A loss for the World of Wearable Art community: Mandi Kingsbury, 1971–2024
Carolyn Enting looks at the astonishing life of former WOW Supreme Award winner and international stylist Mandi Kingsbury, who passed away on Saturday […]
Mandi Kingsbury, former WOW supreme winner, stylist and designer, passes away
Mandi Kingsbury made her mark on fashion, styling, and art, but the treatments after a serious multiple sclerosis attack were ultimately unsuccessful […]
In her darkest hour, Mandi Kingsbury needs our help
The former World of Wearable Art Supreme Award winner, who has multiple sclerosis, needs our help. Jack Yan explains […]
New book on content strategy for luxury brands débuts early 2025; New Zealand events look set to impress […]
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. […]
