Ruby launches a flirty winter 2013 mini-collection, Magic Hour
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 […]
The joy of rediscovery: Zambesi’s autumn–winter 2013 collection
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 […]
Falvé: a high-quality entrant in menswear
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 […]
Rembrandt and Wayward Heir tell a sophisticated story for autumn–winter 2013
Top From Rembrandt, the navy pinstripe Cooper-Lotus suit with blue neat Metropolis shirt, striped Italian silk tie, paisley silk pocket square, and 1950s mother-of-pearl tie bar. Above Charcoal mouline Hawke-Lotus suit, with teal Fairlie V-neck jersey, white Metropolis shirt, bottle green Italian silk tie, and silver silk pocket square. One of New Zealand’s great names […]
Nikita Brown/Nikita Brown Photography Four Wellington labels—Philippa & Alice, Love Hotel, Mardle, and Highnoontea—were part of Willis York’s winter showcase at its Taranaki Street, Wellington premises on a very warm Friday night. The event, showing the labels’ autumn–winter 2013 collections, had a total of 20 looks, five from each. Four models, with hair […]
Collette Dinnigan débuts her new, luxurious autumn–winter 2013 lingerie line
Collette Dinnigan’s lingerie just got more luxurious, moving it from her diffusion label Collette by Collette Dinnigan into the high end that her original brand encapsulates. The autumn–winter 2013 collection is made from French Leavers lace and silk, with intricate lace trims and velvet bows. Shown here are the animal-print Blue Chic, Enchanté, […]
Icebreaker launches winter 2013 collection with more ‘nanotechnology’ designs
Top The Icebreaker tunic. Above Icebreaker Highline three-quarter jacket. Icebreaker has launched its winter 2013 collection, which the company calls its ‘most innovative and technologically advanced.’ In some of the offerings, the company’s soft shell construction has been combined with its Bluesign-accredited ‘nano’ particles, which feature a ridged surface that allows water, oil and […]
New Zealand Fashion Week autumn–winter 2013, day four: theatrics and uniqueness
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 […]
New Zealand Fashion Week autumn–winter 2013, day three: from clean-cut to sublime prints
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 […]
