New Zealand Fashion Week autumn–winter 2014, day two: tying the knot to underground magic

September 4, 2013/14.43

Deryn Schmidt Matthew Beveridge/Matthew Beveridge Photography Opening day two of NZFW was Wellington designer Deryn Schmidt. A photograph that her daughter Millicent took of her son Lars’s mobile originally inspired her winter collection, entitled Capture This. This image was later developed into the first exclusive textile print for Schmidt, adapted by textile designer Andrea Stark. […]

New Zealand Fashion Week autumn–winter 2014, day one: a quality start—it surreal thing

September 3, 2013/15.37

Twenty-Seven Names Matthew Beveridge/Matthew Beveridge Photography Opening New Zealand Fashion Week this year was Wellington brand Twenty-Seven Names with its brand of kitschy cool ’90s nostalgia. From the opening bars of a Mariah Carey song through to the casual coolness that their clothes have come to epitomize, designers Anjali Stewart and Rachel Easting looked towards […]

Lucire’s on Ipad and Android; plus a round-up of some of our latest features

October 8, 2012/2.01

As officially announced in time for our 15th anniversary, Lucire is now available on the Ipad (and Iphone and Ipod Touch) as well as Android. You can check out the Ipad app here, available via Magzter at the Apple App Store, while Google Play has our Android app. There is a charge of US$6·99 per […]

New Zealand Fashion Week autumn–winter 2013, day four: theatrics and uniqueness

September 9, 2012/14.11

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

September 6, 2012/14.37

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 […]

New Zealand Fashion Week autumn–winter 2013, day two: from joining forces to fun and frivolity

September 5, 2012/15.16

The second day of shows for New Zealand Fashion Week was more jam-packed than the first with a continuation of austere, commercially driven clothing that will sell come winter time. Twenty-Seven Names and Ingrid Starnes Twenty-Seven Names and Ingrid Starnes joined forces and showed as a group show off-site this year to help bring the […]

New Zealand Fashion Week autumn–winter 2013, day one: colour and effortless style

September 4, 2012/14.50

Matthew Beveridge/Matthew Beveridge Photography Top Hailwood was one of the stand-out labels of day one in Auckland. Above Zambesi’s menswear was on the money. The annual New Zealand Fashion Week kicked off today with the official shows. A sombre opening for the week, it was by no means a jam-packed day of shows. Liam […]

Adrian Hailwood and Mi Piaci team up for shoe collection, to début at New Zealand Fashion Week

August 30, 2012/15.38

Adrian Hailwood has teamed up with Mi Piaci for a range of five designs, dubbed Hailwood for Mi Piaci. Ankle boots, courts and snake-print sandals are among the designs, with golds, blue, and ‘sand-washed raspberry’ among the colours. Hailwood says the decision to work with Mi Piaci was a ‘no-brainer’, adding, ‘The collection is […]

Custo Barcelona and Huffer give teasers for spring as fashion weeks near

August 25, 2012/12.45

Top Mark Hunter shoots Huffer’s spring–summer 2012–13 campaign. Above and below Custo Barcelona previews its spring–summer 2013 collection at New York Fashion Week with teaser sketches. As the fashion circuit nears, we’re getting a few teasers of upcoming collections. Custo Barcelona has sent us five sketches from Custo Dalmau, to preview its spring–summer 2013 collection […]

New Zealand Fashion Week New Gen designers create four special BMW X1s

August 15, 2012/9.31

They’re not quite the famous BMW Art Cars, but they come close: four of the New Gen design labels at New Zealand Fashion Week have created their own BMW X1 vehicles, using inspiration from their collections to decorate the SUVs. Dmonic Intent, Silence Was, Daniel K and Arielle Mermin worked with BMW, Omnigraphics and […]