Tips
• Before purchasing, always do some damage control. Check the piece for stains, busted seams, marks, and tears. Judge the piece as it comes. Think about how much the repairs will cost versus how much wear you will get from the item, and the sale price.
Look four Indian maxi skirt worn as dress, silk green shirt, snakeskin belt, red safari belted jacket, Indian metal necklaces, beaded bag and bracelets, from Retro Room, 311 Willis Street, Wellington
Inspired by imaginary idols
Sarmite Ostanevica is a Latvian-born designer based in London. Lucire’s new London contributor Elina Lukas spoke with Ostanevica about her design and inspiration photographed by the author
Fashion’s third
dimension Lola Saab talks to Norma Kamali, finding out what inspired
the designer to adopt a three-dimensional theme for her spring–summer
2012 collection
A brushstroke on
the runway
Stéphane Rolland took his haute couture inspiration from
Chinese calligraphy, as Lola Saab and Léona d’Huy reveal photographs courtesy Stéphane Rolland
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