NZ Fashion Week

A hearty breakfast is important for the spirited girl this latest Ruby collection, The Adventurers, was clearly created for. What a better way to start the day than over breakfast at the early morning salon show of the Ruby AW11 collection…

Matchi Motchi was by far the most couture of collections at Fashion Week. Their background in textile art was evident with futuristic influences with a harder Mad Max edge. And if you suspect the soundtrack was Lady Gaga; you were right…

Jimmy D is back at Fashion Week and I am happy. His AW11 was a tight, cohesive collection. We liked that he just goes his own way now, and the details that have become his own just flow through the whole collection….

I never thought I would be mentioning puffer jackets in a Trelise Cooper review- but they did make an appearance albeit trimmed with the obligatory ruffles and sure to be adorning the corporate boxes of the looming Rugby World Cup…

Religious iconography has been a recurring theme throughout fashion week this year and last and Cybele’s 2011 A/W collection Nieriya is no exception. However that did not mean the show was typical or unoriginal or predictable…

There are two sides to every coin they say, and such is the case with Juliette Hogan’s A/W11 collection The Morning After The Night Before. Rather than sugar and spice and all things nice, we see that same good girl take a darker direction….

So I often look at a collection with my own needs in mind though those may not be universal. It would appear to that that there has been somewhat of a quiet intrinsic shift with Zambesi. Not maybe obvious straight away with this collection…

Adrian Hailwood’s AW11 collection is inspired by the work of the LA artist Alex Praeger, with living dolls fighting a war against constructed beauty – and losing. “Everything is opulent yet shrouded in a veil of fragility,” says Hailwood.

Well, what a way to open fashion week! We were expecting a good solid show from Starfish creator, Laurie Foon, but we were not expecting it to be so big and so layered. Layers of texture, and subtle large florals, tartans, checks and fine stripes…

The man with the midas touch at the NZ Fashion Week Opening Party tonight was international stylist and blogger Derek Warburton…