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Trelise Kids fairy-tale show
Bella Hannah, 12 year old daughter of fashion writer Kate, tells us about this year's beautiful fairy tale Trelise Kids show at fashion week...
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Nom*d Turncoats
Nom*d screened their eerie coming-of-age short film, Turncoats, at Skycity Theatre and then art became life as models walked off the stage and through the audience in virginal white and brazen flashes of colour...
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Federation paint the town
Alongside some very fashion-forward moments were also a lot of Federation’s motifs seen in previous collections: the logo emblazoned jeans and the printed slogan tee...
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Spot on: Huffer gets streetwear sexy
Collaboration is the key word lately in fashion and none better than Huffer's marriage with Miss Crabb giving us their sexy streetwear lovechild...
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A*Musement parlour
A tanned and toned Nicky Watson joined Pamela Anderson frolicking down the runway in a fuschia pink thong and a sarong, Richie Rich on rollerblades, and several hot tattooed surfers at the A*Muse show at fashion week...
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Michelle Yvette's Night Creatures
Michelle Yvette's cocktail dresses aren't what I would call edgy high fashion, but will suit women wanting to make a splash; not for shrinking violets- more like ultra-violet!
A stitch in time
I almost didn’t get to review Stitch Ministry – it was like getting into Fort Knox. I liked most of it but I'm not entirely sure who is going to wear possum skin undergarments...
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Zambesi look back with grace
From the remarkable opening by Neil Ieremia of Black Grace we realised we were going to see something amazing at the Zambesi 30 year Retrospective show. And we really did...
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Long way from nowhere
“You wouldn’t steal a car, you wouldn’t steal a girlfriend, you wouldn’t steal a goodie bag from the front row” boomed the PA at Stolen Girlfriends Club’s Welcome to Nowhere show...
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Diamond in the rough
Kate Sylvester showed her Winter collection "Diamond Dogs" in a dingy warehouse on a dark and rainy night; an apt tribute to "black lips" Parnell-ite Judith Baragwanath in a cigarette-and-chardonnay fuelled sort of collection; the sort of clothes an Auckland icon would find herself waking up in the morning after...
Talkin' about the New Generation
ghd New Generation Group Show was definitely not a show for the faint hearted, from the costume-like Serena Fagence, to Michael Pattison's ‘Trix and Dandy’ movie...
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Tall drink of Diet Coke
The frocks ranged from Alice McCall’s skin-tight white on black spider-web design, to Juliette Hogan’s loose pleated and frilly dresses with a fizzy cola twist of belted bows and flapper layers at the Diet Coke Little Black Dress show...
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