NP Set makes it to New Zealand
New Zealanders are now able to get Napoleon Perdis’s NP Set range at the company’s new concept store at Sylvia Park. We hear there will be a nationwide roll-out in time, but for now, the 83-item NP Set range of lip and eye colours, foundations, concealers, powders and brushes is exclusive to the Auckland mall. […]
Glassons shows 2009 Breast Cancer Research Trust T-shirts
Above: Steve Ferguson in Jayshri Ganda’s T-shirt design; Miriama Kamo in Cybèle; Maria Tutaia in Stolen Girlfriends’ Club. Below: TV personality and the star of last year’s acclaimed The Jaquie Brown Diaries, Jaquie Brown, in Karen Walker. Glassons has released its 2009 T-shirts benefiting the Breast Cancer Research Trust in New Zealand. Participating designers […]
Samantha Powell, in black and white
Doug Rimington has given us permission to publish this image from his film camera, taken last year during our shoot of Miss Universe New Zealand 2008 Samantha Powell. Rebecca Connor—Miss Wellington and a make-up artist in her own right—is on the right. You may also like Behind the scenes on Samantha Powell’s shoot Former Miss […]
Simply Paris dans la nouvelle ville
Simply Paris, famous in Wellington for its pastries and French cuisine, opened a new shop in the capital city’s fast-gentrifying Newtown district (at 112 Riddiford Street) on December 18. Pascal and Agnès Chivot welcomed such luminaries as HE Michel Legras, Ambassador of France; Her Worship Kerry Prendergast, Mayor of Wellington; Miss New Zealand Samantha Powell […]
Lucire expands to cover web video with InTheSeen tie-up
Lucire, New Zealand’s internationally published fashion magazine, has formed an alliance with InTheSeen (intheseen.co.nz), which will provide original online video programming for the title at lucire.tv. This means that Lucire will enter 2009 covering print, web, mobile and online video media. InTheSeen will provide custom, original programming for Lucire, initially in its New Zealand […]
The better half: The Golden Tide on Sunday
Half the country likes National Radio—or Radio New Zealand National, to give it its proper name these days—during the summer, and half the country dislikes it. The programming changes from the usual formula and I have often said that shows like Matinee Idle (not a misspelling) are among the highlights of the wireless year. While […]
Hailwood pulls back from bricks and mortar, heads online
Adrian Hailwood, one of New Zealand’s most celebrated designers, is pulling back from having a physical retail presence, with the February closure of his retail store on Karangahape Road, Auckland. This will effectively allow Mr Hailwood to focus on designing, and use the infrastructure and support of his business partner, Annah Stretton. Mr […]
Kelly Thompson opens new exhibition in Wellington
The only New Zealander to have photographed more than one Lucire cover, Kelly Thompson, opened her new illustration exhibition at the new Pixel Ink Gallery in Wellington tonight. Kelly’s illustrations have mixed realism, innocence and female sexuality. Her latest exhibition, Recent Works, differs from her earlier work by avoiding block colours. Glen Cooper, […]
GAS store celebrates its first anniversary
It was nice to join GAS in Wellington, New Zealand on its store’s ?rst anniversary last Friday, at which deputy mayor Ian McKinnon was a guest. The store, meanwhile, slashed 40 per cent off its retail prices for the VIP function. The Italian label, whose New Zealand venture has the support of All Black Dan […]
Rhonda Grant at Miss International
Top: Rhonda Grant, representing New Zealand at Miss International (centre) is flanked by Miss Norway and Miss Russia. Above: With Japanese students prior to a national costume parade. It was nice to hear from nutritionist Rhonda Grant, one of our Miss Universe New Zealand runners-up, who represented her country at Miss International in Macau. […]
