NZ Fashion Week

This month, in the build up to NZFW 2011, the team from Lucy and the Powder Room / Stephen Marr are putting together a cool competition for fashion week. There will be 15 golden tickets hidden under seats in their three salons…

When we’re talking about the line-up we’re not talking rugby. We’re talking New Zealand Fashion Week 2011 Line-up of designers, announced today with some new faces and old favourites including Workshop and Helen Cherry back on the catwalk…

I went to the NZ Fashion Festival opening night interested to see how it would all come across, particularly after seeing most of the collections already at NZ Fashion Week 2010 a few months back. I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised.

Ten years of NZ Fashion Week was marked with a Retrospective show on the last day but rather than the celebratory occassion I was hoping it was more of a soulness walking catalogue – albeit of beautiful outfits – from the nation’s great labels…

The Department Store in Takapuna ended Fashion Week on a high note with a show by Karen Walker, Black Box, Nike and Top Shop with hair and make-up by Stephen Marr and Lucy & The Powder Room…

With gold foil-encrusted partings and ethereal makeup, angelic models walked in Salasai’s ‘Sacrificial Grace’ collection shown at the Hilton in NZ Fashion Week; a strong, mature collection that showed Salasai’s coming of age…

Feminine pebble print shift dresses featured in the Sable & Minx show that overall was not edgy or groundbreaking but certainly wearable, well cut and with just the right touches of girlie sweetness…

The first model for Brady may have taken a fall on the runway but this was the only hiccup in an otherwise cohesive collection. A nod to 1970’s sophistication saw a warm palette of olive silk and khaki knit mixed with geometrical prints…

From Augustine’s glimmering opening with models’ up-turned palms allowing streams of glittering gold to fall to the floor, the clothes were not refreshingly new and the brightly coloured net skirts may have been a touch tutu much…

Sabatini does best what Sabatini does; luxe knit wear in easy to wear freeform shapes styled with strong Euro influences and contrasted with just a touch of slick leather and fur trims…