Find out more about the first Miss World New Zealand of Indian heritage […]
Get to know Navjot Kaur, Miss World Aotearoa New Zealand 2024
Get to know Navjot Kaur, Miss World Aotearoa New Zealand 2024
Find out more about the first Miss World New Zealand of Indian heritage […]
Eden Hore: High Fashion/High Country opens at the Dowse, with a nationally significant collection
Derek Henderson Jack Yan Header image: Kevin Berkahn evening dress and cape photographed at Bannockburn Sluicings, Central Otago by Derek Henderson, 2019. Above, from top: Lurex evening gown by Vinka Lucas photographed at the Poolburn Dam by Derek Henderson, 2019. Kevin Berkahn evening dress, 1973, acquired by Eden Hore for NZ$3,000. Other gowns by […]
Diamond Langi wins Miss Universe New Zealand 2019
Alan Raga Above, from top: Diamond Langi is crowned by 2018 titleholder Estelle Curd. Diamond Langi gives her first wave after being crowned Miss Universe New Zealand 2019. Runners-up Charissa Rehu, Jayda Ormsby-Northcott, Hannah McCabe and Lydia Smit flank the new titleholder. In the most tightly fought Miss Universe New Zealand competitions in years, 27-year-old […]
Estelle Curd crowned Miss Universe New Zealand 2018
Alan Raga Estelle Curd, a CRM, HR and H&S manager from Auckland, has been crowned Miss Universe New Zealand 2018 in front of a live audience at Skycity Theatre, watched by a local network TV audience on Bravo TV New Zealand and around the world on a live stream. The 27-year-old master’s degree holder […]
Miss Universe New Zealand 2018 retreat: fireworks in Pattaya
Alan Raga The second leg of Miss Universe New Zealand’s 2018 retreat took place in Pattaya. Asia Holidays got the finalists there, along with current titleholder Harlem-Cruz Atarangi Ihaia (Miss Universe New Zealand 2017) and former runner-up Seresa Lapaz, hosting a yacht cruise with cocktails en route, before everyone checked in to the Hard Rock […]
Last night in Bangkok for Miss Universe New Zealand’s 2018 finalists
Alan Raga Miss Universe New Zealand’s Thailand retreat continued with the Top 20’s final day in Bangkok. The finalists had a more relaxed morning before heading to Hua Chang Heritage Hotel for a 1 p.m. lunch. Then it was shopping time, with the top management of MBK hosting the finalists at the MBK […]
Serenity on the Miss Universe New Zealand 2018 retreat in Thailand
Alan Raga Miss Universe New Zealand’s 2018 retreat in Thailand continued its first leg in Bangkok, with finalists heading out from their base at the Pathumwan Princess Hotel on day two to the nearby Novotel Bangkok on Siam Square, for a lunch and dessert. More photo shoots took place from the afternoon, before returning to […]
Fierce and fit in Bangkok as Miss Universe New Zealand touches down on retreat
Alan Raga On June 4, the 20 finalists of Miss Universe New Zealand flew to Bangkok for this year’s retreat, staying at the Pathumwan Princess Hotel for the first leg of their trip. Joining them were the reigning Miss Universe New Zealand, Harlem-Cruz Atarangi Ihaia, and former runner-up Seresa Lapaz. The staff at Thailand […]
Video: remembering Buoy’s Derek Elvy
Angela Henderson, retouching by Andrew Edwards As a tribute to Buoy founder Derek Elvy, whose memorial took place at the Pines in Wellington today, Lucire has been granted permission to show these two videos of ‘the king of avant-garde’. Filmed by SIK Productions late in 2017, and presented with their and Buoy’s blessing, they feature […]
Ten weeks ago, I received an Instagram message from Lorraine Downes, whom most Kiwis will know as our only winner at Miss Universe (in 1983). I knew she had been working on a memoir, and before she could even tell me what it was about, I wrote back to say I would love a copy […]