Engineering firm steps up: Babbage Consultants Ltd
Working throughout the South Island, Babbage Consultants provides technical expertise and tailored consultancy services in engineering, architecture and project management. Babbage delivers structural, geotechnical, civil and building services, engineering design, as well as building surveying and ecology reporting services. They regularly work on commercial and industrial building refits, alterations, strengthening […]
A stylish step forward: Style Footwear
The team is back up and running at Style Footwear on Burnett Street in Ashburton. Located in the CBD, the friendly store is packed with comfortable, stylish footwear as well as new ranges of bags, wallets, scarves and jewellery. After navigating the challenges of lockdown, owner Melissa and her right-hand-woman Trudy […]
Take your pick: The Fitting Room
The Fitting Room is best known for its amazing fitting service; hence the well-fitting name. Metropol caught up with owner and bra and swimwear connoisseur Deborah Lewthwaite to find out the latest must-haves! LUXE LIFE: If you’re searching for a sense of luxury, look no further than the Prima Donna Madison […]
The style gurus: Kudos Hairdressing
If you attempted to cut, style or colour your hair these last few months at home and you were successful… kudos to you. But not everyone was so lucky in their endeavours. Many greatly welcomed the re-opening of hairdressers nationwide – especially the customers of Kudos Hairdressers in Merivale. Metropol […]
Hair for the longrun: Capelli Hair Design
Finding and forming a relationship with the right hair salon is no easy task. There are things to consider such as location, pricing, appointment availabilities and most importantly the staff. Capelli Hair Design in Ashburton ticks all of those boxes, providing you with a pleasurable experience and services worth raving about. […]
The best in beauty: Virginia Scott Beauty Therapy
When you’re getting some cosmetic tattooing (permanent makeup) performed on your face or body, you need to go to a professional that you can trust. Virginia Scott of Virginia Scott Beauty Therapy and Cosmetic Tattooing is that person. Virginia offers a niche service to help women and men. One of […]
Your Gift Guide to the world: French Blue
Holidays may have been put on hold and borders may be closed for the time being, but you don’t have to travel the world to get a hold of some of its greatest treasures. We caught up with Catherine Matthews, owner of French Blue, to find out her instore recommendations. […]
Get ruffled
Where fashion once adopted a minimalist aesthetic, we’re increasingly seeing big, bold, statement-making styles bursting out of the sartorial shadows. Get ready to don some polka dots, colourful leather and metallic fabrics… we’re even going mad for marigold! So it’s not surprising then that we’re getting hot around the […]
In the trenches
A new decade may call for reimagining the classics, but some things need little updating. When it comes to the trench, we’ll never say no to the classic cut, but reimagined iterations have been trickling in for the last few seasons, as the darlings of the design world work hard to ensure […]
Connecting the dots
It’s long been said that trends are cyclical and when it comes to polka dots, they most certainly are – both in the figurative and literal sense of the expression. If you’re just now connecting the sartorial dots, you might have realised polka dots are everywhere. A print perennial, […]
