBY / liam hit picks

    First up was Liam, and they had beautiful sounding music played live by a band called Watercolours. This was their first collection. These are the things I loved…

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  • Feathers will fly

    Feathers will fly

    Drawing from the seedy glamour of prohibition night clubs and the film Bonnie and Clyde, Phoenix Cosmetics’ Fashion Week show was a rich pageant of theatre – and quite a few feathers….

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  • Kick up your heels

    Kick up your heels

    Lingerie + models + shoes = a good time, in anyone’s books, and Kathryn Wilson’s show was one of the crowd pleasers of Fashion Week for both girls and their guys, with hot models wearing beautiful shoes and nothing but luxe corsets…

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  • WORLD's Next Top Model

    WORLD's Next Top Model

    The most hyped show of the year was about to start, as we waited, cellphones turned off, for the announcement of NZ’s Next Top Model at the live finale at WORLD’s spectacular Fashion Week show. This will trend on Twitter, I thought…

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  • Face-to-Face with the Facehunter

    Face-to-Face with the Facehunter

    At the tail-end of the Fashion Week bonanza, Trendstreet sat down with Yvan Rodic a.k.a. Facehunter to find out more about his second visit to New Zealand…

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  • Thoughts on fashion week…

    Thoughts on fashion week…

    Now that Fashion Week 2011 is over, here are some of our thoughts on New Zealand Fashion Week; the good, the bad, the ugly, and what media delegates get in their goody bag…

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  • Starfish goes Stardust

    Starfish goes Stardust

    Starfish – more famous for its eco sustainability – took a leaf out of Ziggy Stardust’s book for its Fashion Week show with its most glam show in years, and a star-studded runway…

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