Robyn Mathieson opens third store, in Newmarket
Robyn Mathieson opened her third retail store, in Newmarket, Auckland, last Thursday to much fanfare. (Mathieson currently has stores in Ponsonby and Wellington and also is sold at 24 stockists nationwide.) The Newmarket store, located at 19b Osborne Street, was designed in collaboration with renowned Wellington architect Scott Gordon. Gordon’s designs for the store, […]
Taylor previews summer 2010–11
Wellington fashionistas got a taste to summer style last Thursday with the preview of the upcoming season’s Taylor collection. The summer collection is an exciting new direction for Taylor as she has introduced pops of bright colours of lime, sea-foam blue, blood red and aubergine into the collection, which is a rarity for the […]
Dispatches: Rupert Sanderson, Sylvie van der Vaart and Ria van Dyke
For those getting their updates via RSS, Australian-based writer Cassandra Murnieks has interviewed British shoe designer Rupert Sanderson. Her excellent story appears in the online edition as a feature this week here. If you missed it earlier, Sopheak Seng’s Kowtow spring–summer 2010–11 review is also in the main part of the Lucire site. (There is […]
It’s Greater Bay goods, making a difference
If a fashion café with a delicious menu of custom garments to order that are ready to be shipped in 10 days doesn’t give you a one-of-a-kind shopping experience then, maybe you should get out more. Erica Varize of Berkeley, Calif. designs urban women’s sportswear, allowing her clients to choose the fabric, style, and colour […]
Basquesse to move to Australia
After losing Andrea Moore to Auckland, fashion label Basquesse has announced that it, too, will depart Wellington—for the larger market of Sydney. Basquesse founder and designer Viviana Pannell has said that the Wellington boutique will close at the end of October 2010. Basquesse reopens in Sydney in the first quarter of 2011. Pannell […]
Reality show on Wayne Cooper wins international award in LA
The WC, the comedic reality series about British-born Australian fashion designer Wayne Cooper, has won the Next TV award for Branded Entertainment from the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) in Los Angeles. The series examines what running an international fashion label is really like. It is directed by Kostas Metaxas and produced […]
Doris de Pont and Phil Price join Montana World of Wearable Art judges
Acclaimed fashion designer Doris de Pont, and Christchurch sculptor Phil Price, whose Zephyrometer and Protoplasm kinetic artworks are Wellington landmarks, are joining Suzie Moncrieff on the Montana World of Wearable Arts’ judging panel. They have already completed the first round of judging. For the finals in September, US-based New Zealand expat Mark d’Arcy is […]
Justine Picardie to launch Coco Chanel biography at Port Eliot Flower Show
Lipnitzki Above Coco Chanel, photographed in 1937. Author and former features director of British Vogue, Justine Picardie, will launch her new book, Coco Chanel: the Legend and the Life, at the inaugural Port Eliot Flower Show, part of the established Port Eliot Festival, on July 25. Picardie will be talking about Chanel, Lady of the […]
Erin O’Connor launches UK version of Chevy Volt, the Vauxhall Ampera
Vauxhall Vauxhall, GM’s British brand, launched its version of the Chevrolet Volt plug-in electric hybrid at Chelsea Bridge on June 29, with model Erin O’Connor wearing an electric dress designed by William Tempest. O’Connor’s dress features over 1,000 lights and Swarovski crystals. It was tailored to her figure. The dress’s panelled styling, says Vauxhall, […]
Charmaine Reveley on the rise with Free Fall
The Lucire team had a good chance to catch up with Dunedin designer Charmaine Reveley at Coco Wellington (138 Willis Street) on Thursday. We were among the first media to interview Reveley when she was at the Dunedin Fashion Incubator in the mid-2000s. Showing her autumn–winter 2010 collection, Free Fall, Reveley’s work has strengthened both […]
