Gill Saunders wins 2023 World of Wearable Art Supreme Award with Earthling
The 2023 World of Wearable Art Show, Beyond, demonstrates that the new ownership is keen to build on the event’s triumphs, continuing to capture the Zeitgeist with winners from around the world […]
World of Wearable Art changes hands, with new Auckland company taking over
The World of Wearable Art changes hands after 35 years, as founder Dame Suzie Moncrieff and her sister Heather Palmer sell the business […]
A 25th anniversary retrospective: leading up to Lucire’s launch in 1997
Above: Lucire’s holding page, as archived by the Internet Archive on October 17, 1997. There was no semicolon in JY&A Media; this appears to have been a bug from the Archive’s spider, as explained here. Normally, I wouldn’t be browsing the Internet Archive for old Lucire pages, especially as I have all of them […]
Double WOW: Rinaldy Yunardi wins World of Wearable Art Supreme Award for the second time
Stephen A’Court Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images Above: Rinaldy Yunardi’s The Lady Warrior nets the designer his second Supreme Award at WOW. Indonesian designer Rinaldy Yunardi becomes the third person—after last year’s sisters Natasha English and Tatyanna Meharry—to win the Supreme Award at the World of Wearable Art awards (WOW) in Wellington tonight. In the 32-year […]
Natasha English and Tatyanna Meharry pick up their second World of Wearable Art Supreme Award
Stephen A’Court Above, from top: Supreme winner, War Story, by Natasha English and Tatyanna Meharry, Christchurch, New Zealand. Tar’White by Ali Middleton of Wellington, coming third in the Aotearoa section. Quantum, by Annabelle Widmann, winner of the Cirque du Soleil Invited Artisan Award. Two sisters from Christchurch, New Zealand, Natasha English and Tatyanna Meharry, have […]
Rinaldy Yunardi wins top honours at World of Wearable Art Awards with Encapsulate
Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images for World of Wearable Art Above, from top: WOW Supreme Winner Encapsulate, by Rinaldy Yunardi. Runner-up Refuse Refuge by Grace DuVal. Cube, by British designer Adam McAlavey. Encapsulate, by Indonesian designer Rinaldy Yunardi, has taken the Supreme Award at the International World of Wearable Art Awards (WOW) in Wellington, New Zealand tonight. […]
Gillian Saunders takes top honours at 2016 World of Wearable Art Awards’ Show, with Supernova
WOW New Zealand designer Gillian Saunders has scooped the Brancott Estate Supreme Award at tonight’s World of Wearable Art (WOW) Awards’ Show. Saunders, who had entered 15 garments before her winning entry, Supernova, has won eight awards prior to 2016, but this is the first time she has taken out the top prize. Saunders, […]
Brancott Estate World of Wearable Art Awards’ Show 2015 sees Nelson’s Peter Wakeman take top honours
Courtesy World of Wearable Art Awards’ Show Top Diva’s Dreamscape, by Peter Wakeman. Above Deadly Beauty, by Xi Zhang. Nelson, New Zealand designer Peter Wakeman has won the 2015 Brancott Estate World of Wearable Art Supreme WOW Award with his entry Diva’s Dreamscape. Wakeman wins $30,000 in prizes with his design, entered into the […]
Brancott Estate launches new vintages for 2015 in limited-edition World of Wearable Art bottles
Top Into the Blue and Rosebud with Patrick Materman, Brancott Estate chief winemaker. Above The two new limited-edition Brancott Estate bottles. With the Brancott Estate World of Wearable Art (WOW) Awards’ Show back again for 2015, the famed winemaker and naming rights’ sponsor of the event has released two limited-edition bottles along with new vintages […]
Ellen DeGeneres your most-searched celeb for 2014; Miss France 2015 article tops our chart
David M. Benett/Getty Images Above Candice Swanepoel was the most-searched professional model in Lucire’s online news pages this year, coming in sixth. In 2012, Keira Knightley was the most searched-for celebrity in the news section of the Lucire website. In 2013, that honour went to HRH Princess Madeleine of Sweden, followed by Knightley and Penélope […]
