NZ Fashion Week

The new collection from Teresa Hodges’ BLAK and BLAK LUXE is called Marchen. It is set in a dark and magic BLAK fairytale, styled beautifully with handmade crowns fashioned from twigs…

Where most labels have one, or maybe two brands under their wing, and perhaps a diffusion line especially in these recessionary times, Trelise Cooper is somewhat different. She has a veritable stable of brands…

We should have known something was up the minute the first model came down the catwalk. It was transparently Zambesi – a heavy fisherman’s knit jersey – but it is teamed with neon yellow ski pants with a simple zip on the ankle…

Lonely Hearts was packed to the rafters with standing room only at their Fashion Week show on Wednesday 31st August as Prodigy’s Smack My Bitch Up set a 90s hard-edged tone for their AW12 collection…

Neverblack showed their winter collection in an original installation rather than the usual catwalk show, with models wearing AW12 at their NZ Fashion Week event which was romantic and whimsical with a touch of grunge…

Like Dorian Gray who got younger as his portrait hidden away upstairs got more and more grotesque, so is the inverse relationship between the spectacle of Huffer’s shows and their actual collections…

From the over large stetsons perched on the heads of the models, and the windswept hair styling, these girls are fresh off the range – albeit a prairie of Trelise’s making…

Miromoda was developed in order to advance the quality status of Maori fashion design and it was good to see real progression since its inception in 2008 at Friday’s show held at New Zealand Fashion Week…

A rather unusual thing happened at fashion week, a rare thing indeed. A standing ovation. And that really doesn’t happen very often at all…

RUBY released their new label, liam, at New Zealand Fashion Week 2011. Designed by Emily Miller-Sharma, the womenswear line with a man’s name came down the catwalk to the live sounds of Watercolours…