Showstopping Style

Showstopping Style

The next generation of designers will be ruling the runway in March, when the prestigious iD Fashion Show hits Dunedin.     Thirty-seven designers, who are in their final year of studying or have graduated in the last 12 months, will be showing their collections at the showstopping event. Entries in the iD International Emerging […]

M Factor Fashion Show

A decade of fabulous fashion

Ready, set, fashion – designers and celebrities are set to hit the catwalk wearing the latest New Zealand fashion to support families with a child in hospital on Thursday 4 April.     In its tenth year, the annual M Factor Fashion Show will bring together some of the most talented designers from across the […]

All Ruffled Up

All Ruffled Up

Ruffles will be hailed as a dramatic and definitive style of 2019. This lovely look has us all ruffled up.     Frilly flounces recently swished onto the international catwalk and now this fashion statement which was first seen during the ‘40s and ’50s, with origins in the 16th century, is even more fabulous. Finely […]

Rise & Shine

Rise & Shine

The expression, ‘sugar, spice and all things nice,’ has long been used to encapsulate what all young girls are made of, but we think ‘shimmer, spice and all things nice’ could be used to sum up the sentiment of the sartorial season.       Blazing a trail, both figuratively and literally, the fashionably elite […]

Buckle-Up

Buckle-Up

Belts are an accessory with multiple benefits – to complement, contrast, cinch, shape and wrap. Designed to hold things together literally, the belt is now taking a more metaphoric approach to this task.       Every fashion era has had a belt to match and they’re coming back as a leading accessory after a […]

Karen Walker

Karen Walker gets the sartorial edge

Karen Walker designs have always had a bit of edge. Described once as the “consummate collision of attitude and aptitude”, Walker has added a more literal edge to her latest collection, Bad Apple.     Inspired by a day at an orchard in Upstate New York, the new ready-to-wear collection is marked by apple tree […]