Kicking off London, New Zealand fashion weeks
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, […]
Our first photographs from London Fashion Week
Douglas Rimington/Detune Photography Above are some pictures from our London-based photographer, Douglas Rimington, which remind us just how good a lensman he is. We’ll be bringing you more from London Fashion Week spring–summer 2011, as we have done with New York, as Doug files his photographs from the shows. With the contemporaneous New Zealand […]
S. Pellegrino collaborates with Missoni on limited-edition bottle
If anyone can make water fashionable, leave it to the Italians. Italian Talents is the new project from S. Pellegrino, designed with the goal of creating synergies with Italian companies of international renown. They must operate within the upper bracket of the market and are known for their distinguishing taste, innovation, quality, design, service, […]
Kathryn Wilson to show for the first time at NZ Fashion Week
Lucire was the first to have covered Kathryn Wilson after her graduate show at Massey University. It is exciting to see how the Kathryn Wilson label grown over the past seven years from young fledgling designer label to be a major player in the New Zealand fashion market. Her autumn–winter 2011 presentation at New […]
Westpac Young Designer semi-finalist Hermione Flynn is one to watch
Sarah Burton Hermione Flynn is in the pursuit of creating intellectual fashion—garments which have the same artistic and intellectual integrity as a piece of art may. Her début womenswear collection, The Gentle Woman (shot here by Sarah Burton), was initially inspired by the concept of gay marriage—more specifically a men’s æsthetic placed on an […]
Absolut collaborates with New Zealand designers
Absolut and fashion has always been a match made in heaven. Known as the fashion-forward brand, Absolut has always been about creativity, innovation and artistic expression. Having in the past collaborated with some of the best in the business, from Tom Ford, Stella McCartney, Jean-Paul Gaultier to famed photographer Steven Meisel, Absolut is proud […]
Pick of the week: Stolen Girlfriends’ Club
For me this was easily one of the best shows of Air New Zealand Fashion Week. Stolen Girlfriends’ Club’s autumn–winter 2010 collection is clever and original. How to make the Pocahontas look cool! There was so much to fall in love with. Some of my hits: the heavy cable knits, cropped vests layered over […]
Richie Rich, Pamela Anderson in Tourism snapshot
Hill & Knowlton, Inc. It amazes us, too, what emerges on the US wire services we have access to. Here are our friend Richie Rich of A Muse and his collaborator, Pamela Anderson, with a Māori cultural group during their visit to New Zealand for Air New Zealand Fashion Week last month, in a photograph […]
The Pamela Anderson press conference at New Zealand Fashion Week
A mad, busy day—Miromoda, Starfish, Emma Ford, Trix and Dandy, Chapel, Hailwood … but the highlight of the day and week was Stolen Girlfriends’ Club. Held in a masonic lodge in Newton, the show was so popular that we were jammed in like cattle. There was no room for divas in this show. The […]
Spotted at New Zealand Fashion Week
Thanks to the the girls’ super-crush on cute boy in hat, we managed to get these four stunners together for a photo op. Have you ever seen such a beautiful gang? I don’t think it’s coincidence that they are all part-Māori. Fourteen-year-old Laken (far right) is set to make waves overseas very soon—let’s just let […]
