Megawatt Hues
A colourful style shift is taking place. Our wardrobes are set to be lit up with megawatt hues from orange and green, to pink and blue as designers look ahead to the playful must-have colours of the season. Turned-up colours are popping up in all the latest fashion collections including Louis Vuitton’s new […]
The darling of design: Q&A with Kate Sylvester
Kate Sylvester is an iconic New Zealand designer whose collections have been described as embodying “intelligence, witty irreverence, sophistication and modern femininity”, resulting in designs which are all at once eccentric, beautiful and intelligent. Metropol catches up with the designer ahead of her role as part of the prestigious judging panel for the […]
Winter Wow! Made in the Shade
While we all adore summer, there’s something splendid about autumn’s dramatic colours sweeping our landscape, and something undeniably seductive about snuggling before a crackling fire, sipping a mulled wine or drop of scotch on a chilly winter’s evening. In readiness, and in celebration, of cool days ahead, Alison Donn, owner of Made in […]
Utility pulls a Practical Punch
World War II Britain first gave us utility clothing and it’s now a cool, calm and very collected way to dress. Having a recent resurgence, it has returned for 2019 in bold and brave designs. Fabrics and tailors back then were in short supply, so it was all practicality in boxy-shaped canvas. Clothing […]
Frock Stars
We’re all about the frocks this season, but they’re not the saccharine sweet styles we’re used to. Why not add some edge to your wardrobe with some of our favourite Frock Stars? Sizzling on the international fashion scene, dresses are getting eclectically edgy – the designers are jazzing things up big time, as […]
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 […]
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
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
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 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 […]
