NZFD Online My Boyfriend’s Back Opening the runway for day three was Masterton-based designer Danielle Burkhart’s My Boyfriend’s Back, with its collection, She’s in Bloom. Dark, brooding romance, fresh innocence, and beauty in bloom appeared on the runway in devoré velvet and sheer rose print fabrics, fashioned into dreamy romantic dresses. Boiled wool was […]
Deryn Schmidt Matthew Beveridge/Matthew Beveridge Photography Opening day two of NZFW was Wellington designer Deryn Schmidt. A photograph that her daughter Millicent took of her son Lars’s mobile originally inspired her winter collection, entitled Capture This. This image was later developed into the first exclusive textile print for Schmidt, adapted by textile designer Andrea Stark. […]
Twenty-Seven Names Matthew Beveridge/Matthew Beveridge Photography Opening New Zealand Fashion Week this year was Wellington brand Twenty-Seven Names with its brand of kitschy cool ’90s nostalgia. From the opening bars of a Mariah Carey song through to the casual coolness that their clothes have come to epitomize, designers Anjali Stewart and Rachel Easting looked towards […]
Ruby’s mini-collection, entitled Magic Hour, is perfect for those winter parties and a great injection of colour into your wardrobe. Classic Breton-stripe T shirts and flirty print dresses and blouses make up the collection. Our favourites are the Magic Hour Bloom baby doll, with its winter floral pattern. This, paired with tights and fun […]
Nikita Brown/Nikita Brown Photography Boring Gets You Nowhere is the title of the autumn–winter 2013 collection from World; and no sentiment rings truer for the brand than this. It is by not being boring that this label continues to grow, but by experimentation with outlandish yet still highly commercial and wearable fashion. Others perilously traverse […]
Nikita Brown/Nikita Brown Photography Having viewed the Zambesi winter collection late last year in amongst the craziness of New Zealand Fashion Week, I had forgotten what my favourite pieces were (as so happens when you view collections six months before they are due in store and in quick sucession). When the invitation to attend the […]
Nikita Brown/Nikita Brown Photography For husband-and-wife team Dan and Emma Johnstone, design has always run deep within their blood, Dan with a background in graphics and Emma in fashion. So like all great things it was inevitable they would join forces. Their creation is the newly founded label Falvé (Emma’s maiden name). Although a […]
GHD has released another great collection of straighteners in time to brighten up your winter hair days. The Candy Collection has been inspired by retro pastels of the ’50s and ’60s and the current neon brights lighting up runways around the globe. GHD’s original cult item, the GHD IV styler, has been transformed with […]
Stuck on something to give the fashion person in your life? Christchurch designers Mister have come to your rescue with a new range of jewellery using their signature scissors cast in sterling silver. The new collection is available in limited quantities, much like their clothing. The expansion into jewellery sees the design […]
Dusk VFX/© Project Born Ltd. Kerp Photography/© Project Born Ltd. Having attended the first Project Born, I thought I would have been prepared for what the cast and crew would do, but the slickness of this year’s presentation was at a higher level. It took the team a full two years to conceive this year’s […]
