Fashion
Shaky start but all systems go for new Maori fashion awards
Preparations for a new Maori fashion competition are well under way, despite losing one of the sponsors.
The Miromoda competition, created by the Indigenous Maori Fashion Apparel Board, initially had the support of Air New Zealand Fashion Week (ANZFW), and the international Mittelmoda awards.
Mittelmoda was offering the overall winner a opportunity to go to Italy and [...]
Designer garage sale a disappointment
The Designer Garage Sale held last month at the New Zealand Fashion Weekend was not quite the bargain frugal fashionistas had hoped for.
Many found the items sold still a bit expensive and the range offered limited in both styles and sizes.
Clarisse Sy, 22, was one of the few who arrived at the Halsey Street venue [...]
Declutter your closet, pick up a bargain at ‘Big Clothes Swap’
Auckland’s Dress for Success will receive a new load of donated clothes this week, thanks to AUT’s ‘Fashion Circus Big Clothes Swap’, where pre-loved clothing will be collected, swapped and sold in a fashion bonanza.
The event aims to make Aucklanders consider how much clothing we throw away each year when it could be recycled by donating it to charity [...]
A month of style for Aucklanders
Aucklanders will be thinking and breathing fashion when ACP kicks off 30 Days of Fashion & Beauty in November, including fashion shows, in-store demonstrations, fashion and beauty workshops, makeovers and giveaways across the city.
“30 Days of Fashion and Beauty is a first for New Zealand,” said ACP Magazines’ group publisher Debra Millar. “It will be [...]
Our Rach Wows Her Fans
Rachel Hunter was on hand to launch her new range of affordable glad rags for The Warehouse in Ponsonby last week as Auckland’s shiniest looked on in sycophantic glee.
The city’s finest PR girls, women’s mag journalists and fashion hounds were all there to swig hibiscus-flavoured Lindauer and sup on teeny tiny cheeseburgers and gourmet sausage rolls [...]
Inspiring women recognised
An Auckland woman diagnosed with terminal cancer was awarded a cash grant by the Max Foundation last week to support her inspiring work.
Young Auckland mother Shaline Das-Fitzgibbon, who was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer in 2007 and given two to three years to live, was awarded $4,500 to hold a fundraising event to raise awareness of gynaecological cancer.
Ovarian cancer [...]
Fashion Week debutante
Auckland fashion label Michelle-Yvette will have a chance to shine at Air New Zealand Fashion Week’s Verge Breakthrough show next month.
Designer Michelle Wilson says her collection is inspired by events in her life and issues facing society at large. “This season my theme is based around Afghanistan. I will be showing the beautiful side of a [...]
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