Jack Yan reflects on where we are in today’s culture, with fashion taking more of a back seat compared to where it was in the Zeitgeist just 20 years ago […]
Fashion outside the Zeitgeist: it’s time to hack the culture
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Tag: Laurie Foon
Starfish to remain open for ‘a few more weeks’ as it farewells customers
May 14, 2013/1.39
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
May 10, 2013/4.20
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, […]
Collective thinking puts Starfish on the catwalk
August 18, 2011/23.05
Above Starfish’s Laurie Foon, championing sustainability and living the brand. As a pioneer in the field of ethical business practices and sustainability, it should come as no surprise that New Zealand designer Starfish is the first fashion label to win a New Zealand Sustainable Business Award. Appropriately, Starfish director and head designer Laurie Foon has […]
Starfish celebrates New Zealand’s pan-Asian cultural mix for spring
June 22, 2011/3.19
Vibrant leis hanging in shop verandas, exotic spices and fruits of the local greengrocer, the eclectic mix of shoppers at the local Sunday morning veggie markets, and the treasure trove of fabrics, trinkets and ornaments at the Asia Gallery. The cultural mix and infinite variety of tangy tastes within the local community and the uniquely […]
A VIP evening at Starfish, welcoming its winter collection
April 13, 2011/5.25
Sopheak Seng Although it was a pleasure to see Laurie Foon’s Starfish collection on the catwalk at New Zealand Fashion Week, it is an even greater privilege and pleasure to see the clothes up close. Foon’s clothes always amaze me for their innovation in fabrics, prints, colour, textures and cuteness. Up close, these are […]
Starfish champions ethical fashion at Fashion Week
September 28, 2010/21.41
Eco-fashion heroine Laurie Foon launched New Zealand Fashion Week with its first ethical fashion show, showcasing the Starfish autumn–winter ’11 collection, Seven Sisters. Seven Sisters pays homage the idea of strong women, the relationships and bonds formed between sisters, women, clothing and individual style and fashion interpretations. Nods to the classic ’50s and […]
Kicking off London, New Zealand fashion weeks
September 21, 2010/23.32
As we begin putting up more catwalk images of London Fashion Week taken by the talented Doug Rimington, fashion editor Sopheak Seng has been snapping a few casual ones from New Zealand Fashion Week. (Janet Liu’s photographs from this event will be filed afterwards.) Starfish opened New Zealand Fashion Week with an ethical-fashion show, […]
Free radicals from Starfish: fashion that moves
June 29, 2010/10.31
From top Starfish’s Bounce Boléro runner dress. The Springer frock. Four ways of wearing the Starfish Swirler. Starfish’s summer 2010–11 collection, Free Radical, is inspired by one of New Zealand’s modernist artist Len Lye’s fascination with art that moves, the mystery of motion and the celebration of energy that is life. Lye’s ideologies are […]
Five days in New Zealand with Summer Rayne Oakes
June 11, 2009/10.14
It’s been a wonderful few days chilling out with our ed.-at-large, Summer Rayne Oakes, in Lucire’s home country of New Zealand to promote her book, Style, Naturally. Summer Rayne was out this way to attend Greenfest in Brisbane, Queensland, and decided that she should venture to New Zealand to see us and to give […]
