Wellington
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Zambesi 35th Anniversary fashion week show
Read more: Zambesi 35th Anniversary fashion week showFlash! A-ah Saviour of the Universe Flash a-ah He’ll save every one of us The doors parted, light shone out like Flash Gordon’s spacecraft landing, and the show began. When a label is celebrating 35 years in business, you don’t mind that it’s an hour and half late. Zambesi draped models in blankets with ‘XXXV’,…
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NOMd brings the NOISE at NZFW 2014
Read more: NOMd brings the NOISE at NZFW 2014NOMd kicked off the first day at New Zealand Fashion Week with the coolest show. They had the guests stand on one side of the runway and a row of 7 drumkits and drummers in balaclavas with teeshirts on down the opposite wall. Models walked with my favourite hair of the day: ironed flat flax-leaf…
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Fashion Week’s Fashion Warnings – the legal side of fashion
Read more: Fashion Week’s Fashion Warnings – the legal side of fashionAs fashion’s faces gather in Auckland for Fashion Week 2014, Simpson Grierson’s Claire Foggo and Janelle Cooke consider recent fashion disputes and their lessons for fashionistas. • Clear your brands first Taylor Swift’s affiliation with 13 (her lucky number) is well known and spawned her range of “Lucky 13” merchandise. However, Californian clothing company Blue…
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moochi brings ‘A Taste of Spring’ to Ostro in Britomart
Read more: moochi brings ‘A Taste of Spring’ to Ostro in BritomartMoochi showcased its spring collection ‘A Taste of Spring’ to a room packed with VIPs, customers and media last week in Ostro in Britomart. I was smiling that all the wait staff gathered in the kitchen to watch the show. The food they made was so divine; healthy yet delicious. I am already planning my…
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ON MY DESK: in the pink
Read more: ON MY DESK: in the pinkPink. The navy blue of India, they call it. As we head into spring I thought it apt to round up some new product releases across beauty, home, and haircare, in this most pretty of hues, in ON MY DESK: in the pink. I was going to call it ‘pink bits’ but was told this…
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Summer trends at ECCO shoes Dress Comfort Collection
Read more: Summer trends at ECCO shoes Dress Comfort CollectionThis week in Trendwatch I check out the Summer trends at ECCO shoes. I headed into the Milford Mall – which is incidentally my favourite Mall as it has independent and local New Zealand retailers instead of the same-same brands one sees everywhere else – and had a peep at the new styles. They were…
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Wellington label ‘Empire of Genius’ by Tymone Winter
Read more: Wellington label ‘Empire of Genius’ by Tymone WinterDesigner Tymone Winter of Wellington leather label Empire of Genius recently launched her new collection of leather handbags and accessories with a fashion show at Exhibitions Gallery, Wellington. Tymone Winter studied fashion at Massey University, and has all her collections designed and produced in New Zealand. With a background in tailoring, drape pattern making and…
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Okewa Rainwear by Wellington designers Nevada and Nick Leckie
Read more: Okewa Rainwear by Wellington designers Nevada and Nick LeckieOkewa – Rainwear like you’ve never seen it I cannot be the only person recently who has been drowned on a school, coffee or general errand run and left soggily lamenting a gap in their wardrobe – a raincoat for those days when a large, thick coat is too much, a jacket too little and…
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A year of only buying New Zealand fashion
Read more: A year of only buying New Zealand fashionI have a growing obsession with buying New Zealand fashion design. Early this year, while in the throes of planning a complete overhaul of my wardrobe (I was possibly having a third-life crisis), I came across a piece online in which World’s Francis Hooper called for shoppers to think about what they’re buying, in the…
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Where I shop online for cool stuff
Read more: Where I shop online for cool stuffThe shopping site that I have bought the most things from, isn’t ASOS or even the not-so-glamorous nappies online – or a supermarket website- but in fact is the New Zealand-owned designer sale site, ONCEit.co.nz. I was quite an early adopter for once (no pun intended) and have been buying things for my home and…