Nikita Brown/Nikita Brown Photography Matthew Beveridge/Matthew Beveridge Photography The last day of fashion week is always the quietest. However, things went off this year with a hiss and a roar with Phoenix Cosmetics’ Truly Outrageous showcase. This was a make-up show with a difference, with dance, music, theatrics, big drama, bigger hair and even bigger […]
Matthew Beveridge/Matthew Beveridge Photography Above Stolen Girlfriends’ Club’s apocalyptic-themed show took place in an underground car park, with fashion editor Sopheak Seng calling the label’s Dead End collection ‘to date, one of the label’s best’. Day three of New Zealand Fashion Week brought clean, Quaker-style clothing, a boar’s head reappearance and sublime prints. Salasai Opening […]
The second day of shows for New Zealand Fashion Week was more jam-packed than the first with a continuation of austere, commercially driven clothing that will sell come winter time. Twenty-Seven Names and Ingrid Starnes Twenty-Seven Names and Ingrid Starnes joined forces and showed as a group show off-site this year to help bring the […]
Matthew Beveridge/Matthew Beveridge Photography Top Hailwood was one of the stand-out labels of day one in Auckland. Above Zambesi’s menswear was on the money. The annual New Zealand Fashion Week kicked off today with the official shows. A sombre opening for the week, it was by no means a jam-packed day of shows. Liam […]
One name that should be on everyone’s lips when it comes to new and exciting jewellery is Nina Gordon, creator of Flash Jewellery, established in 2009. Having already been named one of the top 20 young and emerging design talents in British Vogue, Gordon’s pieces are already garnering her much praise and attention back here […]
‘New Zealand internet sales are expected to triple over the next eight years, with web-based sales expected to grow to $4·2 billion by 2015.’—AMP Capital Shopping Centres’ Australian Shopping Intent Report 2012 ‘In the 12 months leading up to January 2012, 93% of New Zealanders had accessed the internet and of those, 63% had made […]
Janet Liu/Vision 8 Photography As Wellington Fashion Week came to a close, what the Lucire team remembers the most were the very strong hair and make-up, created by WFW make-up creative director, Olivia Wild, and Napoleon Perdis senior make-up artist Tracey Zenatti. Here are three of the looks that stood out for their beauty, […]
David von Garratt/Von Photography Top Mondegreen showed its beautiful florals for autumn–winter 2012 at Pearl in Wellington earlier tonight. Above Jetsetbohemian launched itself into the capital earlier in the season. As Wellington gears itself up for its inaugural fashion week, the city has been abuzz over the past couple of weeks with fashion events galore. […]
Hot on the heels of her début at New Zealand Fashion Week last year, Deryn Schmidt has become a household name synonymous with feminine fashion. Having showed as part of the new generations show at Fashion Week, her collection was one of the most sought after and highly praised by both local and international media […]
Moreish is the latest range of beauty and skin care products by New Zealand company API, using argan oil as the core ingredient. Argan oil is renowned for its nourishing, regenerative and anti-ageing properties. Known as ‘liquid gold’, argan oil is the cold pressed, extra virgin oil extracted from the kernel of the Moroccan […]
