New Zealand’s next top designer?
As part of its annual fashion week, Ballantynes Department Store’s new competition will give one emerging designer a valuable start in the fashion world. Judged by Karen Walker, fashion label twenty-seven names, Remix Magazine, fashion photographer Dave Richards and Ballantynes’ Head of Buying Megan McKee, the winner of the Ballantynes Emerging Designers Competition […]
Ultimately Unforgettable: Rossendale Vineyard
With a slight change of name from its former The Vineyard @ Rossendale to a simpler, trip-off-the-tongue Rossendale Vineyard, it’s very much business as usual for the beautiful venue located at 100 Old Tai Tapu Road. Lucky are the bride and groom who say “I do” to having the most memorable wedding, ever, […]
Diagonal dressing: The puzzling new trend
Some things in life are all about keeping on the straight and narrow. But this season, the beauty is in the asymmetry. Designers are stepping outside of the sartorial box, working dramatic asymmetry into their creations and it’s not just about high-low dresses and diagonal hemlines.This year it’s all about hems that go […]
Brodie’s greatest ‘hits’
Brodie Kane has spent the last decade in the big smoke, but home is where the heart is for this much-loved Breakfast journalist, who headed back to Christchurch six months ago to join radio legend Dave ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald on The Hits “Look, I won’t pretend it was easy,” she says of the decision […]
#MeToo: Q&A with Alison Mau
Sexual impropriety has become a global talking point, perhaps best exemplified by the powerful #metoo movement Following hot on the high-profile heels of the Harvey Weinstein allegations, it has been gaining viral traction since October 2017 when it emerged as a tool to demonstrate the widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment, particularly […]
A covetable creator: Q&A with Kat Gee
Kagi is a Kiwi brand that tickles the fancy of the magpies amongst us. Metropol talks to founder Kat Gee about her passion for jewellery and how she balances motherhood and business. You were quite young when you established Kagi, where did your passion for jewellery come from? I have always had a […]









