Stolen Girlfriends’ Club and Samsung have teamed up for New Zealand Fashion Week (for the latest, check out our Instagram, as fashion editor Sopheak Seng snaps away at the event, with a longer report to follow afterwards). Stolen Girlfriends’ Club will preview its spring–summer 2015–16 collection, Township Rebellion, on Wednesday, August 26. Three photographers, […]
This year’s Miss Universe New Zealand 2015 semifinalists received, in their goody bags, Manuka Doctor’s ApiRefine Illusionist Rapid Lift Mask, which the company equates to ‘an instant facelift in a jar’. Already a well known New Zealand firm abroad, where it launched first, Manuka Doctor has won two awards for the mask, which features […]
Polarized sunglasses are the trend for the southern spring–summer 2015–16, says Sunglass Hut—and it’s a prediction we agree with. Polarized lenses help with contrast, clarity and colour perception, but perhaps most importantly, they reduce reflections and minimize glare. The lenses contain a filter that blocks almost all glare, which can be eight times more […]
The Body Shop celebrates 12 years of its Tea Tree range with super-sized additions
The Body Shop’s Tea Tree range is celebrating its 12th year in production with a limited-edition super-sized collection of natural, skin-friendly products. From its launch in 1993, exclusive to Australia and New Zealand, the demand for the little bottle that packs a punch allowed for wider global distribution one year later. Now, as one […]
The Royal New Zealand Ballet’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: where talent surpasses itself
Stephen A’Court Top Dancers Tonia Looker and MacLean Hopper in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Above Tonia Looker and Harry Skinner. If you ever wish to see the Royal New Zealand Ballet when everyone has reached beyond what you knew was their peak, then A Midsummer Night’s Dream presents that very opportunity: a ballet where the […]
Tiffany & Co. to open store in Britomart, Auckland in late 2016
Tiffany & Co. will open its first company-operated retail store in New Zealand in late 2016, to be located in Britomart, Auckland. It will be located at the ground floor of the Historic Places Trust-registered Australis House, 36–8 Customs Street, and occupy 430 m² of space. There will be the usual hallmarks: the use […]
Johnny Depp models Dior Sauvage men’s fragrance, with Australian and NZ release on August 24
News that Johnny Depp is modelling Dior’s new men’s fragrance, Sauvage, has been making the rounds this month, and now the company has announced August 24 as its on-sale date for Australia and New Zealand. Unlike his colleague Brad Pitt, who was the rare male face for Chanel No. 5, Depp is targeting his […]
Fan Phenomena: James Bond gives 007 fans more; while Sugoi invites you to the world of Bill Murray
In the year of a new James Bond movie, many books emerge. Invariably, there’ll be one on the films themselves, taking readers through the 50-plus years of the Eon Productions’ series, and, if it’s very comprehensive, the 1950s CBS TV version of Casino Royale, the 1967 spoof of the same name, and Never Say Never […]
Keeping it natural: Stoneleigh launches Wild Valley range of wild-fermented wines
Stoneleigh launched its Wild Valley range at the end of last week, a line-up of wild-fermented New Zealand wines comprising a 2015 Marlborough sauvignon blanc and a 2014 Marlborough pinot noir. The Stoneleigh Wild Valley wines get their complexity from nature, fermented by indigenous yeasts that are naturally present in the Rapaura, Marlborough vineyards. […]
Jennifer López and her collection headline Endless Jewelry’s entry into New Zealand
Michael Becker/Fox Jennifer López has collaborated with Endless Jewelry, and fronts the campaign for the Danish jewellery brand as it launches into New Zealand this month. The actress and singer has created her own range of charms and bracelets, to be sold in New Zealand under the Jennifer López Collection. She had worn […]
