Quality Hotel Wellington relaunches with fashion show
Above Olivier Lacoua (Quality Hotel Wellington GM), Phil Boyen, and Rex Nicholls. Above Suzanne de Vere, Claundine Stace, Jo Millet, and Mieka Cockerill. Above Jashu Chhagen and Apprentice New Zealand finalist Meena Chhagen. The Quality Hotel at 221 Cuba Street, Wellington, relaunched on September 29 with a fashion show. Labels shown included Ashley Fogel, […]
Starfish champions ethical fashion at Fashion Week
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
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
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
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 […]
Lucire TV: Starfish reopens its flagship store
Steve Leon at Springtv and his team ventured to Starfish’s store reopening at the end of August and have some great footage of the event, plus they get to ask the host, Laurie Foon, and some of the guests there (myself included) what we’re wearing. Here are the two videos from Lucire TV—the first of many […]
