Georgia Alice wins 2014 DHL Express Fashion Export Scholarship
Sam Lee Top Megan Wildermoth (DHL), Georgia Currie (Georgia Alice), and Dan Gosling (Stolen Girlfriends’ Club). Centre Garments from Georgia Alice during the judging session. Above Georgia Currie explains her collection to the judges. Georgia Alice has won the DHL Express Fashion Export Scholarship for 2014, taking home the NZ$10,000 prize in international freight, along […]
Peter Copping appointed creative director at Oscar de la Renta
Neil Rasmus/BFANYC.com Above Oscar de la Renta at the 2013 CFDA Awards, photographed with Sec. Hillary Clinton. A succession plan appears to be in place at Oscar de la Renta with the appointment of Peter Copping as creative director, a role created for him. The company says Copping will report to de la Renta, […]
Wellington’s entrepreneurial women: Lisa Tamati opens jewellery store; publishing house launches
Lisa Tamati, known in ultra-marathon circles, has a side to her that only a handful of fashionistas are aware of: she is a jeweller, trained in Wien, Austria, who has recently relocated from the Taranaki to Wellington, New Zealand. Tamati has opened a shop in Dukes’ Arcade on the corner of Willis and Manners […]
Designer L’Wren Scott, 49, found hanged in apartment—death treated as suicide
Above Mick Jagger and L’Wren Scott pictured last November. Fashion designer L’Wren Scott, 49, has been found dead in her Manhattan apartment, with her death being treated as suicide by New York police. Scott was found hanged by her assistant, whom she had texted earlier in the day to go to the apartment, at […]
Elyse Glickman Above Candles by the Hartmont Candle Company. Though the British and the Australians have set up camp for years during awards’ season in Los Angeles, with their A-list magnet G’Day LA and BAFTA Tea Party events, Canada stepped into the ring this year with a special fund-raiser, Oh! Canada, benefiting the Friends of […]
Chinese film pioneer, Sir Run Run Shaw, passes away at age 107
Top Sir Run Run Shaw. Centre On the set of one of the films he produced, Meteor, with Natalie Wood, director Ronald Neame, and Sean Connery. Above Harrison Ford in Blade Runner. Sir Run Run Shaw, the Hong Kong movie mogul and founder of television network TVB, passed away today at age 107. He […]
Blak, Commoner, Meadowlark compete for DHL Express export prize
From top Teresa Hodges of Black. Jae Mills of Commoner. Meadowlark’s Greg Fromont and Claire Hammon. Blak, Commoners and Meadowlark are competing for the DHL Express Fashion Export Scholarship, judged by Margi Robertson (Nom D), John Kelly (Max Fashions), Megan Wildermoth (DHL) and Paul Blomfield (FINZ). The winner will receive NZ$10,000 worth of international […]
Wellington’s bright spots for the cognoscenti: Dollybird and Behome
Jack Yan Above Items from Behome, previewed to Lucire in 2012 and officially open now in Miramar, Wellington. Wellington has two businesses that those in the know have to check out. Back in April, Lucire attended the launch of Dollybird (at 11 Hunter Street, one block down from the Old Bank Arcade; www.dollybird.co.nz). Prashila […]
Starfish to remain open for ‘a few more weeks’ as it farewells customers
After the announcement that New Zealand label Starfish was closing down, which Lucire covered first last Friday, customers received a farewell message in their email today. Starfish will have a closing down sale with up to 35 per cent off, at both its website and its flagship Wellington store on Willis Street. The […]
Companies behind Wellington label Starfish appoint liquidators
Above From Starfish’s heyday: the summer 2010–11 collection, Free Radical. The companies behind Starfish have appointed liquidators, according to public notices placed in metropolitan newspapers today. Both Starfish Retail Ltd. and Starfish Wholesale Ltd. went into liquidation as of May 8, with creditors expected to make their claims with Price Waterhouse Coopers in Wellington, […]
